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Gasping for Air
The Mets travel to Colorado today to take on the Colorado Rockies in the thin air of Denver, Colorado. Maybe just what the bat’s need to truley wake up is some thin air so they can get a couple of cheap homeruns, and pat their stats than maybe we can see a turn around from this club. Right now though the Mets truley are gasping for air sitting a game below 500 and 4.5 games out of first place the Mets can begin to feel like the Yankees all though atleast they can say we’re not in last place thanks Nationals.
However they have looked truley horrendus the last few games so they need to get their act together quick or they could find themselves dug in pretty deep to that trench that is the cellar of the National League East. Because as the Mets struggle the rest of divison seems to be playing some pretty solid baseball so this is why the Mets need to get their act together and fast or we could be in for a long season at Shea and I’m not sure that you will have ever heard boooing quite so loud.
Tonight we send Oliver Perez some refer to him as Ollie, OP I like to refer to his pitching as bi polar. One day Oliver Perez can have no hit stuff and look like Cy Young out their but than the next night he trots out to the mound he looks like Armando “the rest of the name cannot be spoken in the presence of Mets fans” used to in the 9th inning. Ollie has responded well however since Billy Wagner’s criticism of him after his laugher against the Pirates where as Billy so kindly put it, “He simply just did not compete.”
I was at Ollies last start at Yankee Stadium and he looked fantastic aside from the 2 run homerun he gave up to Hideki Matsui he pitched a whale of a ball game. If only you knew you could get this kind of performance out of Ollie every night he could be a certified ace, but you don’t he gets rattled very easily so the Rocky Mountain Air may be the worst thing for him since Britney Spears shaved her head.
We shall see LETS GO METS time to get on track….
Upcoming games
- Two more with Colorado this weekend
- Than the first place Marlins come to town for the 26th-28th important games there
- Than the LA Dodgers come to town the 29th- June 1st
Important week or so of baseball this could really get the Mets off that bottom of the divison horse espically if they could find a way to dominate the Marlins like they did in that opening week of the season…
Reflecting On one of the Mets Greats
Today is a very memorable day in my life,
and in the life of the New York Mets organization. For me
personally it’s my birthday, and for the Mets well its my
birthday duhhh!! Ohhh and also today May 22nd marks the
anniversary of when the Mets completed a trade with the
Flordia Marlins to aquire some guy, a catcher by the name of
Mike Piazza. Truely one of the greatest Mets to wear the
uniform in a long time Piazza did so much for this
organization including being the face of the franchise. I was
there for Piazza’s first game as a Met, as well as Todd
Hundley’s last game as a Met who had been a fan favorite at
the time. I remeber I was young and asking my dad in the
beggining in a game against the Diamondbacks why they were
booing Piazza at Shea. Despite the fact that my dad is a
dieheart Yankees fan he said, “don’t worry the boo’s won’t
stay very long he’s too good.” Sure enough that game Piazza
hit a grand slam and those boo birds quickly turned into
cheers, as what was heard for most of Piazza’s ellustrious
carreer as a Met. One of my all time favorite players, and
hit quite possibly one of the most famous homeruns in a
regular season game at Shea stadium to cap off an incredible
rally against the Braves in the first game back at Shea
Stadium following the tragic attacks of September 11th.
Piazza was truley one of the great Met’s of all time and
arguably the greatest hitting catcher to ever play the game
of baseball. He is without a doubt a first ballot hall of
famer as most baseball analysts have said, and in my mind
there should be a day soon coming at Shea Stadium that should
be Mike Piazza day where they retire his number 31 so it can
forever hang in the outfield of what will be new state of the
art Citi Field.
Crushed
This week’s series at Atlanta has been quite dishearting for the Mets and the Flushing Faithful. What was supposed to be a momentum builder after beating up on the Yankees in the Bronx in a shortened two game series sweep, the Mets have come to Atlanta and laid an egg once again. So far losing a double header to the Braves on Monday and getting beat again on Tuesday the Mets have once again proved that the Braves are the true Mets momentum killers. Turner Field has never been quite friendly to the Mets and once again it is the unfriendly confines where the Mets failed to win and have become short two oufielders as Ryan Church is out with a concussion, and Moises Alou’s age may possibly be catching up to him as he left with a strained calf. This was the series where the Mets where supposed to show that the meeting that Willie had really lit a fire under the behinds but apparently it did not accomplish very much as the club continues to struggle and against one the top teams in the NL East. The Mets have to salvage this series and than go in to Colorado and win a series their maybe that thin mountain air is just what the bat’s need and just the confidence this team needs to get in order to start rolling as we know they are capable of doing.
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