Friday, August 31st, 2007 at 8:13 am  |  24 responses

Emergency Friday Mets post

Thanks for ruining Labor Day

By Sam Rubenstein

Working from home today. Labor Day weekend begins early.

Can not show my face at work today. Can not write in complete sentences.

There is a Phillies fan in the office. He will gloat.

Thankfully Lang is off the map and I don’t have to hear about it. Khalid is smiling right now, and that really makes me sick. Russ wrote about the FIBA game again.

Willie Randolph

I have avoided this hour, but it is time. The doomsday clock reads 00:00:00. My Mets are dead. Willie did it. First he ruined Heilman’s confidence by letting him take a beating by leaving him in about 8 batters too long in Pittsburgh, then he followed that up by being afraid to go to his 8th inning reliever in the 8th inning – because he ruined him. The two inning desperation save never works. Yesterday Willie and Billy turned the best win of the season into their worst regular season loss in a long time. A four game sweep at the home of the team that is chasing them. PANIC METS FANS! PANIC!!!

Billy Wagner was nearly perfect this year until a few weeks ago. He’s dead to me.

Every Met is dead to me except Endy Chavez, David Wright, Luis Castillo, Ruben Gotay, El Duque, John Maine, and Jose Reyes.

Celebrity sighting: THE Will Leitch of deadspin. He was at a yuppilicious mexican restaurant in my neighborhood.

Want to thank the people from Playstation for coming in yesterday, lugging a flatscreen and PS3, and sending us lunch. If anyone is looking for the leftovers, they are with me.

Played Konate in NBA ’08. He was the Bulls, I was the Celtics. Eastern Conference supremacy on the line perhaps. I laideth unholy smackdown on the youngster. I thought kids today were supposed to be well-versed in their video game ability. So I have run faster, and now proven to be superior at video games. This is too easy. Konate was happy to doubleteam and hit the steal button a lot, but he kept leaving Ray Allen open for three. I – and virtual Ray – found that disrespectful. Konate paid the price.

Am I being a bully? Should I have let him win? Isn’t it my responsibility as the older generation to nurture the hopes and dreams of the youth? Nah, I killed him.

Holly MacKenzie is off to a great start moderating comments. It is a never ending war. This is what we are up against.

Yikes. Democracy. By the way today’s Kick of the Day has the word KOBE in it.

Went to the batting cage yesterday. My eyes don’t react at baseball speed anymore. I was hitting bombs in the softball cage though.

Other people’s posts will go up. Hopefully in complete sentences.

Happy Labor Day! Have a great weekend everyone!

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  • Elvis Posted: Aug.31 at 9:37 am
    How was the game play for NBA ’08?

  • Ben Collins Posted: Aug.31 at 9:38 am
    1) You can ID Will Leitch? How? 2) No one will get that Kobe/Kick of the Day Joke. 3) Holly may God be with you because you will need Him/It/Whatever.

  • Ryan Jones Posted: Aug.31 at 9:43 am
    Sam,
    Many of my phriends phrom college are Phillies phans. I’ll have them give you a call. Bye phor now.
    Ryan

  • Ron Posted: Aug.31 at 9:53 am
    Sam, I want to apologize for Chase Utley’s return from the DL. And don’t worry, as a Phillies fan I can tell you that we are going to be swept by the Braves in one of the remaining series with them, and your Mets will win the the last series of the season to lock in your playoff spot. The Phillies have a history of falling apart in September dating back to Larry Bowa’s tenure at manager. They are the biggest tease in the world not giving lap dances.

  • H to the izzo Posted: Aug.31 at 10:13 am
    Ryan “Killer of Alliteration” Jones

  • me Posted: Aug.31 at 10:17 am
    don’t worry my phillies are going to fall apart just watch.

  • Ben Osborne Posted: Aug.31 at 10:20 am
    Sam is hysterical. The Phillies are teasing their fans just like the Eagles do to Khalid…all of which makes the inevitable fall that much more depressing for them. As for that video game exhibition yesterday, Sam really did destroy Konate. It was ugly.

  • Sam Rubenstein Posted: Aug.31 at 10:21 am
    Ron, it has been truly amazing that the Phillies have never made the playoffs in the wild card era, considering all the talent they’ve had. I understand your pessimism. Pat Burrell vs. the Mets compared to Pat Burrell vs. everyone else is perhaps the greatest mystery in our universe.
    How’s that NEWSLETTER coming Collins? Will was wearing his trademark black shirt and jeans.

  • Ryan Jones Posted: Aug.31 at 10:47 am
    Phuck you, izzo.

  • H to the izzo Posted: Aug.31 at 10:55 am
    Well played,no really ,well done

  • Bryant Reeves Posted: Aug.31 at 11:25 am
    Why can’t we all be phriends?

  • white hot eboy Posted: Aug.31 at 11:40 am
    Phridays RULE!!!

  • Ryan Jones Posted: Aug.31 at 12:23 pm
    Sorry. I’ve been uninspired lately. August blows.

  • Jake Appleman Posted: Aug.31 at 12:26 pm
    I remain the optimist to counterbalance all of the pessimist Met fans. The world needs equilibrium.

  • SMK Posted: Aug.31 at 12:59 pm
    Pedro is coming back. If he brings Mr. Ping Ping and his good changeup with him the Mets could go all the way.

  • Bryant Reeves Posted: Aug.31 at 1:07 pm
    Sam – why is Oliver Perez dead to you? If you still like Maine, how can you hate on Perez?

  • Sam Rubenstein Posted: Aug.31 at 1:31 pm
    Maine tried to assassinate Jeff Kent with a fastball to the head. I respect that. Perez walked a 45 year pitcher to lead off an inning the other night. I don’t respect that.
    Brooklyn Paulie is my favorite Met, but he’s not helping things either.

  • Bryant Reeves Posted: Aug.31 at 1:39 pm
    Still – Maine has had a quality start for something like a month…

  • Bryant Reeves Posted: Aug.31 at 1:51 pm
    has NOT had

  • Reggie Evans Posted: Aug.31 at 2:31 pm
    zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

  • Tarzan Cooper Posted: Aug.31 at 3:26 pm
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  • Tariq Posted: Aug.31 at 4:35 pm
    Now I know my A,B,Cs. P.S. I hate baseball. That being said, please enjoy your conversation without any further interjections from me. Phuckers.

  • Noyd Posted: Aug.31 at 4:52 pm
    That Nega-delphia attitude is real prevalent here. I for one believe that the Phils are making the playoffs and from there, who knows. Jon Vukovich is watching over this team from heaven, they’ve got the divine design going on. Sam, it’s going to be a very interesting September…

  • SLAM ONLINE | » Taking Care of Business. U-S-A!!! Posted: Sep.6 at 1:20 pm
    [...] After what I wrote Friday about the Mets and the subsequent turnaround, you’d think I would be in a mood to praise the champion-like resilience. Don’t worry this is going to come back to basketball in a minute. I do not feel like praising the Mets, cause it is their own fault for putting themselves in the position where they had to go down to Atlanta and play pennant race baseball. The Braves are so pathetic they are beneath my contempt these days, but that’s Lang’s problem not mine. All I know is that on Friday, it was panic time not just for myself but for many Mets fans. Did the presence of negative energy launched at the collective psyche of a team force them into playing like the real Mets out of fear? We’ll never know. But if we are going to base future decisions on facts and outcomes, then it must be noted that doomsday negativity lead to glowingly positive results. [...]

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