Game 1 Quickies

Some quick thoughts on Game 1.

The good news, Weaver was nearly perfect. The bad news, he had to be exactly perfect.

Weaver absolutely baffled the Mets last night. Memo to Marquis---THAT’S HOW YOU SET YOURSELF UP FOR A FREE AGENT CONTRACT. I’ll bet Weaver made about $2 million last night---minimum.

Glavine was downright Glavine like. Despite what Albert said, I thought Glavine was good. The Cards hit four line drives into five outs. Make all those hits, and we probably do score two runs. That’s still strong on Glavine’s part.

Why is Albert saying Glavine wasn’t that good? Is there a point to that? I shudder at the thought of a distracted/distracting Albert in this series. Nauseating. Let’s just move on.

From Zimmerman: Glavine pitched 7 innings and faced 24 hitters. He fell behind 10 of those hitters, 2-1 or worse. Of those 10 hitters, 2 walked and 1 got a base hit. 5 made outs and two hit into DPs. 5 batters forced Glavine to make more than 4 pitches. Pujols (2), Rolen (2), Eckstein (1) and Encarnacion (1).

Glavine showed what a good pitcher can do to our lineup. With him pitching, the pitcher, Molina, Belliard and Rolen are nearly sure outs. Hard to score runs that way.

Did Glavine break a sweat out there? Weaver was giving it all he had for his 5.7 innings. Their efforts will impact game 5.

Rolen was awful. One benefit to the lack of off-days, Rolen may have to sit sooner. I love the guy, but he’s killing us. Spezio has had two of the really big at-bats for us during the past two weeks. Time to play him; it’s the classic Michael move.

Floyd looked done. You could see that one coming. He obviously tested his calf by joging after some fungo’s on Wednesday. Now, if only baseball were a game for lolligagers. The first time Floyd tried to actually run, his calf gave way.

Is it me, or do half the Mets fans look like Carl the Greenskeeper?

Does Beltran hit anyone as well as he hits us? Time to bean him.