Diaz may be a case that we have never seen before to this extreme. If he doesn’t have some type of injury, I truly believe he’s a mental headcase who doesn’t have the mental toughness or ability to handle pressure. In the short term and I mean by next year, you need to assess whether he can right himself. If not which I believe will be the case, you need to cut bait because less of saving game 7 in a World Series, he is the most vilified and hated met possibly of all time. And I do agree with you that Diaz will find himself somewhere else and be dominant in a city for a team where there is no pressure such as Kansas City, Cincy etc
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You keep him out of the closer role until we know that we are all but out of the race and then you throw him back out there. And I only do that in hopes he can come around and actually get something for him over the off season.
It’s like our manager has an obsessive compulsive disorder to keep watching the same movie and same ending with this mental headcase. It’s like Groundhog Day except I call it Torture Day. How many times can this happen? Just when you thought you’d never see it again, here comes the dumbest manager in baseball trying unsuccessfully to prove the fanbase wrong. Next year familia and Diaz need to be at the bottom of the bullpen heap with lugo at the top and you go out and either buy or trade for 3-4 solid relief arms that can get the job done. This is comical except not for the torture for all met fans. The scary thing is this team is good except for an atrocious bullpen.
We have enough dopes already at the shore. Send him to Central Jersey.
The shore is in Central Jersey, no? Although I guess a good chunk of it is in South Jersey.
It looks like the Mets are going to lose tonight even without a blown save. If the Mets lose tonight, they really need tomorrow's game, and they need the Cubs and Diamondbacks to start losing.
Is that like the 4th time you've given up on the Amazins season ?
After the "bad facts" exchange you should try to be a bit more respectful.
Maybe the issue is that most pro athletes need to be reilient. So when Mets fans say the team is resilient they are not wrong, but it's not saying much as most teams have a resilient streak too them.
In a heartbeat! (Financial considerations aside.) Stroman is a better pitcher than he's shown, and will get it together, although maybe not until next year.
I really can't figure out how Vargas got into the major leagues with velocity of no greater than 88mph (the Philly papers say) on his fastball. He has been just OK for the Phillies, and I doubt he fits into their long-range plans, if there is indeed any long-range plan other than to bring a whole bunch of pitchers to spring training and hope for the best.
Stunning development after the genius turned to the bullpen for 3 Frazier flails.
That was likely an elimination game for either team.The Brewers look as if they have the easiest schedule of the 5 teams.
And, in the meantime, the lesser of the two prospects that Van Numbnuts traded for Stroman just had a better start than any of the Stroman Mets starts.
Was at game. Thought it would never end! Four and a half excruciating hours. Longest nine inning game in Met history. I can't remember a game with so many foul balls.
Sold my Jet tickets and saw Mets instead. Pick your poison.
Sold my Jet tickets and saw Mets instead. Pick your poison.
It was the longest nine-inning game in Mets history and almost the longest nine-inning game in National League history.
Of course you should be allowed to post here. You're one of the more reasonable Mets fans here IMO.
I just think that there should be a limit to the number of times you can give up on a season.
Callaway was asked that question after the game.
Basically, he wanted the Phillies to have to make a decision on Mike Morin, whom he considers to be their next best reliever after Neris. The Phillies didn't have anyone warming up at the time, so he thought maybe they'd let him hit. If they pinch-hit, then he gets Morin out of the game.
Not asking anyone to agree with this rationale. Just saying that there was a rationale.
Not most hated of all-time. I believe Doug Sisk has that wrapped up. I'm old enough to have witnessed it when he would begin warming up in the bullpen. The vulgarities being yelled at him were insane...many of them being yelled to him about his wife, whose only crime was marrying the most hated Met. I remember she burst into tears one time, when they were introduced to the crowd for some festivity and he was boo-ed mercilessly. There were repulsive rumors of used condoms being thrown at him, although I have no idea if that was true, and for humanity's sake I certainly hope they weren't. I remember a sign that listed the top 10 most hated Mets list and all ten names were Doug Sisk.
The hatred of Doug Sisk, while real, is not rational. He pitched for the Mets from 1982 to 1987. Here are his Met career stats:
W-L 17-16
ERA 3.10
Saves - 33
His major problem was wildness, averaging 4.6 walks per 9 innings as a Met. But overall, not bad. If he were in the bullpen today he'd be a primary setup man.
The term "most hated" Met has two different connotations. Do you mean most hated at the time, or most hated now? If the latter, I would say Bobby Bonilla.
CBS projects the Cubs will win 86 games. The Mets have 72 right now with 20 games to go. So the Mets have a reasonable shot if they go 15-5 or better. Javier Baez and Craig Kimbrell are hurt, so the Cubs may do worse that projected. And Arizona may cool off. (The Diamondbacks lost yesterday). That's the only way I see the Mets getting the second wildcard.
Let's just say the intensity of the hatred far surpassed anything I see towards Diaz, rational or not. Perhaps Sisk doesn't pass the "longevity test", however. He did have a knack for coming into a game and allowing all the runners already on base to score, which partially explains his respectable ERA while still sucking.
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