Good Show
Wow, we’ve scored a lot of runs so far this week. Not surprising though, when you go against a team that has no pitching and never has. Still, it’s been a lot of fun to watch. Although watching the bullpen implode and all of those errors being made (including the weekend in Minnesota) is not fun. Hopefully it ends soon. We may be able to overcome it against teams with crappy pitching like the Rangers, but as seen over the weekend, it doesn’t work against teams with good pitching. And it usually doesn’t get you very far into the playoffs, despite what the 2004 team managed to accomplish.
That has got to be one of the worst umpiring jobs I’ve seen in a series. Even though we seemed to get the brunt of it, there were bad calls on both sides, none worse than the one made on Gabe’s homerun last night. How is it that everyone else in the ballpark can see that it was a homerun except for the 4 guys who are supposed to see it? Fortunately it didn’t make a difference.
You gotta love Trot Nixon though. This guy’s on the DL and he comes storming out of the clubhouse to scream at the umpires in defense of the guy who’s replacing him in right field.
What is going on with the Yankees? They have lost almost all of their projected starting rotation to injuries and have been forced to use minor leaguers and pitchers pulled off the free agent scrap heap, but still manage to win enough games to stay in both the division and wild card battles, mainly because they’ve been able to out slug their opponents. Then they actually get very good pitching performances from a minor leaguer and a free agent pickup, but still lose 2 games in the division standings because they don’t hit, and one of those losses was against a pitcher they gave up on, Jose Contreras. This is further proof that the magic is gone. I’m really all broken up over it.
I’m compelled to say a few more words about Manny. This guy drives me insane. As I’ve said many times before, he’s one of the top right-handed hitters in the game. What he does with a baseball bat in his hands is just unbelievable. The “Manny being Manny” thing has taken on a life of it’s own, and there’s really nothing anyone can do except go along for the ride. I really wish he would just put all the crap aside and begin playing baseball the right way. I get the feeling we probably won’t see anymore of the major things like refusing to play in a game, refusing to pinch hit, or leaving the team a day earlier than everyone else, but it would also be nice to see some of the minor things go away as well, like not running out a ground ball, or standing at home plate and watching one of his blasts, and even worse, glancing at the pitcher before he starts his trot. It probably won’t happen though, and I’m just going to have to live with it.
We have a big test coming up this weekend. There’s a pretty good chance that we will be matched up against the White Sox at some point in the playoffs and they will have home field advantage. We split a 4 game series with them at U.S. Cellular (gotta love this corporate age) in late July during a time when we weren’t really playing that well. So we know we can win over there. Now we get 3 at home against them and a chance to really send a message. Not only that, but if we sweep we can get to within 5 games of them and have an outside shot at passing them for best record and clinching home field advantage (they have to slow down at some point right?). Of course, the Angels and A’s are right there with us and will also have something to say about that (we have 7 games left against the Angels and 4 against the A’s).
As I peruse the standings and see that the Mets are mired around .500 (currently 3 games over) which puts them in last place in the NL East and 3 games behind in the Wild Card race, with 4 teams in front of them, I wonder how much Pedro is enjoying his decision to leave the World Champions so he could get the respect he deserved from Omar Minaya.
I’m not one to say I told you so Pedro, okay I am, and I did.
That has got to be one of the worst umpiring jobs I’ve seen in a series. Even though we seemed to get the brunt of it, there were bad calls on both sides, none worse than the one made on Gabe’s homerun last night. How is it that everyone else in the ballpark can see that it was a homerun except for the 4 guys who are supposed to see it? Fortunately it didn’t make a difference.
You gotta love Trot Nixon though. This guy’s on the DL and he comes storming out of the clubhouse to scream at the umpires in defense of the guy who’s replacing him in right field.
What is going on with the Yankees? They have lost almost all of their projected starting rotation to injuries and have been forced to use minor leaguers and pitchers pulled off the free agent scrap heap, but still manage to win enough games to stay in both the division and wild card battles, mainly because they’ve been able to out slug their opponents. Then they actually get very good pitching performances from a minor leaguer and a free agent pickup, but still lose 2 games in the division standings because they don’t hit, and one of those losses was against a pitcher they gave up on, Jose Contreras. This is further proof that the magic is gone. I’m really all broken up over it.
I’m compelled to say a few more words about Manny. This guy drives me insane. As I’ve said many times before, he’s one of the top right-handed hitters in the game. What he does with a baseball bat in his hands is just unbelievable. The “Manny being Manny” thing has taken on a life of it’s own, and there’s really nothing anyone can do except go along for the ride. I really wish he would just put all the crap aside and begin playing baseball the right way. I get the feeling we probably won’t see anymore of the major things like refusing to play in a game, refusing to pinch hit, or leaving the team a day earlier than everyone else, but it would also be nice to see some of the minor things go away as well, like not running out a ground ball, or standing at home plate and watching one of his blasts, and even worse, glancing at the pitcher before he starts his trot. It probably won’t happen though, and I’m just going to have to live with it.
We have a big test coming up this weekend. There’s a pretty good chance that we will be matched up against the White Sox at some point in the playoffs and they will have home field advantage. We split a 4 game series with them at U.S. Cellular (gotta love this corporate age) in late July during a time when we weren’t really playing that well. So we know we can win over there. Now we get 3 at home against them and a chance to really send a message. Not only that, but if we sweep we can get to within 5 games of them and have an outside shot at passing them for best record and clinching home field advantage (they have to slow down at some point right?). Of course, the Angels and A’s are right there with us and will also have something to say about that (we have 7 games left against the Angels and 4 against the A’s).
As I peruse the standings and see that the Mets are mired around .500 (currently 3 games over) which puts them in last place in the NL East and 3 games behind in the Wild Card race, with 4 teams in front of them, I wonder how much Pedro is enjoying his decision to leave the World Champions so he could get the respect he deserved from Omar Minaya.
I’m not one to say I told you so Pedro, okay I am, and I did.
posted by Bob at 8/11/2005 10:47:00 AM
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