If you were to tell me the Mets were going to entertain me until August training camps, I would have signed for that in April. Now last night, however, Talk about bizzaro land. Any baseball fan who knows the baseball works in New York City knows this: The Yankees are the best, and the Mets are their bumbling younger brother who can never do anything right. Going in to last nights game if you were to tell me that one of the two new York teams were going to win, and their closer was going to have a flawless ninth inning, I would have put money up that this team would have bene the Yankees. For once, it was not.
In a wild game, the New York Mets had one of their best wins of the year. Facing Ubaldo Jimenez, (In case you don’t know, he has a record of 17 and 3 and is one of the best pitchers in the game, if not the best), the Mets young stud Mike Pelfrey was up to the task. In his best performance over the last month, Pelfrey took the ball confidently and threw quickly. He had pace to his game, and a vision on the mound. The Mets scratched out a run against the aforementioned Jimenez in the 7th, before getting big outs from their bullpen and securing a win to pull them back to five hundred on the season at 56 and 56.
In Texas, Aj Burnett took to the hill looking to erase from his mind a start to the second half of the year that has been as bad as anyone’s in baseball. Burnett even had his start against the Red Sox skipped on Sunday by manager Joe Girardi. It’s time for Yankee fans to give him his credit. Like a true winner, when tested, Burnett answered the call and through seven innings of solid baseball. He gave up three runs, pitched well enough to win, but settle for a no decision.
The bottom line is this, maybe I’ll have to root for the Yankees more often. For those of you who don’t know, I jokingly said I’d root for the Yankees last night since I added Burnett to one of my fantasy teams. If each game was anything like last night, I’d take it every time!
Thx for the Mets update, as I have become a disinterested fan this season. Please tell me you're not serious about rooting for the Yankees in any way, shape or form. "Bumbling" is an excellent way to describe our beloved team and we all know it starts with ownership. They sat on their hands (again) when there were quality players available. The only hope for Met fans is that Wilpon sells the team to someone who is going to be proactive about building a contender every season. Well, this is turning into a blog in itself, so I will sign off. Keep doing your thing, Matty and I'll keep reading!
ReplyDeleteRich, I have to say, this has been the best year out of the last three for me, and I probably have seen more games this year than any! While it is frustrating, you have to take them for what its worth. Reyes is no Jeter in the mind, while he might have more god given talent. Beltran should have waited for next year to return. Our rotation needed one more starter. And apparantly, the mets organization has never heard of an eigth inning man. That being said, a cool breeze is comin known as football sundays.. And for all those nights up in seton, i'll definitely keep writing!
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