Nice win for the Mets to take the series (the first home series lost by Atlanta since last August), but Niese had to leave the game with shoulder problems.
Ike Davis with 2 Hrs tonight. If he starts hitting down there, how long do they wait till they call him back up?
Freaking idiot second base umpire Adrian Johnson makes the right call of a Met (Eric Young) beating a throw to second on an attempted double play, and then overrules himself to the wrong out call, and of course then ignores Collins pointing it out.
Parnell gets a 1-2-3 9th for the save so the umpiring blunder doesn't matter. Hefner gets the win, bullpen is great again, and Mets win 5th in their last 7.
I have to be fair and say I didn't watch the game, well, because I can't where I live. But that being said these quotes from Dillon Gee are just flat out pathetic. These are not the statements of a competitor. These are the statements of a guy simply playing it out. Nothing genuine or sincere about it at all. “It definitely stings to know that if I would have done just a little bit better, maybe we win this game,” Gee explained after yesterday’s loss. “Obviously this loss is totally on me, not anybody else.” Ryan Howard hit two home runs against Dillon Gee; Howard improved to 7-for-15 with six home runs lifetime off of Gee, and four of his eight homers this season have come off Gee. ”That guy definitely has me,” Gee continued. “It seems like no matter where I throw, he hits it out of the ballpark. Hopefully I can do better for the team next time and we continue to win.”
Fair enough. Maybe just a bit of midseason frustration coming through for me but it certainly reads like a guy who's a little too comfortable with getting his ass kicked. Does it really sting Gee? Could you have thought about giving that little extra something during the game instead of talking about it after the game? Sometimes the less you say the better it is.
FTC, I think sometimes these guys are searching for "prophetic" or "absolving" statements to give the media in light of the pressure of playing in the N.Y. market. However, that having been said, The front office does'nt expect much from this team... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/s...ilpons-leave-mets-fans-high-and-dry.html?_r=0 FYI, if this was already posted, I apologize... By Not Speaking Up, Wilpons Send the Wrong Message By HARVEY ARATON There was one painfully awkward moment late Tuesday afternoon in an otherwise gracious endeavor by the Mets to honor Mariano Rivera before his last scheduled appearance at Citi Field. In an apparent slip of a usually tied tongue, Jeff Wilpon, the Mets’ chief operating officer, more or less conceded the season. Mets Manager Terry Collins had his say, and a little more, before rearranging the bases and leaving in the sixth inning. Wilpon was trying to be simultaneously poignant and glib at a news conference when, upon presenting the retiring Rivera with gifts for being the greatest closer in baseball history, he said: “Wish we could see you in the World Series but I’m not sure if that’s going to happen.” Rivera, for almost two decades one of the beacons of Yankees’ optimism, did his best to sprinkle some on the Mets. “You never know,” he told Jeff Wilpon, hours before surrendering three successive ninth-inning hits and handing the Mets a 2-1 victory, their second in two days of the four-game Subway Series. It is never a good thing when a member of the Mets’ ownership essentially rules out a wild-card run and a postseason miracle in Queens. In September, that would be considered acceptable real talk. In May, it is foot-in-the-mouth public relations for a franchise that gave us “Ya Gotta Believe” and is increasingly desperate to lure people into its handsome ballpark when the occasion isn’t a Matt Harvey start. As it is, the only time beleaguered Mets fans can thoroughly convince themselves of a sunny future is when Harvey’s turn comes up to pitch, every fifth day. Even on a dreary Tuesday, weather-wise, there was a buzz in town with Harvey waiting out the rain delaying the start of the game. Even the Yankees were intrigued, with only a couple of their players knowing much about Harvey. The young catcher Austin Romine said he had faced him two years ago in the minors. “All I remember was that he mowed us down,” Romine said. “Had the kind of hard stuff where you went back to the dugout thinking he got you out, you didn’t get yourself out.” Against an improvised lineup of imported journeymen, Harvey was very good again. But the Yankees scratched out a sixth-inning run and Hiroki Kuroda threw seven shutout innings. The Yankees’ winning formula was firmly in place but Rivera was touched up by Daniel Murphy, David Wright and Lucas Duda. Moral of the night: You never do know. It was just the Mets’ luck to have Harvey’s start fall on such a wet night, one day after a gorgeous holiday on which they didn’t come close to selling out for their crisp victory. Much was made of the relatively sparse attendance — it was understandably lower Tuesday night — with several reasoned theories in play. Bottom line: Harvey aside, the Mets are a scrappy but underwhelming lot at best. Unless the Family Wilpon can suddenly afford to slash ticket prices or add significant salary, little can be done to make them a more compelling attraction. But even if Jeff Wilpon couldn’t quite get through a rare appearance without fumbling his lines, would it hurt his father, Fred, to make his presence felt around Citi Field a little more often? Taking into consideration his regrettable interview with the New Yorker two years ago, we’re not suggesting that he vent regularly, the way George Steinbrenner used to in the Bronx. But what Wilpon the elder could try is what smart, accountable owners do when they sense the fan base becoming irritable or, much worse, indifferent. They drop in. They position themselves near the batting cage with inviting body language for the quote-hungry masses of the news media. They make the talk radio rounds. They rub verbal salve over the skin of wounded sports souls. That’s what Hal Steinbrenner did near the end of spring training. With bodies breaking down all over the Yankees’ clubhouse and the team sticking to a new financial plan, Steinbrenner was suddenly everywhere, delivering the same rehearsed talking points about remaining a contender, now and forever. At the very least he elevated his credibility as a baseball man who is not tone deaf. The Wilpons are not the worst of the worst. They are not the Madison Square Garden strongman James Dolan, who only deigns to correspond with Knicks and Rangers fans via season ticket renewals. The Wilpons did conduct their annual chat session with reporters in sunny Port St. Lucie, Fla., at the outset of spring training. No one, however, bought the smiley face they drew on the team’s financial future after spending so little during the off-season. Then they turned over the team and the task of explaining its deflating start to 2013 to the general manager, Sandy Alderson. At least they don’t barricade executives in their offices, like Dolan. But sometimes the situation just cries outs for a few lines from the man way upstairs. Remember when John Mara, the Giants’ co-owner, made an unscheduled appearance at a Giants’ season-ending news conference to express his frustration in a December collapse? He knew that’s how his team’s fans felt. He let them know he shared their pain. Lately, Mara has been heard assuring folks that he will do everything he can to keep Victor Cruz in a Giants’ uniform despite a thorny contract situation. That’s not just being considerate of consumers. It’s smart business. Jeff Wilpon surely didn’t mean to kick his team while it is spared last place only by a Miami franchise that gave up on the season before it began. But short of selling the Mets, the Wilpons should consider a more positive-minded mantra to promote greater belief among those who still care to. They might repeat it every so often in public until it makes sense more than 20 percent of the time, or every fifth day.
From all accounts we have an abundance of arms. What pitcher(s?) do you guys think will be traded eventually? I'm so fearful it's going to be the wrong one. ha
It's going to be Syndergaard, Montero, or both. It's possible both get moved in the same deal. Especially if it's for an actual big bat like Gonzalez in Colorado.
Amazing what happens to a team when it has speed and a lead off hitter.....finally we seem to realise that..and can we start to play Lagares more..kid has definite upside Re trade..I think we keep them all...in 2014 anyway...we will prob trade Hefner away as he is a decent No 5 but with Harvey , Gee , Montero , Niese and Wheeler we have a solid rotation with the likes of Syndegaard to come up. Want to see Flores up here soon...can easily see us trading Murphy for the OF we need IF Ike comes up and starts to play....Ike at 1st , Flores at 2nd with Wright at 3rd....dont want to lose Murphy but if a deal for Murphy , Buck and prospect gets us an OF then we do it.
