Just in to the Matt Harvey News Desk…
The #Angels have made the following transactions:
RHP Jake Jewell was optioned to Salt Lake following last night’s game.
RHP Jaime Barria – Recalled from Salt Lake
1B/LHP Jared Walsh – Recalled from Salt Lake
RHP Matt Harvey – Designated for Assignment
— Angels PR (@LAAngelsPR) July 19, 2019
Whoa this is stunning. Well not really stunning but you know, stunning.
So nobody, and I mean nobody, has watched more Matt Harvey starts than I have since he left the Mets. I can assure you the Angels didn’t watch as much MH as I did or they would have never signed him.
My man gives up long fly balls…some nights they die at the warning track, but most nights they fly over the fence.
A typical Matt start would be that he would be fine until he wasn’t. If one thing went wrong – a walk, a hit, anything – the inning would completely melt down.
The Next Seaver will go to bed tonight with a 44-49 record. I don’t know if any more late night talk shows are in his future, and I don’t know if models will still take his call.
I cannot imagine a team wanting him right now, but I guess if the Angels have to pay most of the contract that someone somewhere will think their pitching coach can fix The Real Deal.
So Mets fans, the next time a hot rookie comes to town please remember to temper your expectations. Not everyone is Tom Seaver. If someone ever offers you Mookie Betts straight up you should listen. Trade High a wise man once said.
I will once again quote the great Bruce Springsteen’s song Local Hero…
I was driving through my hometown
I was just kinda killin’ time
When I seen a face staring out of a black velvet painting
From the window of the five and dimeI couldn’t quite recall the name
But the pose looked familiar to me
So I asked the salesgirl “Who was that man
Between the doberman and Bruce Lee?”
She said “Just a local hero”
“Local hero” she said with a smile
“Yeah a local hero he used to live here for a while”
I met a stranger dressed in black
At the train station
He said “Son your soul can be saved”
There’s beautiful women nights of low livin’
And some dangerous money to be made
There’s a big town ‘cross the whiskey line
And if we turn the right cards up
They make us boss the devil pays off
And them folks that are real hard up
They get their local hero
Somebody with the right style
They get their local hero
Somebody with just the right smile
Well I learned my job I learned it well
Fit myself with religion and a story to tell
First they made me the king then they made me pope
Then they brought the rope
I woke to a gypsy girl sayin’ “Drink this”
Well my hands had lost all sensation
These days I’m feeling all right
‘Cept I can’t tell my courage from my desperationFrom the tainted chalice
Well I drunk some heady wine
Tonight I’m layin’ here
But there’s something in my ear
Sayin’ there’s a little town just beneath the floodline
Needs a local hero
Somebody with the right style
Lookin’ for a local hero
Someone with the right smile
Local hero local hero she said with a smile
Local hero he used to live here for a while
See you around Matt.
