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The Mets lost to the Nationals by the score of 9 to 6 in Shea Stadium tonight – coupled with a win by Phillies, the Mets lead in the National League East is now down to just one game with four games left to play.
For a recap and boxscore, go to Yahoo! Sports.
…look up, see that gigantic object, it’s the sky, and it’s falling…
…i don’t have much to say, since we hosted a live, in-game podcast through tonight’s game…all i know is that it is what it is: a total foot race now, a fight to the finish…and with a one game lead, and Pedro Martinez on the mound, i am oddly confident…the thing is, he’s gonna have to pitch nine innings, because, if he doesn’t, who knows what will happen…
…i have never seen a bullpen kick a team in the ass like this, and what’s worse, they’re not being helped out by the team’s starting pitchers, who, regardless of age and experience, seem incapable of lasting beyond the fifth inning…
…it’s a lethal combination, which is poisoning every effort made by the team’s offense…for pete’s sake, the bats staked their pitchers with a five-run lead tonight, yet the team lost 9 to 6…unreal…in the last week the they have scored four runs or more in 12 straight games, yet they’re 4–8 during that time…i mean, what else are those guys supposed to do…they can’t drive in every single run…it’s not human…yet, at this point, that’s essentially what it has come down to, because they’re getting no help from the mound…
…you can blame willie, you can blame rickey’s card game, you can blame the hitting coach, the defense, the occasional missed opportunity at the plate, etc, you can even blame omar’s lack of options, and we can believe all we want, and the bats can believe all they want, but, at the end of the day, eventually, a starting pitcher must throw a quality start and a relief pitcher must get through a tough spot…because, at the end of the day, the best coach, the best hitter, the best GM, and all the faith in the world from fans will not be able to play out the worst hand…i mean, not even rickey can win that card game…the pitchers have to execute, or this is not going to end well…
…come on, guys, it’s now or never…you’ve gotta to believe, at this point…the rest of us are all just waiting and watching…
Reposted, because I think it’s important:
The Mets are 1 up with four to play. Nothing that happened before this moment matters.
Don’t give in the the defeatist attitude. It’s only because you’re trying to psychologically protect yourself from disaster. I’ve been guilty of the same for most of the season. But it’s not time for that any longer. If you don’t gamble big, you can’t win big. For a team who’s history is full of “ya gotta believe”, fans don’t have a lot of that now. And even if you think that doesn’t hurt anything, it certainly doesn’t help.
Take a chance. Dare to believe. Let’s go Mets.
your right but its damn hard to pick ourselves up night after night when all the pitching does is kick us in the teeth. im drained
I believe those were the exact words of that elderly gentleman that refused to leave his home when Mount St. Helen erupted in 1980. I think he his now buried under 30 feet of rock.
Ha, that was funny. I needed that laugh.
We’ve become the Phillies without the offense…
Actually, we have had a lot of offense the past week or so.
And i wish our pitching was as good as the Phillies…i’d love to have Romero now…
matt, what you say is all true. but this is why willie sucks. when you only need to win a game or two more to get into the playoffs and you are struggling, you have to manage like these are elimination games and willie isn’t doing that. he’s just doing the same old thing. no imagination.
Let me get this straight, you agree that the single glaring problem with this team right now is the inability of the starters to put together 7-8 solid innings of work coupled with the bullpen’s inability to get anyone out in a big spot … yet somehow Willie lacks imagination.
This is baseball, not abstract theory. You win games by scoring runs and getting the other team’s batters out. Right now we can score runs, but we can’t get anyone out.
Let me know when Joe Girardi or Bobby V. or Jim Leyland or Tonay La Russa “imagines” a way for his crap-ass relievers to get out of a big spot.
It doesn’t matter who’s in the dugout calling the shots; if the pitcher who’s called upon to get the batter out consistently doesn’t get it done, then you’re not going to be successful.
he doesn’t manage. put el duque in for the fifth. heilman. we’ve seen enough of joe smith and feliciano. try something else. the game was lost in the 5th
Embarassing.
honestly i love pedro but he doesnt have the necessary endurance to get us a win, if we’re lucky we’ll get 6 innings and that probably isnt even enough.
lo duca needs to call a bullpen only meeting and break a chair over their heads
What a bunch of B…S
You cant say that someone has to pitch past the fifth, someone has to get out of a big spot..
You can say that when we dorp a game here and there, but when it happens night after night after night after night after night during hte stretch run in NY, youu HAVE TO BLAME THE COACHES!!!!
We slumped in July, we fired the hitting coach.. great, the team is hitting.
Give me ONE reason why RICK PETERSON SHOULD BE WEARING A MET JACKET NEXT SUMMER? GIVE ME ONE!!!!
And dont say maine or perez, because they are mediocre at best.. they are aces on OUR staff, no one elses..
Peterson and henderson do not belong on this team..
That’s fair. Peterson has been getting all the credit when things went well, but hasn’t received his share of the blame now that things have turned for the worse.
Pretty much summed it up there Cerrone.
The pitching has destroyed this team the past two weeks.
THIS IS NOT WILLIE’S FAULT! THIS IS NOT WILLIE’S FAULT!
There’s only one way to say that. He didn’t come out of the game after 4 innings. He didn’t let additional runs score in the the middle of the game. And he didn’t let give up THREE (3) runs in the 9th.
I guess Wagner isn’t up for a game to save the season. But he’ll be up to save a game any other day. What we need is for a pitcher to please have a complete game shut out. Forget about a 7 inning quality start. A ten run read is not good enough for this pen. A complete game shut out. I dont care who does it. Unfortunately, i have confidence is no one to do that.
I’d rather had been 10 games out!
MM
Agreed..
Now we have YANKEE fans, PHILLY fans, Nationals fans, braves fans.. ALL of them arer going to make the mets fans their bitches.. Two years in a row with a monster offense, and we can not win SHT!!!!
WE are the laughing stock of baseball right now.. espn doesnt even want to recap the games because most of the guys are met fans there in CT…
u took the words right out of my mouth. bashing the mets is the thing to do right now. willie is not getting fired, but next year he is one thin ice if this team misses the playoffs.
and would you all quit it with getting at rickey henderson, i’ve never seen a first base coach get hammered the way he does.
hmm…. team struggling blame willie
reyes struggling blame rickey
player gets caught stealing blame rickey
*clears throat* racism* clears thraot
I think everyone should just go ahead and skip the first 4 stages of grief and go right to the acceptance stage like me.
It will make these last 4 games slightly more enjoyable.
i agree
i dont want wanna comment on this game
im just gonna go to sleep…
You should of just wrote …no comment Matt. I dont even know how you can express words after watching this team play.
The mets are done!!!!!!!!!!
Who are the Free Agent Pitchers and Relievers this offseason? Omar has a lot of work to do this offseason….
Just when you thought that they could find a worse way to lose they find another even more painful way to lose.
Let’s just trade our entire farm system, literally, for Johan.
This team blows, plain and simple.
Does anyone know what decent free-agents will be available this off-season? Our needs are too numerous to mention here, but hopefully we can fill some of them by throwing money at the problem. With Joe Girardi as our manager and some new blood in the lineup and bullpen, we can hopefully stage a comeback. I doubt the Phillies can sign any decent pitchers given the bandbox they play in, so they will still be vulnerable, despite their potent offense.
This collapse sort of reminds me of 1988, when we took tour success for granted.
This is a bad time to be a Mets fan, especially a Mets fan living in the greater Philadelphia area, like myself.
Actually this reminds me even more of 1998, when all they had to do was win one of their last 5 games and couldn’t. Now, if Philly doesn’t lose a game before Sunday night, we need to win 4 out of 5 to win the division.
Inexusable!!! YOU CAN NOT BE SWEPT BY A LAST PLACE TEAM IN THE LAST WEEKEND OF THE SEASON. Pitiful performance they really do not deserve to be in the playoffs its sickening to watch the bullpen is as terrible as can be. Its an automatic right now, bullpen in = game over. We’re heading for an epic collapse here