Mets Woe(s)

Inning 7:

*I don’t know any other team bloggers that write a blog prior to the game being over (inning 7) – knowing the game is already over. The Mets just don’t come back by 4 runs. Well they just got one. I actually debated hard between writing the Mets just can’t come back or the Mets just don’t come back, and the thing is – they can come back. They have the talent. They have the lineup. They have the heart. They have the passion. Maybe maybe maybe they don’t have the ‘mentality’– even more nauseating – how many games have the Phillies come back from in the 7^th inning-on this year already?

*Watching tonight’s game – even worse than the inability to come back was Jerry Manuel not taking Pedro Feliciano to match-up Brian Stokes against Matt Diaz. Here is a righty who hits lefties, but no – let’s pull a Willie Randolph and leave in the lefty. Come on Jerry. Willie was fired. Let’s not put faith in front of statistics – at least not when it comes to lefty-righty matchups. That’s baseball rule number 1, and if you think the statistics are straying from that trend, you know the Mets bullpen will regress to the means.

*The reason Bobby Cox and the Braves have been so successful past their aces is because he will literally yank a pitcher for the better match-up. I understood Casey Kotchman (lefty) was on deck, but you still take out Pedro Feliciano for Brian Stokes (righty) to face Matt Diaz (righty) with the bases loaded in that situation.

*Uh…fantastic hit-and-run. Hat-tip to Bobby Cox. COME ON METS!

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