The Rant: NY Mets

To be blunt, these have been two ugly games at Coors Field, a place where pitchers go to die. Unfortunately for the Mets so-called potent offense, we've only been able to score 5 runs in the two games combined. Mix that with a display of pitching that would make Jose Lima look like a pretty good option right now. I couldn't help but have flashbacks to Lima Time, which is sort of a blur because of the amount of brian cells I lost banging my head against the wall when Jose Lima pitched, when Jason Vargas was hurling last night. It was more depressing than any movie Zach Braff has ever been in. I kept waiting for the Mets to bring him in as a reliever, because then my uncontrolable sadness would have suddenly made sense. So much for that.

dear jason, retire. love, got ny sports

Here's the thing Mets fans need to realize at this point, Oliver Perez and Jorge Sosa won't be back until after the All-Star break, which means we need to deal with one more start each from Mike Pelfrey and Jason Vargas. Vargas, however, may be sent down after his atrocious start last night, and could be relieved by Dave Williams at AAA New Orleans. We could only hope. Not that anyone the Mets can bring in to start a couple games is an ideal replacement, but I would take Chan Ho Park over Vargas at this point. Ok, maybe not but I'm at the point where I'm angry enough to make threats like that.

This whole season has been a lightswitch for the Mets, constantly switching positions from on to off, on to off. It's become a season where the offense is completely underachieving thanks in part to a first baseman who can't hit anymore, and is so old that he cant even reach down to field a ground ball, let alone do the hokey pokey. And if the hokey pokey truly is what it's all about, it may be time to get rid of Carlos Delgado. Willie and Omar's obsession with clubhouse leading veterans is already hurting this team enough (see Julio Franco). With reports coming in about the team's desire to cut ties with Lo Duca at the end of the season, it's becoming apparent the Mets are in for a face lift at the end of the season, and it couldn't come soon enough.

The only problem is Mets fans may have to wait for some serious changes to the team. Your not gonna move Delgado at the trading deadline, and Julio Franco is going to be pinch hitting all year long whether we like it or not. Tom Glavine is still gonna be giving us spotty start after spotty start, and his season is looking more and more like the movie Mr. 3,000 starring Bernie Mac, only this movie is called Mr. 300 and Tom Glavine isn't black. Needless to say, both of these movies suck.

i wasted time watching this, and i'm wasting my time watching glavine

Tonight, El Duque has to serve as the stopper for the Mets, because if they get swept by the Rockies be prepared for an onslaught of news articles comparing the Mets to the Yankees whose season went south after being swept by the Rockies at Coors Field. The bottom line is when you have taken 3 out of 4 from your division rival (the Phillies) in their hometown, you cannot then go and lose to a team that plays in one of the best hitters park's in the MLB and has just come off losing 9 of their last 10 games, but for some reason we can't even score more than 3 runs against them? We had also just won 8 of our last 10. I would expect something like this from the Knicks, but not from the Mets. Maybe El Duque can take a page out of Joey Chestnut's book, who devoured 66 hot dogs today at the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. He stopped the bleeding that was Takeru Kobayashi winning an American contest for 6 years in a row. Now, it's time for El Duque to stop the bleeding.

Please god, stop the bleeding.