Their lead may be crumbling, and the sense of impending doom grows stronger by the minute, but the Mets were pretty much the same today. Jose Reyes and Ruben Gotay howled in laughter as they watched something on Endy Chavez's laptop screen. Once again, the couch was crammed with players watching MTV. Guess it's better for them than checking out SportsCenter these days.
Oh yeah, and Paul Lo Duca, who seems to take losing harder than anybody, showed up with his head shaved. This was not some team-wide sanctioned event, however, like the Mets did in San Francisco back in May. After last night's loss, Lo Duca returned to the team hotel and took electric clippers to his head, doing the deed solo. No easy task, and with the blade dulled by overuse, Lo Duca had more than a few nicks in his scalp.
"I thought about a mohawk," Lo Duca said, "but I didn't want to make a mockery of it."
When Shawn Green was warned that Lo Duca was back on the head-shaving kick, he planned to stay far, far away from the cue ball catcher.
"I started hitting home runs once I got my hair back," said Green, who has smacked two in the past two games.
As for tonight's lineup, Moises Alou is in it, despite leaving Tuesday's game in the fifth inning with a tight left quadriceps. Alou missed 2 1/2 months with a left quad strain earlier this season, but he understands he can't sit out with the team in full crisis mode.
"It's a different time of the year right now," Alou said.
Not sure if this is good news or not, but Orlando Hernandez played catch with his protective boot on early this afternoon. He started warming up by throwing underhand and he was really zipping it fast-pitch softball style. Again, I guess that's progress. I'm not really positive though.
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I agree. Leave Shawn Green's hair alone. I don't think he hit a homerun while his hair was short.