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TheMatts
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SHEA BULLPEN, FLUSHIN’ – Jonathan Swift’s original “Modest Proposal” called for a solution to 18th Century homelessness and starvation in Ireland: eat poor children. The full title of the essay is “ A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick.” Dean Swift certainly was a master of irony and altogether understood the dehumanization of the Irish by Great Britain and used the satire to bring public awareness to the suffering. That was written over 100 years before the Famine began, so safe to say, results were slow in coming. We don’t have that time.
With the expansion of the rosters, the Mets and every team have added to their bullpens among other things. This affords each club a chance to give their starters more rest and audition some new arms to see if there might be relief salvation somewhere, anywhere. For the Mets part, there is near desperation to find reliable bullpen help. And we offer a modern take on Swift’s essay. Every hold or save blown, the reliever is eaten. To be fair, this will only apply to established members of the pen: Schoeneweis, Heilman, Feliciano, Munez, Sanchez and Smith. Let’s face it, they’re a burden on the team and their fans (probably their parents and countries too). There is not an ounce of irony here. We’re serious…and hungry.
Here’s another proposal. Baseball gods willing, John Maine can avoid surgery and come back from the DL and make a valuable contribution in the stretch and right into the playoffs. Why not let Maine close? If the Mets make it as far as the playoffs and provided William Wag the Dog isn’t healthy, the rotation only needs 3-4 starters and thus frees up an arm for relief. Crazy? Some rotation arms have had success in post-season bullpen action; see Orlando Hernandez but never in a closer role. There is nothing wrong with being the first. After the vitriolic pshaws hurled our way think to yourself – “do I trust John Maine more or one of the aforementioned hacks?”
What are the Mets to do with 5 healthy starting pitchers and who would make sense in the pen? Santana and Pelfrey are too valuable as starters and have been going the distance lately. Pedro is lousy in the first inning he appears in and would likely Schoeneweis us or Sanchez the whole thing up. We can’t afford that. Once he gets past that first inning he is effective so that keeps him in the rotation. That leaves Maine (if he’s healthy) and Ollie Perez. Ollie is another possible option to close. He seems to have put the blow up 1st inning behind him and he does throw strikeouts, a big plus for a closer. Oh the joy of prognosticating. Angry Ward is angry about something tomorrow.
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Corporal Agorn
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| That is too much for me to take, you're right. I think it IS too far fetched and is a recipe for disaster. On the other hand now is not a good time of year to be auditioning a closer but what else can we do? I'm of the mind to hope for a healthy Wagner (I'm wincing right now) and auditioning set up guys. |
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Greenpoint Glen
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| The idea is cracked but waiting on Wagner is just as insane. Corp, he is the same guy as John Franco, Armando Benitez and Braden Looper. The very same. A resume built on accumulation not on anything clutch or heroic. |
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Janet
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| The relief pitchers did a great job yesterday. But maybe your idea should be used to scare them. Very funny. |
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Vinny From Brooklyn
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| You go with your best all the time now. If they make the playoffs, Santana, Perez and Pelfrey are the top three. If Maine is healthy, he is 4. Pedro is 5th or in the pen. If they do it different because Pedro is who he is they will blow it. |
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Sam's-a-fan
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| Eat Omar first! He's the one that came up with this recipe for disaster which feels like last years stinking left overs. |
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MEAGHAN & JAKE: COOLEST FANS |
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Nobody Remembers The Loser |
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MATTS-MATICS: Hockey Nuts Go At It |
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MATT FACTS:
Chad Pennington is NOT a Brett Favre fan... Hillary Clinton and Don Nelson have never been seen in the same place... Jerry Manuel is not related to Charlie ManuelJerry Manuel is not related to Charlie Manuel... Somebody namd Michel coaches the Pittsburgh Penguins... Tiki Barber quit the Giants. The Giants then won the Super Bowl... The New England Patriots only lost ONE game out of 19!!! Aaron Heilman was actually funny in re to Eli and Plaxico Burress helping the Mets as a pitcher and outfielder, respectively. Repeat, Heilman was funny... Jessica Simpson would rather date Tom Brady - trust us... Eli Manning is better than Archie - now... Alyssa Milano is a Met fan. RRRRR... Rickey Henderson speaks in the 3rd Person... Shawn Green has big ears... Howard Johnson likes to stay at the Holiday Inn, ironically... Sandy Alomar, Sr. is the youngest of 9 kids. That's why he was quick around the dish. Jiminy Cricket was the Philly Phanatic in a previous life…Fred Wilpon is pals with Sandy Koufax... Mike Ditka is a really tough guy.. Buffalo has a Triple A baseball team. They are NOT called The Snowballs... Chan Ho Park has people thinking of naming a ballfield after him - it would be called Chan Ho Park Park... John Maine has never been, oddly enough, to Maine... Curt Gowdy, Jr. has never been to Yellow Knife, Canada... Kevin Mitchell played 6 positions for the Mets in '86 and, according to Doc Gooden's book, didn't like cats... John Olerud & Wayne Gretzky have never been seen in the same place... Kevin McReynolds now makes his living doing laugh tracks for sit-coms... Tony Gwynn is nearing 300 lbs... Carlos Beltran has Mercedes Benz dealerships named for him in Barcelona, Spain... Willie Montanez was called Guillermo by Lenny Randle... Rusty Staub beat Jeff Kent in a race – TODAY... Jay Horwitz is a dynamite Cricket players – somebody said... Jeff Wilpon was a decent minor league catcher... Ziggy Palfy lives in Slovakia and is a big Met fan... Superman Returns, yet still can’t hit Billy Wagner... David Wright will win the Triple Crown – on a horse... Omar Minaya is Tobey McGuire’s stunt-double in Spider Man 3... Hilary Clinton has Mr. Met pajamas – we think... Albert Einstein was a HUGE Met fan... The Metropolitan Opera House was named for the Mets after their 2nd season in ’63... Wally Backman, ’86 sparkplug, considered changing his name to Wally Back-Matt... Neil Allen and Mike Stanton, former Mets, have Allen & Stanton Streets on Lower East Side named for them.
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