The Ace Killers

Let me tell you about Phoenix. They love their Suns, mustaches and being married young. I watched the Suns vs Spurs game with a couple of buddies and two married couples. My life is a little weird right now.

Let me tell you something about the Mets. They just destroy good pitching.

I looked at the matchup and saw Rich Hill and Jorge Sosa. I immediately pencilled in a loss. Jorge Sosa still needs to do a lot to prove to me that he is the '05 version and not the '06. But yet again Omar Minaya took a flyer on a guy who once upon a time showed signs of life and has appeared to have uncovered a gem.

But Rich Hill. He is probably the best young lefty in baseball. The guy has nasty stuff and has been nasty. I have found myself mlbtving Cubs game this year when he has started. Outside of Action Danny Haren and he may be the first starting pitcher I would take if I was building a team right now.

But yet again, the Mets got to a dominant pitcher.

Already in this young season, the Mets have knocked around some good ones.

Chris Carpenter, Freddy Garcia (who sucks), Dontrelle Willis, Randy Johnson, Brandon Webb, Matt Cain, Jeff Suppan and Chris Capuano.

The old adage in baseball is that "good pitching beats good hitting and vice versa." But most baseball purists would take the big arm over the big bat.

It is hard for me to see the Mets from the side of the opposition but I know what it is like when we face the Yankees or the Red Sox. You look at their lineup and despite our solid pitching, you don't give them a chance. When teams don't have holes in their lineup, the pitcher, at least in my mind, that of intense pessimism, thinks the pitcher is defeated.

And it must be that that is the psyche of our opposition.

They see our lineup and get scared.

The Mets pitching will not hold up. John Maine and Oliver Perez will come down to normalville at some point. Jorge Sosa is no ace.

But this lineup is what will get us places.

In a few weeks we will get Guillermo Mota back. No telling how he will look post-juicing but if this guy looks like he did pre Game-2 of the NLCS last year, then our already great bullpen will only get better.

Our starters will need to get us fewer innings which we have to imagine will be the case.

But it will be our bats that will carry us.

That's all.

But one more quick thing.

A bunch of you were knocking the Sip for slurping the Yanks. That's just not the case. From my end, when it comes to the Bombers I expect the worst (them winning a lot) and am ecstatic for the best (when they lose a lot). It's been so long since the best has been with us, almost 15 years, that until the Yankees actually lose a lot, I can't imagine them not being the Yankees.

So easy on a blogger. I'm here for you guys, my people. But you know I can't take the rejection. I can't take the hate. I need my people. You and a bunch of married couples.

Vaya con dios,

Sip