What? No Refunds? Can't We at Least Fake Wanting to Win?

Here's an interesting situation: You're about to go to a Met game, perhaps your very first Met game and the game's at home at Citi Field (perhaps your first time at Citi Field). So you get to the ballpark and see the starting lineup:

Angel Pagan, LF
Fernando Martinez, RF
Carlos Beltran, CF
Fernando Tatis, 3B
Daniel Murphy, 1B
Ramon Martinez, 2B
Brian Schneider, C
Wilson Valdez, SS
Tim Redding, RHP

yeesh - Hard to be a Met fan, huh? Think of all the parents bringing their kids to the game hoping that maybe THIS would be the game to turn them into lifelong Met fans. Another marketing opportunity wasted by the hometeam.

... Where's the excitement in THAT order, you say? And you'd be right as the team looked lifeless in a 7-3 loss to the Florida Marlins. Sometimes, fans should get their money back when they waste hours of their lives going to a game, and if there ever was a time when that was the case, today was it.

"Otis" Redding's doing nothing to make people forget about Pedro Martinez (or Jon Niese for that matter), giving up 7 runs before the fifth inning was through to drop his record to 0-2. And with Jose Reyes, Carlos Delgado, and Ryan Church still out with injuries, Jerry "Manual" decided to give David Wright, Gary Sheffield, and Luis Castillo the day off.

Nah, we didn't want to win today's game anyway, right Jerry? After all, Sheffield and Wright are the only two hitting and those Saturday games don't mean anything, especially to the fans who may want to actually enjoy a day at the park... don't worry about it.

Jerry: Next time you don't plan on winning, please tell us fans that shelled out some MAJOR money to attend the game beforehand, okay? Thank you very much... I hope this game doesn't come back to haunt us when we lose the division to the Phillies by one game. You know THEY play their real lineup when they matchup against the Nationals.

And on another note: Good luck to Ramon Castro, who was traded last night to the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Lance Broadway. The quick ascent of Omir Santos made Castro (who had fallen way out of favor with Jerry Manuel) expendable. But we'll be sorry to see him go as Castro had a number of memorable clutch hits for the team. Then again, you can't go wrong with a guy named "Broadway" playing in New York.