The jury has spoken. Steroids or not, the Shea crowd eventually warmed to Guillermo Mota after his two scoreless innings last night. Mota entered to mostly boos in the eighth, but left the mound to cheers at the end of each inning. He would have been perfect if Carlos Gomez didn't slip and fall trying to come in on Dan Ortmeier's shallow fly ball with two outs in the eighth. After one outing, it looks like Mota might not need steroids to be successful.
Another observation from Wednesday's 3-0 loss to the Giants: Tom Glavine is growing increasingly irritated with his lack of run support. He was angry after losing to John Smoltz last week, despite allowing only two runs, and clearly annoyed by coming up short again Wednesday, when he was touched for three runs over seven innings. Glavine also is trying to put No. 300 out of his mind for the time being. He's currently stuck on 295.
"To me, 300 is so far away right now it's not even part of the equation," Glavine said. "I'm thinking about 296 right now."
Funny how Barry Zito has been mediocre overall this season (5-5, 4.21 ERA) but Cy Young in two starts against the Mets (2-0, 2.08 ERA, 12 Ks in 13 inn.). Maybe Zito finds a little something extra against the team that didn't pony up $126 million for him over the winter. But I think anyone on the Mets would tell you they're glad they took a pass.
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Typical Newsday looking to bash the Mets. Hey nice poll attached, can you come up with one positive selection? No. Go bash the Yankees for signing steroid abusers in Roger Clemens, Andy Pettite, J. Giambi, G. Sheffield, ARoid, Brosius, Boggs, Tino and Mariano Duncan.
Newsday is typically two days behind the rest of the world.
jealous Skankee Daily Rant in today's paper
VICTOR ZAMBRANO OR
VICTOR ZAMBRAINO.
THE NEXT MET?
YEAH RIGHT.
HE'S FAT.
AND ON HIS WAY TO "ORCA" FAT.
HE'S INEFFECTIVE THIS YEAR.
AND NOW, NOT ONLY IS HE IS THROWING BATTING PRACTICE, BUT....HE IS THROWING PUNCHES AT HIS TEAMATES IN FRONT OF EVERYONE,
IN THE DUGOUT.
HE IS A BABY.
I WOULD RATHER HAVE BENTEZ BACK THAN INVEST 100 MILLION IN ANOTHER LOSER.
Dude I think you mean "CARLOS" Zambrano.
I mean they both stink,
so possibly they might be related or married,
or maybe even the same person in disguise.
But yes, Carlos Zambrano needs some Hoodia soyshakes or something, he's fat and he stinks this year.
CARLOS AND VICTOR ZAMBRAINO.
WE DON'T NEED ANY OF THOSE LOSERS.
PLEASE OMAR, DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT TRADING ANOTHER "KAZMIR" TO GET FAT CARLOS.
THE IRONY WOULD BE TO UNBEARABLE TO TAKE!
Do you want a little insight into the childish nature of Barry Zito?
All he talked about after Wednesdays win was....
getting a base hit, after being booed by the Met fans.
That is what he is all about because I really believe he is a fragile ego who will never live up to 126 million dollars.
Honestly , who really can?
But I think Zito will not even be a .500 pitcher for the Giants and he pitches in a pitchers park.