the 2007 NEW YORK METS: Pedro is Gravy

Yeah right.

I'm wondering who of John Maine/Dave Williams/Oliver Perez will step up pitching wise this year.

damn damn DAMN!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1i7n8jwWo

damn damn DAMN!!!

But it wasn't Florida who had the meltdown.

*BOOM BOOM*

damn, i believe i've been sonned ... just like the mets this week!!!

what happened to morbs? i hope he hasn't don't something crazy.

http://www.virginia.edu/insideuva/2003/18/images/DogDay3.jpg

God, you guys are vicious bullies.

At least I got to shout "LO DUCA YOU FUCKING SUCK" one last time. (If he is around next year I will go to a maximum of one game.)

God, you guys are vicious bullies.

naw, last night we were just clowning not being vicious.

THIS is being vicious ...

Meet the Mets! Meet the Mets!
Step right up and beat the Mets!
Bring your kiddies, and bring your wife!
They'll beat the Mets to within an inch of their life!
Because the Mets are really dropping the ball!
They've got their backs up against the wall!

East Side, West Side
everyone's watching them go down!
'Cause they're the M-E-T-S, Mets
the New York clowns!

Oh, the Phillies and the Giants and the Washington team?
What can they do? They'll beat the Mets!
Oh, the Pirates and Cardinals are ready to scream!
Why will they scream? They'll beat the Mets!

All the fans, it's true, the Mets are leaving them blue,
so hurry up and come on down!
You'll say, "You call this a ball club?"
The Mets of New York clowns!

Give me a break! Give them a hand!
They're making everyone cry in the stands!

Come on and...
Meet the Mets! Meet the Mets!
Step right up and beat the Mets!
Bring your kiddies, and bring your wife!
They'll beat the Mets to within an inch of their life!
Because the Mets are really dropping the ball!
They've got their backs up against the wall!

East Side, West Side
everyone's watching them go down!
'Cause they're the M-E-T-S, Mets
the New York clowns!
The New... York... clowns!

i've read better parodies.

the mets don't deserve better.

true, but the phillies might deserve better "phans"

don't the Philly fans sing 'Beat your wife'?

waht's this about a Country Time quote in THE NEW YORKER??

philly hasn't like won anything ever; they deserve a chance for once

1980! That'll do.

true, but the phillies might deserve better "phans"

i'm sure that there a few former i-bank employees milling about in Olde City and Northern Liberties talking trash about the neighbors they're displacing -- right up yer alley.

don't the Philly fans sing 'Beat your wife'?

that's very rich, coming from a team that plays in queens ... and includes an admitted steroid abuser.

Queens is the borough of domestic abuse or somethin'?

A steroid 'abuser' just abuses himself.

Steven Goldman, last Friday:

Fascinating thing about the Mets: their ERA has risen in every month of the season. From April onwards: 2.96, 3.73, 4.20, 4.50, 4.93, 5.16. In this, we could argue that the Mets' shocking last-minute fade shouldn't be all that shocking and isn't terribly last minute. I suspect if I had been writing the "Metsstriped Bible" at that time I would have been inveighing against the elderly nature of the Mets staff, arguing that oldsters are more prone to fading over the course of the season. That's not the whole story, of course; the lineup has been carrying too many dead spots all season. Unfortunately, this was a season in which there wasn't much to be done in the way of trading. Teams that needed to win through maneuver couldn't make adjustments. Omar Minaya is big on upgrading his team on the fly, certainly far more so than Brian Cashman, but between the weaknesses of the Mets' farm system and the lack of attractive options on the market, his hands were tied.

here's a peace offering of sorts -- i'm just as surprised that the mets collapsed as thoroughly as they did as anyone else. as pitiful as the mets' pitching had been the past month, i'd still take them over the phils' staff (God, i was cringing all throughout saturday's game on account of the pathetic-ness that is adam eaton).

well, I'd certainly take the Phillie bullpen over that rambling wreck that gave Willie the willies. (I am not mad or offended, Eisbaer. I like the gay sports bar in Philly.)

Nate Silver on the biggest collapses (last week):

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=6764

1. 1995 California Angels

Peak Playoff Probability: 99.988% after games of August 20th
Odds of Collapse at Peak: 8,332-to-1 against
Record at Peak: 66-41, 9.5 games ahead of the Rangers and 12.5 Games ahead of the Mariners in the AL West; 12.0 games ahead of the Yankees for the Wild Card
Record after Peak: 12-26

I posed this in the form of a trivia question to our internal mailing list: Which team had the worst playoff chase collapse of all-time? I got one guess for the 1964 Phillies, one for the 1978 Red Sox, one for the 1962 Dodgers (who rank 17th), and three for the 1951 Dodgers. Only Rany suggested the 1995 Angels, and that is because he has the best memory of anyone in our group (Christina Kahrl being a close second) and recalled Clay’s original article.

But in fact the answer isn’t even close. The 1951 Dodgers' odds were 384-to-1 against missing the playoffs, while the Angels were more than 8000-to-1 against. In fact, even if you ignore the Wild Card possibility, and looked only at the divisional race, this would still rank as the worst collapse of all time. With 38 games left to play, the Angels a combined 24.5 games ahead of the Mariners and Yankees, the two teams that would eventually pass them in making the playoffs. It took a perfect storm of events to knock the Halos out of the race—two distinct losing streaks of nine games apiece, plus the Yankees and Mariners each winning two-thirds of their games—and even then they still had the chance to redeem themselves in a one-game playoff against the Mariners. It's interesting to also note that if the Mariners had blown that playoff game, because the Angels played so badly that the M’s opened up a three-game lead at one point, the '95 Mariners would rank 13th on this list.

...The Mets (99.80 percent on September 12th) would rank second all-time if they miss, making good on a 500-to-1 shot against.

It was the Post:

"We've been throwing four innings a night, for months! Our pitching coach has no experience talking to a bullpen. He can help you mechanically, but he can't tell you emotions. He has no idea what it feels like. And neither does Willie. They're not a lot of help, put it that way."
--Mets closer Billy Wagner, in comments reprinted in the New York Post.

"I don't want people to misinterpret what I was saying. I wasn't trying to knock Willie or Rick, because they've been great. As bad as we've played, they've been the most supportive coaches I've probably been around."
--Wagner, clarifying his comments.

"This is not the time for this kind of article to come out. We believe in Willie. We believe in Rick. And we wouldn't be where we're at today if it wasn't for their leadership, and constantly patting us on the back and kicking us in the butt."
--Wagner

"It's never about me. I want that clarified--it's not about me. It's the results that we're dealing with. I definitely don't want to sound like I'm trying to be a loud mouth, or a leader of this team. Because I'm not the leader of this team."
--Wagner (Anthony DiComo, MLB.com)

hey tad thanks for the peace offering. for the record i'm not displacing anyone in philly or the east coast in general, i'll leave it to, i dunno, lawyers or somebody to do that. (JOEKS)

most of my friends who are phillies fans have been extremely gracious with their victory, which is nice considering i sorta wanted to drive off the road while listening to the mets yesterday.

AP - Billy Wagner injured his ankle Sunday while furiously backtracking from comments he made earlier about the effectiveness of the Mets coaching staff.

I'm really surprised no one jumped outta the upper deck when Glavine hit Willis with the 1-2 pitch.

while yanquis fans are bombastic and smug in their entitlement, mets fans are from other lands and retarded. i remember this summer a little kid (like, 4 or 5) getting gently berated by his uncle or somesuch relative for wearing a yanquis hat. dude. the kid is fucking 5.

some people. he should have just gotten his point across with a good beating.

you can find fans of all teams who are from the Land of Catsuppp Dude-Level Douchiness.

yeah but it sounds worse in broken english and a t-shirt with a cartoonishly large head of joe reyes on it.

courtesy of new york's best aka only real newspaper:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10012007/img/front100107.jpg

For fuck's sake.

you can find fans of all teams who are from the Land of Catsuppp Dude-Level Douchiness.

he's probably a red sox fan, being from rhode island -- right?!?

(nb: i like Catsuppp Dude & the noizers for the most part -- no insult meant!)

Woody Paige, succinct as always on Around teh Horn: "You've got to gut this team like a fish. And when you do that, you've got to get rid of Delgado, you gotta get rid of Beltran, you gotta get rid of Sean Green, you gotta get rid of El Duque, you gotta get rid of Glavine, you gotta get rid of, uh, ah, Pedro Martinez, you've got to build around... Perez... Maine... Wright... Reyes."

Get rid of Beltran? That's dumb.

so was that glavine's last outing?

yeah i saw that, and apparently some people on wfan are talking about dumping beltran too. so dumb.

In a way I think the Mets collapse is worse than that of the 1995 Angels, just because of the fewer number of games involved (i.e. the swiftness of events) and the fact that they never really recovered at any point (the 1995 Angels, 1993 Giants, 1978 Red Sox all collapsed, and then caught fire at the end to tie up the division again).

-- signed: guy who still hasn't recovered from the 1987 Blue Jays

i more intrigued about his name than anything else.

I think the significance of the Mets collapse is also coupled with the fact that they had one of the weakest schedules in the league, playing much of that stretch at home.

att Steve Shasta (from Newsday):

John Maine showed up Monday, but not to pack his locker. He came by Shea to pick up MRI film of his left hip, which he will have examined further Tuesday in Philadelphia. Maine revealed that he had been hurting from a sore hip since the All-Star break, which may explain why he went 5-6 with a 5.53 ERA in 15 starts in the second half of the season.

"It bothered me all year," Maine said.

He seemed fine on Saturday, when Maine struck out 14 and carried a no-hit bid into the eighth inning before Paul Hoover's two-out dribbler ruined his shot at history. Maine's gem kept the Mets' playoff hopes alive, only to see then dashed 24 hours later.

"It still doesn't feel like the season is over," Maine said.

Told about the fans' misery, he added, "I don't think they're as disappointed as we are. We worked harder than they did to not do it."

scott schoenweis takes 'roids? who knew?

the significance of the Mets collapse is also coupled with the fact that they had one of the weakest schedules in the league

TRUTH

what? against Manager of the Year Manny Acta?

via the Always Amazin' blog -- the year in Mets "#5 Starters":

Jorge Sosa (14 starts): 7-6, 4.59 ERA
Mike Pelfrey (13 starts): 3-8, 5.58 ERA
Brian Lawrence (6 starts): 1-2, 6.83 ERA
Jason Vargas (2 starts): 0-1, 12.19 ERA
Dave Williams (1 start): 0-1, 22.85 ERA
Chan Ho Park (1 start): 0-1, 15.75 ERA
Phil Humber (1 start): 0-0, 7.71 ERA

Total: 38 starts, 201 1/3 IP, 11-19, 6.39 ERA

Makes you wonder why Sosa was pulled from the spot.

What if Maine had spoken up about his injury, gone on the 15-day DL and turned in just one more quality start than he did? The world may never know!

nah, that's not a gamer.

this could also be an interpretation of the last two weeks of the season:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfz6l2n_e40

i need an animated gif of the last few seconds!

nb: i like Catsuppp Dude & the noizers for the most part

Yep, you don't know im

Buster Olney floated the idea of a Reyes/Gomez for Santana trade, which seems like a terrible idea to me.

they're not dealing Reyes, Wright or Beltran for anybody.

and I choose to blame the idiot Kevin James LETSGOMETS!!! Shea video for the collapse. It was introduced sometime around August 1.