| 27 August 2010
I understand that the Citi Field sit out was on Wednesday night. I didn't realize that it had become Woodstock and extended to Thursday. Take a look:
There's people everywhere protesting and rolling around in the mud drinking beer in a non-stop Citi Field sit out. They must have been out there ... because they sure as hell weren't here. I know it's only been a season and a half but I've never seen this place so empty. Then again, that it's only taken a season and a half at a new ballpark for it to look like this is the point exactly, isn't it? Just look at that whole empty section right in front of the picture! They must have been sitting out and having more fun than I did watching this game and watching Jose Reyes leave the game ... same picture, but zoomed in and enhanced with dialogue bubbles:
A mild oblique strain. They say no baseball activities until he's pain free. Question now becomes: is batting right handed a baseball related activity?
"As of right now, we see this as a day-to-day thing." -Snoop Manuel
This can only mean one thing: We'll never see Jose Reyes again.
But when you zoom into another part of that same picture, you can see that there were other protests happening that were actually inCiti Field:
The protest on the right is fairly obvious, and a little hilarious. The protest on the left? Not so obvious. But completely hilarious.
Free Oliver Perez?
I would have taken an appearance by Ollie over Jeff Francoeur's at-bat music. Consider that the Mets lost 11-4. Jose Reyes is out with injury, again. Snoop didn't pull Jon Niese in time and even if he did, Elmer Dessens was atrocious. Ruben Tejada is going to go 0-for-his next 12,000. The Mets led off seven of the nine regulation innings with walks, and still only scored four runs (seriously, how does that happen?) I could swear I saw Alex Cora during the "don't swear, throw stuff, or hit a Citi Field usher in the eye with a commemorative shot glass" montage in the first inning. And I still think the worst part of Thursday's ballpark experience was Frenchy's walk-up music. It wasn't his usual mix of country and rock ... I don't even know what it was, and it may or may not have been a good song. But a slow, sappy ballad as a walk-up tune? I sincerely hope he lost a bet. Look, that might have been an award winning song but from my point of view, as Joe Fan, walk-up music is supposed to make me want to scream my head off and murder somebody. It's not supposed to remind me that I need to accessorize my apartment with items from Pottery Barn. But I guess it fits the mood at the park these days.
The worst part is that Frenchy had two hits and a walk so even if he did lose a bet, we're going to have to hear this for the rest of the season. No Jose Reyes, and walk-up ballads? So much for the last 40 games not sucking. Thanks Frenchy.
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