The Mets had this one in their hands and then it popped right out of Luis Castillo’s glove.  I know errors are part of the game, but this guy is so unlikable and never plays hard that this one is even harder to swallow.  The sad part is, this could have been avoided if he did what every little leaguer is told to do-use two hands.  It is a good thing that Castillo’s teammates are backing him up, because he is not going to get any sympathy from Mets fans; I don’t care how much he cries. 

 

So, the silver lining, even after the debacle earlier this week is that the Mets remain just four games behind the Phillies as they lost to the Red Sox in extra innings. But, after losing to the Yankees like the Mets did last night, it is hard to believe that the Mets will be in any race much longer.  I don’t want to hang on the fact that the Mets have have too many injuries, but they do.  The Mets, no matter how they try, have not been able to replace Carlos Delgado’s bat with Gary Scheffield, and they miss Jose Reyes.  Two-fifths of the Mets starting rotation is out; John Maine’s arm is so tired because he has been throwing since December and apparently Oliver Perez has defected because there seems to be no news about what is going on with him.  The point I guess is two fold, the Mets are not out of it even though they really could be, but the Phillies, who are really their main competition, haven’t played much better.  The other part of this is that the Mets are the walking wounded.  How long can they go out there with a pieced together line up night after night hoping to stay in any race.  I’m also worried that this game will be the beginning of the Mets decline. 

 

I know that Omar is getting a lot of heat here on sports talk radio.  I do know that the Mets have to make some moves but do they even have anything to give up in exchange.  Would you give up Fernando Martinez (and whatever else for Matt Holiday?) 

 

So, if last night wasn’t bad enough, the Mets send Fernando Nieve to the mound to face Yankees’ starter Andy Pettitte; this will be Nieve’s first big league start.  Saturday’s game is the Fox game of the week.  I will be interested if Ken Rosenthal comments on his article where he made comments that the players don’t really like Jerry Manual.