Cubs @ Mets, 9/22 to 9/25

I've become numb to sports failure, it hardly even fazes me anymore. It is all I have known in my lifetime outside of the Mets winning the WS when I was 11 years old.

 

I'm cursed with a cross of false hope that things will change someday.....combined with an extraordinary dose of pessimism.......which puts me in the odd predicament I often find myself......which inevitablly leads to painful letdowns. Frankly Im much more accustomed to those from the Jets...but now the Mets are making it an annual occurrence.

 

words cant describe how i feel about last nights game. ive been positive all year, but last night was it. The Final Straw. This team doesnt deserve to make the playoffs and if they do it will be out of sheer luck.

 

that's what I keep trying to tell myself too....if by some stroke of sheer luck, this bunch of clowns manages to squeak into the playoffs.....it's pretty obvious that whoever plays them will make short work of them unless Johan pitches every game.

 

BP playoff odds still has us at 54.54748% to make the playoffs.

 

Cubs lineup:

Pie
Theriot
Hoffpauir
Edmonds
Fontenot
McGehee
Fukudome
Hill
Harden

Derrek Lee, Aramis Ramirez, Reed Johnson, Soto, and Alfonso Soriano all sitting. I hope they play after this series to complete the regular season...

 

I think they are going to as Pinella wants them to get some rest but not too much. Of course tonight I'm sure Peee Ay will hit 3 HRs and Harden will pitch 6 innings of no hit ball.

 

at least it was only 2 runs. how do the fans not shower this piece of garbage with boos? maybe the game will get rained out before it's official and pedro's awfulness will be erased.

 

Unreal already 2-0 in the 1st...... I hope this is Pedros last start as a Met.

 

see, sac flies really aren't that hard

 

Are there really still pitchers worse than Pedro?

 

http://rookyclub.4-all.org/ has the SNY feed again

edit: it should be working, but I'm having trouble with it right now

 

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/insidesports2 has the game

 

Church caught stealing to end the inning!

#^$@

Koyie Hill, the guy who had a table saw accident with his throwing hand 11 months ago, threw him out.

 

:rofl: I wish Church would have just stayed on the DL..... lets see L Mill or this clown who hasn't done shit since April.

 

ok, Pedro. I'm convinced. You're the worst pitcher in baseball. You don't have to keep trying to persuade me each inning.

 

finally someone makes the opposition pay for pitching around the good hitters

 

How about that? Dingbat with an RBI double....

 

haha, Church ties it.

end of 4, tied at 3.

Pirates-Brewers scoreless in the 1st.