5 unearned runs tonights? Thanks a lot, Mutts!

The manager is a joke. Santana starts the 7th, gives up a bloop single, and the manager gives him the hook because he reached 100 pitches. Then he lets Feliciano, who RH hitters bat about .350 against, pitch to Matt Diaz. If Bobby Valentine managed this team, it would win 100 games this year. Manuel doesn't have a clue. Santana now has 2 loses, and hasn't given up an earned run in either.

The Mets remind me of the Wizard of Oz
Jerry Manuel - If I only had a brain
David Wright - ....a heart
Beltran - ......courage (slide, slide, slide)

Nice comeback last night. They showed a lot of heart.

It didn't hurt that an ump finally blew a call in the Mets' favor.

Shhhhhh!

We'll take it, Lou.

Too late. The 2B ump just blew a call in the 7th costing the Mets the tying run.

Here we go, Giants vs' Mets The Mets always dominated, so I'm not expecting much. I always support the Met's fans here, but this is the one time I have to hope you guys lose. Nothing personal, I hope you understand

No Reyes and Delgado tonight. You have a good chance.

I haven't had a chance to turn on the game, I'm about to. But if Sanchez has good control then yeah I think the Giants have a chance. If not, then this could be a blow out for the Mets.

It's been a sloppy game by both teams so far.

Unless there is some late inning heroics from the Giants the Met's will win, and probably by at least 3-5 runs. Sanchez doesn't look good, and the Giants offense rarely score more than 4 runs in a game.

Congrats to Mets fans for taking the series against the Giants. Suddenly the Giants can score runs but can't pitch. A complete flip-flop. I can't remember the Giants ever being able to win against the Mets.

3 balks by one pitcher in one game? Unbelievable.

Mets fans wanted Manuel's head on WFAN last night, after another one of his brilliant moves. Pinch hitting Pagan for Murphy with the base loaded.

I think Santana is gonna start regretting signing with them. Do they EVER give him any kind of offense?

They did last game. Unfortunately, he needed it because they made several errors behind him.

What a joke. I knew I should have just gone to bed when Mr. Manuel in his latest string of bizarre moves, doubled switched his cleanup hitter out of the game when the team was losing. But it only got worse as the Mets turned the 11th inning into "The Bad News Bears". Everything from Ryan Church missing 3rd base when scoring the go ahead run, to them committing their 4th and 5th errors to lose the game. Unbelievable.

I felt so bad for Ryan Church, though. He knows it was an incredibly bone-headed move (one sportscaster said, "I think that they teach you to touch the bases in TBall.")I saw him being interviewed, and he looked like he wanted to cry.

Yep. As I said before, baseball is a game that can rip you apart. Church probably never missed a base since Little League and won't likely miss one again in his life, but the one time he did burned him.

Joe Maddon, probably the most intelligent manager in the game, submitted a lineup card that inadvertently listed Longoria at third base instead of DH, and he ends up having to bat his pitcher third in the order.

Church can take solace in knowing an earlier NY baseball player still holds the biggest misplay. Late in the 1908 season Fred Merkle of the NY Giants was on first base and another Giant on third with two outs in the bottom of the 9th of a 1-1 game with the Cubs, who were neck and neck with the Giants for the NL pennant. The batter lined a two hopper into centerfield and the runner from third crossed the plate with the apparent game winning run.

Merkle, celebrating the run, never touched second base. As the fans and Giants players stormed the field in celebration, Cubs' secondbaseman, Johnny Evers screamed for the ball, got it, stepped on second and the umpire called Merkle out. Because a run can not score on a force play, the winning run was nullified and the Cubs went on to win the game in extra innings, and ende up winning the pennant a week later by a game.

Merkle, although known as one of the brightest players of his time, received the nickname "Bonehead" that remained with him for life.

I'm still more disgusted that Manuel once again does something that makes zero sense. Even the Met announces said they'll have to check and see if Sheffield was hurt, because it made no sense. Why do you double switch your cleanup hitter out of the game, if you're not winning, and he's going to bat again before the game is over?????

Mets claim Sheffield was "sick". Hmmm.

I have to admit. Sheff has stepped up big for them so far.

And Manuel has done a pretty decent job in managing the team without some of his key players in the lineup.

I'll have to admit, I was 100% wrong about the Sheffield signing. I can't imagine where the Mets would be without him right now.

I still think Manuel is an awful manager.

Mets trade Ramon Castro to ChiSox for Lance Broadway. I love this deal. Broadway was a #1 pick in 2005, and a top prospect. He hasn't pitched well in relief, but the Mets are sending him to AAA to be a starter again. This is a low risk, possible high reward deal.

I was not totally against the signing of Sheff. I didn't think that he could be an everyday player, but thought that it was a good move as long as they limited his play to pinch hitting off the bench. So far he's proved the both of us wrong. And I hope that he continues to prove us wrong!

I'm not in love with Jerry as a manager. As a matter of fact I think that he manages better under the gun....particulary in situations like this one where many of his key players are out and he has to make moves with bench players. He seems to manage better when he's unde rthe gun.

When he has a healthy team and his starters are playing everyday, for some strange reason he seems to get a bit lax and does not make the right decisions that a good manager makes in game deciding situations.

I did not like that he sat Murphy out last night. I know that it was a decision made because of the Lefty / Righty situation, but Murph seemd to start to settle in at 1st base which I thought relaxed him a bit at the plate resulting in his having a nice game hitting on Wednesday. If I were the manager I would have given him the start once again last night regardless of the lefty / righty situation. The kid needs to have his confidence boosted and a start last night would have helped him in that area. This is where Manual and his managing decisions irks me.


I also like that trade Lou.

I don't understand sitting Murphy either. He had the biggest night of his career, and his lifetime batting average against lefties is over .300. That's the biggest problem I have with Manuel. He just does too many things that make no sense to me.

...Murphy looks surprisingly comfortable at 1B.

He's a natural infielder.

Did he ever play 1st though? I know he was originally a 3rd basemen, and was going to play 2nd at AAA before the OF experiment.

I don't think that he ever played first base. But it's not unusual for a 3rd baseman to convert to 1st base. It's not a very hard transition because third baseman have fast reflexes and are accustomed to making plays scooping hard hit - short hopped balls out of the dirt.

Many Catchers and 3rd baseman can usually make the transition to 1st base.