The Mets Police

Thanks to Suzyn Waldman for pointing this out!

Prior to today's action, Mike Mussina was 267-152 with a 3.69 ERA and 2793 K's (over 2800 as I type).

Hall of Famer Jim Palmer 268-152 with a 2.86 ERA and 2212 K's.

Sterling said Palmer says Mussina was the best pitcher the Orioles ever had.

Moose should make the hall.  There won't be many more 250+ game winners.

The Mets Police are always right.   Look back to June 4th and you'll see a post warning that Wagner might be the only All-Star.    Wright might still squeak in, but OverReyes does not deserve it.

Across town I feel bad for Mike Mussina.   With 11 wins and the game in his home stadium, he deserved to be there.

This nonsense where fans vote for the 32nd man is silly - didn't we all just vote for two months?

Mike Mussina pitched great again.   Poor guy is stuck on 10 wins.  Cliff Lee has 11. 

Let Moose start the All Star Game at home!

Was watching the Yankee game in picture-in-picture while rocking out to Bruce's 1975 Hammersmith Odeon concert DVD which is just wonderful. That's "the Boss" part of this post for those of you not following along.

Meanwhile in the little box I saw something I haven't seen all year. The starting pitcher, future Hall of Famer Mike Mussina was losing, and yet he came out to pitch the 6th inning. Then the 7th. Then get this, the 8th inning!

Apparently the AL has two rules the NL doesn't. One is something called a DH. The other is that your starting pitcher doesn't have to come out before the sixth inning ends. I would have thought Willie Randolph would have been familiar with this technique from his time in the AL, but apparently not.

I was sad that Moose didn't get the win, but he should start the All Star Game, and he will wind up in the Hall of Fame. I personally don't think he should be in the HOF - I have created something I call the "Hall of Garvey" for those players that were pretty darn good, but just ain't Hall of Famers. Keith Hernandez and Don Mattingly are also first ballot Hall of Garveyers.

Somewhere during Rosalita and a Yankee rally John Maine gave up two runs.

I'm thinking about switching sides to "Keep Willie." I don't see the point of Jerry Manuel. The Mets are like a bunch of slacker teenagers. Not one of them is giving any sort of quote or effort to save Willie's job (compare that to the Yankees the last three seasons with Torre). If they switch to someone who is on Willie's staff, someone who has been around - what makes anyone think the slacker teens will react any different. They need a new face in the clubhouse.

Stop torturing Willie. Either hand the keys to Jerry or announce Willie's staying all year. Enough. It's boring and can't be good for the clubhouse.

It's interesting that they can play a traditional doubleheader when it's inconvenient for THEM to play on Sunday night. I had tickets for Saturday night, now I don't get to see Texas. I don't really care about that - but usually that's the reason they use for the day/night doubleheaders. Also, I thought that there are so many tickets sold that they can't possibly get people into games without playing day/night.

So I find it really really interesting that since THEY don't want to be out late on a Sunday night (unlike those of us who had Dodger tickets) - it's impossible to play a Sunday night game. Let's all remember this the next time they give us the b.s. why they can't play a normal doubleheader. Remember this was a Saturday giveaway day, so there must have been at least a "Howie Rose 40,000" expected. As for me, I'll be very happy to listen to the two games by the pool at Mets Police Headquarters.

Why the hell didn't anyone build a dome. I was there last night. The Mets didn't make it rain, and everyone had the forecast really wrong. However it was really annoying to make a very long drive and bring The Kid (no not Gary Carter) to Shea and then have no game. Why didn't the Mets (or Yankees or Football Giants) decide to build a dome. Flushing sucks in April and September and May and I kind of remember games in October once....why the hell wouldn't you use this "retractable dome" technology we hear about. Instead we get 40 more years of crappy Aprils.

Crazy idea #1: Trade Jose Reyes. They need a shakeup. I haven't thought this one out, I don't know who you'd get, and I don't know who'd play SS - but maybe what this team needs is to think differently.

Crazy idea #2: Hire Tommy Lasorda as manager. Yeah that's stupid - but if they are going to suck, let's have a crazy old man in the dugout. Maybe Jerry Manuel could secretly be managing but let Tommy do his schtick. Yes he's a Dodger but I guess you haven't noticed what the new ballpark looks like.

I loved Buster Olney's column that gets into how crazy it is to blame Willie for bringing in Wagner for a save mid-inning. Isn't that what closers do? Long URL:

http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=3443097&name=olney_buster&action=login&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fespn%2fblog%2findex%3fentryID%3d3443097%26name%3dolney_buster


Shouldn't we start talking about Chipper hitting .400 plus? He's been hitting like .420. For someone that far over .400 you sure don't hear much about it.

Mussina is going to start the All-Star Game! 10 wins, and it's his home studio. Amazing. Who saw that coming?

This is interesting about baseball replay (from mlb.com): the crew chief's decision to use or not use instant replay on a particular call would be final, and not subject to second-guessing by team or league personnel. Team personnel would not have any right to demand instant replay. The crew chief's decision on a call after using instant replay would also be final.

Good stuff here about drugs being the reason the Mets got Keith: http://www.amny.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spkeith0615,0,948803.story?track=rss

Stearns for manager: http://blog.pennlive.com/patriotnewssports/2008/06/stearns_managing_the_new_york.html

Go back to April 1st and write that headline...but he's at the top of the league in wins, and the game is at The Stadium. Amazing. Why not?