Six Million Dollar Man Sequel
For those as old as me, you may remember Steve Austin, astronaut, who after a terrible accident was rebuilt to become the “Bionic Man”.
Tonight at 7:10 PM the sequel to that great 1970s TV series arrives. Due to inflation, it is now “The 36-Million-Dollar Man”. But the plot is essentially the same. Except, instead of an astronaut, it’s a baseball pitcher. And instead of a terrible accident, it was a minor knee injury. And instead of bionics, the man was given Warthenisms. And instead of Lee Majors playing the lead role, it’s Oliver Perez.
I can’t wait until the action figure comes out!
badder than Perez? I think Perez will win more games with the mets than Carl did with the yanks
Let us not forgot that Perez gave us achane in game 7 2006 before Beltran stuck out looking with the basses full!
Good luck to you tonight, Ollie — you have no choice but to show up this evening. Citi’s lookin’ for a reason to spew some venom.
Wonder if he’ll get lost on his way to the park tonight….or if he remembers how to get there?
Beltran did not!
The one constant in all of this, is: 2006 is fading further and further off into the rear-view mirror — while this team is trying to live off the laurels of what was accomplished during that very same season.
It’s now July, 2009….and Oliver Perez is a mega-millionaire, who’s faked a leg injury to get himself more work at lower-levels of baseball.
He’d better “do his job” tonight. And for a majority of the next 2 and a half seasons.
Maybe he should go back to Pittsburgh: he’s already raped and pillaged the Met front office with the contract he was handed. A true Pirate, indeed.
(Courtesy of an Adam Rubin NY Daily News article, which I can’t link – for some reason)
The only “problem” Ollie had, was keeping his limp straight…….and his mechanics, which desperately needed to be worked out, away from the Major League level.
Isuzudude, yes they’ve made errors, and I’ll grant that they’ve made more than the average team, but there are 2 things working here. Expectations were so high, and the season has been so disappointing, that every error gets blown way out of proportion. Gary Cohen’s never ending negative attitude doesn’t help that perception any. The other thing is that pressure causes errors. This team is under a lot of pressure. After 2 disappointing seasons and now with injuries and a disappointing first half, they are under pressure and pressure causes mistakes and errors.
Yes I’ve watched probaby 35 games so far. All teams make errors but Gary Cohen creates the impression that they are some kind of inexcusable failure. Other teams announcers don’t react like that. I don’t think people realize how much of the negativity surrounding the Mets starts with the way Gary Cohen calls the games.
Classic.
Gary Cohen is negative? He practically reads talking points off of David Howard’s laptop.
Granted, when David Wright drops a popup, he may occasionally say something like, “David Wright dropped the ball!”… But you have to forgive him. It’s not easy to obfuscate the obvious – your post is proof of that.
Walnutz, please don’t be so intentionally obtuse. I never said anything resembling that the team’s play is influenced by Gary Cohen’s broadcasting. I said that the fan’s perception of the team’s play is heavily influenced by the overwhelming negativity of Gary Cohen’s broadcasting. Most fans watch most games on TV. That’s a fact. Cohen plays a large part in creating the impression that people have of the way things are going. No fantasy over here. I see things the way they are. If you all think that the team would play better if management ‘got tough’ and ‘stopped tolerating mediocrity’ etc.. you’re free to go on living in your dream world. The simple reality is that they are human beings doing the best job they can. Sometimes they win and sometimes they lose. When they feel pressure they make more mistakes, like all humans. That’s just the way the world works.
Let’s drop the gloves on more interesting and relevant arguments. Someone please shoot me if we’re still bantering about Gary Cohen this time tomorrow.
-no WS rings in 22 years
-sub-.500 record
-no division titles or wildcard berths in the foreseeable future
but guess what? we can all go to the shake shack and drown our sorrows! think positive!
thanks, buh-bye!
Last year, the Phillies lost Pedro Feliz, Jimmy Rollins, Shane Victorino, Jayson Werth, Brad Lidge, Brett Myers, and Tom Gordon, among others, at different points and during overlapping times.
In 2007, Chase Utley, Ryan Howard, Cole Hamels, Myers, Victorino, Werth, Gordon, Ryan Madson, Chris Coste, Michael Bourn, Jon Lieber, Adam Eaton, and Freddy Garcia (Garcia was penciled in as their #1 or #2 starter that year) all missed significant time.
And who finished in first in the NL East in those two years — when the league was much stronger than it is now?
Right.