Amidst all the hoopla over the past week surrounding the World Cup, Eddie Griffin’s cock and the failed plot to flood Lower Manhattan, I’m ashamed to say I missed the boat on Matt Ginter’s departure from Pawtucket.
Tonight at Shea, Dontrelle Willis has survived a first-and-second with nobody out spot in the first, then a bases loaded jam in the 2nd. The D-Train has already struck out 4 Mets, as Florida leads, 1-0 in the top of the 3rd. That the Marlins have only managed one unearned run thus far against Jose Lima qualfies as a minor miracle.
If you’re not watching SNY tonight, please try to fill in the blank from this Gary Cohen quote :
“Keith has bent his ______ into an unrecognizable shape.”
Otherwise, warned Mex, “you’ll look like a farmer. No offense to farmers.”
(UPDATE : Marlins 7, Mets 0, top of the 4th. Lima’s Line : 3.1 IP, 71 pitches, 7 hits, 7 runs, 5 earned, 2 walks, and a grand salami to Dontrelle Willis. This half of the inning has taken so long, Ralph Kiner has found time to touch on topics as varied as Ferris Fain and “the modern era of hip hop.”)
With the announcement of the AL and NL’s latest additions to their respective All-Star squads, Charles Star writes,
Has Vegas figured out odds on the likelihood that Ozzie Guillen will allow Magglio Ordonez on the field after introductions? Or will it be off the board because nobody will be willing to handle the one-sided action?
I’m not the first to think or say it: Isn’t there somebody.. ANYBODY… in the Mets organization who can do a better job than Lima? For fuck’s sake, put Omar on the goddamned mound instead of Lima!
I know Brian Bannister has half a hamstring left, Pedro bruised his hip like my 80 year old grandmother, and Zambrano has pasta for a ligament…. but there’s got to be SOMEONE who can fucking start a game and not blow if by inning 4 in this organization. And, if that guy is going to blow it, at least his name isn’t Lima!
All that ranting aside… I’ll go on record as the first to say it: Canseco should pitch for the Mets.
Apparently, Henry Owens’ sister is a pitcher of some repute.
http://www.rolltide.com/ViewArticle.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=8000&ATCLID=239748
I was watching the Met game with my son when Kiner dropped the “hip-hop” bomb…he asked me if announcers were always this drunk and embarrassing.
I muttered something about past torrid bangalas with Liz Taylor has led to his halting fits of Bell’s Palsification…this did not fly.
The Mets have a pitcher named Evan McLane at Triple-A. His line thus far this season is 6-4, 3.24. I have no idea why he’s there and Lima Time spent tonight slowly tick tick ticking away his few remaining minutes in pro ball in Queens. Maybe McLane’s a shitty merengue singer? Or shittier?
Lima Time sure didn’t seem to be impressing Ralph. I liked when Hernandez described Lima’s gopher ball to Willis as a change-up and Kiner said “how could you tell?” Serving up a grand slam to the pitcher and then getting dissed by a guy who hasn’t swung a bat professionally since Eisenhower was President…that should probably be it for Lima Time.
McLane : http://norfolktides.com/team/roster/?id=2335
Of course, it is never easy to draw conclusions about the quality of play at the Triple A level. For instance, Michael Tucker hit a walkoff HR for Norfolk yesterday.