Maybe while he was tripping balls, Saul Katz was on to something. The Mets had lost nine straight spring training games before the Wilpons and Irving Picard settled out of court. Then, first game back, they win 2-0. They win off Stephen Strasburg no less. Lucas Duda took him deep while Dillon Gee had a strong outing with help from the leprechauns living in his goatee, and … and … Bobby Parnell got a save! Maybe there’s something to this whole negative energy thing after all.
Or, it could be the theory that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
No longer, Alderson said, will decisions be colored by the specter of Bernie Madoff. Now baseball decisions can simply be baseball decisions. But that reality does not lessen the challenge ahead. (…) “What we have is what we’ve got,” third baseman David Wright said. “That’s what we need to be worried about.”
Then David started singing Frankie Valli for some reason.
Well, what we’ve got is a back end of the bullpen that’s been shaky at best this spring, a lineup that if healthy can be pretty good (Healthy? That’s funny!), and Mike Pelfrey. David’s right, that’s what we need to be worried about. That, and Andres Torres tweaked his calf on Tuesday (which is either another in the long line of curses, or the result of Tim Tebow asking his close personal friend Jesus for a sign that everything is going to be okay.) But not to worry, because Jason Bay has volunteered to play center field for the time being. Mike Baxter and, in an interesting Snoop Manuel/Joaquin Arias type plot twist, Jordany Valdespin will also get looks in center. If these are plans B, C, and D, then it kinda makes you think we brought in those fences just in the nick of time. Kudos to the planning department.
Can I have whatever Uncle Saul is ingesting? Pretty please?
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