The six-game shakedown

OK, this isn’t a fully formed blog post but I want to publish it somewhere and I can’t quite condense it to 140 characters:

Mets fans reacting to posts like this one by saying that six games do not signify enough to justify a major overhaul are absolutely correct. Six games’ worth of evidence in a 162-game baseball season should not be used to form any worthwhile conclusions.

But that reaction implies that Mike Jacobs and Gary Matthews Jr. should have been starting for the Mets in their respective positions in the first place, and there is a whole, whole lot more than six games’ worth of evidence to show otherwise.

7 thoughts on “The six-game shakedown

  1. Yeah, that’s a good question! It seems that Double Down means twice the chance of a downfall! Nutritional value?????

  2. The Jacobs and Matthews decisions — especially the former (batting somebody fourth whom you later admit is needing to work out mechanical issues) makes absolutely zero sense to me. Is Manuel _trying_ to lose his job?

  3. Six games? Did they forgot the 2+ years of evidence before the season even started? Or that most people calling for them to be fired were saying the same thing before the season started.

  4. I find Manuel so predictably baffling that he forced me into picking up Jacobs on my fantasy team.

    Go ahead Jerry-prove to the world I’m a moron!!:)

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