All Good Things

...must come to an end.

The amazing hot streak the Mets had been on just last week now seems like ancient history. The Mets need to recover from three consecutive losses, two of which were just pathetic on their part. Last night they wasted an unusually solid start by Ollie Perez.

This crap can't go on. The team needs to get it together now if they want to hang around with the big boys in the league come October. A great first step would be to say goodbye to mediocrity like Raul Valdes, Frank "Smithtown's Own" Catalanotto, and Gary "Leadoff Hitter?" Matthews Jr. The Mets have perfectly good guys in the minors (Nick Evans, F-Mart, Parnell, Calero, Hessman, Chris "The Animal" Carter, I can go on) to fill these spots. It's ludicrous that we're instead stuck with this lot of aging, below replacement level guys getting obscene amounts of playing time. The buck needs to end here or this team will be sitting at home this fall.

8/19/09 Braves 15, Mets 2

It was bad. 'Nuff said.

Full boxscore and recap if you dare available here, courtesy of MLB.com.

Why I'm Writing This Blog

Reasons why I'm writing this Mets blog:

-Jeremy Reed's errant throw to home in LA, resulting in a walk-off error (while he was playing 1B)
-Ryan Church missing third base
-Angel Pagan and Carlos Beltran both not calling for a fly ball, resulting in it falling between the two (same game as the last two)
-Daniel Murphy's dropped fly ball
-Johan Santana's two consecutive losses where he didn't allow an earned run
-Ryan Braun's Little League grand slam against the Mets
-Johan Santana's epic fail start against the Yankees
-Sean Green hitting a batter with the bases loaded in the top 10th against St. Louis, then immediately giving up a grand slam
-Francisco Rodriguez walking Mariano Rivera with the bases loaded
-Francisco Rodriguez giving up a walk-off grand slam to Everth Cabrera
-Luis Castillo hurting his ankle walking down the dugout steps
-the Mets losing series to Washington, San Diego, and Baltimore
-Jeff Francoeur ducking and letting a fly ball land in front of him in Washington
-Jeff Francoeur not unintentionally walking until about 20 games into his Mets career
-INJURIES

And, of course, how could I forget: