Fudgie The Puddle

So how does that birthday cake taste?

Hey, I’ve been there.  Game 7 in 1988 against the Dodgers was on my 18th birthday.  I drank my birthday cake that day because I was so disinterested in it.  So sometimes, birthdays stink.

Ryota Igarashi’s 31st birthday qualifies as one of these birthdays.

This team is going to drive me berserk all season.  They’ll be world beaters against the Yankees and Phillies, and take two out of three from the Giants and their merry band of Hall of Fame starters.  But against a team that’s 6-49 at home with Johan Santana on the mound, they’ll lose a heartbreaker.  Of course, Brewers’ ace Yovani Gallardo deserves all credit for hurling a shutout and keeping the bullpen far away from the mound.  Did you see the Brewers bullpen all high-five each other after the game?  They’re just happy they didn’t have to pitch and possibly lose the game before Igarashi gave up the game destroying bomb to Corey Hart.

Let’s see how this goes without Gallardo for the next two days … the mediocre Brewers pitching against the inconsistent Mets offense.  The resistible force against the movable object.  The Mets must win this “clash of the titans” if they’re to keep the advantage they’ve gained against the cream of the crop.