So all right, ARod has been dreadful in the clutch, lets all take a moment and realize Andy Pettite didn’t do the best job of adjusting to the strike zone inflicted on him last night either, and he nearly cried about it, too.  And then three is the Mets, who saw Aaron Heilman throw 60 pitches in one game, and though he ha a tough time, he kept his team in it, as much or more than say Pedro Martinez had. Don’t worry Mets fans, their season isn’t over yet, though I am not saying when or how it will end. But, after watching most of those two games last night, I found this Bruce Jenkins article about the death of the complete game and how pitch-counts are ruining baseball.  Let me explain something Bruce, there are now 30 teams instead of 16.  There are not 30 Juan Marichals and Warren Spahns, let alone 30 5-man rotations full of them.  Would you really like to watch the game where Pedro and Jamie Moyer throw 160-250 pitches?  Can the scoreboard count that high?  Yeah, I would like to see the Marichals and Spahns finish games, that’s what Roy Halladay is doing for crying out loud, but not every pitcher is Roy Halladay!  Rick Peterson was speaking on WFAN in New York last week and he compared relievers and starters to sprinters and distance runners.  Distance Runners don’t start running marathons over night they slowly work up to it.  So one one hand yes, pitchers in the minors maybe should get worked a bit harder to get them used to throwing more pitches.  Maybe that could give them the ability to throw more in the majors.  But not every person can run long distances, and then there is the beating ones young psyche might take from getting shelled while working to throw complete games.   Then throw in signing bonuses and there is a lot of reason to ease young men into throwing a lot slowly. Don’t get me wrong, I love a pitching dual.  And I agree that pitchers are babied quite a bit when they are young, after all there have to be a few that are Juan Marichal and Warren Spahn, right?  But, Jenkins didn’t talk to Tom Seaver who said when he came up he had a loose pitch count of 135 pitches, so he thought it was his job to get the game over in 135 pitches.  Now if we want to change the mind-set so that a starter thinks of finishing the game within his pitch-count, well I am all for that.  Start handing out bonuses based on complete games not innings… but honestly, I am tired of hearing about this pitch count stuff.