Way Down in the Hole: Mets 3, Phillies 0

This blows…..this is pretty much statistically impossible..all bats, anything what so ever…gone…

Hey Dany Baez here with my 2 K’s

I think I’ve successfully managed to mentally detach myself from this team for the time being.

I’ll just be happy when we can look back later in the year and laugh the whole thing off. Especially when the Mets find themselves in 4th place.

Well… The ride was fun while it lasted… The Phillies were a great team, who made their living off of scoring runs. They came out of the gate strong, scoring runs at a rate that made many think that they would be a record setting club. They had much of the talent that had given them their prior success, and, at least on paper seemed to have replaced talent lost successfully, and even to get better than they were in places. But games are not won on paper, and between the lines the Babip fairies have abandoned them, leaving them in a cold, lonely place where every fly ball finds a glove, and even well hit grounders turn into double plays… It is unknown what this team has done to anger the baseball gods, but I fear their season is lost. Thanks for the ride Phillies… :(

‘tis wondrous strange. Mathematically, the regression will come. The Phillies didn’t play well, but the Mets played nearly mistake-free baseball.

Psychologically, it’s no coincidence that this stretch really got its sea legs after Rollins pulled up lame for the second time. No reason to believe that the players don’t think a bit like us fans – that when he came back, it felt like the Phils were ready to roll again.

Hunger strike time.

I agree with WL. I really think that took the wind out of the Phillies sails to have Rollins back in at leadoff for only one game before going back on the dl. That can just kill you. That being said, as professionals they need to snap out of it. The announcers on mlb network tonight seemed to imply utley looks injured. Any merit to this?

end up scoring around the same amount of runs on the year. I think the law of averages will eventually catch up. Right now, everyone is hitting a cold streak at the same time, so once they snap out of it they may be all hitting stride at the same time and we go one a huge winning streak, averaging +5 runs a game.

Maybe it is because Jimmy went down, but I don’t think so. This team is used to plugging holes and picking up the extra slack. I think they are all just hitting a little cold streak. And because its happening to everyone, its slightly effecting their mentality and their thinking too much. They need to just relax and get back to basics. Maybe they’re just tired because its been so hot.

And the ineptitude is easily tangible just by how the players are carrying themselves in between swings and when running on and off the field between innings. It’s painful to watch – especially Utley, who looks like he’s lost all confidence at the plate. And Manuel’s refusal to run more or call some bunts is just pathetic. June is going to brutal with the schedule and if this JV ball continues.

Plz to be reading this again (or for the first time)

http://www.thegoodphight.com/2010/5/27/1489843/a-thursday-quiz-a-little

Thought I would recaption the picture above:

Recaption of the day:

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Half the point was that when even our best can not seem to get it, it is proof that this phunk has spread team wide— it is like a virus… one that I am praying will clear soon, so that my next attempt will be the one that I would have created following game one of last year’s World Series.