Spring Game3 notes

Sorry for the delay, any who were pining for my thoughts (riiiiiight), I finished watching the game this morning.

Since my esteemed co-host Jeff pretty much summed up the game already, I will just make a couple of notes culled from the game and other news.

First of al, at least the team tried to fight back. Down a lot relatively early, they could have easily said that since it was a spring game, who cares, let’s get to the tee box. So that is nice.

The hitter’s are ahead of the pitchers, as to be expected, but some interesting things can be discerned about the #5 spot in the Mets rotation. First, Livan Hernandez looked really good in his two innings, lively pitches and movement on his offerings. However, the other two major candidates for the spot, Tim Redding and Freddy Garcia, are not showing ANYTHING. Redding has not even thrown a pitch and Freddy Garcia would have been better off NOT throwing a pitch.

Garcia actually looked like absolute, total, and complete garbage. His pitches were flat and had NO movement, he walked a ton of batters, gave up hits, and in general looked like the washed up fat pant load that many of us felt he was when we signed him. At least when we think of Redding, we can fool ourselves into thinking he may be a pitcher, we have not actually SEEN him do anything this year.

Garcia is a waste of oxygen in our camp at this time.

On another note, we saw a couple of the candidates for the second bullpen lefty in the game, and by far the most impressive one was Casey Fossum. Two solid shutout innings put him FIRMLY ahead of Tom Martin, Adam Bostick, Valerio De Los Santos, Heriberto Ruelas, Jon Switzer, and the newly signed Ron Villone.

I like the stockpiling arms, though, sure can’t hurt.

Oh, and Castillo went 0-3, he’s a bum! Just kidding, folks, trust me.

As always, remember, if you see Ryan Howard walking down the street, remember, Tonya Harding had the right idea.

Make him scream “why, why, why, why, why…”

LET’S GO METS!

Niese scheduled to start against Detroit today, the game is at least on radio, not sure about TV yet, but good old mlb.tv will at least have audio!

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