You Gotta Befuckinkidding Me!!

I love it when those fans go to Shea and have those signs that say "You Gotta Believe!!". Well how bout "You Gotta Befuckinkidding Me!!" Seriously, the Mets are playing some of the weirdest games I've seen them play. Last night they squandered a three run lead in the ninth, whatever, that's baseball. But there were two incidents that made the game really weird, and one that has me worried. The first is Lastings Milledge got tossed out of the game after arguing with the umpires. Usually, a guy gets run from the game by one ump. Lastings took a page out of the "Carl Everett/Milton Bradley Flip the Fuck Out on Everybody Playbook" (available at your local prison library for free, or on Amazon for 19.99), and got into it with a couple umps. He basically took one of his rap lyrics and spit it with fire at the umpires (I can read lips, and I think he said "shit on your chest" a couple times during the tirade. Then he went into the dugout, and then came out to argue some more (one of my favorite Milton Bradley episodes includes a scene where he does that, too). So that was kinda weird.

But then Aaron Heilman takes the mound. Aaron is my least favorite Met, but what happened to him was f'd up...He gets on the mound to throw his warm up pitches, and some dude in the stands throws a ball (tennis ball, I think) at Aaron. This was funny because (1) the guy was a Mets fan, (2) Aaron wasn't hurt, and (3) Aaron threw a scoreless inning. If Heilman got lit up that inning, I would have to say that he deserved it, and the fan who threw it should start managing.

The last messed up thing with the Mets is that Billy Wagner is probably hurt. He didn't come out to pitch the ninth, and he only pitched once in the last week. If he is, then he is no better than Armando Benitez in his prime. He couldn't pitch in the ninth of game 7 of the NLCS last year, and he can't pitch in huge games in the pennant race. He needs to redeem himself, and he has two weeks to do it...

But we are still ahead of those Philly degenerates so all is good...

I'm out like O.J. on bail....peace