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Bad ideas on Parade, one after another.
• Why had the Pirates not retired Parker's #39? If a man makes the Hall of Fame and will be memorialized with your cap on his plaque, you retire his number. Period. (The Mets even have #8 in unofficial retirement, even though Yogi Berra is in the Hall as a Yankee, and Gary Carter is in as an Expo [against his wishes, btw].)
Even if you hadn't done it before now, when he was elected in the winter, that's when you schedule the retirement ceremony. What, were you waiting for him to die or something? Sheesh.
* Pirates bringing the infield in during a scoreless game in the first inning. "A very silly idea", Ronnie called it, adding that he'd say the same thing if the Mets did it.
• Mendoza keeping Blackburn in the game after the rain delay. Um, Carlos, you know that pitchers can stiffen up after a long turn at bat, right? The rain delay was considerably longer.
Also, it's Paul Blackburn out there, not Tom Seaver. Going against common sense to keep Blackburn, of all ham'n'eggers out there, is ridiculous.
(The three runs the Bucs got off of Blackburn were all it took to win the game, relief follies notwithstanding.)
• Brazoban
• Poche. I don't know his first name. I don't know how to pronounce his surname. I don't know if he'd ever pitched in MLB before. I didn't know he was on the team.
And I don't want to know. Throw him back. How can we have used 32 pitchers if we only have a 40-man roster? Clearly we have had to cut or waive other pitchers to make room for the current crop.
Given that whomever we ditched to bring up Poche is almost certainly a better pitcher than Po-shay is, it appears that somebody really screwed the Pooch on this one.
So the Mutts, having gone 13-3 against joke teams (and also the Dodgers) before this recent disaster, have now gone 3-12 once we had to play real teams (and also, Pittsburgh). Well, that's one way to piss it all away. I mean, a better June than Mickey Callaway ever saw, but come on, now.
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