MetsScotty's New York Mets Blog

We have lost 6 in a row in Atlanta heading into this year. New Year, new season. We broke up our series-winless streak in San Francisco, so now let's hope for a break to our winless streak in Atlanta.

Bannister is day-to-day after having a minor pull of his hamstring in Sunday's game. Hopefully he will be up and ready for his next start. He's rough, but he gets the outs at the right time.

I hope everyone has a nice weekend and that I have good news to report come Monday (or sooner).

Let's go Mets,
Scott

So, Barry Bonds still has some POP in his bat. He brought the Giants back in the 9th to put the game into extra innings. Although, the game should have been over if not for Wright's error. He doesn't have a whole lot of errors, but he has certainly been making them at the most inopportune times! Oh well. We won anyway. And it is the first series win for the Mets at AT&T ballpark since it opened 5 years ago. There is hope for us yet!

The Braves(5 back) sank to third under the Phillies (4.5 back). I am sure that they are hoping to make up some ground when we show up at there doorstep. Lets hope they lose more than they gain!

Let's Go Mets,
Scotty

I won a chance to come into the loca radio station (WRCN) this morning for breakfast and to meet Bud Harrelson (Mets SS 65-77). He is really a great guy and quite the comedian. The staff at WRCN and it was quite the breakfast spread. There were only 10 visitors and enough food to feed everyone at the station. Hey wait, you think that that is a coincidence? :-P

Mr. Harrelson provided some great anecdotes. One that I liked referred to Nolan Ryan, or Nolie as he called him. Gil Hodges (Mgr) was bringing Ryan in to relieve with a couple of men on and 2 outs in the 9th. (I believe it was game 3 of the 69 World Series) Nolan Ryan was a young reliever who was known to be wild and walked quite a few in his earlier days, so the crowd growned. Since Ryan often put men on base before getting out the side, Hodges said, "This should be a familiar situation for you." referring to the fact the men were already on base. :-D

If anyone has any other questions about what he may have said, please let me know.

Let's Go Mets,
Scotty

Bonds hits a Homerun and Willie says that that is why he is walked so much. I liked Trachsel's comment much better. He pitched to Barry because he was afraid of Moises Alou! He is the one who has done damage.

Does it matter that much. Not at the moment, because the Mets won! Rubber match tonight. Let's hope for a series win. It will be their first one at AT&T park since it was built.

Day game today. I'll see if I can get in an update or two during the game.

Let's Go Mets,
Scotty

Glavine gave in to the Barry Bonds mystique and it burned him TWICE!!!

Yes, he is a good hitter.
Yes, he is a powerful hitter.
I belive he has only 1 Home Run this year.
He has not been hitting well yet.
Why!!! At least 4 runs came because we walked Bonds to get to Alou twice and both times Alou came through.

Challenge Bonds. If you get burnt, at least you faced the challenge. It was the freaking first inning! And then again later on after Bonds had already been out on a grounder.

I just hope they don't do the same thing tonight. I know that we have a negative history in California, but we got to put that behind us and show the league that we are the same team that started 10-2!!

Let's Go Mets,
Scotty

So, before Sunday, it really wasn't so bad. What really makes it disappointing is to see Zambrano pitch. I am sure he has the talent hidden in there somewhere, but he has been given a lot of rope. Too much and he will hang the Mets along with himself.

Tough series against the Giants coming up. We have not done well in San Fran over the past few years. Then again, this is a different team. Sure, they have cooled off a bit, but that certainly doesn't mean they are cold. I expect themto take 2 out of 3. What do you think?

Let's Go Mets,
Scott

Not that the Mets lost their lead in the division, but they had lost their lead in the majors. The Mets are back to being the Major league leaders at 11-4. The Red Sox are right behind with 11-5.

Kaz Matsui lead off with an in-the-park Home run. Very nice indeed. He is only the 2nd player in ML history to hit a home run in his first at bat for three years in a row. Let's hope for a record next year!! He looked a lot better playing last night than he did last year. Let's hope he got what he needed to work well with the team.

Beltran is still iffy. Let's hope that nothing bad shows up in the MRI today.

Yeah!! Jose Valentin finally got a hit. It took 16 tries, but he finally reached base with a hit. Maybe he liked the feeling and can follow it up with a few more.

Mikey (Piazza) played for the Padres last night. It was very odd seeing him in the Padres uniform. Anyone wish he was still with the Mets? Maybe until that 1st inning double-play. That's the Mikey we know! :-P Just kidding. I like Mike and I hope he has a really good season, when not playing the Mets!

Let's Go Mets,
Scotty

PS, if anyone has any other comments/questions about last nights game, please post them.

Tom Glavine and Tim Hudson both pitched great games.

Andruw got another Homer!!!

The worst part is that David Wright blew it! 3 Errors. 1 let in a run. Otherwise, we may have tied it in the ninth with Jose's double instead of jsut come within one! It also doesn't help that David got the last out of the game as well.

Dang it. Our first lost series. Atlanta just seems to be an enigma to us.

Anyone have an idea as to why that may be? I'm just dumb-founded.

David is still one of my favorites. We'll be back on track tomorrow. Off to San Diego where we get to face off against Mike Piazza.

Let's Go Mets. We are still in first and we will remain in first!!

-Scotty

Okay, so I got ahead of myself. It won't be a sweep. I got to say that their pitcher, Kyle Davies, put on a heck of a show. It wasn't a shut-out but is was too close.

Glavine comes on tonight for the rubber match. Let's hope that he has what he had last week!

Let's Go Mets!
-Scotty

PS Chris Woodward had a solo home run to keep us out of a shut-out.

Welcome all to my new New York Mets blog. Instead of mixing it up with my other ramblings I figured I would separate all my NY Mets ramblings.

Enjoy!

Let's Go Mets!
Scotty