This is Mr. Met. "What is he doing in an ambulance?!", you might ask, unless you are a Mets fan then you already know. The Mets, who are in a tight race with the Pittsburgh Pirates for the worst organization in baseball, have had a barrage of bad news and unfortunate events hurled at them within the last 36 hours. To lead things off, I'll start with the Billy Wagner departure. Given he has been hurt, is 38, and more often than not blows game when he does pitch (which hasnt been lately because hes ALWAYS HURT), was officially sent to the Boston Red Sox today in exchange for two players to be named later. So, there goes one of the team's better pitchers, and they get almost nothing in return. That's whats up.
Next, we have some more awful news. Gary Sheffield left their game tonight with an apparent injury. Just what the Mets need. After their keystone and team leader David Wright goes down, their slugger Sheff gets hurt. To make matters worse, they LOST their game tonight against divisional opponent Florida Marlins. The Mets are now left without Wright, Sheff, Putz(who was shut down for the rest of the season today), and Oliver Perez is questionable for his next start Friday with a bum knee. This next bit of Mets misfortune may make you actually feel bad for the team...almost.
This is the piece de resistance. Even though the Mets have known for a few months now that their ace pitcher Johan Santana had elbow issues, they continue to let him pitch and finally, it has ended like this. Johan is now SHELVED FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON to have minor arthroscopic surgery on his elbow. Atta boy management, keep up the good work. You can just about pack up their locker's belongings and bring out the golf clubs, because the Mets will all be found on the golf courses this fall. The miserable Mets are now 16.5 out of the NL East, which puts them in the same boat as Washington who is 28.5 back. The Mets now need to get their heads out of their asses and pray that they dont blow the 12 game lead they have over the Nats. If the Nationals catch up and come in 4th place in the NL East, i want every fan of the Mets to write me an email at Stinman101@gmail.com telling me if they will continue to root for a team that is clearly the worst run franchise in baseball this year.(bad luck and injuries helped too, i suppose). The Mets have had an onslaught of odd situations this year, including their minor league coach trying to fight his players, their general manager talking about his job security before the midway point of the season while they had a good record, and now all these injuries/seasons ending short. Tough luck NY, atleast you have the Yankees who refuse to lose. By the way, according to Metsblog.com, Mets fans' confidence rating is at 27%.. what are they trying to do, pull an Obama?
With Santana gone, Putz gone, Wagner gone (not that he mattered), Wright gone, and now Shef, who knows what will happen with the rest of the Mets.
Moving on from baseball, we enter the realm of the pigskin.
My boy Michael Vick is set to play in his first professional football game (albeit a pre-season one), since being locked up. This Thursday we can all see Vick take on the Jacksonville Jaguars, and let me tell you, i WILL be watching that. I hope Vick lights up the Jacksonville D and goes crazy on offense.
As much as i hate everything that comes from the city of Filthadelphia, I cannot wait to see Vick AND McNabb on the same field at once. All i have is one word : WILDCAT. If you thought the Dolphins had it good with their Ronnie Brown run show, imagine what Vick, the most explosive runningback with an arm, can do for this team. While i hope Vick and McNabb to great, I hope the Eagles get furiously stomped on by J-ville just out of spite for the city that is known for steak and cheese subs..thats right, steak and cheese not cheesesteak. PHUCK PHILLY, especially the Philly Phanatic. Worst mascot in sports.
Moving on to ANOTHER team i despise, the Dallas Cowboys.The Cowboys, with their celebrity qb, disfunctional upper management and team coaches, and overpaid players, the 'Boys have done it again. Just because you "got 'er hole in 'er stad-yum cuz Jaysus iz 'poda watch 'dem COWBOYS play" doesn't mean that the rest of your stadium should be as retarded as their fan base. Owner/moronic-rich-beyond-belief-tycoon Jerry Jones has put an ENORMOUS jumbotron the size of most motels in Dallas in the stadium and has had it suspended just above 95 feet from the ground, a whopping 5 feet further than the ancient NFL stadium regulations requires. With this being said, (and huge jumbotrons being awesome) of course there is going to be something wrong with it. What is wrong you may ask? ITS TOO CLOSE TO THE FIELD! Punters are HITTING the screens with their punts because, after all, it is only 95 feet off the ground. The Cowboys were playing the Titans when the Titans punter hit the scoreboard for the 1st time in regulation, and the ref's gave the Titans a re-do because well, lets be honest, that is STUPID that a ball can be kicked into a retardedly large TV screen. The typical Cowboy fan will not understand what i wrote because they are, well, they're Cowboys fans. Hopefully someone that isnt pseudo-intellectual will read this and understand what I'm saying when I say that this nonsense needs to be fixed and let football be played uninterfered with by oversized televisions.
Seen above, this is the obnoxiously large jumbotron that Jerry Jones thought would entertain the Cowboys' faithful while they ignore the fact that their team is full of primadonna celebrities and are getting crushed by the NFC (especially the G-MEN!)
Thats all i got for ya tonight. Feast on that Mets/Cowboys fans.
No comments:
Post a Comment