[Déjà Bru]

You know, the one run scored in 24 innings doesn't help, of course, and neither do the bullpen breakdowns but what I keep reading about are bad plays and judgment.

The newspaper is talking today about Bruce not taking charge of a fly ball so that he could be facing the runner at 3B and preventing the tag-up and score. Instead, he lets the 2B guy do the job with his back to the plate, run scores. They're also beating up Matz for lobbing a pickoff throw to 1B while another runner at third steals home.

This kind of thing must fall on the shoulders of the manager, rightly or wrongly. It's just the way things are because you cannot just label players as incorrigibly dumb and boys will be boys.

Callaway looked like a natural genius when the Mets started at 10-1. Now, not so much. If this kind of thing keeps happening, I see Callaway on thin ice, soon.

'Course, it would be good if players got off their hospital gurneys and start hitting the ball. That tends to cover a lot of dumb plays. But the Mets are not playing well regardless and that is on Callaway.

So yeah, over in the Evil Empire, the other day Gleyber Torres lost a shoe while trying to stretch a double into a triple, making the first out at third base, a no-no. I posted the story in the Yankees thread. Ha, ha! Funny! No harm done. Over here, it would be another nail in the coffin.