Wednesday, May 28, 2008

ONE AND ONE, AS USUAL

The Mets split the first two games of their series with the Marlins so far. Mike Pelfrey was hit around for six runs in four innings, and despite two straight homers from Jose Reyes in successive innings, the Marlins won easily 7-3. I was defiling the Ewa Beach Golf Club at the time, thankfully, and was not able to watch and be angry (at least not at the Mets - just at my short game).

On Tuesday, Johan Santana went seven shaky innings, but the Mets were fortunate enough to face one of my Strat team pitchers, Andrew Miller, who gave up three runs in the first inning. Two of the runs were driven in on two-out singles by Fernando Tatis and Ramon Castro. The Mets never trailed after that point, and won 5-3. Duaner Sanchez and Billy Wagner finished the game with two scoreless innings.

Today, Oliver Perez will test our patience against Marlins ace Scott Olsen. Looks like we're dropping another game back of the Fish after this series!

Monday, May 26, 2008

ROCKIE BOTTOM

Ho-hum, the Mets lost again. Aaron Cook went the route, and some guy named Seth Smith, which I don't think is his real name, hit a three-run homer off John Maine as the Rocks won 4-1. Yeah, call me when I care. If the Mets aren't going to give a rat's ass, why should I?

We're back in Shea to play the first-place Marlins, who have a payroll of about $22 million dollars. There are homes out here in Oahu that cost more. That $22 million figure counts the $6.3 million that Jacque Jones was making when he was a Tiger, which the Tigers are actually paying. The Marlins signed him to a minor league contract, which means they are paying the minimum. This means that the actually payroll that Jeff Loria is paying is about $16 million. The Mets payroll? It's $137 million. Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delgado and Johan Santana are each making the same or more than the Marlins are spending for their whole team. Luis Castillo is making $6 million! That's a bunch for guy who can barely hit it out of the infield and has a .675 OPS. Let's bat him second!

Fuck it, I'm playing golf again today. I'll check back to survey the carnage when it's over.