Fool Me Four Times

I was moved by the fact that Bartolo Colon pitched such a good game on Tuesday while dealing with a significant illness in the family. To say that Bartolo got shelled on Sunday because his heart wasn’t in it would minimize the way he got through his outing on Tuesday. And more importantly it would minimize his very real situation.

Sunday was just a 40 year old guy throwing batting practice fastballs to a lineup that will hit them three miles if you throw them. Mike Trout is Mike Trout. And frankly I’m surprised that he hasn’t hurt the Mets more this series. Albert Pujols is obviously not what he once was, but if you throw him a fastball, he’s still Albert Pujols. Raul Ibanez has obviously drained Colon of all of his “Over 40 Mojo”.

Kole Calhoun coming within a foot of four straight home runs off Colon? Okay, I have no explanation for that. The game was over at that point, and when it was actually over, the score was 14-2. So as you can imagine, my brain wandered away from the game while it was on my television. But I looked up long enough to see Toby Basner call a pitch to Travis d’Arnaud thrown toward Rancho Cucomonga a damn strike. Good for David Wright calling Basner out on his strike zone and getting ejected along with Daniel Murphy. And good for him for calling Basner “the worst I’ve ever seen“. For Wright, that’s equivalent of a normal ballplayer calling an umpire a “c**k s**king mother f**king *(#&$# *#@&$#( #*$(#*$ #*$(&#@$&#*#(#@)$(@#*$()#*%&(*#&#()$&#*@&%#@()$*#@(%&#@*($&#@)(*#@(%&#@*(%&#@)($!!!!!!” I’m sure Murphy came closer to that reality. I only feel bad for the rest of the roster who didn’t get to go to the clubhouse for a nap during the seventh inning and had to stick around that dopey game.

Speaking of cursing, did you know that Carlos Beltran played first base for the Yankees on Sunday night after everybody on the roster hurt themselves? You know what bothers me … not one damn ground ball was hit to him. Not one. Because you know that if Beltran was a Met and that happened, he would have had three grounders, five pop-ups and eight line drives hit at him before he tore both knees falling into the dugout … before the media questions Willie Randolph for putting Beltran there, or questioning Beltran for offering to play first base, or questioning Paul Lo Duca for breathing the wrong way in the clubhouse.