Rain, Rain Go Away Already!!!
Seriously Mother Nature, enough with the rain delays already. You are killing the Mets one-game win streak MoJo. This is the last chance the Mets get to take on a sub-.500 team until after the All-Star break. This same sub-.500 Pirates squad did embarrass them in early June.
As relieving as Mike Pelfrey’s 1-0 triumph over a filthy Yovani Gallardo was yesterday, it is just one win and it does not shield the dire straights this team finds itself in. If they are indeed going to attempt to stay in the race, you realize the Mets are going to need starting pitching performances like Pelfrey gave them four or five times a week. Not likely with Tim Redding toeing the mound every five days.
I am curious to hear people’s reaction the report that Omar pursued Mark DeRosa but backed away after the Indians asked for Bobby Parnell. I am down on Omar for sure right now for a multitude of reasons, but I applaud him for not making a reactionary move and giving away one of the organizations few promising young players for a stopgap.
Enjoy the action…or I guess inaction from Pittsburgh. Then bring on the Phillies, a team who might actually be scuffling more than than Mets at this point.
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No, the mets should not make desparation moves at this point in time. But any moves that are isolated will be stop gap by definition. They need to retool in the off season and change the culture of the whole team. They need to get rid of guys who think hitting a home run in a 5- 1 loss is worthy of 20 handshakes. They need to dump players who play for the minute and don’t realize winning a game is only a means to an end. If that means trading Reyes or Beltran or Wright for that matter, then so be it. The current culture of this mets mets team is a losing one. that has been shown again and again over the last 3 seasons. Remember, we were having these same discussions about the mets when they were healthy in the beginning of the season.
July 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 pm