It’s hard to really get on Jeurys Familia for blowing his first lead in two months. No, he hasn’t been lights out like he was last year. He’s been running with scissors so much this season it’s amazing he hasn’t tripped and stabbed himself by now. (Or at least accidentally cut up a throwback jersey on the way.) But he had always reached the utility belt at just the right time to save the day. This season has been like John Franco with happy endings.
(That didn’t sound right.)
Not that we believe in jinxes BUT…this Pre-Game Award happened prior to #Mets game last night. 🙁 pic.twitter.com/0zo5wYXovZ
— Standings (@StandingsNYC) July 28, 2016
However, at this juncture where every game is important, the Mets could have really used this one. Especially after the Mets got a good pitching performance and timely hitting in the same game. And the way the Mets got to the ninth inning with the lead was invigorating to a fan base that has seen the Mets spin their wheels with this pattern of win loss win loss win loss. Yoenis Cespedes smacking a go ahead home run in the seventh off … hey get this … an Adam Wainwright curve ball after a 500 pitch at bat almost seemed like a cleansing. A cleansing for Cespedes, who hadn’t had a big moment in a while, and a cleansing for Mets fans who remember the perils of an Adam Wainwright curveball. And that’s not even mentioning the job that Logan Verrett did in negotiating one bad inning into a more than quality start which set Cespedes up for his heroics.
Then Yadier Molina came up in the ninth. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.
@Metstradamus how can it be the same people from the same team are screwing us 10 years later??
— Chris Hughes (@Chris_Hughes) July 28, 2016
Because all this season seems to be is a bad variety show which reunites all your favorite stars from when your show was a hit. Molina’s back, Wainwright agrees to take a pie to the face, and Jedd Gyorko comes in like the new Jan Brady because So Taguchi and Joel Pineiro wanted too much money to make a cameo. (With Alejandro De Aza as Carlos Beltran.) Molina’s double tied it, and Kolten Wong … who went from prized prospect to outfield utility man … became a hero again with a double off Familia to give the Cardinals the lead for good, and by the way put them ahead of the Mets in the wild card race. Meanwhile, somewhere in Minneapolis, Terry Pendleton nods and smiles.
When Molina last hurt us, this video was viral:
We all feel a lot like this guy right now. Especially Jeurys. Perhaps this will turn out like the last game Familia blew and will lead to a move to help us out. But much like the guy in the above video, I have a bad feeling we’re going to be on our own for this one. Geri Reischl isn’t around to save us.
Today’s Hate List
- Yadier Molina
- Jedd Gyorko
- Jonathan Broxton
- Adam Wainwright
- So Taguchi
- Joel Pineiro
- Scott Spiezio
- Guillermo Mota
- Kolten Wong
- Vince Coleman (By the way, I had a dream last night that I bought a throwback Vince Coleman Mets jersey. Please send drugs. Quickly.)
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