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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought the Mets weren't supposed to start choking until September? >>




    So what did you call it when the Phillies "choked" their way out of first place earlier this season?

    I bet you didn't call it a choke job did ya?
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I thought the Mets weren't supposed to start choking until September? >>




    So what did you call it when the Phillies "choked" their way out of first place earlier this season?

    I bet you didn't call it a choke job did ya? >>



    I've stated numerous times that the Phillies for whatever reason, usually seem to get off to a slow start in the beginning of the season...that's been true for a number of years, so for the Phillies it wasn't choking, it was just the way they always do it, and then the Phils come on strong later in the season. So I sorta expected the Phillies to not be in first place yet, and the Pets to choke later as usual. Perhaps these mercenaries may not even want to play half a season any more before quitting...at least before they would play around 3/4 of a season before quitting like dogs LOL
  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I thought the Mets weren't supposed to start choking until September?


    So what did you call it when the Phillies "choked" their way out of first place earlier this season?

    I bet you didn't call it a choke job did ya?

    so for the Phillies it wasn't choking, >>




    Of course it wasn't LOL
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I thought the Mets weren't supposed to start choking until September?


    So what did you call it when the Phillies "choked" their way out of first place earlier this season?

    I bet you didn't call it a choke job did ya?

    so for the Phillies it wasn't choking, >>




    Of course it wasn't LOL >>




    The Phillies are the World Series champions. Champions don't choke. How quickly they forget. LOL
  • SoFLPhillyFanSoFLPhillyFan Posts: 3,931 ✭✭
    May 19, 2009
    Dodgers 3, Mets 2, 11 Innings
    Mets Dumbfounded by Their Mistakes
    By BEN SHPIGEL

    LOS ANGELES — His shoulders slumped, his eyes heavy, his goatee likely grayer than it was just four hours earlier, Jerry Manuel emerged from the Mets’ clubhouse late Monday night and spotted a massage table.

    “I need to lie down,” Manuel said.

    No wonder. The Mets arrived at Dodger Stadium in first place in the National League East. They left, after a 3-2 loss to the Manny Ramirez-less Dodgers in 11 innings, leaving Manuel wondering if he was managing a team sponsored by Chico’s Bail Bonds. The carnage included a season-high five errors — including two in the 11th, which led to the Dodgers’ winning run — one decisive base-running blunder by Ryan Church and countless slack jaws, head shakes and dumbfounded looks in a solemn clubhouse.

    “I’ve never seen anything like that,” Carlos Beltran said.

    And neither had anyone else. To be fair, Manuel said he had seen his former charges, the Chicago White Sox, commit five errors, not that he was boasting of that achievement or anything. But no, he had never seen a player completely miss tagging third base on his way home like Church did in the top of the 11th. That gaffe canceled what would have been the go-ahead run, ended the inning and breathed life into the Dodgers. Not that, on this night, they needed any extra help. The five errors were the Mets’ most since they committed six on Sept. 16, 2007, against Philadelphia.

    “The guy missed third base, that’s unbelievable,” Manuel said. “I can’t explain why or how or anything, but he actually missed the base. To me, it’s just hard to miss third base. I know there are guys who miss first because they’re looking for the ball, that type of thing, but I don’t remember if I’ve ever seen a guy miss third base in a situation like that.”

    Then he clarified. No, he had not. Church, for his part, said he thought he nicked the side of the bag as he rounded third, heading home on Angel Pagan’s gapper to right-center. But the third-base coach Razor Shines did not complain when the Dodgers appealed, and Manuel did not argue the call.

    “I just feel terrible because touching the bag is a simple thing to do and I didn’t do it,” Church said.

    Making the simple difficult since 1962 — that could be the Mets’ motto. At times this season, the Mets (21-17) have turned that act into an art form, missing cut-off men, failing to slide and running into outs. But they have played better recently, even as injuries have caused two of their stars — Jose Reyes (right calf tendinitis) and Carlos Delgado (right hip surgery) — and a valued utility player, Alex Cora (torn right thumb ligament), to miss time. In their stead, Manuel has been forced to mix and match, starting players at unfamiliar positions because he has little choice.

    Which is how it came to pass that Ramon Martinez, who arrived at 6:45 p.m. — 25 minutes before the first pitch — after being recalled from Class AAA Buffalo, was playing shortstop Monday night and committed two errors. And how Pagan was getting his first major-league start in more than a year. And how Jeremy Reed, who now has a total of 16 1/3 innings of major-league experience at the position, came to be playing first base in the 11th inning.

    From that post, Reed gazed out toward left-center field as Xavier Paul’s fly ball started to plummet. Pagan and Beltran converged. Beltran said he called the ball, “like, six times,” but Pagan did not move.

    “Pagan was still in the middle and I couldn’t see the ball,” Beltran said. “If Pagan would have called that ball, my job is to get out of the way. Basically he stood in the middle and I just couldn’t see the ball.”

    The ball dropped between them, and Mark Loretta, who had walked against Brian Stokes to lead off the inning, scooted to third. Paul zipped to second, and the Dodgers had the winning run on third. Not so fast, though. Juan Pierre was walked intentionally, loading the bases, and Rafael Furcal flied to shallow left. One out. The Mets should have — could have — escaped when Orlando Hudson followed by tapping a grounder to Reed.

    Reed fielded the ball perfectly. He got into throwing position immediately. However, “looking back on it now, I probably just rushed,” he said.

    His throw home sailed wide of the catcher, Ramon Castro, and Loretta scored. Dodgers 3, Mets 2. A premonition of these fill-ins being exposed that Manuel had offered a few hours before Monday’s game had come true.

    “I haven’t practiced that,” Reed said. “But I should be able to do that. I pride myself — wherever he sticks me, I can make plays.”

    The Mets have not hit a home run in five straight games, which would be an irrelevant piece of trivia if not for the fact that the last two nights have proven that they actually could really have used one. Their situational hitting skills must have played hooky Sunday, skipped the short flight from San Francisco and — even aware that Delgado is out indefinitely — made little effort to arrive in time for Monday’s game.

    In 48 hours, Manuel has seen a dramatic shift in the tenor of his team’s offense. In winning the opening three games in San Francisco, the Mets went 19-for-47 with runners in scoring position, slapping singles and lining doubles all over the field. In losing their last two games, the Mets have gone 1-for-16 with runners in scoring position, magnifying what has been a season-long dearth of power. The Mets entered Monday with 26 homers, ahead of only Pittsburgh, Oakland and San Francisco.

    “I think you need a little power here and there, I think you need that, but I think it’s dangerous to ask the group that’s not sluggers to be sluggers,” Manuel said. “I think we have to continue to preach the type of baseball that we played in San Francisco, because we have the ability to play that type of game.”

    The lone bright spot for the Mets was Tim Redding, who in his debut showed that he could be a capable fifth starter. After giving up two runs in the first, Redding shut down the Dodgers, allowing just two hits over six innings in emerging with a quality start. The Mets evened the score at 2-2 in the eighth, on an infield single by Gary Sheffield. Four Mets relievers combined to hold the Dodgers scoreless until the 11th, when, as Redding said, in beautifully understated fashion, “a couple things didn’t go our way tonight.”

    If only it were a couple. Then Manuel may not have needed a rest.

    “It was a bad game on our part,” Manuel said. “Very bad.”
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NYM (21-17) 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 5 1

    LAD (27-13) 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 5 9 1

    oh boy oh boy oh boy....Mets losing again tonight....

    ....repeat after me...mercenaries don't win championships....repeat....
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NYM (21-17) 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 1

    LAD (27-13) 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 5 9 1

    Uh oh...only one more inning left for the Petskies tonight or chalk up another loss for them. NY bars staying open after hours tonight stocked up with whiskey for Pets fans.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Casey at the bat.....
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Man, Broxton chucking them in there at 99 mph to the bottom of the order, Mets managment was trying to make a quick deal for Matt Stairs
    before the inning started. no dice.

    JS
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NYM (21-18) 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 1

    LAD (28-13) 1 0 0 1 0 3 0 0 X 5 9 1


    What's that X mean? How comes the LAD team didn't get to bat in the bottom on the 9th inning?
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My goodness...the Pets mercenaries sure don't like those road trips - they're used to living in their multi-million dollar mansions...they sure don't like those hotel rooms and bedsprings they're not familiar with...oh the "horror" of having to travel and play baseball. LOL
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My goodness...the Pets mercenaries sure don't like those road trips -

    You were saying, Steve? image

    Looks like it may be time to cue up the band again...

    Sillies ain't got the pitching to win this season...the sooner you realize that, the better, LOL!!


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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Speaking of mer-canaries where did this Ibanez fella come from? The Sillies farm system?

    Or is he a mer-canarie free agent?

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I would like to extend major congrats to the Mets and especially Omir Santos.

    THANK YOU image

    Yankee fans

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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭
    Figures

    Mets win, Phillies lose and stalin is nowhere to be found.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Only a matter of time now!!

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  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭


    << <i>Only a matter of time now!!

    image >>



    What has it been like two weeks now?

    LOL

    JS
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We're missing two of our top players and still keep on winning...our #5 guy is as good as the Sillies #2...just wait till Beltran and Reyes are healthy again...can you imagine what the Sillies would do without Howard and Utley?

    Helloooo 1st place!!!


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  • lawnmowermanlawnmowerman Posts: 19,477 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>...can you imagine what the Sillies would do without Howard and Utley? >>




    Have less strikeouts?
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We're missing two of our top players and still keep on winning...our #5 guy is as good as the Sillies #2...just wait till Beltran and Reyes are healthy again...can you imagine what the Sillies would do without Howard and Utley?

    Helloooo 1st place!!! >>



    Say what?

    Philadelphia 25 19 .568 - - 7-3 W1 14-10 5-3 4-5 2-1 9-13 16-6 14-15 11-4 4-1 6-3 247 227 24-20 5/26 v FLA, W 5-3 5/27 v FLA, 7:05P
    New York 25 20 .556 0.5 118 5-5 W2 12-8 7-5 4-6 2-1 14-8 11-12 19-17 6-3 1-3 8-9 219 194 25-20 5/26 v WSH, W 6-1 5/27 v WSH, 7:10P
    Atlanta 23 22 .511 2.5 116 6-4 L2 12-10 5-7 3-5 3-0 11-12 12-10 12-17 11-5 2-1 8-6 194 201 22-23 5/26 @ SF, L 0-4 5/27 @ SF, 10:15P
    Florida 21 26 .447 5.5 112 3-7 L1 14-8 2-10 4-6 1-2 9-14 12-12 10-20 11-6 5-2 6-3 215 256 20-27 5/26 @ PHI, L 3-5 5/27 @ PHI, 7:05P
    Washington 13 32 .289 12.5 106 2-8 L2 5-21 3-5 4-4 1-2 7-16 6-16 9-25 4-7 0-6 5-7 224 283 18-27 5/26 @ NYM, L 1-6 5/27 @ NYM, 7:10P
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭


    << <i>We're missing two of our top players and still keep on winning...our #5 guy is as good as the Sillies #2...just wait till Beltran and Reyes are healthy again...can you imagine what the Sillies would do without Howard and Utley?

    Helloooo 1st place!!! >>



    There are four Phillies with more homers than the top two Mets put together. Pedro Feliz, who bats 7th for us, would be second in RBI's if he played
    for the mets! Matt Stairs, who is a pinch hitter for us, has as much, or more homers than 4 of your everyday starters!

    Mets are pathetic! Have fun riding Santana's arm till it falls off!

    JS
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We're missing two of our top players and still keep on winning...our #5 guy is as good as the Sillies #2...just wait till Beltran and Reyes are healthy again...can you imagine what the Sillies would do without Howard and Utley?

    Helloooo 1st place!!! >>




    I keep hearing these same "excuses" from Mets fans year after year after year.

    Mets fans can have the excuses, Phillies fans will have the titles.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All those supposed bats in the lineup and the Sillies still can't stay in first place...

    Say HELLLLLLLOOOO to the first place METS!!

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hello

    Damit image
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    image



    Steve
    Good for you.
  • swartz1swartz1 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭
    outa first by the end of the night...

    looks like they are losing now...

    cant hit good pitching and here comes johnson...

    out .5 game...book it...


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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Goodbye. Ha! Ha!

    Philadelphia 26 20 .565 - - 6-4 W1 15-11 5-3 4-5 2-1 10-14 16-6 14-16 12-4 4-1 7-3 254 237 24-22 5/29 vs WSH, W 5-4 5/30 vs WSH, 7:05P
    New York 27 21 .563 - - 6-4 L1 14-9 7-5 4-6 2-1 16-9 11-12 20-18 7-3 2-3 9-9 231 206 26-22 5/30 vs FLA, L 3-7 5/31 vs FLA, 1:10P
    Atlanta 24 24 .500 3.0 112 5-5 W1 12-10 5-7 4-7 3-0 11-12 13-12 13-18 11-6 2-1 8-6 209 218 23-25 5/29 @ ARI, W 10-6 5/30 @ ARI, LIVE
    Florida 23 27 .460 5.0 109 4-6 W1 16-9 2-10 4-6 1-2 9-14 14-13 12-21 11-6 5-3 6-4 229 263 22-28 5/30 @ NYM, W 7-3 5/31 @ NYM, 1:10P
    Washington 13 34 .277 13.5 102 2-8 L4 5-23 3-5 4-4 1-2 7-16 6-18 9-25 4-9 0-6 5-8 232 295 18-29 5/29 @ PHI, L 4-5 5/30 @ PHI, 7:05P
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Yeah that 002 pct points is making you cream.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah that 002 pct points is making you cream.

    Steve


    SteveK's been waiting all week for this moment...

    too bad it'll be shortlived!



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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ahh...po'd Mets fans....just the way it should be...

    I'm luvin' it. image
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i> Yeah that 002 pct points is making you cream.

    Steve


    SteveK's been waiting all week for this moment...

    too bad it'll be shortlived! >>



    Was there any doubt this would be a jinx? Phillies leading Washington by three...and 2, count 'em 2, Ryan Howard dingers - Ha! Ha!
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm so glad the Phillies are in first place.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Yeah I see that you guys beat Washington....again.

    lol.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey Pets fans...here is the latest standings brought to you by a winning Phillies fan:

    Philadelphia 29 20 .592 - - 7-3 W4 17-11 5-3 5-5 2-1 12-14 17-6 16-16 13-4 4-1 7-3 272 248 27-22 6/1 @ SD, W 5-3 6/2 @ SD, 10:05P
    New York 28 22 .560 1.5 112 7-3 L1 15-9 7-6 4-6 2-1 17-9 11-13 21-19 7-3 2-3 10-9 239 216 27-23 6/1 @ PIT, L 5-8 6/2 @ PIT, 7:05P
    Atlanta 25 25 .500 4.5 109 5-5 W1 12-10 5-7 5-8 3-0 11-12 14-13 14-18 11-7 2-2 8-7 220 224 25-25 5/31 @ ARI, W 9-3 6/2 vs CHC, 7:00P
    Florida 24 28 .462 6.5 106 5-5 W1 16-10 3-10 4-6 1-2 10-14 14-14 13-22 11-6 5-3 6-5 238 270 23-29 6/1 vs MIL, W 7-4 6/2 vs MIL, 7:10P
    Washington 13 36 .265 16.0 98 2-8 L6 5-25 3-5 4-4 1-2 7-16 6-20 9-25 4-11 0-6 5-8 240 308 19-30 5/31 @ PHI, L 2-4 6/2 vs SF, 7:05P

    Oh, you're welcome.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What happened to all the Mets fans in this thread?

    Gone with the wind?
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's the Mets new theme song about their 2009 season....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AihPsVfIddo
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    twas the night before another Mets game when all through the house, not a Mets fan was stirring, not even...oh well, you get the idea.

    don't hear no Mets fans chirpin' no more????????????
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    lol How come when the Mets play someone like say the Padres they are weak
    no game bums? Yet when the Sillies play them Stalin makes them out to be a really tuff team?

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • swartz1swartz1 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭
    You guys cant even beat the Pirates...

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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mets lose another one today?

    I keep trying to tell ya...mercenaries don't win championships.
  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭


    << <i>lol How come when the Mets play someone like say the Padres they are weak
    no game bums? Yet when the Sillies play them Stalin makes them out to be a really tuff team?

    Steve >>



    Cause when you played them they did suck, now they have run off like 10 in a row until we put up the wall of iron on them. This is NOT looking
    good for Met fans.

    Kevin
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We need Beltran and Reyes back. Enough with the subs!!


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  • joestalinjoestalin Posts: 12,473 ✭✭
    Is Beltran hurt? He doesn't show hurt on my fantasy squad, but he isn't even starting, wtf yahoo?

    Kevin
  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Is Beltran hurt? He doesn't show hurt on my fantasy squad, but he isn't even starting, wtf yahoo?

    Kevin


    He's had stomach virus the last couple of days and is listed day to day...maybe some bad food from the taco truck at Flushing Meadows!


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  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,035 ✭✭✭✭✭
    OMG! Grote15 posted? I thought he had quit watching MLB and was now only following the Professional Croquet tour?
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Maybe when the Sillies get back home they will lose like they have all season.


    Steve
    Good for you.
  • swartz1swartz1 Posts: 4,911 ✭✭✭
    yeah....maybe....image



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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Has it yet been proven that Swartz only posts when the Sillies are in first place. Hadn't heard much from him prior to that.

    Discuss..


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