Another Fine Mess Thanks To Ollie

It’s hard to judge games like this when you have two rain delays and a 1-0 game with Matt Harvey and Susan’s father’s grandson making his major league debut turns into a bullpen game in the fifth, where all sorts of wacky things start happening.

Now I was resigned when Bryce Harper hit a two run bomb off Jerry Blevins to make it 3-0. Blevins has been excellent for us this year even while pitching in some unfamiliar situations, and it isn’t as if Bryce Harper murders the Mets on a regular basis. He’s actually been comparatively tame. But when the Mets had the bases loaded in the sixth inning and the Nationals brought in professional jackmuppet/gristle gobbler Oliver Perez to face a lefty that hits lefties well, and a righty who desperately needed a key hit, this was the moment that the Mets needed to capitalize … for the sake of the standings, and for the sake of our collective sanity due to the stigma of losing to a guy who signed a big money deal with the Mets and then stopping giving a rat’s ass.

But as we know, the baseball gods have a sense of humor about such things, and Perez struck out James Loney and got Wilmer Flores to pop-up. That was your ballgame. And no lineup that can’t get a key hit off of Oliver Perez deserves to win anything in life. So that was it. The Mets lost 5-0 and are now five games back of the Nationals with the finale against Max Scherzer looming. Add to that the confirmation that Noah Syndergaard indeed has a bone spur in his elbow to match the one that Steven Matz has, and they probably lost Curtis Granderson with a calf strain for Wednesday, and Hansel Robles got hit in the knee with a comebacker and probably is out for Wednesday’s game that Logan Verrett is starting. Against Scherzer! F*cking joy!!!

The worst part of all this may be that this was the first night I wore my Mets emoji shirt during a loss, dropping it to 4-1. Even my superstitions are powerless for this team. It’s almost as if William Shea was conceived on a sacred Indian burial ground. There’s no other explanation as to why Matt Harvey is 4-10 … unless Todd Ricketts put his own hex on him.

Today’s Hate List

1. Oliver Perez
2. Oliver Perez
3. Oliver Perez
4. Oliver Perez
5. Oliver Perez