Mets Piss Mediocrity

You can run your usual outfield lineup with just Alou missing. You can run your usual outfield lineup with just Beltran missing. Hell, you can even run your usual outfield lineup with just Shawn Green missing. What you can't do, is run your outfield lineup with Alou, Beltran, AND Green missing for any kind of a stretch of games. The offensive power outage continued today being held in check by Doug Davis. This dude looked like he was throwing wads of tissue paper up to the plate. Jamie Moyer thinks that Doug Davis throws slow. He has a worse mound delivery and worse stuff than Ed Harris of this Cleveland Indians team. Willie should have had the umps check the ball for Gyne-Lotrimin or the snot from a vienna sausages can. Mets had some opportunities as they usually do, but with Delgado and Ben Johnson wiffing on 58 mph fastballs, they couldn't take advantage of having runners on base. Arizona's closer is rapidly advancing up the Lone Met Fan's hate ladder. Tell me he doesn't look like this guy on the far right. As of right now, the Braves are down 9-0 to the psychotic Cubs so barring a Cub meltdown (what? that's already happened twice this week?) it looks like the Mets keep their 3.5 game advantage. Good news ahead, Beltran should be ready to go by Tuesday. I thought Alou was out with a quad injury, but as long as he's taking to come back, the Mets should just release that he had hip-replacement surgery done, and is on the 60-day Carpenter.

Observations:

Oliver Perez had his 2nd just OK outing in a row. He did keep the Mets in the game giving up only the 3 runs. I'm still trying to figure how he walked 3 batters with the strike zone that the umpire had back there today.

Speaking of the hate ladder, Heilman managed to move up another rung today. I know he didn't commit the throwing error that led to the run, but bad shit happens when he's in the game and in the big picture of the ball game, his unearned run meant very little. It just seems like whenever he comes in, no matter what kind of stuff he has for the day, the opposing team is gonna figure out a way to score a run. Call it jinxed or bad karma, but this is what he's turning me into whenever he pitches.

Mets get a day off to try and heal then start up 3 with the Phils.