The Judges of Justice

Well since the Mets are playing like dead dogs, it stands to reason that the team below them in the standings should be even deader. Right?

Oh, I see. I team more out of it than the Mets showing some … er, fight?

Longtime readers of this space can probably guess that I’m for hard nosed baseball, and I’m also for vigilante justice.  I don’t think it makes me a bad person but that’s between me and a higher being, isn’t it …

So I sighed longingly when Nyjer Morgan went after Chris Volstad.  Aah, emotion.  Where is that in Flushing?  When does anybody fight here?  Hell, Morgan ran over more catchers in a week than the Mets have in six years.  Take time out of your day for a few seconds to think about that.

Now running over a catcher who doesn’t have the ball and wasn’t near the plate is incredibly stupid.  Morgan would have been thrown at if he was allowed to play the next day.  So I cannot sanction that.  The second catcher obliteration?  Borderline at best.  Hard nosed baseball.  So the Marlins felt they had to bean him and protect their teammate, which I’m all for.  Morgan takes his first beaning and moves on. 

Then he steals second and third base, which the Marlins had a problem with.  Apparently, baseball etiquette says you don’t do that down by 11 runs.  I love when teams justify being mad about something because it’s an “unwritten rule”, which for all I know says that you made it up in your head.  Up by 11 I can see.  But down by 11 runs in the fourth inning is something else entirely.  Morgan’s steals led directly to a run, and the Nationals had closed that gap to five runs with plenty of time left in the game.  So why is what Morgan did a crime?

Oh, because the Marlins … arbitrators of justice since 2007 … say so.  I get it now.  Whether you side with the Marlins being the judges of justice or not (I’m kinda tired of them in general but I’m admittedly biased), they’ll always rule the day here because nobody on the Mets has the kind of marbles to do something about it like Morgan did.  So it should come as no surprise to you when I say that I would welcome Morgan, former hockey player, here to pour some vinegar into the corn flakes of the N.L. East … whether he’s justified or not.  I’m not picky given the comatose state of the Mets right now.  Hell, I root for Sean Avery so of course I’d welcome Morgan with open arms.  This surprises you?

Except that if they give him a physical (not a given in Flushing), the doctors will probably neuter Morgan per club policy.

The lines have been drawn.  Who do you side with?