To be honest, Snoop deserved what happened Wednesday night.
Manuel on Carter, Duda, Beltran defensive outfield: “Whoooo, Lord have mercy…I’ve got to tell Pelfrey, Keep that (ball) down.”
That’s good. Throw the outfield under the bus with a funny joke before they even play that night. Yeah, Beltran might have lost nine steps but the steps he has left he’s busting his butt with just to be out there, probably filled with some self-doubt as to whether he’ll ever be the same player he was again … this after the Mets most likely turned him into a shell of his former self by telling him that all he needed was seventeen cortisone shots. So let’s make him the subject of a joke. And speaking of busting his butt, Chris Carter does so every day for seven damn hours before every stupid meaningless game to try to make Snoop look like a genius for putting him in the lineup (even though he was sent down at the beginning of the season to make sure that Mike Jacobs strikes out a billion times), and he rags on him. And Lucas Duda can’t play defense before he even plays a game in the majors?
Ironically, Duda made a couple of halfway decent plays in the outfield on Wednesday running down a fly ball and a base hit. Of course, after he does that and undoubtedly put a smile on Snoop’s face … a smile he doesn’t deserve … Duda cramped up and left the game. Truthfully, served Snoop right. You ragged on your own team, they prove you wrong, then you lose them. It would have made a great Twilight Zone episode, right up there with Burgess Meredith stepping on his glasses after the nuclear war. The end of the episode sees Snoop getting punished by managing the rest of his days in the Can Am league for the Quebec team where what little salary he makes is hammered by taxes. Oliver Perez is on the mound, Brian Schneider is his cleanup hitter, and Joaquin Arias is his left fielder for all of eternity. Every game.
And Gary Carter and Wally Backman are on his coaching staff, sharpening hatchets at every turn. Yeah. That would be a great Twilight Zone episode.
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