1. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. Treated for ‘Mood Disorder’… welcome
to the jungle…
2. Jesus, is there any room for anybody
on the Harvey train?
3. From Shawn
Thompson - Mack, If Gee is out for the rest of the year (which seems likely),
what's your game plan? Not sure how you
feel about Harvey coming up now - there has to be some bootleg 4th/5th starter
making a bit too much at the trade deadline, right?? Do you throw Familia to the wolves and let
him shit/shine to make the 2013 bullpen decision easier?
Yeah, Stephen convinced
me on the comment side of this blog that’s it is okay to speculate. I can tell
you one thing… I know Dillon is a
married adult and all that, but there is no way his father (who I know) is
going to risk his son’s career, and life, by rushing back for what is less than
three months of baseball. It’s not going to happen.
Rotation wise, the
4-man is set, and Matt Harvey lines up almost perfectly with the date Gee would
have pitched his next outing.
The fan in me wants to
see Harvey in Queens (thank God his first couple of outings could be away
games).
Me? I would go with the
guy that pitched 16-11, 4.24, 193.0-IP, 133-K, 85-BB, 32-starts…
In 2007.
I would also activate Jeremy Hefner and create a season-long piggy back designed
to get me 7 innings between the two of them. Call the player Jeremy Batista, or Miguel
Hefner. If one starts off bad, get him out of there and bring in the
other. Hell, start warming up the other guy in the first inning. Let them both
walk out to the mound together and have one hand the ball to the other.
I would also move Zack Wheeler up to Buffalo and let him, Matt, and Jeurys Familia go 1-2-3 until September 1st.
We can revisit this in
two weeks if the two-headed monster doesn’t pan out.
4. My thoughts and prayer go out to
Andrew Hartwell of Summer Ball who had some extensive surgery yesterday for
facial skin cancel. Let’s all visit the site and wish him well: http://www.collegesummerbaseball.net/
5. Did you ever reach someone online and
ask them to give you their phone number and they email back to give them your
number and they will call you? That gives them the opportunity to block their
phone number so you can’t reach them in the future. What a strange world we
live in now.
6. 50 years ago today, the Rolling
Stones played their first concert. My best friend then was Louis Sarasy. We were “beatle guys” and would
stand in the middle of Louis’ brother’s bedroom where there was a light and a
pull cord. We made believe that the pull cord was a hanging microphone and we’d
sing two-part harmony. I was Paul (or was I John), and the Stones were the bad
guys. Ironically, Louis and I still talk once a week. 50 years… now we're all “standing
in the shadows”.
7. Hunter B. added us on Google+… 5 new comments,
including one from Jordany Valdespin… 2,327 page
views on Mack’s Mets yesterday… lost a follower on Twitter (#JohnMackinAde)…
down to 57…
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