Gothamist: An Inauspicious Start for the Amazin Bullpen

conrad

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:09:42 -0500

how bout them Reds!

ed209

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:34:38 -0500

Looper is worse than Benitez, and the Mets will pay the price for keeping him this season.

Ace

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:30:27 -0500

I see an Ugi Urbina in the Met's near future.

Jonathan

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500

That was so gut-wrenching. I can't recall a season where Mets fans were not on the edge of their seat for every game. I'll tell you, if you want to take a couple of years of your life, watch at least 2/3 of the season.

autrement qu'etre

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:19:54 -0500

Go Cubs!

tien

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 10:08:03 -0500

i'm not calling him armando yet either, but the numbers that newsday says looper has aren't really that comforting - "75 career saves but 26 blown chances". then again, those numbers are misleading, in a way, since he wasn't a closer for all those chances. and armando had gout?

Josh

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:52:51 -0500

Look - Braden Looper may have blown a save in spectacular fashion, but it's premature to say he's the new Armando Benitez (he's not nearly fat and grumpy enough, and so far as I know, doesn't have gout). The Mets, by hook and crook, actually reached the series with Benitez, who was the very epitome of flappable (he was great until he had baserunners, then fell apart immediately), so one awful outing by Looper shouldn't make us worry too much. After all, Pedro looked good, the offense looked good, and Mike Piazza's first throw to second, although late and in the dirt, didn't go into the outfield. What more can a Mets fan hope for?

tien

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:42:37 -0500

whoops. chalk it up to anger upon hearing the way they lost that game.

fusillitony

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:36:48 -0500

Seems to me that the game was an inauspicious start for the Mets' pen.

citizen

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 09:36:34 -0500

Um, don't you mean "inauspicious"?