*** Jerry Manuel press conference ***SNY Reporter Kevin Burkhardt: Jerry, 27 consecutive scoreless innings, 3 shutouts of the first place Phillies, you're getting tremendous efforts from your pitchers. This must make you feel very pleased...
JM: Uhhhhh, any time you can get your pitchers to do things, among those things get, uh, hitters out...and uh, not allow any runs to score...you will normally find that good things are gonna happen. Right now, I would say that, uh, good things are happening. I would say that this is why we are winning games - because our pitchers...they're doing things.
JM INNER DIALOGUE: "How the f*** do I still have a job?"
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Dear Philadelphia Phillies,
Love to break it to ya - not even your lord and savior, "Cy" Halladay could have saved you these past three days. Doc could've thrown a perfect game on any one of these three glorious nights in Flushing (rain included) and Mr. Halladay would have received a no-decision. Do you know why, oh dearest Phillies? I would like to say it's because your offense is anemic and impotent, but that would only be an insult to your vast superiors - New York Met pitching.
To the chants of "sweeeeeep," "27," (consecutive scoreless innings) "na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye" and the more clever, "Let's go Blackhawks," I walked out of Citi Field tonight a happy guy. "Wait until September" replied a few loudmouth intruders, but for the most part Philly faithful walked out quiet and dejected with their respective tails between their legs. Oh, isn't it sweet?
Sincerely,
The team that's riding your ass - and no, we will not pull your hair while we do that...as much as you know you want us to
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More to come...
-Tom Greenhalgh (a very late 5/27 though technically 5/28)
The Mets pitching was good, but the Phillies couldn't have hit off a tee.
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