Comments on: Mets Game 102: Win Over Phillies

By: joe

joe — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:49:36 +0000

isuzudude, glad you were able to recover from that opening game … your mood swings worry me at times …

I’d hate to read those Philly blogs in the winter when they’re booing their football team.

I’m taking full responsibility for Delgado’s resurgence. If I didn’t call him out as a snake he’d never have been motivated to prove me wrong.

OK … MAYBE it was something else that got him going …

By: David W.

David W. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:02:11 +0000

Delgado deserves al the glory, but let’s not overlook Robinson Cancel. He has three pinch hits, one rbi, and two runs scored. If I’m not mistaken, he has driven in or scored the tying or go-ahead run three times. That’s pretty amazing.
Heilman throws three pitches and gets the win. It was a critical out, but even so, Perez’s WPA was almost twice that of Heilman’s, 23.8 to 14.3. Maybe we should allocate wins according to a new statistic that captures both WPA and some measure of effort–like (WPA / log of pitches thrown).

Isuzudude–you are absolutely right about Phillies fans. I never believed there could be a huge difference between the fans of two neighboring cities with similar demographics, but I’ve changed my mind now. They are incredibly pessimistic, vulgar, and at times, racist. Our commenters sound like choir boys in comparison.

By: isuzudude

isuzudude — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:10:57 +0000

I think it’s accurate to say we’ve been waiting for *this* team to show up since last year. I think, deep down, we all knew, and somewhat expected, the Mets would start getting the big hits, and coming out on top against division rivals. But to come back in this kind of fashion after what transpired at Shea on Tuesday night is just unbelieveable. I truly didn’t have the confidence or faith to think they could pull this off. FULL HOUSE MOMENT: I’ve learned something from this. 162 games is an incredibly long time. And no matter how dead, beat-up, downtrodden, lost, unmotivated, or games back of first place a team is, never count them out until they’ve officially been counted out. Just a mere month ago, there was no way in hell we thought Delgado could become the threat he has morphed into, or that Ollie would be as dominant as he’s become, or that the team would rattle off a 10-game win streak and win 5 out of 7 from Philly with Endy Chavez, Fernando Tatis, Marlon Anderson, and Nick Evans platooning as your corner OFs. The $64,000,000 question is: can they keep it up? Hope, don’t demand. It seems to be working so far.

And by the way, having the Phillies fall flat on their faces couldn’t have happened to a more deserving bunch of fans. I’ve been venturing in to the enemy’s den every now and then at http://www.philliesnation.com, and it’s amazing the kind of filth and utter nonsense they speak over there when talking about the Mets. It’s all fueled by hatred and jealous anger, which is dangerous…but probably also explains why the Phillies haven’t won a damn thing since 1980. Kharma finds a way to catch up with you, and for the amount of trash and vulgarity they speak, it wouldn’t surprise me if the Phillies don’t win another WS for a hundred years.