See, ballpark isn’t so scary, is it Jason?
It’s interesting to hear people say that the fences need to be pulled in when it only seems to be the Mets and not the visitors who have trouble with Citi Field. David Wright and Jason Bay let the park play with their heads, while guys like Mark Reynolds and Troy Tulowitzki make it a hell of a lot smaller in the limited time they play here. But Bay, in his third game back from exile hit a bomb to right field to spark the Mets to a 6-4 win for their third win in a row (three wins that turned the worst team in baseball to merely one of the worst … parade!) Ike Davis hits bombs all the time like the one he hit a poor guy on the Nathan’s line with after Bay’s jack. Why can’t Bay do it? See? See what happens when you don’t stride to the plate and look at the ballpark and mutter “Oh, I don’t know what to do it’s so big!”
(All together now: that’s what she said.)
And Daniel Murphy? Boy, we’re going to see a lot of this with him this season … Where his inability to field an easy ground ball basically leads to two runs (and that missed grounder had zero to do with learning a new position. That’s an easy ground ball), but his bat has the ability to hopefully take it back with the two big singles he had today. A lot of Mets are loved by some and hated by others these days. Daniel Murphy? He’ll be loved and hated by every single one of you in the span of an hour.
Then there’s Dillon Gee. Another good outing on Saturday brings about an issue: which starter leaves the rotation when Chris Young comes back? Screw that. How about this question: which useless reliever gets DFA’d so that Gee can be the long reliever/spot starter the Mets have needed for five years until Young gets hurt again?
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