Anyone else out there worried about Pedro Martinez yet? In five starts this month, Martinez is 2-3 with a 6.23 ERA, and his pitch counts have been rising at an alarming rate. Martinez doesn't deny that he's been affected by lingering hip and toe problems. But is the situation only going to get worse? For now, the Mets insist Martinez is fine to take his turn every fifth day.
"Pedro makes no excuses when he goes to the mound," manager Willie Randolph said after Wednesday's 10-2 thrashing by the Red Sox. "To me, it’s just a matter of making pitches and he’s in a little bit of a funk where he’s just maybe not hitting his location like he should. I’m sure he’s not 100 percent, but he’s just not been as consistent with his location as he has in the past."
Martinez has been watching video with his personal pitching guru Guy Conti -- officially known as the Mets bullpen coach -- but only time will tell if his recent slump is mechanical or merely an indication of him wearing down a little early this season. If Martinez gets whacked around by the Pirates next week, sound the alarm.
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Let's hope that Pedro's poor performance last night was only as a result of his emotions getting the best of him...his botched double play and Milledge's error sure didn't help...but he should have been able to regroup after the first inning. Maybe the Mets were overdue for a slump and even though they are in a comfort zone in the NL East, they cant afford to be embarrassed again before their Subway Series with the Yankees.
I am worried about Pedro. However, I feel that Pedro might have been overcome by the emotions of the moment. Trachsel is shakey, to be kind. Hernandez is a loose cannon. Glavine is 40. I am terrified by Billy Wagner. The Mets need at least two pitchers.
Hey Mets Fan-I'd love to see how your team would do if they had to play in the AL all the time! Lastings Milledge for MVP?
GAMES HAVE GONE JUST LIKE BOSTON FAN PREDICTED AND NOW WE FIND THE SHALLOW WHINY WINDBAG ,A/K/A MR. MET FAN ,SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE. YES, YOUR TEAM WILL WIN THE NL EAST--YES, THERE ARE AT LEAST 8 TEAMS IN THE AL BETTER THAN THE METS--YES,YOU EITHER KNOW NOTHING ABOUT BASEBALL OR YOUR A NITWIT.
While Mets fan will accept criticism from Yankees fans given their long history of success, I don't want to hear it from Boston Fan. One championship in 88 years (as a wild card) and suddenly your a baseball expert? You win two games at home in June, one against a pitcher who won't even start in the post season.
Try winning your division for once before you mouth off.
Old School Mets Fan, there's no trying to understand people like Boston Fan. Here's someone whose team prior to 2004 last won a championship when his grandfather was in diapers, yet according to his revisionist history the Red Sox are the greatest team in baseball history. Obviously he wouldn't pull something like that on the Yankees blog because the verbal beatdown he would get from Yankee fans would send him crying into the corner like the baby he is. And when I point out facts like that the Mets are still in first place with a double-digit lead in the NL East, or that the Mets pulled one of the greatest comebacks in World Series history to beat a Red Sox team that had prematurely started celebrating and getting their champagne ready, that somehow makes me a shallow whiny windbag. Oh, and apprently when I point out that the Mets are actually good this year, that somehow makes me someone who (a) knows nothing about baseball, and (b) a nitwit. Go figure. Like I said previously, Boston Fan is nothing more than a typical Red Sox fan: He's suffered through mediocrity for so many years, and he's suffered through so much trash talk from Yankee fans that he somehow has this warped logic that only Red Sox fans who have suffered through so many disappointing years of ineptitude are allowed to cheer for their team when it's fortunes change. If any other, and for some as-yet-unexplained reason Boston Fan has fixated on the New York Mets, team's fans cheer for their team, that is unaceptable to him. If any other team's fans make the slightest sound like they're excited for their team's fortunes, that is unacceptable to him. Because in his own little world, you're not allowed to be happy and cheer for your team. Don't agree with him? Then he'll just go on your team's blog and shout you down, telling you what a fool you are for rooting for your team, never realizing how ironic it is that he's chastising and berating you for the exact same things he's doing. The Red Sox have NEVER distinguished themselves as a franchise. Ever. I'm not saying the Mets have either. But I don't go on the Red Sox' blog and act like a complete idiot. Boston Fan, on the other hand, apparently has no problem going on the Mets blog and making himself look like the world's biggest moron, which I guess provides him with some perverse sense of happiness and accomplishment because he does it day after day after day. Why does he do it? Maybe he feels like only Red Sox fans are allowed to celebrate when their team has been horrible for so many years and then finally gets good. Maybe he doesn't know how to act when, for once in his lifetime, the Red Sox are no longer synonymous with losing. Who knows? The funny thing is that there are probably a number of Red Sox fans who read his ridiculous posts and wince when they realize that people are going to associate a complete moron with their team and fanbase. And lest Boston Fan somehow (and I doubt his thought process is so advanced that he would actually seize on the opportunity to point it out) try to say that I "complain" when he calls me names, yet I turn right around and call him an idiot and moron, (a) being called names by someone like Boston Fan is an honor, because it clearly shows his lack of brain-power to engage in intelligent conversation with someone, instead resorting to name-calling, and (b) go back and read all of his posts. There's no way that someone could actually speak and massacre the English language and syntax like Boston Fan does and not be a moron, an idiot, or both. Actually, there IS a way, and that would be if Boston Fan were mentally retarded. Which upon closer inspection could be the case as well.
MR. MET FAN,A/K/A SHALLOW WHINY WINDBAG.YOUR LAST TWO POSTS PROVED MY POINT-YOU TALK A LOT BUT SAY NOTHING.STOP MOLESTING YOUR MONKEY AND GET HELP,YOU ARE A SCREWBALL.
Boston Fan AKA Moron, Idiot or Just Plain Retarded, Which Is It?: Your last post proves this, mainly that (a) your life revolves around the New York Mets (b) you had all those hours to come up with something resembling a coherent thought, and yet you failed miserably (c) your comebacks are a monumental joke, which is not surprising considering you're either a moron, an idiot, or a retard (d) you're too moronic, idiotic or retarded to move your pinky the eight of an inch it would take to shut your caps off (e) everyone, from the fans on this site to Newsday to your mom to your boss at McDonald's, right on down to the retarded uncle you cuddle up to every night is laughing at you right now because you've been OWNED. You might want to save your posts until you get out of your special-ed classes and have a better grasp of the English language; Dude, Manny "I haven't found an English word I have yet to pronounce correctly" Ramirez thinks you're a joke. OK Pavlov's dog, go ahead and post a reply.
MET FAN-A/K/A SHALLOW WHINY WINDBAG IT TAKES A AWFUL LOT OF GALL TO NOT ONLY IGNORE THE FACTS AND TRUTHS BUT TO ATTACK A PERSON YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT SPEAKS VOLUMES ABOUT THE CHARACTER AND EMOTIONAL FITNESS OF A PERSON. YOUR POSTS REVEAL A PICTURE OF A DEMENTED MISFIT.
Translation for those who do not understand Boston Fan-speak: "MR. MET IS MY DADDY. I, BOSTON FAN, HAVE HAD AN ENTIRE DAY TO THINK OF A COMEBACK, AND THE BEST I CAN DO IS CRY LIKE A LITLE BABY. I WHINE AND COMPLAIN WHEN MR. MET CALLS ME NAMES, BECAUSE I AM TOO MORONIC, IDIOTIC OR RETARDED TO REALIZE THAT I ATTACKED MR. MET AND CALLED HIM NAMES FIRST, THEREFORE BRINGING THIS ALL UPON MYSELF. AS A RESULT, MR. MET OWNS ME. OH, AND ONE MORE THING: LET'S GO METS!"