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[metallidevils]

BOOOOOOO!!! Thats almost as bad as rooting for the flyers.

the only thing worse than rooting for a philadelphia sports team, is actually living in philadelphia.

Glad to see that Wags is back on track. Mota needs to never pitch again. Hopefully he'll take steroids again so the league will suspend him, because I don't think Omar would ever trade a hispanic player OFF of the team.

[nmigliore]

Mota will be dealt (if hes still under contract) during the off-season, bank on it. Now lets get some revenge on the Phillies and put away the NL East!!

[Devils Pride 26]

No chance with Omar, he loves him.

[NJDevs4978]

Mota will be dealt (if hes still under contract) during the off-season, bank on it.

For who exactly? Not only is Mota untradeable (because of the roids and his bad year) but Omar and especially Willie have a ridiculous blind spot for him regardless. Willie was complaining about him pitching to buzzard's luck the other night Yeah THAT's the reason for a 6 ERA

Odds are he'll blow a big postseason game or three, but we'll still have to deal with him at the start of next year. And then at some point after he blows a few more games and needs to be hidden in witness protection maybe then he'll be DFA'ed. But don't hold your breath.

[nmigliore]

So wheres Joe Smith been? Im very he sure he was a call-up on September 1st since he was the best bullpen pitcher for the Mets coming from the Minors..

[nmigliore]

anyone watching the mets/phillies game right now? 2-2 going to the Bot. 9th.. what a top 9th for Wagner! Struck out Burrell, Howard, and Rowand - arguably the teams top hitters.. LETS GO METS lets get a walk off winner now!

edit: ha i laugh at the home-plate ump.. funny how he calls the CLEARLY outside/away pitches for strikes on the Mets (anyone remember Reyes' earlier at-bat?).. Of course then he tosses LoDuca.. fvcking biased umps I tell ya..

Edited by nmigliore, 14 September 2007 - 08:39 PM.

[NJDevs4978]

The ump was an absolute joke, he definitely had a moving strike zone depending who was at the plate. I don't blame LoDuca one bit for getting tossed, I wish Willie'd show more emotion and get tossed in a situation like that too.

Another annoying loss though. The Phillies it seems have replaced the Braves as the team the Mets invent ways to lose big games to in excruciating ways. Can Willie run a damn squeeze in the eighth with probably the best bunter in the league at the plate and the defense playing back?! Noooo, he has to have Castillo try to get a hit (since any fly ball he hits will probably be too shallow to be a sac fly) and he and Beltran strike out back-to-back. Again they make this garbage pitching staff look good.

Still the division lead better be safe. Even with a sweep the Mets would be 3.5 up with only games against Florida and Washington left (plus one makeup against the Cards). But having the Phillies in the playoffs would not be good if they're going to keep beating us in the crunch.

[nmigliore]

This was a game we should've one.. too bad for Glavine, just that one mistake to Utley costed him a no decision.. the only plus out of this game was Glavine's great performance and Wagner owning the 9th.. Heilman couldn't get in done in the 10th (hes becoming Mota #2).. Not good for the bullpen again (excluding Wagner/Feliciano)

[NJDevs4978]

It's official, the Phillies have replaced the Braves as the team we cannot get out of our own way against. Seven straight losses, the last five of which the team basically invented ways to lose and now inventing a new one today, by walking the pitcher on four pitches then having Reyes boot a grounder and turn it into TWO unearned runs. For a guy with his numbers and talent, Reyes has had a lot of uninspiring play this season.

Why am I even watching this game when the Jets are going to annoy me in three hours and probably the Chargers are going to annoy me tonight by crapping the bed

[nmigliore]

Ick terrible again.. Perez is just not consistent, i smell trouble with Maine or Perez starting in the post-season.. Once again i restate: our bullpen sucks..

/end rant

Edited by nmigliore, 16 September 2007 - 05:19 PM.

[NJDevs4978]

http://www.bbcarchiv...inking_ship.jpg

Right now, this team is a bunch of dogs. Even D-Wright's now stinking it up.

They deserve to blow the division quite honestly. They might be able to start beating up on the Nats and Marlins and still win it but my god, a must-win game and you're pitching Brian Lawrence and Aaron Sele as your first two pitchers?! Willie's losing it.

Edited by Hasan4978, 17 September 2007 - 08:13 PM.

[nmigliore]

Yes this is terrible.. Phillies are gonna win, Mets will lose this game.. God damn Lawrence.. he impressed me with his nice control and pitching the first few innings then in the 4th he blew it.. oh I just thought: we have Pelfrey pitching this series too.. wow.. Its like Willie wants to blow the lead. And Im sick of Aaron Sele! He only pitched a few good relief innings and that was way back in the beginning of the year! It was all over for him when he gave up like 3-4 runs against the Pirates in that 9th inning..

[NJDevs4978]

Mets' last two games - 10 errors and 9 runs scored. It is ass-kicking time now!!!

Willie is just so frigging lost. Friday he doesn't squeeze with Castillo, the best bunter in the league in a tie game with the Phillies' defense playing back because he said 'Jimy Williams was watching him like a hawk'. SO? Saturday he throws Feliciano out for a second inning after he'd thrown 20 pitches in the previous inning and against Aaron Rowand, a righty power hitter no less! Yesterday he brings in his son (Mota) after Beltran's HR actually gave the team a little momentum and Mota of course gave it right back. And today he doesn't even entertain the notion of starting Humber, instead going with the hopeless Brian Lawrence and the even more hopeless Aaron Sele to back him up. What's Sele's WHIP around two?

Willie's far from the only person associated with the Mets that needs his head examined though. Professor Pop-Up has slowly regressed this season, at first it was not running out grounders, then it was his plate discipline and now he can't even play defense. Not to mention his selfish play trying to steal third with two out, two on and Wright at the plate ran the Mets out of a big inning Saturday. For a gold-glove CF'er Beltran has now cost the Mets two games by running in on balls that went over his head, both against the Phillies. Castillo was brought in for his defense and his fundamentals. So what does he do, Saturday he loses track of the outs in the FIRST INNING and gets caught off second on Wright's liner, Sunday he botches an easy DP grounder in that five-run inning. LoDuca gets himself thrown out of the Friday game and then DiFelice comes in for him and drops a pop-up And the team as a whole is absolutely choking.

Especially this pitching, oyiee. Mota, Sele and Lawrence are useless beings. Omar needs to forcibly remove these people from Willie, they're like his drugs. Willie needs to grow a pair and try a kid like Humber instead of going with the same old crappy vets. Look across town what happened when THEY did this! He just can't do it. He buries Feliciano and Sosa when they're pitching well while giving chance after chance to Mota and Sele, and now Feliciano and Sosa are almost as useless because of it.

[nmigliore]

Wow AGAIN.. ANOTHER LEAD BLOWN TO THE WORST TEAM IN THE DIVISION.. come on Maine!! Hes just too inconsistent man.. 7-3 lead lost in an inning.. after all the Mets have gone through already.. wow he has to blow it (and so damn early too.. what what is, the 5th?) Now its 9-7 Nats in the 7th.. even if the Mets end up winning this game somehow (which i doubt), this is ridiculous.. and now El Duque might not even get another a start until the post-season.. yikes.. this is really not good..

Edited by nmigliore, 18 September 2007 - 08:46 PM.

[NJDevs4978]

Frigging Maine. He's had over a 6 ERA since the All-Star break, I guess we'll find out next year whether that's just him pitching more innings than in the past or the league catching up to him. But he is mentally fragile, after the first couple of innings he looked nasty. Then after giving up the second HR he lost all confidence again.

THIS is the team we let back into the race, a frigging Phillies team that almost BLEW AN ELEVEN-RUN LEAD last night! And yet their bullpen looks like the '96 Yankees against us

Manny Acta doing his best to stick it to the Mets, was he Willie's brain last year or something?! Probably not but man, it seems like Willie's regressed as a manager if anything although he was never really under any pressure his first two years here and now he is big-time.

Typical Reyes, another 0-3 night with the obligatory pop-up.

Edited by Hasan4978, 18 September 2007 - 08:56 PM.

[Jerrydevil]

It's unbelievable what's happening now.

[NJDevs4978]

I like this post on a Mets board:

OJ's in jail and the Mets suck, this is the mid 90's all over again

Even tonight Willie's erratic pen management came back to bite the team, you can't leave Blowenweis in to pitch to ANY right-handed batter, I don't care if it's me at the plate!

[Devilish34]

Our B.P. suxs but are bats are still swinging.

[overtime98]

The Mets really suck right now, espaically thier bullpen!!! they are about to CHOKE big time! they better wake up. I hate philly and dont need them winning the division.

[Devils Pride 26]

Willie should have been gone for some time now.