Forget the win last night over the Nationals. Forget the 14 hits and 6 runs and rock star performances from Ryan Church and John Maine. The signs of life are from the passion displayed.
Monday night Nelson Figueroa got rocked by the Nationals. Yea, those thigns happen. But what was bad was the Nationals, led by Lastings Milledge, were in the dugout tormenting Figueroa. He said after the game: ”They were cheerleading in the dugout like a bunch of softball girls. I’m a professional, just like anybody else. I take huge offense to that. If that’s what a last-place team needs to do to fire themselves up, so be it. I think you need to show a little bit more class, a little bit more professionalism. They won tonight, but again, in the long run, they are who they are.”
ex-Met Lastings Milledge said: “Well, what were we supposed to do? We’re not supposed to cater to anybody on the opposing team. We’re not going to cater to him or anybody else. We’ve been down the last couple of days and we wanted to get something going. And if he doesn’t like it, then he’s got to deal with it. Anybody don’t like it, they just have to deal with it.”
On Tuesday night, John dealt with it. Maine hit Felipe Lopez with the first pitch of the game. Take that Lastings Milledge. The Mets then followed with a victory and Maine had another brilliant performance. This is what you have to do, hit the batter to set the tone, send a message. There are some signs of life in Flushing after all.
Posted by Steve in New York