well, i agree with you in that tatis should have at least bunted and i probably agree that the move to castillo would have been quite smart for a lot of reasons. perhaps jerry did not want to just "waste" castillo? weak, but maybe, since he did not have tatis bunting anyway. i just don't know.

as for the loss on manuel, i will agree to a point, given that the mets can not get runners in, he blew it having tatis swinging away there. however, i still place the blame on the mets inability to get runners in. i have been saying since the first game and i am not going to argue with all the "sample size" people here (12 games enough yet?), but even in the games the mets have won they have generally failed to get runners in while in scoring position. even with the starting pitching being what it was for the first two weeks, had the mets even done a so-so job getting them in, they would be looking at 8-4 perhaps. now? 6 losses, 4 by one run, 2 by two runs.

it will when they put up that one run. if they don't pull it out, that will be 6 losses (4 one run/2 two run). sitting at .500 when they could be sitting a few games better. .500 overall, .500 home, .500 road

agreed...again

big trouble now, big trouble. man i wish they could have put a sweep up on the board and get some momentum going. going to take a miracle now. god, we all now they are going to put up one run now

come on bobby, hold it and give them a chance in the 9th. too bad it seems no matter what they are not going to score on this coffey character.

agreed, it is getting a little old. i thought that the success they had in 06 would even out a bit, but by now the mets should hit a slam the next 20 times they are loaded.

can anyone get a hit with men on? it is unreal.

well, there is no chance they win this one...i have seen it all. still have to hang this one on jerry if they don't pull it out. sorry, you have to bunt there....

should have asked for a little more...

the curse of the bases loaded continues. the numbers so far this season are simply horrid:

3 hits (1 double, 2 singles)
17 ab
.176 avg
14 runs

now, the runs are ok, i guess, but man can someone just hit a gapper or something? i normally would moan about ANOTHER sac fly in that spot, but another DP...killer