9/1/08 Mets (Santana) at Brewers (Sheets): 1:05 PM CDT

[Bernman23]

0-2 friggin count and it looks like we'll give this game away. Our bullpen is as bad as any team's in the race.

[thablingster]

Well, that sucks. Just didn't get the pitch where it needed to be. Gotta hold the lead to 1 now.

[bucks2281]

That was bound to happen at some point.

[JET15]

Uh oh spaghettios (I have no idea how to spell spaghettios)

A neat new spegghetti Gagne can eat with spoon. Uh oh spaghettios

[Gobias Industries]

That is a horrible pitch on 0-2. He's been burned by trying to go with the high "heat" all year.

[trwi7]

Get him out genius. I have no idea why he's our "8th inning guy."

[kiwi brewer]

eric gagne is not fooling anyone.

[dlk9s]

Well, at least this isn't Game 1 of the NLDS (except that we'd be in the NLDS, which would be great).

[logan82]

I guess I am going to go ahead and keep thinking that our bullpen this year is worse than last year's pen and have only been saved by our starters going deep into games.

[pebadger]

That kind of thing happens to both Gagne and Mota all the time. Fluky double or bad defensive play followed by a homer and then the flood gates open.

[trwi7]

My God is he awful. Ned is just as stupid for giving him the 8th inning role when he came back.

[bucks2281]

Can somebody tell me why there are so many Mets fans at the game?

 

Gagne with his first awful outing since August 10. I sure love our bullpen.

[Mike Felder]

Goodness. We can put 16 pitchers out there for all I care, I don't trust anyone in our bullpen except Torres.

[SeriesFinale]

I get the feeling this could be a long, long inning

[WV Brew]

Let's make sure there will be no comeback possibilities. Enough with Gagne already. Anybody is better than him. Use Rottino at pitcher, anybody.

[olsonnet]

9/1 - the day it all fell apart

[Pointer1VB]

Get him out genius. I have no idea why he's our "8th inning guy."

 

Do you think we have a 3.30 ERA reliever just hiding in the bullpen or something?

[pretendastronaut]

In better news, the Nationals are beating up on the Phillies today. I think I'm going to like the Phillies being in second for the WC. They take 2 of 3 from the Cubs and then get beat up by the Nationals.

[Bernman23]

We could have had Troy Percival instead. Have to pin this loss, if it comes to fruition, on Dougie.

[Gobias Industries]

Wow, every ball was smoked.

[FidoMcCokefiend]

4 innings to hold a lead is just too much with this bullpen. Nice of Ned to leave him in there getting his brains beat in and give up the 3rd run though. That was a great idea Ned.

[olliegjw]

My God is he awful. Ned is just as stupid for giving him the 8th inning role when he came back.

You would be saying the exact same thing if he had brought Mota in there. There is only one dependable reliever in Torres. The rest need to start pitching better.

[rluzinski]

Get him out genius. I have no idea why he's our "8th inning guy."

 

Do you think we have a 3.30 ERA reliever just hiding in the bullpen or something?

Really. This is a bad bullpen. Switching to a new bad reliever isn't some great plan. A better plan might have been to let our only decent reliever (Torres) go against the meat of the lineup, but that's not allowed.

[yfinn6]

Thanks for playing Eric!

[pretendastronaut]

Can somebody tell me why there are so many Mets fans at the game?

 

Gagne with his first awful outing since August 10. I sure love our bullpen.

 

There are always a lot of Mets fans for some reason. I go to that series every year because a good friend of mine is a big Mets fan, and every year there seems a high percentage of Mets fans.