Opening Day Mets vs Marlins

Mets stole one today. Not many more of those left, they should savor it. Watching GMJ field fly balls was terrifying.

On the plus side, Jacobs crapped all over himself. So that was nice.

This is a plus win. A few more and maybe the confidence will kick up and we'll be respectable when we get healthy.

-X-

 

I disagree. Rodriguez had a very limited spring training, between the pinkeye and the family auto accident. This kind of low-pressure appearance was no different from a spring training appearance he would have had anyway, and was a very reasonable idea.

 

I guess. I'm just not a big fan of letting guys with violent motions get in extra work.

 

Understood, but Frankie got little to no work in ST, so he's still as fresh as he was when he came into ST.

 

I don't think, sadly, that we'll have much to worry about with Frankie this year. Color me a skeptic regarding that performance. I just don't see many other teams floundering offensively like the Marlins did today.

-X-

 

im so excited for this season. hopefully this game was a sign of whats to come.........

 

Wooohooo! Santana's gonna win 30 games, and the Mets are winning the World Series, thanks to a great pitching outing my Oliver Perez in game 7. I jest, want to wait at least 10 games and see everyone pitch twice before i get excited about this team. But still, a win is a win, and I love my metties win or lose.

 

No shame in letting yourself get a little excited due to a solid win.

 

has there ever been a worse pair of cleanup hitters in opening day lineups than Jacobs and Cantu?

 

They showd the statistic a few times on SNY but the Mets are best Opening Day team in MLB history % wise. I had no idea they won a WS before they won a game on Opening Day but that's impressive.

 

Now if only we can convince them that every game is opening day we will have a good season.

 

162-0. baby!!!

 

I go back to the days when the Mets never won on Opening Day - they lost every Opening Day in the 1960s, including in 1969 to the expansion Montreal Expos (featuring the player who would later be called Le Grand Orange). Since then they are 32-9 on Opening Day, which is truly bizarre.

 

Gee, are you Mets fans sure this isn't a home run hitting park?

 

Opposing teams really had no problem hitting HRs in our park last year.

I think it was a psychological effect more than anything. Road teams would come in with their regular hitting approaches and hit the ball, and lo and behold, they'd hit homers.

While there were a buncha reports last year pertaining to how some of our players were changing their approaches and trying to hit more gappers/liners as opposed to going for power for fear that Citi would just swallow the ball up. I also think that oppo-field hitting drill that Bernazard implemented last spring training really fucked up all our hitters as well.

Either that, or our pitching sucked.

 

Such a good game tonight. Met's come back to tie it at 6-6, going into the top of the 9th right now. Lucky they're facing some pretty bad pitching.

 

Luckily the 3rd base umpire doesn't know what a balk is either. What a terrible call.

 

And that was obviously a strike to Francoeur, but I guess take what you can get?

 

I can't believe my Marlins are going to find a way to choke this game away... Renyel Pinto is the Drew Coleman of middle relievers.