Posts Tagged Johan Santana
Opening Day Mets vs. Florida
Posted by admin in CitiField, David Wright, Florida Marlins, Fuck the Yankees, Johan Santana, New York Mets, Opening Day, Philadelphia Phillies, Predictions on April 5th, 2010
Mets win, the Mets win! The sensational (not yet) Mets are 1-0 and like usual we dominate on opening day. Against a pitcher in the Marlin’s Josh Johnson, who normally owns us (now 7-1), the Mets looked impressive in front of a sold out CitiField.
Newcomers played well and David Wright went yard, hopefully both of which are signs of good things to come.
Johan Santana is looking like the Cy Young Award candidate that we predicted he would win, he will win, this year. With run support, 7 runs, Johan Santana could be the best pitcher in baseball. He has the advantage of pitching at CitiField, which is where home run hitters become sacrifice-fly hitters.
Yankees blew there opener against the Red Sox. Mets are 1-0 and the Yankees are 0-1. That feels good. Yankees victory last season over the Phillies earned them some love from Mets fans, because as much as we love saying Fuck the Yankees we would much rather them winning over those Phillies. Most Mets fans dislike our division rival much more significantly than even the depths of hatred we show towards the Yankees.
Mets Mets Official 2010 Baseball Season Predictions:
Mets win the division!
Johan wins the Cy Young
Wright finishes in the top 3 for MVP voting.
Opening Day of the 2010 Baseball Season
Posted by admin in CitiField, Jason Bay, New York Jets, Opening Day on April 4th, 2010
The opening day of the 2010 baseball season is finally upon us and all the offseason talking and waiting is finally behind us and the excitement of your favorite team is at least tied for first place for the moment.
My favorite team is obviously the New York Mets, and although I have a lot of hope for this upcoming season I sense a lot of pessimism from some of my friends. They all say we have absolutely no pitching, besides Johan and K-Rod.
The Las Vegas Strip casinos are putting the odds that the Mets only win half their games, finishing 81-81. Everyone points to the early season injury issues of some of the same players who missed huge chunks of time last season. Obviously, the NL pennant winner Philadelphia Phillies are obviously just as strong, and it seems Atlanta, Washington and possibly Florida have made some big strides. The Mets are predicted to finish the middle of the pack in the NL East, with the best case scenario putting them at battling for the wild-card to make the playoffs.
I just don’t buy all of that. I believe, with the level of talent we have we should be realistically battling to win the division. Our pitching obviously needs to keep us in games and our offense needs to be consistent. 2, 3, or 4 runs is not enough, we need to be scoring runs and hopefully the addition of Jason Bay is going to give us that extra punch we need to put some big innings on the scoreboard frequently.
I want us to be better than .500, and I believe we can be. CitiField is definitely a pitcher’s park so let’s use that to our advantage. That means playing great defense. With the best recent New York Mets teams including the World Series team in 2000 defense was one of the Mets catalysts for shutting down other teams big innings.
Just watched Neil Diamond sing “Sweet Caroline” at Fenway Park for the Opening Day baseball game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. The place was rocking and the game has been very entertaining. I hope this is a sign for what is to come this baseball season, because I am really hoping the Mets are rocking this year playing a very entertaining brand of baseball.
Mets Opening Day Lineup
1. Alex Cora – SS
2. Luis Castillo – 2B
3. David Wright – 3B
4. Mike Jacobs – 1B
5. Jason Bay – LF
6. Gary Matthews, Jr. – CF
7. Jeff Franceour – RF
8. Rod Barajas – C
9. Johan Santana – P
Mets Spring Training
Posted by admin in New York Mets, Predictions, Spring Training on February 26th, 2010
The New York Mets like every Major League Baseball team has reported to spring training. The season is right around the corner and the Mets have plenty of issues and questions for this upcoming season.
Omar Minaya is loved and hated. Some like him, and whats not to like about him when he has brought plenty of big name free agents into the clubhouse. Some despise him, and whats to like about a guy whose expensive free agents turn into injury plagued and overpriced wash-ups.
Our pitching is pathetic, save Johan Santana and K-Rod. Really pathetic if you compare our staff to our arch rival Philadelphia Phillies’ staff. Even Washington has a sensational rookie and Atlanta has improved.
Our medical staff is a joke, the ridiculous day to day hamstring issues and other minor injuries kept our players out for months and months, and eventually several of our players had to get off-season injuries. That is not acceptable especially when WebMD could have done a better job treating the team.
Other issues exist, but for now lets focus on the positives. Vegas thinks we won’t have another deplorable season, in fact they predict not to have a losing season. On the other hand, the Vegas Strip casinos didn’t pick us to have a winning season either. Our upcoming season projection 81-81, which obviously would suck to all of us hopeful Mets fans. 81-81 might as well be 0-162, cause if we don’t make the playoffs this over payed roster again will not live up to their value.
Johan Santana and Pray for Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain
Posted by Señor Met in Cincinnati Reds on July 12th, 2009
Our best chance of making the postseason at this point is Johan Santana. And rain. If all of our games are cancelled because of rain except when it is Johan Santana’s turn to pitch we might still have a chance.
7 shut out innings and a few runs got the win for us today. Johan has 10 w ins though he probably should have 15 if our offense wasn’t so pathetic most times he pitches.
Jeff Francouer first at bat as a NY Met resulted in some RBIs, a promising sign. Count me in as a Francouer fan.
Mets Get Swept by Phillies.
Posted by Señor Met in Philadelphia Phillies on July 6th, 2009
Season Can’t Get Any Worse
This is gross. Mets can’t score runs.
We just got shut out again.
Johan Santana should be doing the shutting out. Instead he is letting up homers. 2 runs is all it takes to beat a team that doesn’t score.
Mets are in a Free Fall.
All Star Break can’t come soon enough.
June 14 is a Day that Will Live in Infamy for Mets Fans
Posted by Señor Met in Fuck the Yankees, Johan Santana on June 15th, 2009
Mets crosstown rivals kicked us out of their mega stadium.
After a 15-0 embarrassment, I don’t even know what to say. I am speechless for the first time this season.
…
Fuck the Yankees
Found my tongue.
Seriously though, I am worried about Johan. He was pitching in the mid to high 90′s at the beginning of the season and he is not in the low 90′s. This is something we should be looking at. Johan Santana hasn’t been his normal lights out self his last few outtings, seemingly getting progressively worse during each of his last several starts.
And then the Worst Game of his entire career today giving up 9 runs and watching his ERA balloon to over 3.
I am worried.
CitiField Mutiny as Johan Santana Wins Slugfest
Posted by Señor Met in Johan Santana, Philadelphia Phillies on June 10th, 2009
Johan Santana had two strikes and the tieing run in scoring postion. Bunt sign called in via a dizzying display of hand swipes and ear pulls and nose twicthes by the third base coach. All that shenanigans is not really needed, obviously Johan Santana is gonna bunt.
Obvious to everyone but Johan Santana.
The ol’ catch’em with their pants down by their ankles trick, fake a bunt and swing for the fences – a double will do – and tie the game.
That’s ballsy, that’s beautiful baseball, that’s the NL’s best pitcher.
Beltran, Wright and Church all had home runs. Phillies had 4 as well. 7 the most ever in a game at the homer unfriendly confines of CitiField. 4 ties the most home runs given up by Johan ever.
This is gonna be one of the most memorable games this season.
Johan Santana’s Run Support
Posted by Señor Met in Pittsburgh Pirates on June 3rd, 2009
Johan Santana’s Run Support, or lack thereof, is cause for concern.
In 5 of Johan’s 11 starts this season, the Mets have scored 2 runs or less.
That is cause for concern because this offense is much more capable then that. You can’t even blame it on the injuries, the many many freak injuries. The Mets couldn’t score runs for Johan Santana before they all got hurt.
Pirates pitcher Zach Duke is having a good year, so another strong showing wasn’t unexpected.
But still, we’ve lost 3 of 4 and giving that team at the other end of the NJ Turnpike some breathing room. We need to get this rode trip turned around, and you would hope the lowly, low budget, overachieving Pirates couldn’t possibly be capable of sweeping us.
Johan gets Win at Fenway Park Despite Obstacles
Posted by Señor Met in Boston Red Sox on May 23rd, 2009
And by obstacles I mean the Mets.
Super Dooper poor defense which is becoming the norm is hard to overcome.
Thankfully, Johan Santana is even harder to overcome. Another solid outing limiting the high powered Red Sox offense who were helped by 3 NY errors to only 3 runs.
Plus we got Gary Sheffield jacking another bomb, at 502 he is well on his way to 600.
Francisco’s save kept him perfect on the year in save opportunities. After last years debacle, that sounds too good to be true. But we Love it. And so does Johan.
The issue here is yes, Johan can overcome 3 errors in a game and get a win. I just don’t feel very confident any of our other starters can overcome 3 errors and get a win. After each error, Johan got every batter afterwards in each inning out. That is called perserverance.
LA Sweeps NY
Posted by Señor Met in Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers on May 21st, 2009
Dodgers edged the Mets again last night, 2-1. The win finished off the sweep of the Mets, and that is just terrible.
They didn’t even have Manny Ramirez. No way should a Manny-less Dodger team be shelling out losses to the Mets faster then they give Hollwood Walk of Fame stars to American Idol winners.
Jose Reyes left the game early, still dealing with a calf muscle issue. Without our spark plug, our offense can’t seem to get enough players to cross home plate.
A day off Thursday before we travel to the unfriendly confines of Fenway Park. Boston should be a test for the Mets, as they start their interleague schedule. Thankfully, we got Johan Santana pitching against Boston’s Dice-K so we should be able to win the opener. But we are gonna have to get some offensive production from somewhere.
