Nervous
It feels like all day, I'm watching helicopters and tomato sauce.
For those of us who didn't catch "Goodfellas" last night on AMC--too bad for you-- I mean that I feel like I am always looking over my shoulder.
The Mets have had arguably their best week of the season. We are playing a bad team, or as my boy KFC referred to them in a very deep GChat conversation, "very Bad." Sure, the Pirates are a joke, they always are, but this is not the type of series that the Mets have been dominating this season. They dominated these series with such ease last season, to the point where all I could do was laugh. The Mets, forever mediocre, were a force. A Major Force.
And with that, congrats to Tommy on 299.
Are the Mets back? Lets give it a few weeks. But it really looks like the Mets may have found the spark that they needed. Last year he was the king of controversy. This year, he is hustling, showing emotion and playing the baseball that made him a top prospect.
Lastings Milledge, of course.
So our boys are winning, our kid is playing and the Mets are in first place, playing their best baseball in three months.
And yet, I've never been more paranoid.
Helicopters and Tomato Sauce.
The two teams that scared us before the season are scaring a newly shaved-head Sip. Of course, they are the Phillies and the Yankees.
Another night, another dramatic win for the Fightin's. The Phils' offense is just scary. Wednesday night's hero Ryan has looked over the last 6 weeks like Ryan Howard of '06. And good thing for this blogger. On a tip from my buddy Tom Donaghy I threw down a unit at 20:1 about 6 weeks ago on Howard having the most home runs in baseball. He still has a long hill to climb, in the paws of Alex Rodriguez, but, that is a much smaller hump than he had back in June when he had about 15 guys to surpass.
Then there is Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins. Utley is a star. I didn't think it would happen this year, but it did. Hitting .330 and leading the NL in RBI.
But the man they call J-Ro, the guy who put this team on his shoulders when he called the Phils the team to beat is having one of the best offensive seasons ever by a SS not named Alex Rodriguez.
The Phils have won 5 in a row and just don't show any signs of slowing down. They're getting career years from their entire lineup (Rowand, Victorino, Rollins, Utley).
We have 4 with them in Philly(Carlos Beltran is smiling) at the end of August and three more at Shea in Mid-September. Those two series could determine the season. They should be pretty awesome.
Speaking of awesome, what is going on in Yankeeland is anything but...Awesome.
The Yankees are playing like a team with a $200 million dollar payroll. They are destroying bad teams. They made the D-Rays look like the AAA team that they are earlier this week. And now that they are exposing Rob Neyer's darlings for the stiffs that they really are.
6.5 back of the Sox and we're not in August.
Unlikely to make a major move at the deadline, the Yankees still may get more help that any team in baseball at the end of July.
If Giambi can hit (read: is he back on the clear?) the lineup would add a dominant bat.
If Phil Hughes comes back and looks at all like hed did in his last start before the freakish injury, then the Yankees are adding a very solid starting pitcher.
Hot team + Key Offensive Addition + Key Pitching Addition= Salt
I am naturally a pretty nervous person. You might say I'm my father's son in this respect. Right now, the Phils and Yankees have me nervous.
When I'm nervous, I sometimes ramble, as you may have noticed above. There is some good to be drawn from all this. The Mets may finally be playing their best baseball. What's rough though, is that anything less- as we have seen all season- and we may be in some trouble.
As they say in the old country, it's time to step up.
Vaya,
Sip
(Pics courtesy of MLBlogs.com, cnn.com)
For those of us who didn't catch "Goodfellas" last night on AMC--too bad for you-- I mean that I feel like I am always looking over my shoulder.
The Mets have had arguably their best week of the season. We are playing a bad team, or as my boy KFC referred to them in a very deep GChat conversation, "very Bad." Sure, the Pirates are a joke, they always are, but this is not the type of series that the Mets have been dominating this season. They dominated these series with such ease last season, to the point where all I could do was laugh. The Mets, forever mediocre, were a force. A Major Force.
And with that, congrats to Tommy on 299.
Are the Mets back? Lets give it a few weeks. But it really looks like the Mets may have found the spark that they needed. Last year he was the king of controversy. This year, he is hustling, showing emotion and playing the baseball that made him a top prospect.
Lastings Milledge, of course.
So our boys are winning, our kid is playing and the Mets are in first place, playing their best baseball in three months.
And yet, I've never been more paranoid.
Helicopters and Tomato Sauce.
The two teams that scared us before the season are scaring a newly shaved-head Sip. Of course, they are the Phillies and the Yankees.
Another night, another dramatic win for the Fightin's. The Phils' offense is just scary. Wednesday night's hero Ryan has looked over the last 6 weeks like Ryan Howard of '06. And good thing for this blogger. On a tip from my buddy Tom Donaghy I threw down a unit at 20:1 about 6 weeks ago on Howard having the most home runs in baseball. He still has a long hill to climb, in the paws of Alex Rodriguez, but, that is a much smaller hump than he had back in June when he had about 15 guys to surpass.
Then there is Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins. Utley is a star. I didn't think it would happen this year, but it did. Hitting .330 and leading the NL in RBI.
But the man they call J-Ro, the guy who put this team on his shoulders when he called the Phils the team to beat is having one of the best offensive seasons ever by a SS not named Alex Rodriguez.
The Phils have won 5 in a row and just don't show any signs of slowing down. They're getting career years from their entire lineup (Rowand, Victorino, Rollins, Utley).
We have 4 with them in Philly(Carlos Beltran is smiling) at the end of August and three more at Shea in Mid-September. Those two series could determine the season. They should be pretty awesome.
Speaking of awesome, what is going on in Yankeeland is anything but...Awesome.
The Yankees are playing like a team with a $200 million dollar payroll. They are destroying bad teams. They made the D-Rays look like the AAA team that they are earlier this week. And now that they are exposing Rob Neyer's darlings for the stiffs that they really are.
6.5 back of the Sox and we're not in August.
Unlikely to make a major move at the deadline, the Yankees still may get more help that any team in baseball at the end of July.
If Giambi can hit (read: is he back on the clear?) the lineup would add a dominant bat.
If Phil Hughes comes back and looks at all like hed did in his last start before the freakish injury, then the Yankees are adding a very solid starting pitcher.
Hot team + Key Offensive Addition + Key Pitching Addition= Salt
I am naturally a pretty nervous person. You might say I'm my father's son in this respect. Right now, the Phils and Yankees have me nervous.
When I'm nervous, I sometimes ramble, as you may have noticed above. There is some good to be drawn from all this. The Mets may finally be playing their best baseball. What's rough though, is that anything less- as we have seen all season- and we may be in some trouble.
As they say in the old country, it's time to step up.
Vaya,
Sip
(Pics courtesy of MLBlogs.com, cnn.com)
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