The End of a Fun Season
The season ended today. It didn’t end on a happy note, and I would like to go back to
September 12th and change everything around, but I can’t.
From that date and before, the Mets’ 2007 season was a fun, exciting season that I enjoyed, well, I can’t say from start to finish, but from start to nearly the end.
The Phillies are not that great of a team, and they were nothing until the Mets started giving them help. Obviously, if it wasn’t for the Mets just giving them games in the division, they wouldn’t have been close.
Although the Mets’ season is finished, and I’m excited for a big revenge in 2008.
Lets Go Mets.
Tomorrow
The Mets won today, as they plowed their way over the Marlins in a game where the benches and bullpens cleared twice, the second time leading to some fights. They final score was 13-0, Mets. John Maine fell just a few outs shy of a no-hitter when a slow roller prevented the Mets from making the out.
Big day for Castro and Milledge, as they crushed the ball all over the place.
The Phillies also lost, thanks to the Nationals, 4-1. After taking a 4-0 lead, the Phillies hit a home run to make it 4-1, but that was all.
Tomorrow is the day. Tomorrow is the day where the light of hope shines on Shea or the bitterness of winter slams the stadium like a hurricane.
Tomorrow is about who wants it more, the Mets, or the evil Phillies. The Mets, believe it or not, have the momentum following their biggest win of the year, thanks to John Maine. The Phillies towels stopped waving today, and the fans grew impatient.
Tomorrow is the day that we find out what we have all been waiting for since April 1 (except for a 1-game playoff.)
Tomorrow is the day that the Mets can beat the critics.
Tomorrow… is when Mr. Glavine plays to his potential, and shows us all that the Mets will not make history in a bad way. Mr. Glavine is the deciding factor in whether the Mets can clinch back-to-back division titles for the first time in history, or whether the Mets will make history in a horrible way.
Tomorrow is big!
Tomorrow, September 30, 2007, is the day we have ALL been waiting for.
LETS GO METS!
The Mets Must Put the Past Behind Them and JUST WIN
The Mets are done playing their latest nightmare, the Nationals, for the season.
That SHOULD fix everything. Here’s why:
The only two recent teams that the Mets have had troubles with are the Nationals and the Phillies. The Phillies do not play the Mets for the rest of the regular season, and neither do the Nationals. The Mets play the Cardinals first, then the Marlins, who they recently won 3 out of 4 against. The Mets also have an experienced ace in Pedro Martinez pitching tonight, who is 3-0 this season.
The Mets lead may be down to 1, but the Mets are still in first place, and their franchise pitcher is taking the hill tonight in their most important game since Game 7 of the 2006 NLCS.
Martinez should be able to give the Mets a solid 7 innings of work, since he was out for most of the season. He is a proven pitcher, and still has the nasty pitches that he has always had. The Mets offense has been great through the past weeks, so I’m going to think the Mets will leave Shea happy tonight, and who knows, maybe with a 2 game lead over the Phillies if all goes well.
Many people say the Phillies have “momentum”. They can say that, but if the season ended today, and there are only 4 games left, the Phillies would be on their couch watching the Mets in the playoffs.
The fans need to cheer on the team like never before. Shea Stadium needs to be shaking up and down, because the players need it.
Victorious Sunday for Big Blue and Metropolitans
Both the Giants and Mets had troubles of their own today, and they overcame them all.
Giants
The Giants defense, who nearly everyone has doubted from the beginning, including me, finally stopped the pass. They have been stopping the run all year just fine, it was just the pass. The Giants gave up a big pass that was reeled in by Antwan Randle El in the Redskins’ final drive that resulted in a first down. The Giants’ great run defense then
stopped the ‘Skins during a Kawika Mitchell-led goal-line stand.
The Giants (1-2) were down 17-3 at the half. They hoped for their offense to do something, because that seemed to be the only bright spot that the team had a chance of having in the second half. Instead, the Giants defense stopped the Redskins after each and every touchdown scored by the Giant offense, which scored 21 unanswered points.
Kawika Mitchell, Fred Robbins, and Sam Madison led the Giants defense to victory today, as Eli Manning threw two picks, but Plaxico’s touchdown and Derrick Ward’s hard-fought, all-out effort put the Giants on top.
Big Blue started the game with Plaxico dropping three passes, including a controversial bobble on a dive that the booth eventually overturned and called an incomplete pass. The Ball, though, NEVER did hit the ground; I could easily tell.
The Giants can finally exhale as they improve to 1-2 on the season in a great overall victory. The team will now fly home and prepare for next Sunday’s showdown at Stadium against the division-rival Eagles.
Mets
The Mets took the series from the Marlins, 3 to 1 in an odd, but crucial victory. The Mets, oping to gain ground on the Phillies, who lost, were down by a run in the 8th inning when Carlos Delgado launched a 3-run homer, his 2nd in 3 games, giving the Mets the lead. The Mets scored a total of 4 runs in the 8th, giving the Mets a 6-3 lead heading to the bottom of the 8th.
In the bottom of the eighth, the Mets bullpen did what it has been doing BEST, which is give up runs and make the game CLOSE AGAIN. The Mets ‘pen gave up 2 runs that inning, giving the Mets only a 1-run lead to work with in the 9th. After not scoring in the top of the 9th, Billy Wagner blew the save immediately with a lead-off home run by Dan Uggla, which knotted the game up and gave the Marlins the advantage. Billy then retired the side and prevented the M
ets from another devastating loss.
The Mets then received a much needed solid, scoreless inning from Joe Smith in the 10th. In the 11th, the Mets took a 1-run lead, but everyone in Met nation was scared to death with Aaron Sele coming in to close it…shivers… anyway, he got the first two outs immediately, to the relief of Mets fans, and Schoeneweis came in, because of the matchup, and closed the game with a grounder to Delgado.
GREAT WIN by the Mets as they cut the magic number to win the division down to 5 while increasing their lead in the NL East to 2.5 games. On the other hand, the oldest player in the world with a hitting streak of over 20 games, Moises Alou extended it to 27, breaking the franchise record. His swing just never will slow down. If it wasnt for injuries, he’d play till hes 60.
Willie Wrong on Decision to Pitch to Batter
I don’t even remember who the batter was, but last night’s decision not to intentionally walk the batter was a wrong one, in my opinion.
Willie Randolph chose not to walk the batter with a man on third and 1 out. He chose to pitch him. He hit a grounder to Reyes scoring the tyin
g run, but getting the second out. What he could have done is intentionally walked the batter to set up an inning-ending double play.
The chances of that not happening are almost 50:50 with the chances it will happen, but you might as well do that in that situation because say the batter hits a home run, the game is over anyway.
Also, with the fact that the bullpen was fried by then and nearly nobody was left, including Wagner who was out for the game, the Mets should have at least tried to end the game there and then, because extra innings mean that tired pitchers will probably blow the game.
What happened? Exactly what I thought would happen.
While I was thinking the Mets should intentionally walk the batter, so was Gary Cohen who was curiously weighing the decisions. Not a smart move by Randolph last night, and that could have contributed to the Mets losing the game, along with Wright’s error and Sosa’s pitching.