Painful Wednesday

Yikes, not a good night for the good guys out at Shea. On the positive side of the ledger, Bannister was quite impressive until his gopher ball to Johnson, and A-Hern's catch in the 8th was among the best plays I've ever seen by a second baseman not named Jose Lind. Wagner's 9th, while highly upsetting, doesn't disturb me too much - it's gonna happen from time to time when you've got a power pitcher on the hill. I doubt it's going to be a pattern with a proven closer like him. No, the most aggravating things about the game were (1) Beltran's pathetic at bat in the first inning - could he look more clueless at the plate?; and (2) the fact that Jorge Julio is a pathetic piece of crap who makes Mel Rojas look like Goose Gossage. I was ok with trading Anna Benson, but for Christ's sake, that's all we could get? Let the Schwizz pitch in the 10th and you'll get a better result.

And if this "Enter Sandman" story doesn't die soon, I'm gonna go ballistic. Four days now. I blame those two idiots on WFAN for blowing this non-story up to epic proportions on Monday afternoon (of course, maybe I'm the idiot for listening to them every day at work- but WFAN during the baseball season is like crack to me). It's a SONG. Who gives a %^@#@. No one is saying that Wagner is as good as Mo. Period.

Finally, you may be asking yourself why I have a picture of The Big Hurt teeing off on Kyle Farnsworth last night when this whole post was about the Mets/Nats game. Screw you, it's my post.

posted by Toasty Joe @ 10:23 AM