Great News Mets Fans! Oliver Perez is Going to the Bullpen!

Rest assured Mets fans, we no longer have to endure Oliver Perez starting games for our club – at least in the short-term.

Good news, right? WRONG. SO WRONG. According to Mets Blog, instead of sending Ollie directly to the minors without passing go or collecting any more damn money, Jerry Manuel and crew have decided to move our old friend to the bullpen. If words on a computer screen could literally convey human emotion, these particular missives would be dripping with incredulousness (is that even a word? whatever, I don’t care).

So, let’s review for a moment here. We’re taking a pitcher who is a certifiable headcase at this point in his career…a lefty who loses all semblance of any sort of control at the blink of an eye…a hurler who right now is devoid of any self-confidence and as “fragile” as a professional pitcher of some level of accomplishment can be…one who’s walked 21 and yielded 28 hits in 21.2 innings…who boasts a 9.97 ERA…and putting him in the bullpen?

Sure, this makes total sense. Put a pitcher with zero command who lacks any mental toughness and place them in what could be argued is a more pressure-packed environment (relief pitching) that he’s completely unfamiliar with and just see how it goes? I can’t wait to see Manuel stride to the mound and tap his left arm for Ollie with a few runners on and a lefty at the plate to help get us out of a jam. This should be all sorts of fun…