This is my shameless babble from a disappointed Mets fan! I hope you are ready for my dissertation on the Mets demise!

For the last 3 weeks, the Mets SUCKED! There is no other way to put it! The pitching fell apart, the defense fell apart and the offense, while hitting when they were behind, was not that good either!

Tom Glavine had NOTHING today! There is no sugar coating here! Glavine could not get out of the first inning for gosh sake! Let’s continue into the game. Bases loaded and Ramon Castro hits a ball that looks like it is gone. It fell safely into the glove of left fielder Cody Ross! THAT my friends was the beginning of the end to an otherwise wonderful season!

What happened with the Mets season? Let me think for about a second. Can you say bullpen? Should we list the culprits? Eric Heilman,
Guillermo Mota, and even Billy Wagner! OMG it sucks! 7 game lead and end up with nothing! Not even a wild card!

What the &#$* happened to having the best record in the National League? Not only did that dissolve, it evaporated without reason! Who do you blame? The OVER PAID players, that’s who.

Do you think for 1 second that Willie Randolph asked them to play like crap? Do you think that Willie Randolph “told” his players to forget about people on base? What about fundamentals? Was it Willie Randolph who made them forget? I think not!

I am tired of the media getting people fired from jobs simply because the “PLAYERS” don’t perform! It’s time the PLAYERS become accountable for their lack of production! Let’s see, millions of dollars per player and the player is not responsible for his play? That ain’t right!

Bottom line, Willie Randolph did not lose the 7 game lead, his players did. The defense sucked, the pitching sucked, the bullpen sucked! How much more do I need to say? The saving grace is there is a good nucleus with the team. They only need to create a pitching staff from this point!

Tom Glavine is finished as far as I can see, Pedro Martinez is about done also, but there is hope with John Maine, Philip Humber, Mike Pelfrey, and the others we haven’t seen as yet.

This is my glass-half-full thing…Mets in 08 are GREAT!

GB
Walter Gavurnik

After another dreadful loss on Friday night, the Mets came back swinging today! In more ways than one! John Maine was in his glory this afternoon with a 14 strikeout outing. He flirted with the first no-hitter by a Mets pitcher…EVER! 7 2/3 innings of no hit ball broken up by a swinging bunt by Paul Hoover.

Finally, the Mets showed some spunk during a bench clearing melee. Twice no less. It began with Marlins pitcher Harvey Garcia throwing a ball behind Louis Castillo after Lastings Milledge homered and Jose Reyes doubled. The benches and bullpens cleared. No punches were thrown…YET! After the teams returned to their proper places, Miguel Olivo and Jose Reyes were talking it up. Next thing you know, Olivo is charging Reyes at third, throws a punch which struck Sandy Alomar. Benches and bullpens clear again. Everyhing gets calmed down and play finally resumes. It was ONLY the 5th inning at the time! Final score Mets 13 Florida 0!

Now, in case you got so excited after the game that you had to go mow the lawn or visit a friend, you may not have noticed 2 other important scores. Nationals 4 Phillies 2 and San Diego 3 Milwaukee 4. You know why the Phillies loss is important, but maybe not San Diego’s loss. Here it is:

As you can see by the highlighted teams, the Mets MUST win on Sunday. Their last hope to play in October! The scenario goes like this with a Mets win and Phillies loss the Mets win the division, Phillies win the Mets play the Phillies on Monday for division title. Now, if San Diego loses on Sunday and the Phillies win along with the Mets, there are 3 teams with 89 wins. The first thing is for the Mets to play at Phillie to decide the division winner. The loser would then play San Diego in order to decide the wild card. To make it a little more interesting, if the Mets lose the division in the playoff, they would host San Diego, but if the Phillies lose the division, they would travel to San Diego. Did you get all that? Good….

I really hope I have something worth while to write tomorrow and not some shameless babble by a disappointed Mets fan who is totally ticked off to the seasons end!

GB
Walter Gavurnik

P.S. LET’S GO METS!!!

The Mets sweep the Marlins, finally! What happens next? The bullpen totally implodes! The bullpen surrendered every lead the Mets had. Result? Washington Nationals sweep the Mets!

Remember Mota? Did it again! Heilman? Yep, same thing! Tom Glavine had a rough outing his last time. He got punched around pretty good. Mike Pelfrey starts off well, but when they begin to hit him he seems to fall apart! Philip Humber started well also. Again, the Nats started hitting him and Willie Randolph replaced him before he got knocked all over the place. The game was still winnable at that point. Enter the bullpen! AGAIN!!!

Tonight Pedro Martinez had a very nice outing. All of a sudden the offense went to sleep. This is not a good way to enter the post season…should the Mets even make it to the post season. All tied with the last 3 against the Marlins. The Phillies will finish against the Nationals.

Hold onto your hats Mets fans…Bumpy ride ahead! 3 games left and all even in the division! BOY this sucks!! 7 game lead down to a tie! Hats off to Phillie for winning when they had to. The Mets went in the opposite direction!

Hope to give you more in October! LET’S GO METS, LET’S GO METS, LET’S GO METS GO!!!!!!
GB
Walter Gavurnik

Sunday presented a very nice day for New York football. The New York Jets beat the Miami Dolphins. The score? 31-28! That is not the telling story. It’s HOW the Jets won the game! Looking at the stats, the Jets lost the game.

So HOW did they win? Chad Pennington, that’s how! 15 for 22 with no interceptions. Yep, only 124 yards but, those were needed yards at required times. 8-13 in third down conversions compared to 3-9 by Miami. That shows the defense played much better than in the past couple games. What about the big ZERO for interceptions? Chad Pennington showed up for the game and played well! Don’t forget about that much needed scramble Chad had for a TD!

When you see a stat like total yards; Miami 424, Jets 256, that is what makes the game alarming! It also PROVES the Jets defense did their job! The Jets defense was able to stop the Dolphins when they had to. My hats off to Eric Mangini and the entire New York Jets team. What ever they did worked GREAT, at least for one game.

Keep it up guys! We want ALL New York teams to do well!

See you next week!
GB
Walter Gavurnik

The Giants finally get a win. A good one too since it was in the division. Although I was not overly impressed with the defense, it DEFINITELY looked better than the first 2 games. The defense seemed to click a little better and pretty much covered assignments from what I could see on TV.

While I am not yet convinced the Giants defense is back, I do have to congratulate that FANTASTIC goal-line stand. 3 times they kept Campbell and the Redskins from tying the game. That showed heart and guts to me! Maybe the whipped puppies got some of that fight back! (Pleeeeze, this is not a reference to the Michael Vick story! That was despicable!)

The offense continued clicking after a not so good first half. Plaxico Burress dropped what, 5 passes? I lost count so I’m not sure. In the second half he did catch 5 passes and one was the game winner.

Eli Manning had the 2 picks. That’s ok since he was able to overcome them and complete 21 of 36 with that big td to Plaxico Burress! So far it looks like Eli is comfortable this year in his leadership role. He has been moving the offense and scoring points. Something the Giants have needed!

Derek Ward is not Tiki Barber. From what I have seen so far, he is a work-hoarse. Derek has been able to move the ball and gain yardage when he gets the ball. 26 for 94 is not Tiki, it shows he can take the carries and get yardage.

Waiting until next week to provide a more in depth analysis. We have the Eagles to contend with next.

Ok, the title is about the Mets most recent loss. Ummm….that was tonight to the Marlins! What did I say in my last post?

I am not going to rant about the loss, rather the fact that Willie Randolph is such a great manager. Did you listen to his post game interview? When asked about the Lastings Milledge ejection he simply said, ” You better talk to the parties involved.” 

Nobody thrown under the bus, no ill-advised comments, simple facts about “what HE knew!” That’s KEWL!

Speaking of throwing, who was the IDIOT METS FAN throwing the ball at Aaron Heilman from the stands? What a lame-brain a$$h&*e! Doesn’t that make the rest of us fans look good? That jerk should be banned from EVERY stadium in the US! That includes little league! Could you imagine him throwing a ball at a 10 year old kid during a game?

Anyway, Mets fans it’s time for a ralley cry. 1.5 game lead after the Phillies won tonight. Repeat after me;
LET’S GO METS!  LET’S GO METS! LET’S GO METS!!!!!!

GB
Walter Gavunik

I just want to let you know I am NOT ignoring the Yankees. After screwing up the Mets season, I do not want to say anything about the Yankees to decrease the possibility of over taking the Red Sox! They are close so I will shut up now! 2.5 games!

GB
Walter Gavurnik

Well……After my dumb post about being 7 games up, the Mets were swept yet again by the Phillies. To make matters worse, they also lost the first two games to the Nationals!

Once again, pitching failed them. BUT, it wasn’t only the bullpen this time, it was a combo of …. Get this … STARTERS … and … ERRORS! Can you believe THAT? ERRORS cost the METS wins!

Lawerence sucked. We all saw that. Throwing the ball around the infield made it worse! What was it? Like 6 errors in the game? I am not sure since I got PISSED and finally walked away from the game!! Game 2 against the Nationals, and another 4 run lead, Maine SUCKED!  What, another 4 errors? AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!

Sorry, I am normally a calm quite sort of person. This stuff TICKS ME THE F… OFF! Little league baseball with MAJOR LEAGUE salaries!

What does this all mean to Mets fans? It means that the Mets were only 1.5 games ahead at the start of tonights game. THANK GOD the Mets won. The Phillies were still at a 0-0 tie last I saw.

[UPDATE] Extra innings between the Phillies and the Cardinals! This was at 11:18 pm EDT. Let you know more if I am still here!

Tonight, Pelfrey started very well. He even left the game BEFORE giving up the lead! HOLY CRAP, HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? Sosa came in and did a good job. [It’s about time the bullpen did something!]

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, the Mets are currently 2.0 games above the Phillies. The Phillies are only 1.5 games behind the Padres. If ANYONE thinks that the Mets are an automatic in the playoffs, THINK AGAIN!

Should the Phillies win the division, and the Padres continue to win, the METS ARE OUT! Simple as that!

[UPDATE time=11.28 EDT] The Phillies just lost which leaves the Mets at 2.5 game lead! Long way to go!

There is 4 games with the Marlins now. Who ALWAYS tends to beat the Mets? Yup, it’s the Marlins. The ONLY saving grace is that we have Martinez and Glavine starting the first 2 games. Trust me, that is NOT a gaurentee to win! Just some extra hope!

Stick with me people, more on the way about my favorite team!

GB
Walter Gavurnik

Watched the JETS game and from what I could tell is the JETS fans should hope that Pennington is not healthy this year! Kellen Clemens did a fantastic job moving the offense. Granted they came up a little short, but Clemens did what Pennington could not do in the preseason.  Now, Clemens has proven he can do it during regular games!

Gang Green have a ton to look forward too. Eric Mangini is a really good coach. In Kellen Clemens they look like there is a great future.

JETS, JETS, JETS!

After further review……………………
I have some new comments about Sundays game against the Packers!

Amani Toomer had his fau pas with the stupid penalty after being pushed. Amani Toomer he made a stupid mistake. You HAVE to like that when a player ADMITS to his mistakes! On the other hand, Jeremy Shockey did NOT make the same response. He decided to tell the media that “This is the way I play” (paraphrase)  Well let me say this about that! A TEAM member does not use personal thoughts for DUMB mistakes!! Team members say what Amani Toomer said!

I love Jeremy Shockey as a tight end. He is very good at his position. He COULD be GREAT if he were a “TEAM PLAYER” Team players admit to their individual mistakes and not place them on “PERSONAL” factors!

My opinion is simple, if you don’t want to play for the TEAM, don’t play at all!! Hey Michael Strahan, did you HEAR THAT? Jeremy Shockey and Plaxico Buress, DID YOU HEAR THAT! The TEAM which is paying your ENORMOUS salaries NEED YOU at camp!

I have so much more to say about the TEAM thing, but I just don’t have the time to write it right now. These guys KNOW what they need to do if they want to win football games. Apparently all they want is collect a paycheck!!

The GIANTS are caput as far as I can see. The defense has folded because Tom Coughlin is too tough! This reminds me of the Dan Reeves era where everyone quit on him.

There is a SEVERE problem when the team controlls the coach. Salaries have created the perception in players minds that if they don’t want to do it, they don’t have to. That to me creates OVER-PAID CRY BABIES! [Read] Tiki Barber!

I will shut up about this for now. Let’s see what happens next Sunday.

GB
Walter Gavurnik