The Mets Police

I was listening to Orel Hershiser talk on ESPN about Starsburg’s performance and he mentioned that the phenom tipped a few pitches.   He then slipped in that Gooden was tipping pitches in 1988 and addeda comment that the Dodgers only got two runs off him.

My brain gets fuzzy, and for accuracy and good writing maybe you should go read those Faith & Fear guys who probably have written a 20 page essay on this….but I do have Google and half a memory left.

Game 1 NLCS:   2 runs, 4 hits, 7ip, 10 strikeouts.   Tipping pitches.

Game 4 NLCS:  the last baseball game my father would attend.   Gooden was sailing along…and I don’t wanna talk about it. Go look it up. 8 and 1/3, 9 ks and one really annoying home run in the 9th.  Dynasty over, we just didn’t know it.

Game 7 NLCS:  my brain has blocked this one out…Dr. K to the rescue.  Darling went one, and Davey played all his cards.  3 shut out innings in relief but the score was already 6-0.     Awful.  Makes you wanna banish Ronnie to the Expos.

I don’t recall ever before hearing about Gooden tipping, but I heard it with my own ears this morning.  For a guy tipping pitches he sure had a great series…except for one deadly pitch.

My vote for blog of the year may go to The Apple.

This morning Randy has a David Wright version of the Jeter commercial and as part of my Honor Among Bloggers rule, you will have to click here to see it.

I heard Jerry Manuel say that Pelfrey’s “pitchability” has gotten better.

Well it sure has.

Is there any Mets fan who is not proud of Pelf this morning?  What an outing!

If it’s true that the pitcher picks the uniform, then I am doubly proud of Pelfrey because they wore pinstripes on a weeknight!  I think that last happened in 1968.

If you are proud of Pelf it’s a good day to express it.  You know what to do.

You know what else I am proud of – Ike Davis, homegrown.  Tejada, homegrown.  Reyes and Wright.  Pelfrey.  Even Pagan even though he dated some other people for a while.  And GMJ was….oh wait, never mind on that last one.

No more of this “guy from the Braves” and “guy that shouldn’t have ran out on Boston after they finally won a World Series” nonsense.

These are METS.  They are ours.

All your baseball players are belong to us.  Injoy the floating feeling of Mets Baseball.

Pelfrey has a 1.19 ERA in his last 5 starts wow. I’m tempted (really tempted) to call him the ace but Santana puts up zeroes and is a horse.

Pelfrey and Barajas seem like All-Star locks but I wonder if they will be the only two.

Niese gets the start on Thursday. They’ll hold Dickey for Friday against Baltimore. Hopefully the awful O’s cure the road woes.

Some shot by Ike!

I said it last week and I will say it again. Baseball has been fine for 140 years without replay.

I’m glad Reyes got a home run. I would have been OK with it being a double. I’m fine without taking half an hour to review Pagan’s hit in the 10th.

What I would like to see is an outfield fence that is clear. No lines. If it goes over it’s a home run. Move the fences in two feet where need be and make them shorter where there is a silly line.

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Before I forget, great job by Howie tonight. He scolded the crowd for doing the wave, and was enthusiastic about keeping Pelf in the game.