We end our musical week tour with a classic, redone. As you noticed I really avoided posting Meet the Mets, because we all have heard in numerous times. In the 80's, the team actually had a cover of it done. It sounds slightly different, and its an interesting take on a sports music classic:
The Mets dropped the first game of the series last night and look to rebound this afternoon behind rookie Dillon Gee. Gee has been phenomenal in his first two starts of the season where he has allowed only one earned run in 13 innings of work while striking out 7. In those 13 innings of work he has allowed only 14 base runners in the form of seven walks and seven hits. Also, since he has made only two starts this season, he has not faced anybody on the Braves yet.
The Mets batters will get a familiar face this afternoon in Tim Hudson who is 15-8 with a 2.62 ERA this season. He is 0-3 in his last three starts with an ERA of 6.03. His first loss of those three was against the Mets where he allowed 3 earned, 4 total runs in 7 innings of work. The Mets have these numbers on Tim:
Lets Go Mets!
Atlanta could be in trouble. After commanding the division for the majority of the season, they now find themselves three games out. In the Wild Card their lead has shrunk to half a game as the insanely hot West look to upset the power in the National League that looked set all season. The Braves are probably looking forward to playing three games against the Mets. So guys, tonight it is time to play spoiler. The Mets have now won 4 games in a row and are looking to cause a little noise in the East before the season closes.
The Mets will be sending out Jon Niese tonight had a good start in his outing as he pitched 7 innings with 3 ER. Tonight could be a big personal night for him as he looks to get to double digit wins this season, something he really deserves and probably would have it, if it wasn't for the Mets offense at times. He is 0-1 against the Braves this season in two games but has a nice 3.60 ERA. The Braves have these numbers on Jon:
The Mets will get another crack at Tommy Hanson this season who is 9-11 with a 3.54 ERA. He has had a very good month of September where he has pitched 20 innings with an ERA of 1.80. He has also been very good against the Mets this season with a 1-1 record with an ERA of 1.02. Hopefully the Mets can light him up tonight. The Mets Sport these numbers:
Lets Go Mets!
Ok folks, lets leave the 80's today to bring this gem from modern times. The song is based off of Whine Up, and the singer who sang Whine up also did this song, which adds to its feel. This is a good one folks:
My roommate and I were having a discussion last night about the now famous Derek Jeter play, and really, we were focusing on why the media was making such a big deal about it. In case you haven't watched sports news anywhere in the United States (seriously every time I turned on ESPN yesterday, this was the story), Jeter was hit by a pitch in a game on Wednesday night. Except he wasn't. The ball hit the knob of the bat, Jeter was a good actor and he got his base then a lot of argueing happeneded. Blah Blah Blah.
The question was then, is Jeter a cheat?
In a normal world, when one person decieves another person, in order to recieve some sort of beneficial reward or treatment, that action of deciption qualifies as cheating.
Except in the world of sports.
There is a gray line in Sports of what is cheating and what is not. Using Performance enhancing drugs? Cheating. Scuffing the Baseball? Cheating. Acting like you got hit by a pitch? Actually not cheating.
To some degree in sports, it is permissible to do things in order to get an advantage. In football for example, one could call holding on almost every single play. In basketball and soccer, players act more injured than they actually are in order to get a penalty of sorts on the other team. In baseball, this tradition of not exactly fair play falls on the hitter acting like they got hit by the pitch. What Jeter did is exactly what any ball player should do in that situation because you are trying to create an advantage on the team. The responsibility here falls on the umpires, who are bestowed with the job to make sure players do not create these unfair advantages.
If this happens all the time, why isn't it covered like it was yesterday? Simple. When Jeter does something that pushes moral boundaries, the world overreacts.
The Mets beat the Pirates by the score of 6-2 tonight and beat the Pirates for the 4th time in a row. That was the first four game home sweep for the Mets since 2003. Tonight the Mets battled back from being down 2-0 at one point, tied the game and then continued to add runs as the game went on.
One of the stars of tonight's game was Mike Pelfrey who pitched a fine game tonight as he allowed only 2 ER over 7 innings while walking 4 and striking out 4. It was the 15th win of the season for Mike who has now pitched two nice games in a row in his enigma of a season. The other main star of the night was Duda who has been struggling since coming up the Majors. Tonight he smacked in two hits, both doubles while scoring a run and notching two RBI's. Pagan also had a big hit on the night as his two run double in the 8th inning put the game away for the Mets.
Next up for the Amazin's is a visit from the Braves who are now three games back in the division. While I would rather see the Braves in the playoffs instead of the Phillies (maybe the lesser of two evils, but I'm not sure), I really don't want to see both teams make the playoffs so if the Mets can ice the Braves playoff hopes, that would be realllllllly awesome.
The Mets go for the four game sweep tonight. Seriously. The Mets in the last two weeks, in terms of ON-the field play have gone completely under the radar and now, surprisingly, they have been able to string 3 well play games together. In fact, they have won 4 of their last 5. Who are these guys? Anyway the Mets will send out Pelfrey tonight to play against Morton.
Pelfrey will go for his 15th win of the season tonight and try to continue a trend he rekindled last week in pitching well. In his last outing he earned the win in 7.1 innings of work while allowing only 2 ER. He had a great start against the Pirates earlier this season pitching 8 innings allowing only 1 ER. The Pirates have these numbers on Big Pelf:
The Mets bats look to continue to heat up (17 runs in the last two games) against Morton tonight who is 1-11 this season with a 9.05 ERA. His last game was one of his better ones where he pitched 6.1 innings and allowed 3 ER, which technically is a quality start. You can imagine though with a record like 1-11 and an ERA with a 9.05, the vast majority of his starts look just awful. Another way to phrase it is that he has had 56.2 innings logged in 13 starts. The last time he faced the Mets was in 2008 where he pitched two scoreless innings in relief as a Brave. Pelfrey, Wright and Reyes are both 0-1 against him, a couple of guys have walks and thats it as far as past numbers.
Lets Go Mets!
Yesterday you saw one of the two rappers on the 86 squad that actually released a good rap song. Dr. K was the other rapper on the team who also released a pretty good song (it always surprises me when athletes have other talents, and I don't know why I always find it surprising). Check it out:
The Mets go for their third win a row tonight as they take on the Pirates for game 3. The first game was decided in extra innings by the score of 1-0 and last night the Mets routed the Pirates by the score of 9-1. If there was one thing to watch for tonight, it would be the Mets starting pitcher Jenry Mejia who has struggled in his first two starts as a Major League starter and really needs something positive to help him turn it around, and playing the Pirates could be that trick. Mejia hasn't faced the Pirates this season, so they don't have a batting track against him. Let's Hope for good things!
On the other side of the mound the Mets will have to contend with Maholm tonight. Paul is 7-14 this season with a 5.37 ERA. In his last three starts he has pitched 14.1 innings while allowing 18 ER. While Maholm has not pitched against the Mets this season, last year he logged 9.1 innings against the Amazin's and allowed 13 ER. The Mets have these numbers on Paul:
Lets Go Mets!
From that terrible 1986 Get Metsmerized rap came two rappers who actually recorded songs that weren't half bad. One of which is Strawberry who released this classic: