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The Big Sleep....
...is exactly the terminology I'd use to describe the Met season thus far, at least from a fan's watching standpoint.The Big Sleep.The Big Yawn.The Big Nothing.Welcome to another season of...
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And Ollie Wakes the F*** Up!
...after The Big Sleep of Monday night, Oliver Perez wakes the fuck up, as does the offense, and the Mets get a much-needed win over the Padres last night at Citifield.A couple of things.First, I'm...
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Don't Hand Me No Lines....
...and keep your hands to yourself! Or so the old Georgia Satellites classic goes...and too bad more fans all over baseball don't take heed of that refrain, and keep their hands to themselves! I'm...
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Dog Day Afternoon...
...at Citifield yesterday, the Mets losing a very lacklusterly (is that even a word??) game to the equally lackluster Brewers in pretty much of a sleeper (that is, one you could just about sleep...
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U - G - L - Y.....
....they ain't got no alibi; they ugly, hunh, hunh, they ugly!And even the image in the picture, as ugly as it may be, doesn't even come CLOSE to how ugly New York Mets baseball has gotten. From Good...
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The Big Ditto....
Why even bother writing a post today about last night's game? It's The Big Ditto -- poor pitching, worse offense, another loss.Ditto, fucking ditto.The Big Fucking Ditto.Gawd, they suck, don't they?
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Panic in Detroi.... Uh, I Mean, New York??????
...yeah, yeah, yeah... we ALL know about the panic in Detroit these days (I wonder if Bowie knew all this was going to happen when he wrote the song???), but is there panic in New York? And if there...
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The Tears Of A Clown.....
...with 40,000 people around....Yikes! I guess there's no such thing as Good Ollie/Bad Ollie; rather, there's just Bad Ollie, and Worse Ollie, apparently. If his performance thus far this season is any...
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And the Big Pussy's Pick of the Month Goes To...
None other than Mr. Face-of-the-Franchise, Mr. Future-Mets-Star, Mr. American Idol, Day-vid Wright! (to be said like the Mets PA announcer at CitiField)This fan exiting CitiField after Wednesday, April...
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Welcome To The World Of The Bizarro Mets....
...as in, who are these guys, where have they been, where are they going, and WHAT HAVE THEY DONE WITH THE NEW YORK METS????? Because, man, the team you and I have seen in the last week bears little or...
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Bizarro Jerry....
...and NO, I ain't talking about THIS Bizarro Jerry; I'm speaking, of course, about our very own Bizarro Jerry Manuel. Honestly, I kind of blame myself for his el stupido last night, because I should...
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Seven Stolen Bases...
...in last night's game.SEVEN.And here's a question for you kiddies out there. And that question is, how many of those do you think Jose Reyes got?And the answer is, of course - NONE! It's a trick...
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The Strangeness Continues....
...and watching Mets baseball, lately, is kind of like watching The Twilight Zone; only you wanna change that channel, and touch that dial, and do something to get the strange and somewhat unreal Met...
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Fra-GI-le
...yep, much like the pictured lamp from the wonderfully charming and heartwarming movie, A Christmas Story, this team is fra-GI-le. Only, unlike the movie, the fragility of this team is anything but...
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A-HEM....
...not to gloat or anything, but I thought this one was worth a second look.So much for the opinion of the masses as concerns one Gary Sheffield.This only proves that every once in a while, even this...
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Pelfrey Comes Up Small, And Other Stuff
Talk about coming up small, Charlie Brown...we need speak no other name than Mike Pelfrey. After the banged up, hobbled up, crippled up and just plain throwing up version of the Mets lost the first two...
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Where Were We....
...when we last left off?Oh yeah; the Mets sucked.And they still do.So I guess what I missed in the interim between blogposts was same old/same old, and more of it.A bit overly simplistic fer ya? How...
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Dead Fan Walking....
...that's exactly how I feel, and almost exactly how I'd bet MOST of my fellow Mets fans feel at this point in time.I'm thinking of selling these T-shirts, with, of course, the "m" in "man" changed to...
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I Should NEVER Have Changed The Subtitle...
...of this here blog. You know, the SUBTITLE, where it says "Yeah, that's right, it's time for a new year, a return to the old name....hopefully, with better results!" I guess I shouldn't have changed...
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Here's What I Just Don't Get....
...aside from post-season play, a million dollars a week, a manager who is actually coherent, a GM who is at least a half-wit, rather than a dim-wit, and an owner who actually realizes it's the METS he...
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Send In The Clowns....
Yeah, yeah, yeah....I haven't forgotten about the blog. It's just that, well, honestly and truly, I just had and have very little interest in the 2009/2010-to-come version of the New York Mets, and...
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E(xtremely) S(tupid) P(eople) N(etwork) and O(pening) D(ay)
I really hate to piss on the parade of cockeyed optimism even the most jaded fan (yrs truly) feels on Opening Day, but I just had to comment about the ESPN pre-game show last night.What the fuck WAS...
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The Name Game.....
Y'all remember that song, "The Name Game," from the 1960s, that went something like this: Shirley, Shirley, bo-birley, banana fanna fo-firley, me mi mo-mmirley.. Shirley! Y'all remember that, right?...
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The "If Only" Game
I know it's early in the season, but it's never too early to play a game. Just ask any baseball fan... but anyway, here's the scoop. Let's trying playing the "If Only" Game today, huh? You know how...
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Charlie Could Put A Real "Sheen" On The Mets - a/k/a "Winning!"
Hey, long time, no hear, huh? Well, frankly, I've been pretty disgusted/bored/apathetic/disinterested/uninterested with the Mets over this past year (well, to be honest, since the Carlos At The Bat...
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