Brewers 3 Mets 0

This series started out so promising for the road warriors.

Brewers 9 Mets 6

From this game, it was hard to tell which team was still in the playoff race.

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A little time away from home is all some need to get themselves feeling good again.

Brewers 8 Mets 0

Mets engage in an ugly game that needs to be forgotten as soon as possible.

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There’s no way the Mets can lose this series. And we can thank a man with the power of voodoo. Who do? Miguel do.

In case you missed it, former Mets closer and current Brewers setup man Francisco Rodriguez (a.k.a., “K-Rod”) is unhappy in his current role.

Huh.

It seems that Mr. Rodriguez is dissatisfied with being “just” a setup man on a first-place team bound for the playoffs.

Perhaps he’d prefer to be a closer on a team that is 7 games under .500, 25 games out of first, has been mathematically eliminated from the postseason in the second week of September, and on the verge of sinking to fourth place? After all, winning isn’t everything.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel:

In case you missed it, the Mets completed their trade with the Brewers — the one that sent Francisco Rodriguez to Milwuakee. In for K-Rod, the Mets received two pitchers who did not fit into the plans of the Brewers, nor the teams they were with immediately prior. But that doesn’t mean they can’t fit into the Mets plans.

Before we discuss the two hurlers the Mets received, it may be fun to look at some of the names thrown around in the comments section of the July post announcing K-Rod’s departure, and in the story and comments of Dan Capwell’s PTBNL article. Seems we all were way off, because the two players the Mets received were

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R.A. Dickey deserves better, doesn’t he?