Posted Under: Johanna's View
So I was at Shea last night for the first Willie win after his job was saved, which, not so coincidentally also was the first game Johan Santana pitched. A couple of quick thoughts about it, a few people started to boo at the beginning and a fan near me stood up and yelled “DON’T BOO!”… which surprised me a lot. I agree. I think the booing allows the players to point the finger at someone else… not rightly so, but it does give them an excuse, like: “The fans aren’t behind us, so it makes it hard for us to play” or some such nonsense. Take the booing out of the equation and they either point fingers at each other or they get off their you know whats and play, simple as that. Beltran looks like he is trying to be the leader with his bat, but everything he does is bad. He needs a day off, but the team doesn’t have enough outfielders to allow that to happen. The other interesting thing to note, is the Marlins are carrying 14 pitchers! It was a mighty full bullpen. They do have a lot of bench guys that are uber-utility, and are very versatile, but 14 pitchers is a lot. I am going to try to see how they use them, but since we saw Joe Nelson twice in two days for more than an inning each time, I can’t really see the advantage. Lastly, on the subway ride home, I saw a rare thing. I saw a Marlins fan. The train was too crowded to speak to the gentleman, but I found it so unbelievable that a Marlins fan would make his way to Shea that I decided to use the camera phone. What else is it for, right? Here is my attempt at a surreptitious picture taking. The Mets fan who I got too close to makes the photo priceless. OK, so maybe not my best snapshot, but it makes me giggle.










