You may have heard that former Mets manager Davey Johnson was hired to take over the Washington Nationals. Almost immediately upon the announcement of Johnson’s hiring, I received several emails and tweets from many “Wally Backers” asking if Davey might reach out to Wally Backman to serve as the Nats bench coach. My gut tells me that Davey probably
There is one positive factor in the Mets’ favor this weekend: both games will be played in the daytime, and Rangers superstar Josh Hamilton is hitting a whopping .122 in daytime games this season.
Why is he hitting so poorly in the daylight? Hamilton offers this explanation:
Can you say “tack on”?
If you are not sure what that term means, then review what the Rangers did in this ballgame.
The Mets wear out the wet weather to take the series from Oakland; a good way to finish as they embark on a tour of AL parks.
The Brooklyn Cyclones opened up their 2011 season with prospects who need to have an eye-opening season before they jump the ship. In particular, third baseman Richard Lucas and outfield prospect Javier Rodriguez.
It’s games like this that make me wonder why BeelzeBud Selig found it so necessary to artificially juice up the offense to make baseball “more appealing”. Because if you weren’t at the edge of your seat in the 8th and 9th inning of this game — and through most of the extra innings, for that matter — then you’ll never, ever appreciate the game and you probably don’t enjoy watching great mystery movies, either. The masterful pitching performances by R.A. Dickey and Gio Gonzalez built up great tension — an eight-inning crescendo that came to an exalting release when Jose Reyes ripped a triple. Even though it wasn’t a score, we all knew that Jose would score — somehow, some way. And when Justin Turner drove him in it might have been considered anticlimactic.
Of course, the emotional rollercoaster took a heart-wrenching, stomach-turning dive when Francisco Rodriguez allowed the A’s to tie it up in the ninth. As a Mets fan, you weren’t happy, but as a viewer watching the plot twist, it was purely magnificent entertainment value.
In the extra innings that followed, there were about dozen moments that had us on the edge of our seats — be they strikeouts that almost weren’t, or drives off of bats that were erased by improbable dives. Just when you thought the story might end, it instead took a turn and continued to evolve.
And when the game finally ended, you were still at the edge of your seat, and as a Mets fan elated — while as a mere spectator of the storyline, you may have been mildly disappointed that the movie was over, because the story succeeded in ending at a point where you were hoping it would continue for just a few more minutes (or not end at all).
Who needs homeruns when the game can naturally tell a brilliant story like that?
In case you haven’t heard by now, Sandy Alderson reached out to the agents of Jose Reyes regarding his current and future contract situation, and the agents relayed the message that Jose is not interested in contract discussions during the season.
Can you blame him?
All streaks must come to an end sometime — that’s why they’re called streaks.
And though one marvelous streak ended, another one might have begun.
