The Amazin' Mess

Sure, there’s a part of me that doesn’t want to post because frankly, they’ve played brilliantly since I’ve shut up. 

The other part of me has been too busy with work and life and only catches the highlights from a Florida hotel room.

But there’s something going on here.  I don’t know what it is.  But 11 games over .500, most home wins in baseball, brilliant defense (especially in the outfield), Takahashi and Dickey have 12 wins, Pelfrey is an allstar, Jose Reyes is healthy and killing the ball.

Things to be happy about:

1.  Mike Pelfrey has put it all together.

2.  Jose Reyes is starting to look like 2008 Reyes.

3.  Back end of their rotation has been ridiculous

4.  Great production out of the catcher position (offensively and defensively)

5.  Hovering at the top of the NL East

6.  Ridiculous amounts of confidence at home and from a pitching/defensive standpoint, I feel like the pitchers just KNOW that they can pitch strikes and let the defense make plays, especially from a flyball point of view.

7.  Ike Davis is smooth at 1b.

Things to be concerned about:

1. Johan Santana’s velocity.

2.  Bullpen and KROD, both still scare me.

3.  Jason Bay is way too quiet offensively.

4.  I’m tired of the talk about where is Angel Pagan going to play when Carlos Beltran comes back.  Pagan will play CF.  The guy is hitting .300 and has 35 RBIs and just from watching games, his range has been ridiculous. 

At least, I didn’t dream this up.  He’s pretty high up there.

5.  Jerry Seinfeld’s lavish praise towards the guys in the booth, while warranted, felt a little awkward.  I mean did we really need to feed Keith’s already ballooned out ego?

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Great seats, section 319.  See picture below.

www.theamazinmess.com/pictures/Section319.JPG

https://www.stubhub.com/new-york-mets-tickets/mets-vs-twins-6-26-2010-896187/?ticket_id=253920426

https://www.stubhub.com/new-york-mets-tickets/mets-vs-twins-6-26-2010-896187/?ticket_id=253921218

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Section 319 – great view, great seats, right under the SNY booth, behind home plate.

www.theamazinmess.com/pictures/Section319.JPG

https://www.stubhub.com/new-york-mets-tickets/mets-vs-twins-6-25-2010-896329/?ticket_id=255576399

https://www.stubhub.com/new-york-mets-tickets/mets-vs-twins-6-25-2010-896329/?ticket_id=255572824

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Face Value $112.  Selling them for $100 and possibly lower as the deadline gets closer.

Section 319, behind home plate, right under the SNY booth.  Really great seats.

https://www.stubhub.com/new-york-mets-tickets/mets-vs-padres-6-10-2010-896326/?ticket_id=254037015

https://www.stubhub.com/new-york-mets-tickets/mets-vs-padres-6-10-2010-896326/?ticket_id=254037015

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Hanging splitter and it’s Pepsi Porch time.

Mike Pelfrey was brilliant, and is easily on his way to his first all-star game. 

Luke Gregerson ‘s numbers are ridiculous.

I really would have preferred that Jason Bay drove in Angel Pagan in the 10th, but I’ll take the HR and not complain. 

2nd 9 straight home winning streak of the year.  Got to love that.

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Really?  K-Rod’s pitches on an 0-2 Tony Gwynn Jr. and David Eckstein made me sick.  Why no fastballs up and away there?

Since 2008:  These are all the games Johan Santana has pitched for the Mets that they subsequently blew. 

1.  April 29, 2008

2. May 4, 2008

3. June 12, 2008

4. July 22, 2008 – This one was ridiculous

5.  August 2, 2008

6.  August 7, 2008

7. September 13, 2008

8.  April 29, 2009

9.  August 4, 2009

10.  May 8, 2010

11.  June 2, 2010

Thats 11 wins.  In hindsight, 2008 was most ridiculous.  He won 16 games and there were 7 blown saves/non wins that year. 

And…I’m not even counting quality starts wasted where the Mets didn’t score enough behind Johan.

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I was a closet fan (what baseball fan wouldn’t like someone with power (honest power), speed, great defensive ability and a smile on his face) and sure, I played the hell out of his SNES games.  But what centerfielders can we compare Ken Griffey Jr. to?  I actually think he stands alone, but if I had to say someone…

Having a discussion here:  http://operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=78025

I’d say Duke Snider.  Two people have said Joe DiMaggio.

Their statements:  Crazy talk. Griffey had twice the career of Duke Snider. Also, Dimaggio doesn’t even approach Griffey unless you give him extra credit for the years he missed during the war. Even with them, It’s pretty even. And I’d give Griffey the bonus for playing in a more difficult era.

As a fellow Yankee fan, I love Joe D. But this era has integration, better scouting, and specialists. It’s much harder to dominate now than it was then. I give all the WW2 players extra credit for the years they missed. But Griffey was a far better player than Snider. I’d also put him equal to Joe D.

My statement:  Joe Dimaggio is the 2nd greatest right handed hitter of all time (behind Rogers Hornsby) – you are too busy looking at “total” stats, without diving into the real stats. Dimaggio’s hitting ability and his power/lack of strikeouts, puts Dimaggio’s well above Griffey.

Since, you are so into “total” stats, add 2800 ABs to Duke Snider and see how close he comes to Griffey’s “total” stats. I think the AVG,OBP,SLG, OPS, OPS+ fall in closer with Duke Snider than Joe Dimaggio.

and how is Griffey playing is a “more difficult” era? The expansion era with smaller ball parks?

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/snidedu01.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/griffke02.shtml

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/d/dimagjo01.shtml

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The Padres score 18 runs in the opening game of the series.  18 RUNS.  I would have put a tenner on that they wouldn’t have scored 18 runs in the entire series and quite possibly all 6 games played (when they come to Citi next week).

Right now, the roller coaster continues.  The Mets are just a .500 team.  Their road woes continue and sure, they’ll play well at home but this team is nothing more than a  .500 team.  So, stop getting my hopes up.

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