Steve Phillips, Dumber Than he Looks

What on earth was he thinking? Granted his marriage was probably hanging by a thread as it was, Steve Phillips fucks it all up for fucking a thumpa! Not only did he fuck her once, but he banged her on three different occasions?

Maybe once you can cough it up to happenstance and even that is a stretch, but three times?

Moron! Idiot! What a retard! She is hideous! Ruins his family for a fat ugly hag. If he got busted with lets say an Eva Longoria type is one thing, but this? To top it all off reports all over the place refer to his wife as stunning. Great job Steve!

This man is really dumber than he looks. Did he not think that there was any chance that this barely twenty-something year old busted bitch with nothing going for her, fat as fuck production assistant, would turn psycho on him?

What on earth is wrong with this man?

The National League East: Final Weekend

The MLB regular season comes to a grinding halt this Sunday after 162 grueling games and some will say that in the NL East everything has gone according to plan.

The Phillies have clinched their third straight division crown. The Nats have put together two back to back 100 game season losses. The Marlins and the Braves fought for a wild card position into the last week of the season and the Mets lost over 90 games, the first time they did that since 2004.

They did what?

Yes the Mets, the preseason co favorite with the Phillies in the NL East, had what many dire Mets fans are saying was the most disappointing season in the history of the franchise.

Personally I wouldn't go that far. 1987 was the stinker of all time. Remember the 86 club won 108 games and bullied their way through the National league. Then they played what some people still feel was the greatest division series of all times against the Houston Astros. Then the miracle ending to game 6 against the Boston Red Sox in the World Series. The rest was history.

1987 was set up as the continuance to the Mets dynasty. What happened that year was that injuries took out the entire Mets starting rotation for a good part of the year ending any thoughts of a repeat performance.

2009 for the Mets also got bit by the injury bug. no, let me ref raze that. The Mets got swallowed by the injury monster in 2009. Every member of the so-called Mets core missed a good portion of the 2009 Mets season.

Carlos Delgado coming off a brilliant second half of the 2008 season started off the year like he never had a winter break. By May he was gone for the year. Jose Reyes, who I had to remind another Mets reporter this morning, who said they should cut ties with him, that in his history with this club when Reyes gets on base, the Mets winning percentage is close to .700. By June, he was gone for the year. Carlos Beltran was only having the best year of his stellar career in 2009 went down with a leg injury in June and finished the year appearing in only half the games played this year.

Even at the all star break, this team still had positioned themselves within striking distance of the Phil's because at that time the Phillies just couldn't seem to win at home and their starting pitching was in disarray.

However the Mets problems continued to grow. Their starting rotation consisted of an unsteady Johan Santana, later we would learn why, and four to ten other guys who couldn't find home plate with a infra ray night scope. By the way, the Mets pitching this year lead the entire MLB in walks by about a trillion.

So the "B" Mets stumbled the rest of the year at a less than .400 pace. Johan Santana went down with chips or something like that floating in his elbow and the final blow to the Mets core happened when David Wright's head came into direct contact with a Matt Cain 93 mph fastball.

One concussion later, a 15 day trip to the DL and a .220 average upon his return certainly was the topping to this not so brilliant season for the Metropolitans.

In future articles about the NL East, we will follow the Phillies quest to repeat as World Series Champions, something a National League team has not done since the Big Red Machine of the 70's. I actually like their chances but more about that Sunday when we review the first round Division Series that starts next week.

After the season we will look back at all the teams in the NL East. We will evaluate their year and look into my famous crystal ball and see what moves if any are going to have to be made by each team to make a run at the Phillies once again in 2010.

Being a life long Mets fan I can really be very objective about this division simply because with the Mets, I love the team but despise the organization. This way no one may accuse me as being a homer.

My congratulations to the 2009 Philadelphia Phillies. They have fought through a lot of problems and obstacles this year, the least of which has been the complete meltdown of Brad Lidge, more on him this Sunday as well, but they have prevailed and deserve all the accolades they are getting.

With that said, however, I don't think they are getting as much respect as I hear that the Cardinals will be the solid favorites in the NL to go to the World Series.

Slow down folks, not so fast, they don't call them the Fightin' Phil's for nothing.

The Shit at the Bottom of the Barrel

We know it's been a little quiet on this end, and we apologize if we offended anyone. I should really thank the Mets for all the sex I've been having these days. Sex is so much fucking better than Mets.

The low of the low Mets fans. This disaster can not end quick enough. This is what dying a slow death must feel like. This is the shit in the bottom of the fucking barrel.

Great way to go out, getting trounced and swept by the Nationals with a last at-bat grand slam in the bottom of the 9th off K-Rod to top it off. Thanks for the fucking parting gift Mets! It would only be fitting if they didn't win another game all season.

Can you believe this Reyes shit now? Of course we can, we're numb to it. Just get the fucking surgery already.

Since there's really no reason to talk about this season, although we will, we'll take at look at the Mets for 2010, position by position in some upcoming posts so stay tuned.

In the meantime, we'll get ready for the playoffs, jump on the Manny wagon, and enjoy the ride.

Omar: Don't Make the Same Mistake With Delgado

Does the name Pedro Martinez ring a bell Omar? It should. You were smart enough to bring him to New York and it was a brilliant move because it started a whirlwind movement by Latin players who wanted to come to New York to be in his presence. Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado, Johan Santana, all expressed publicly that coming to the Mets to play with Pedro was paramount in their decision to want to play in New York.

The fact that Omar had the chance to resign him this year at a much lower cost to the organization was a wasted effort on Omar's part.

Well Met fans, I screamed about this for 9 months only to see Pedro wind up in Philadelphia, of all places, and come back magnificently and literally kick our butts all over the northeast part of the US. I felt the beatings here in Vegas and the only saving grace for me was I put y money where my mouth is and collected on every game he has started for the Phillies.

I may be richer for it but I'm miserable as hell.

Now Omar is about to make the exact same mistake all over again. The chances of resigning Carlos Delgado are slim to none. Fast forward to next September and I sure hope he's in the American League because without a crystal ball I can give you his numbers going into Sept 1st. Write them down so you can choke on the paper next year.

450 plate appearances, 155 hits, 28 doubles, 3 triples, 29 home runs, 91 rbi's, .282 batting average, .372 OBP, .585 Slugging percentage .957 OPS.

Crazy, you think? I think it's as real as it can get. His had hip surgery. The same surgery as Chase Utley and Alex Rodriguez and Mike Lowell. This injury, when fixed is fixed, period.

If the Mets resign him and he plays only 120-130 games, so what. Daniel Murphy and perhaps Ike Davis are the heir apparents for the Mets at that position. I would have Murphy playing winter ball at second base and use him as the super-sub in 2010.

Delgado is a core player for a reason. He is a leader both on the field and off. He takes the pressure off David and provides motivation for Beltran Reyes, Pagan and every player on that team.

Omar now has the reputation of being a fixer of problems. That's not his job. He needs to develop the farm system through the draft and through the international market. His results as a fixer are terrible. One could even argue that K-Rod and I love him a New York Mets uniform was not the fix the Mets needed when Houston Street, Brian Fuentes, and a few others were out there last year to be had a a much lower cost and you really don't want to bring up JJ Putz do you?

I'm going to take a lot of flack on this the same way I did on taking the side of Pedro Martinez. Believe me it's not a matter of being right or even saying I told you so. I'm way too old for that. I just want to see this organization be pro-active instead of being re-active all the time.

To be pro-active would be to resign Carlos Delgado and move on from there. In Part II, I will give my opinion of what it's going to take to get back into contention for 2010. You'll be surprised, it really doesn't have to take too much.

Pedro Martinez, Adding Insult to Injury

Just because we’ve been saying this all year, we’re going to beat this dead horse a little more. Hope to hear from our good friend and Pedro non-believer sux2lose, who warned us not to get too excited after only a few Pedro starts.

No one can deny what Pedro has done so far this year. No one. And if you do, you’ve got to be smoking some real good shit.

What most fans and the media saw in his final years with the Mets was an injured player dealing with an ailing, followed by the death of his father. What everyone failed to recognize was how healthy and mentally ready he was this year and what this guy is capable of when he is. Forgotten was the fighter that Pedro really was, even when he wasn’t 100%.

Proof of this was crystal clear in the World Baseball Classic, like it or not. Nay-sayers will say it’s only the WBC, it’s not a tell-tale sign, it’s against weak competition, yada yada yada. With a guy like Pedro, you can tell right away if he is or is not right, and boy was he right.

But seemed the Mets were more worried about the backlash that would happen if they did sign him and he flunked more than paying attention to how Pedro was pitching. Instead of giving him a shot, the Mets decided it was best to assemble a motley of shit by the names of Tim Redding, Freddy Garcia, and some other worthless garbage that flat out shit the bed.

This game against the Mets was symbolic, in true Pedro fashion, symbolic of what this season has come down to for the Mets. Pedro abused the Mets to mathematically eliminate them from any hopes, though we know the Mets were really eliminated months ago.

So far in 7 starts, Pedro is 5-0 and averaging almost a strike out per inning (34 K’s in 37.2 innings) with ridiculous numbers in his past 3 starts. He’s given the Phillies a chance to win in ALL his starts this year. And given that the Mets lead the league in walks, they can’t throw a fucking strike when they need to for the life of them, Pedro has only given up a measly 6 walks.

And at the end of the day, even if Pedro wasn’t doing this great, which he is by the way, this is a guy you want to take a chance with in the playoffs. You know he will empty the tank there. It's just a shame we have to watch him win another ring for the Phillies. Nice job Mets!

Pedro, thanks for the closure knowing you can still roll with the best of them and for sticking it in the Mets asses! We believed in you! A class act all around.

Daniel in the Lions Den

With this season finally drawing to a close, I have spent most of the past six to eight weeks listening to Mets fans and those who cover the Mets in the media trash over and over and over again the Mets first baseman, Daniel Murphy.

To me it's just unbelievable what extremes these fans take when it comes to blame and evaluation of a players year.

To a man, after last years great September when Daniel Murphy literally skipped AAA to come directly to the Mets and have a wonderful month, he was anointed the final piece of the package which would be added to the already supreme core of Mets players that would have them contend for a championship for the next 10 years.

His numbers were in fact pretty darn good for a 23 year old rookie. He hit .313 had an OBP of .397 and a SLG of .473. He had great bat control, had power to all fields and worked at his hitting like the second coming of Keith Hernandez.

The question was where to play him. A third baseman by trade, he also had some minor leagues games at first but the only place the Mets could see him in was left field, a position where he never played before and looked very uncomfortable in his limited outings there last September.

In winter ball he was going to work out at second base in case Luis Castillo couldn't come back after his disastrous 2008.

Well we all saw what happened in the spring. Murphy was clearly out of his element in left field at the start of the season and his play in the field carried over to his plate appearances.

It also didn't help that his manager, my favorite moron, who has cost this team so many games I have lost count, didn't do any favors with his now 24 year old batter. He moved him in and out of the lineup so many times and had him in every batting slot in the lineup it had to play with the youngsters mind.

He slumped miserably until two things finally happened to change things around. One, Daniel became the regular first baseman and second Jerry finally started to hit Murphy in front of Wright and Francoeur to give him some protection in the line up.

So what has Daniel done since August. All he's done is hit. His average for the last 7 weeks is over .300. His OBP is over .350 and his slugging percentage is just under.500.

Now everybody wants to see him gone. Why? The Mets don't need a guy at first to hit.260 with 35 hr's and 100 rbi's to play first base and have the team win. They need that guy in left field. Matt Holliday is who they need there.

The Mets have had three pretty darn good players at first base and won championships without sluggers. They were Dave Magadan, Keith Hernandez and Jon Olerud. Magadan was 27 in 1990 when he .328 with an OBP of .417 and a SLG .457.

Keith Hernandez was 25 in 1975 when he hit .344, OBP .417 and SLG .513 for the Cardinals in 1979

Neither Hernandez, Olerud or Magadan had as good numbers as Murphy did when they were 23.

This is a guy you build your future around. A guy who never stops to try and make himself better, who works on his game everyday and dives around the bag at first like Ferris Fane.

But the problem here is that Met fans are never satisfied. They don't want to even entertain the thought that this year made us take a good look at Pagan, Sullivan Francoeur, Murphy, and Cora. These guys are winners and if you build your core around Wright, Reyes, Beltran, Santana, Niese, K-Rod, Thole, and F-Mart and have Holt, Davies, Marte, and others waiting in the wings, we can, with the right GM and Manager, get right back into contention in 2010.

I should only be so lucky.

Vegas Rich.

David Wright, the Great Gazoo

All joking aside, safety come first. Keith Hernandez referred to the new 100 mph proof helmets as looking like the Great Gazoo. We see the resemblance!

Down The Stretch They Come

If anyone on April 1st would have said to me that on September 1st that the Phillies would be leading the NL East by 7 or more games, I would have said, "Wow, I knew they were going to be good but ahead by 7, No way".

If on April 1st someone said to me the Braves and Marlins would be battling it out for second in the east and fighting for a wild card spot, I would have said, "Wow, both their pitching staffs must have held up pretty well."

Finally if someone told me that the Mets would be about 15 games below .500, in 4th place and completely out of the race I would have said, "What the frack, did everyone get injured?"

That brings us to September 1st and for the first time in a few years there is little uncertainty about the National League East.

The Phillies have been nothing short of brilliant. Despite early season struggles at home and much inconsistency on the part of their staring rotation, they have met each challenge and have come through like the champions they are. ( Boy, did that hurt)

The acquisitions of Cliff Lee and Pedro Martinez in August have been an outstanding moves. All they've done is win 6 out of 7 games and with a month to go they should probably win an additional 6.

They have to be the favorites going into the post season despite the Cardinals surge and the late heroics by the Giants and the Roxcies.

Their biggest concern will be who shall star game 3 of the NLDS, Joe Blanton or J.A. Haap.

To me it looks like another parade on Broad Street and me sending pictures of Vegas Rich draped in Phillies gear sending those photos to every Phillies writer on the BR. Oye.

The Atlanta Braves have surprised me more than any other team in the division. I knew their pitching would be good but I didn't expect the consistency that they have shown. I was not a huge Derek Lowe fan and I'm still not sure he deserved a 4 year deal, but this year he has been vintage Lowe.

Their bats have kept them from getting any closer to the Phillies than their ever going to be. They need a boomer and I was surprised that they didn't try to get one before the trade deadline.

If they plan to be in the 2010 race they certainly will need to address that concern. I can certainly see them making a huge run at Matt Holiday. That in of itself should tighten the race in 2010.

The Marlins are always an intriguing team. They are like the David Copperfield of the MLB. They are always in the race with a payroll somewhat less than daily take from the Las Vegas casinos.

I don't see the usual fire sale at the end of this year simply because with a new stadium on the way, there will be more money available to keep their budding stars. Their young staff is impressive and it certainly doesn't hurt to have the number 2 player in all of baseball roaming the infield for the fish.

Watch out for the Washington Nationals. Not this year for sure and probably not for the next 2 years either but expect an increase of wins over the next 3 years. This is a franchise that has found it's leadership and is definitely headed in the right direction. Expect a playoff run from them by 2012.

Finally my beloved Mets. I have spent the entire season trying to look beyond the injuries because they are a part of the game. But, what those injuries have done is expose this teams vital organs and they are failing at an alarming rate. Real quick, drastic change needs to take place at the end of this season.

Omar and his sidekick Jerry need to go. They Mets need to bring back Bobby Valentine and give him complete control over player selection. I could go on for hours on this but I've done it already often enough this year and now all we can do is wait for next year.

Livan Hernandez Lands a Job and a Lawsuit

Livan Hernandez is back with the Nationals. Not only did he land in DC again, he also landed a lawsuit rap.

According to TMZ, Livan owes his personal driver about $16,000, that is $7500 in unpaid wages. The rest? Seems Livan borrowed, then smashed up the drivers Lincoln Navigator.

Livan? What the fuck? This should be pocket change, buy the man another car and move on, and don't forget the tip. 16K for you is like a $20 dollar bill for most people.

Former Mets Pitcher Sued for Balking on a Bill [TMZ]

He Will Go, Billy Wagner to the Red Sox

After the dance, it's now settled, Billy Wagner will be a Red Sox for two players to be named. Wagner changed his mind and decided to waive his no trade clause. The Red Sox agreed to decline his option for next year so he can go on his quest to close games again. Red Sox refused to not offer him arbitration, but from Wagners point of view, I guess a happy medium was reached, plus he gets to strike out Yankees on the way to a Boston World Series.

Personally, we'll be jumping on the Manny LA wagon. Oh and, Papelbon better watch his back. Wagner will jap him silly if he needs to.

Mission Almost Accomplished

It's almost official. Mission almost accomplished for that muther fucker who decided to wish pain on the Mets season this year. This experience is/ was beyond unbelievable. You can not make this shit up.

Embrace it Mets fans, we can laugh about it later. For now, we'll keep on having the 'it doesn't surprise us anymore' mentality. That will get us through this horseshit hand we were dealt.

Now it's Santana with signs pointing towards possible season ending surgery. Even iron man Jeff Franceour has ligament tear in thumb. Except for K-Rod, Castillo, and Murphy, I believe everyone of our starters has been out with some sort of ailment.

All there is to say is, what the fuck!

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The Mets, Down the Road of Stupidity

I don't believe for one second that those fans who read my work would argue with anyone about how passionate I am about this team. It's no secret that I'm not a youngster like my three favorite proteges Mike Kent, Nick Adamo, and Nick Carlo but each one of them will tell you that the Mets are my first love and have been so since 1962.

This is not a plug for my "Anatomy of a Franchise series either.

I'm just frustrated as we all are about the current status of the Mets 2009 season. We can talk about all the injuries until we are blue in the face and we know that we can't change what has happened in the past but you would think this organization could at least learn from it. Do they? No.

The case of Gary Sheffield has me most disturbed today as I see that after all he has accomplished this year the Mets have decided more likely than not to cut the strings and let this guy, who virtually held this team together for 4 months, and send him on his way.

I have been a Sheffield fan for his entire career. Sure, there are a lot of negative comments out there about his past but no one can doubt his competitive nature and isn't that what every team needs to have on and off the field?

To this day in his 40th year he is still intimidating at the plate waving his bat and showing the bat speed of a 30 year old in his prime.

When I wrote this article http://bleacherreport.com/articles/183888-so-gary-sheffield-to-the-mets-is-ridiculous-right-wrong on May 20th I was so pleased that Gary was living up to his billing and my thought even then was if we would get back our injured players he would surely look good surrounded by Reyes, Wright, Beltran and Delgado.

However we all know that didn't happen so what did Gary do. He played well, he played hurt, he mentored just about every position player the Mets have. He provided the well needed leadership that was lacking on this team for so long.

David Wright was instrumental in bringing Gary to the Mets. He recognized long before our faithful fans that Gary was a perfect fit for this team regardless of whether he played 3 games a week or 6.

So now what do the Mets do? They put him on waivers. He was claimed by the Giants so they pulled him back. Now they have an opportunity to lock him up and finish his stellar career in a New York Mets uniform, his dream team since his uncle Dwight Gooden played for us in the 80's, and go out of here directly into the Hall of Fame.

The Mets pulled him back from waivers and now more likely than not they will release him. He will go to a contender and help them into the playoffs and what do the Mets get out of it? Nothing.

This is a continuous problem that the Mets organization have had throughout their history. The make stupid impulsive decisions without weighing the potential consequences. I have said this since they fired Willie Randolph, for all he did was win games as the Mets manager, and they continue to make these ridiculous moves as other teams help themselves we go backwards under the less than stellar leadership of the Wilpons, Omar and Jerry.

Mark my words everyone, I know this team as well or if not better than any of us out there and I can tell you for sure that unless there are major changes made in this off season in the Mets organization we will be watching World Series parades down Broad Street for the next 10 years and that's no exaggeration.

Please will someone in this organization please listen to the voice of reason and intelligence if I don't say so myself. Even my 3 amigos, I expect are going to be on my side with this, maybe. I just have to get Nick Adamo in a good mood. I'll probably have to trade him my QB or something like that.

David Wright Will Be Back, This Year

All we've been hearing after David Wright got plunked in the head a few days ago is that the Mets should shut down Wright for the rest of the season. Everyone is jumping the gun here.

This ridiculous sentiment is a media driven cause that makes no sense whatsoever. Yes, the Mets are out of it. Yes, the Mets should take extra precautions with Wright. Yes, there's no need to rush him back.

But lets take a chill pill here. There are over 40 fucking games left in the season. That's better than one fourth of the total season. You don't shut down your star player for over 40 games to keep him fresh for next year. That is the most ridiculous thing the Mets can do.

Yes, we know they didn't handle the Church concussions properly. We know the issues this team has had with injuries all year. But to sit Wright for over 40 games is fucking retarded.

The media should shut the fuck up, because they aren't doctors and I'm convinced many don't know shit about what they're talking about. David Wright is a man, not a pussy, and he should play when he's ready to play.

Whether that's in 10 games or 25 games. For all you know he can get injured in Spring Training. Enough of this nonsense. Don't get me wrong, Mets will keep him out for longer than usual, and much of that is because of the media uproar in relation to Mets injuries this year, but expect to see Wright back on the field this year.