It’s time Omar…
Joe Fiorello | June 29, 2009You’re losing the fans Omar. The “Let’s Go Yankees” chants rang loudly throughout Citi Field last night. A team that gets outscored 33-3 in a series against a hated cross town rival in what can only be classified as an embarrassment, and the fans start to feel it. The text messages from all the Yankee fans clogging up my phone, the lost bets. It all went wrong. The icing on the cake, was Frankie Rodriguez walking Mariano Rivera with the bases loaded.
The Mets are now a .500 team. They certainly looked the part over the weekend. Instead of complaining about the Mets not being able to get a timely hit, or a hit with runners in scoring position, we can complain about them not being able to get a hit period. The double plays are getting ridiculous. The mental errors, although made by players playing out of position (see Daniel Murphy), are getting more frequent. What is this team supposed to do? The Phillies won’t keep losing the way they have been. Why? because the Phillies are too good to lose at that rate. They were kind enough to keep us in it so far, but unless the Mets start winning games, they’re going to find themselves way out without the time needed to catch up.
I was dejected sitting at the stadium yesterday, just like I was dejected watching the game with a bunch of Yankee fans on Friday night, and listening to the game on the radio Saturday night. These were all ugly losses, all games where you never really felt the Mets had a chance at winning. To the Yankees credit, they took advantage of every Mets mistake. Their starting pitching was impressive. They were able to go deep in all three starts. Getting to the Yankee bullpen early is the key to beating them, and the Mets batters couldn’t make it happen. They looked over matched at the plate no matter who was pitching.
Frankly, I’m a little tired of this team right now. I need an infusion of life just as much as the line up does. Does it mean it’s time to sell the farm and pick up someone new? No. Bobby Parnell folks, is not the farm. He’s in the Stokes house right now, not getting into a crucial situation. It seems that Jerry has lost faith in him, and with good reason. Parnell can’t seem to get anyone out anymore. While he still has some value, trade him away for a bat. We need a bat in a bad way. It’s depressing watching this line up. I’m not talking about some utility player to fill a hole. I’m talking about a clean up hitter. I’m talking about Adam Dunn. Let’s get someone that’s going to hit some no doubt home runs. Let’s name the bridge after him since he’ll be hitting it a few times a season. I WANT ADAM DUNN NOW! Go get him Omar.
It’s time for Reyes and Beltran to “suck it up” ang get back. Yours and you teamates season is going down the toilet quickly.
Why do fans always think because they want something, it’s the right thing to do? Newsflash, these are professionals. They know what they are doing. NO FAN can do a better job even though they like to think they can.
Have some faith in the GM. Geez. This team has had the most injuries to key players I have seen in ages. That they are.500 is amazing. Not many other teams would be.
Do you think Adam Dunn will really make a difference on this team? I doubt it. People seem to be in love with this guy because he can hit 450ft hrs…Who cares!?!?!…this team is broken in so many ways it cant be fixed anymore. Throw in the towel and wait for 2010…Sad part is, for the first time in my life , I really cant stand watching this team….I dont want to have anything to do with them anymore…This is a walking wreck of a team. It has a heart but nothing else.
I do think a legitimate bat in the line up until the “reserves” come back will make a difference. Series like this weekend make the Mets harder to watch and make the playoffs harder to make.
It’s true that not as many teams would still be at .500 at this point. It’s also true that the Mets have a huge amount of payroll on the DL. I feel that not taking any action is the equivalent to throwing in the towel on the season. Everyone knows the Phillies get hot at the end of every year, and we’re relying on the players coming back from the DL to catch fire and lead the team back into the playoff hunt. This is the same group of guys that have stunk up the field for the past two Septembers. The Mets need help.
Reyes will not be back until well after the All Star break. If he comes back before he’s 100% he’s going to re-aggravate his injury and wind up back on the DL. Carlos Beltran should be out there right now because the team needs him desperately.
Reyes and Beltran should be showing signs that they are at least getting closer to returning, i know that Reyes has made his presence known around the clubhouse, what about Beltran? What about Delgado and his progress?
If the Mets want us fans to get excited about their returning to the lineup, we should be hearing progress reports and not just hearing “after the all star break we’ll figure things out”
Its good that he is an ASG nominee based on the votes before he went on DL, but it would not be realistic to think that he will play his first game off the DL for the National League
I agree with Paul. Adam Dunn is no solution to solve what’s ailing the Mets. Yes, he hits plenty of mammoth home runs, but he’s also a .250 hitter with a huge hole in his bat and who can’t play a lick of defense. So for every run he gives the Mets with a dinger, he’ll give 2 or 3 back for not being able to track down a flyball in LF, or strike out with RISP in a key moment in the game. To say “While Parnell still has some value, trade him away for a bat” is completely shortsighted. Parnell maxes out at 100 MPH and is in his first full season as a major league reliever. To think his only career accomplishments have already passed him by is utterly ignorant. Also, if you believe Parnell by himself is enough to pry Dunn away from Washington, think again. It took a better and more accomplished pitcher (Chris Perez) to get a scrub like Mark DeRosa from Cleveland. Don’t you think it would take more than a middle reliever with a career opp.avg of over .300 to get the only player worth attending a ballgame for from the Nats?
Also, don’t talk about which injured players need to suck it up and play despite their injuries. You have no clue in hell what ailments they’re dealing with or what type of pain they’ve already played through and made their injuries worse. Have we not learned anything from the Ryan Church fiasco of 2008?
Joe, you claim to be a disgruntled fan, but judging by this peice of work I’d say a more appropriate adjective would be moronic.
Sure there’s some fire and frustration behind my words today. Are you saying that you think the team should wait it out and see where they are when the pieces start falling back into place? That sounds great in an ideal world. What happens if they play the kind of baseball they played all weekend and find themselves ten games out? Oh well, we tried? That’s ridiculous. They’re still within striking distance right now, but they won’t be for long. Something needs to be done. As for me being moronic, you’re right; I stayed for the whole game last night.
In my opinion, I think it would be more ridiculous to trade decent prospects who could develop into inexpensive talents for a player like Dunn who would make the Mets nominally better at best. He is not the difference maker in turning a sub-.500 team into a playoff contender. He is more the type of player who gets added onto an already good team to put them over the top. A complimentary player, not a season saviour. I admit that it sucks to say that this season is doomed in June, especially when the Phils only have a 2.5 game lead. But the alternative is putting future seasons at risk by making shortsighted, kneejerk reaction trades, and watching the Mets narrowly miss the playoffs this year and then spiral into mediocrity for the next 3-4 years. If they tank 2009 now, 2010 is still very promising, and this team will have plenty of money to spend this offseason with Delgado, Wagner, Schneider, and Putz coming off the books. I just think it’s best not to do anything you’ll regret now because you’re frustrated. “Cooler heads prevail.” That’s a quote many Met fans should embrace right about now.
The only thing moronic about this thread is that someone would call someone else a moron for wanting a player who has hit 40 homeruns and 100 rbi consistently for the past 5 seasons and is well on his way to doing it again without any protection in his lineup. While reasonable minds could differ as to how much would be appropriate to give up for dunn, I think it is far from moronic that the disgruntled one would want to put such a player in the middle of a lineup that has the lowest home run total in the national league and on a team that has one of the highest payrolls in baseball and is supposed to be a contender NOW.