Chase Utley Owns the Mets

If you're going to be a tough guy, don't fail. If you're going to throw a baseball at another player to prove a point, hit them. This is really true if you're a staff ace type of arm who has a 99 mph fastball and pinpoint control. What i'm getting at is that if Noah Syndergaard and the Mets wanted to prove some kind of point about their manhood against Chase Utley on Saturday night, the least the Mets ace could have done is actually to hit the guy.

Of course, in typical Mets fashion, he failed. On a night they honored their 1986 team, Syndergaard only added to the lore of the Mets, pulling a Shawn Estes and missing his target as he threw at Utley. He got tossed from the game, Utley hit two homers, and the Dodgers beat the crap out of the Mets and sent most of the Citi Field crowd heading for  the LIE and GCP before the game ended. For all of us who hate the Mets, it was a sweet, sweet night. About the only thing that could have made it better would have been if "Crying Jordan" had come out of the "Big Apple" pop-up in centerfield after each Utley homer.

This is just the latest reminder to Mets fans of the obvious- Utley has owned you guys. He's second to only Ryan Howard amongst active players in homers against the Mets. Oh yeah, third is Jimmy Rollins. Obviously he had some good times at your expense back in 2007 and 2008, and he got the last laugh last night. All of that aside, I don't have any problem with Syndergaard trying to send a message to Utley for last year's NLDS slide if that's what he wants to do, but I would suggest in the future that when you try to send a message, you put that fastball squarely into the ribs. Instead what happens is Noah looks like a petty fool, maybe gets suspended (which would be truly awesome, given Utley never sitting a game for the Tejada slide), and has to watch from the clubhouse as Utley terrorizes their sold out crowd. This is certainly no way to stand up to the bully, unless of course part of your plan is to get battered in public.