Please, No More

Oliver Perez (left), from Mexico, is the real reason New Yorkers support building the border fence.

Please, Omar,.... Jerry,.... I don't want to see Oliver Perez anymore. Today I edited his games started to 16. I don't want to add another one. His ERA is 5.29, with a WHIP of 1.56. He can't hold runners. He can't throw strikes. He leads the league in hit batters and he's second in walks....

Wow, I just found an awful Mets stat while looking at Perez' numbers....

Oliver Perez(17.95), John Maine(17.88), and Mike Pelfrey(17.72) are all in the bottom seven in pitches per inning, for all of MLB. They are all worse than Tom Gorzelanny and barely better than Bronson Arroyo. This is telling me the obvious: they throw a lot of balls, and don't have a strikeout pitch.

So please, Dan Warthen,.... tell Pelfrey and Maine to start throwing a curveball. Guys, a curveball is a pitch that is much slower than your slider, a pitch that you throw by creating downward spin. Just try it, for the hell of it. Maybe you'll actually miss a bat with it, and even if you don't, maybe it will make your fastball look better. Just try it.

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I was very excited to be able to add to the Mets Ejections list today. I was also pumped up to write this blog about the incident, but I guess everyone else was too, since it's all I've heard about today. I thought Runge pulled multiple bushleague umpire stunts, first asking Beltran if he needed the plate dusted off, then bumping the manager. He ranks right up there with Tim McClelland about now.

Jerry needs to make his arguments a little longer though. They're pretty good overall, with excellent head bobbing and screaming. His glasses fly off and his hat moves, but he just needs to add some length. You know, get in there until the other umpires come over. Or until the umpire starts to back away. Let the fans enjoy it and the stadium get really loud. Remember Jerry, those arguments are more for the fans than anything else.