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Friday, April 8, 2011

IS IT MY HAT?

WE'VE DROPPED 3 IN ROW, AND IT'S MY FAULT.
I'm sorry, Met fans. We have dropped 3 in a row, and I think it's all my fault. See I had the moxie to buy a new Met hat the other day, and ever since, we have not won a game. Being a self loathing, neurotic Met fan, I'm convinced it's my fault for buying the hat. The hat made the pitching staff suck, the hat is walking guys, the hat can't get guys in from 3rd, the hat is causing errors, and the hat is taking called third strikes. The hat is evil, and I invited it into my home! How do I properly exorcise it to break the spell of my local Lids store? Damn you, demon cap! Help Met fans! Help! I'm soooo sorry! My head feels battier than Pelfrey's belfry! I'm going mad I tell ya, mad!


METS LOSE HOME OPENER 6-2 TO THE NATIONALS


   See if the NY Daily News mentions my evil cap in the recap

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Tricky Dickey

TRICKY DICKEY, TAKE US HOME!
My fellow Met fans...who better to open Citi Field in 2011 than R.A. Dickey? If we ran the team, he'd be our choice for number one starter...because Mike Pelfrey is nuts. Like us Met fans, R.A. has heart, guts, and a can do spirit...plus a nasty knuckle ball. Enjoy the game everyone! It has to better than that shit storm in Philadelphia on Thursday.

MR. MET IS GOOD TO GO!

MR. MET IS READY FOR THE HOME OPENER!
Mets Blob reported just one week ago that Mr. Met might miss the home opener due to a shoulder injury. (see original post) Now insiders tell us he has arrived in NY from his rehab assignment in Florida and is good to go for the home opener Friday at Citi Field.  When asked about his quick turn around, Mr. Met had this to say, "Watching that Philly Phanatic flop around and taunt our team really got my stuffing in a knot. He's such a hack. We have R.A. on the mound, and he is a real gamer. I want to be there for him, the fans, and all of New York. I'm bringing my A game on Friday, and as always, I'm going totally balls out. The pain will vanish when I see the fans." After being romped by the Phillies today, this good news could not have come at a better time.

Phillies Pound Mets

PHILLY MAKES SCRAPPLE OUT OF METS
METS        0
PHILLIES 11
It's hard to find words to help Met fans deal with today's train wreck of a game. Much in the same way it's hard to know just what to say to a fella after he's been gang raped in the prison laundry room. Hallmark just doesn't make a card for that.
• Halladay was awesome.


• Philadelphia's bats were explosive.


• Jon Niese started out well and then fell apart.


• Our defense was a sloppy mess, and a lot of it was mental.


• The only positive we can give you is that this was a .500 road trip. If we were offered a 3-3 road trip to start the season a week ago I'm sure most of us would have taken it.


If you Dare to check out the full recap check out the NY Daily News 

Halladay will be no picnic

YOU CAN BEAT ROY THE ROBOT
Halladay is the real deal. But even the great ones have a loss column. We need to be smart and aggressive at the plate today. The 2K poster boy will not make many mistakes...but when he does make a mistake, we must make it hurt. We have Niese going for us today. Jonathon Niese has matured a lot as a pitcher in a short period of time considering his injury set backs. We wish Mr. Nuke Laloosh Pelfrey would take some notes from Niese on how to compete. We see Jonathon having a strong outing today, maybe 6 to 7 innings. He'll keep the game close enough to possibly steal this Halladay road trip.

Late Reflections on last night

METS        7
PHILLIES 10

• The team fought hard and erased a 7-0 deficit.

• Pelfrey’s troubled Little Leaguer act is tired. Grow up and compete.

• At least Collins had the stones to pull Pelf early. Jerry would have left him in until he curled into the fetal position behind the mound.

• Phillies took the lead back on some cheap hits.

• Hitting Coach Dave Hudgens was interviewed during the game. He spoke about Pagan’s swing and seems to know his stuff. They showed him actually working with Angel during the game. Other than cozying up to David Wright, Howard Johnson did nothing for the Mets. We loved you in 86 HoJo, but your approach to hitting was never cerebral - you were a hacker at the plate. You drilled the fastball and hit mistakes. We thought you would be a lousy hitting coach when they hired you and we were right.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

BIG MIKE SUCKS BIG TIME...AGAIN

NICE BITCH! I MEAN YOU, BIG MIKE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT YOU PITCHED LIKE TONIGHT.

OUR #1 STARTER IS KILLING US
The Mets' offense fought hard to keep us in the game and dig us out of a giant Pelfrey hole. In the end it was not enough, as the Mets fall to the Phillies 7-10.


Pelfrey #1 vs. Blanton #5

"Yummy, my hand tastes like ice cream."

Artist Robert Myers rendering of Joe Blanton makes Joe look like the love child of John Kruk and a Vienna sausage. This is not to imply that Kruk had relations with a Vienna sausage, but we wouldn't put it past him.

MATHEMATICALLY THIS COULD BE OUR ONLY SHOT AT BLANTON.
According to the The Wall Street Journal, and they know numbers better than a Wilpon, this may be our only shot at Blanton all season. We need to make the most of it. If the Phillies' staff stays healthy, we will only see Hamels one more time, (that sucks we own him) and for the rest of the 15 games against Philly, we are looking at the pitching version of Murderers' Row with Halladay, Lee, and Oswalt. Blanton is good and would more than likely be a 3 or 4 starter on a normal staff, so he's not a push over. Plus he can swing a bat. What we need tonight is our offense to stay hot and Big Mike the Hand Licker to pitch at least like a number 2 starter and not like the dog that he was on opening day.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Mets beat Philly 7-1!

THE HAPPY NIGHTCAP

 • Mets jump on Hamels early and play an all around sharp game. Mets Blob could feel it in the air today!

• After striking out with men on second and third in the first inning, D. Wright comes through big time with a 4 hit game. His first 4 hit game in nearly two years.

• Chris Young is a pro. His decline with Padres was due to injuries, not a lack of talent. His 3 hits were also a bonus tonight. 2 coming in one inning.

• We know it’s early but the vibe on the team feels better.

• Reyes looks faster than he has been in years. Hopefully leg problems are behind him.

• Collins brings new lefty specialist, Tim Byrdak, into game in 8th inning to pitch to Howard and Ibanez. In the past, Met managers would have seen the big lead and messed around by throwing anyone out there to finish game. Phillies are explosive and in that park no lead is safe. They have proven in the past. Collins went to Byrdak - good, smart, aggressive baseball.

• Kevin Burkhardt is now Twittering during the game. Keith has already had it with K.B.’s multimedia whoring. After Gary talked up the Tweeting Mannequin, Keith quipped “Oh Kev, this is too much for me, please.” We love Keith.

• Hitters look aggressive and confident. We know some people don’t put much stock in batting coaches, but here at Met’s BLOB we do. Howard Johnson was an awful batting coach, the entire team was pressing and guess hitting for years. Talented players looked lost. Maybe Dave Hudgens knows what he is doing.

• And of course Hu was on first.

• Mets go 3-1 so far on the road trip.

Chris Young pitches great and gets 3 hits!

Another Reason to Like Chris Young.
Dear Chris,

Please show this move to Big Pelf.

Love,
Met Fans

HAMELS OUT!

MET FANS, KEEP YOUR GUARD UP IN PHILLY

This happy fan also slept with Utley's wife.

If you are heading out to Citizens Bank Park this week, keep an eye out for the Philly faithful projectile vomiting on your kids. This months GQ rates Phillies and Eagles fans the worst in America.
GQ's Worst Fans in America poll

PS Yankee fans you were only in the middle of the pack. Congrats!

GAME ONE IN PHILLY TONIGHT!


LETS GO METS! LETS CRUSH COLE!

Monday, April 4, 2011

EXCLUSIVE! Cashman confronts Manuel


METS BLOB EXCLUSIVE!!!
BRIAN CASHMAN CONFRONTS JERRY MANUEL ON THE PHONE ABOUT ABUSING PEDRO FELICIANO.

VICTORINO vs CHEESESTEAK


MEATHEADS: HEAD TO HEAD
Reminiscent of Bobby Fischer vs Deep Blue, IBM's chess playing computer, Phillies' star Shane Victorino went head to head with a Cheesesteak in a basic intelligence test. Neither player answered any questions correctly, but scientists determined that the Cheesesteak had more brain activity, giving the noted sandwich a narrow victory. 

A Prank on the Mets, but SNY Isn’t Laughing

By Richard Sandomir of "Bats" The  New York Times Baseball Blog
Through two late-season collapses in 2007 and 2008 and then the last two sub-.500 seasons, the Mets have endured plenty of criticism and no little bit of mockery.
But on Friday night, an employee of SNY, the Mets’ network, played a prank — perhaps for April Fools’ Day — after the Mets’ opening-night loss to the Florida Marlins. The worker, whom SNY would not identify, inserted a few seconds from a 2010 “Family Guy” episode that made light of the Mets’ miseries.
The few seconds are from a sequence that starts when Stewie Griffin, the sassy baby with a British accent, says, “So far, Halloween is a bigger letdown than being a Mets fan.”
The scene then cuts to Stewie, in a seat at a ballpark. An announcer says, “Opening day, and here’s the first pitch — and the season’s over.” The audience watching the Mets game heard only, “Opening day and here’s the first pitch” before the sound of the game returned.
Andrew Fegyveresi, an SNY spokesman, said, “It was a very poor decision by an individual employee and the matter is being dealt with internally.”
He would not say what position the person held or what sort of discipline would be imposed for the joke.

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Another Happy Nightcap:












Mets Take Series from Marlins

Reflections:

• Harris goes yard for a 2 run shot in the first.

• Collins lets Ike hack on a 3 and 0 count. Ike loses one.  Nice aggressive baseball.

• The Marlins played Marlin defense today, opening the floodgates for the Mets.

• Murphy didn’t have any difficult plays, but he made them all.

• Willie Harris steals second with Wright at the plate and a man on third, leading to an intentional walk. Collins takes blame, saying he was late giving the stop sign to Chip Hale. Terry knows it was bad baseball, and he took responsibility.

• Josh Thole is going to be a really good hitter.

• Can anyone name the guys in the Mets bullpen? Seriously, when they cut to shots of guys warming up - outside of K-Rod and Parnell - we have no idea who these people are. This is not a bad thing. Relief pitchers can come out of nowhere. Let’s see what they can do.

• R.A. Dickey is solid. He should smoke a pipe during post game locker room chats with the media. He is deep.
ON THE ROAD:
The Mets did not win a road series in 2010 until June 12th against the Orioles. The Mets did not win a road series in 2010 against a division opponent until September 8th when they beat the Nationals. In 2011, two fish are killed with one road trip on April 3rd.

WE LIKE IKE!

GAME #3 UPDATE
DAVIS SMOKES A SOLO HOMER IN THE TOP OF THE 3RD. WE ALSO LIKE THE RED HOT WILLIE HARRIS WHO HIT A 2 RUN BLAST IN THE 1ST. REYES, WRIGHT, DUDA AND MURPHY ALL RIPPING THE BALL TODAY. THE MARLINS D IS LOOKING MORE LIKE THE MARLINS D OF OLD. DICKEY IS HOLDING DOWN THE FISH, AND THE METS LEAD 7-0 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 3RD.