2009 New York Mets thread

“Of course, we’re going to try to win the division. Of course, we’re going to be the front-runner. Of course, we’re going to be the team to beat."

Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez

My prediction: dude loses his job to Putz by the ASG.

My prediction: .500 @ ASG

NIGGA U HAS TEH PHILLIES IN ALL YOUR DIVISIONS U_U

http://paul265.info/goobers_home.jpg

Even more annoying than a fistpumping Jeter: Mr. Jose Reyes

retitle thread or i quit the board.

really, grow up, asshole.

It would have been a reasonable enough request; I almost didn't do it because you made it an ultimatum.

Shasta's post-breakdown trolling is its own ultimatum.

Could we plz just delete the thread? No other team has one for '09; generally each team has its thread started by a fan.

aside from the yankees.

I hadn't known we had any Stankeefans after johndahlem vanished, since Jimmy the Mod was sneaky about it (and max isn't committed enough).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/sports/baseball/14wilpon.html?em

i wonder if koufax invested with him

Already w/the positive vibes on the 2009 Mets thread.

real thread will come later

And it'll be 100% posi, right Morbs?

i bet there's something wrong with putz. i love the guy, but he wasn't right last year. i sort of think the mariners knew something and that's why they wanted to move him before the start of the season. i bet they figured that his value wasn't going to go up as he played games.

i was thinking that too.

i bet they figured that his value wasn't going to go up as he played games.

I was thinking that their new GM probably understands that it makes no sense to have an all-star closer on a rebuilding team, so might as well trade him and replenish the farm, especially in the wake of the Bedard trade.

that too

oy, design issues.

http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/blog/2009/01/other-inventive-patches-found-in-mets-brainstorming-lab.html

btw, Mets are not offering any ticket packs of less than 15 games to former buyers like myself this year. Not biting for that many; I will probably see fewer Mets games this year than I have since the George Bamberger Era.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/215975/january-15-2009/tip-wag---monkey-on-the-lam

Mets Will Give García Chance to Join Rotation
By TYLER KEPNER
The last two years have been sobering for Freddy García, whose shoulder has kept him from being the premier starter he was for eight seasons. He has bounced to the Philadelphia Phillies and the Detroit Tigers, and now he will try with the Mets.

The Mets agreed to a minor league contract with García, according to a person with knowledge of the deal who was granted anonymity because the move had not been announced. García will have a chance to compete for a spot in the rotation.

García, 33, will go to spring training with more career victories than the Mets’ ace, Johan Santana, but also with significant physical questions. In 14 starts over the last two seasons, he is 2-6 with a 5.55 earned run average.

García was among the top starters in the American League from 1999 through 2006. In that eight-year span, he ranked first in the A.L. in innings pitched, with 1,643 2/3, and second to Mike Mussina in victories, with 116.

García also starred in the postseason, with a 6-2 record and 3.16 E.R.A., including two victories for Seattle in the 2000 A.L. Championship Series. He also won the decisive game of the 2005 World Series for the Chicago White Sox.

But García has not been the same since the White Sox traded him to the Phillies for Gavin Floyd before the 2007 season. García made 11 starts before labrum surgery that August. He was out of the majors for more than a year and made three starts for Detroit last September.

García was 1-1 with a 4.20 E.R.A. for the Tigers, going five innings in each of his starts, and, in November, he was shut down with shoulder soreness while pitching in Venezuela. That problem was said to be muscular, not structural, and the Mets, the Yankees and others were interested in signing him.

The Mets remain hopeful of signing a prominent free agent.

The Mets’ top choice is to retain Oliver Pérez, 27, who could command a four-year deal. Their fallback options include Randy Wolf or Ben Sheets, whose injury history has made teams wary.

Jeff Wilpon, the Mets’ chief operating officer, told Bloomberg News on Thursday that General Manager Omar Minaya had payroll flexibility to add another starter. Wilpon also said Minaya had not approached him about Manny Ramírez, the premier position player still available in free agency.

“I know the perception out there again is that ownership said no,” Wilpon said. “I don’t have the opportunity to say no because Omar hasn’t brought it to me as an option. Omar and the baseball staff aren’t interested.”

Will Manny and Perez sign with anyone before spring training?

Ollie yeah.

Mets-associated people who invested with Bernie Madoff:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbn_koufax_madoff_mets

And Sandy Koufax too!

called it

2009 New York Mets thread

Jack (NJ): Do you believe that the Wilpon's involvement in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme could possibly have cost the Mets Manny Ramierez?

Steven Goldman: Yes. That's not based on any inside info as much as the kind of chatter I'm hearing from the chattering classes.

and further, Perrotto:

The Mets are trying to trade reserve catcher Ramon Castro; they feel Robinson Cancel would be a more cost-effective backup for Brian Schneider.

:O

this will not end well

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/02/14/mets.reyes.leadoff.ap/

New York Mets manager Jerry Manuel is pondering the idea of dropping his speedy shortstop from the leadoff spot, one of several tweaks that could be on tap for a team coming off consecutive September collapses.

Luis Castillo might get a shot at the top of the lineup, perhaps with Carlos Beltran batting second and Reyes No. 3. Reyes could also be handed more leadership responsibilities on defense, such as aligning other infielders and visiting the mound.

"This is not about statistical success. This is about winning as a team, and you have to put people in positions that you feel is best to win as a team," Manuel said during a 40-minute news conference.

yeah, i'm on record in thinking Manuel might be an idiot. and SS, I really really wish you would beat up equally on some other big-payroll teams this year.

as for Livan, he's Plan G, or N.

also Castillo has about as much chance lasting as Mets' leadoff hitter as i do.

Jay Jaffe: "Freddy Garcia is the best bet in the Mets' fifth-starter derby, a field crowded by this weekend's signing of Livan Hernandez, whose greatest talent is showing up for work."

truth bomb

I'm really kind of hoping Castillo has a bad spring.

http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/02/jerry_manuel_testing_my_patien.html

A+ headline

No player on the New York Mets was booed more than Shea Stadium fans than second baseman Luis Castillo last year. This season, Castillo has every intention of making amends for his worst season as a big leaguer.

Castillo and his agents visited Omar Minaya's office after last season, to express remorse for the second baseman's subpar performance in the first season of a four-year, $25 million deal. And to request not to be traded.

Castillo then went to work in the Dominican Republic this winter, traveling 70 minutes each way to the Mets' academy for 4½-hour workouts with former major-leaguer Rafael Landestoy. The result: a slimmer Castillo reported to camp weighing in at 193 pounds, down from the 210 of last spring training.

Newsday points out today that last year Manuel freq said something, then did the opposite.

Mets-Red Sox exhib games just went onsale. Thought I'd see if Saturday "$6" tix were available, but no luck yet accessing.

got in for April 4, could only nab two tho.

wait it's still called Citi Field? LOL

back in yr gopher hole (3B in Bronx)

Perrotto:

The Mets are emerging as the team most likely to sign left-handed reliever Will Ohman, and they're considering releasing right-handed reliever Duaner Sanchez, whose velocity has never returned since injuring his shoulder in a taxi accident during the 2006 season.

they're showing game 5 of the 99 NLCS on espn classic rn

Duaner is released

oof

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stupid bitch!

smart dude! if he had wyled out on her it would have been youtube shameful.
also, why is marge schott going to grapefruit league games?

Redding to miss Opening Day roster

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/news/story?id=3979989

lol @ lenny dykstra

http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_8558

he's not a 2009 Met, k

let's not get caught up in minor technicalities here

Boy, you change a thread title for a guy and he goes all Dykstra on you.

No roids for me, thx

what a bizzare story. he sounds like a few pre-collapse look-what-kind-of-car/watch-i-have type pricks i know (knew?).

Schneider, strained calf (yay, Ramon stays?):

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/news/story?id=3996027

Ryan (DSM): Sidney Ponson...... No questions, just disbelief.

SportsNation Keith Law: (1:22 PM ET ) Livan Hernandez is probably going to be the fifth starter for a team with delusions of playoff grandeur. FTW.

I didn't even realize the Citi opener is now slated as a night game...

http://www.metspolice.com/2009/03/mets-fans-unite-to-get-opening-night.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/metsgrrl/sets/72157615727996872/

roster set -- Evans down to AAA when Livan comes off DL.

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/team/roster_active.jsp?c_id=nym

btw looks like Castillo is batting 8th, not leadoff, so never listen to Jerry Manuel.

so Wright lobbied Sheffield to sign! He can sleep alone this week.

Ollie Perez final tune up:

NY METS
O Perez (Loss)
IP: 2/3
H: 2
BB: 4
K: 0
Runs Allowed: 6 (2 on bases loaded walks, the others on a subsequent grand slam removing him from the game)

yeah, I was there. It's still an exhibition game. You gonna troll all year again?

how did Cole Hamels' final tuneup go?

you guys get a room already

seriously.

imagine if Higgins and i behaved like this?

actually an AL east basement beef would be pretty awesome.
i'm going to go talk shit on the O's thread right now.

how did Cole Hamels' final tuneup go?

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, April 5, 2009 7:05 PM (Yesterday)

glad you asked Dr. Morbseuss:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/boxscore.jsp?gid=2009_04_04_tbamlb_phimlb_1

see he gave up 6 runs but at least World Series MVP Hamels had the decency to spread them out over 5 innings. Also, he struck out some dudes and didn't walk in a bunch of runs... so there's that.

so i mean, when people post on the phillies thread no less than three times about Cole Hamels' health when $12M/yr. Ollie Perez turns in a triple digit ERA , is it not fair to counter with a "juss sayin" factoid?

just let me know guys. mets fans are like rush limbaugh levels of "fair and balanced" for the record.

ha ha - you are aware of the reputation philly fans in general have, right?!

mixed feelings = getting downsized from your job on Opening Day :/

Real sorry to hear that, Morbs.

argh, sorry morbs

that's some crappy news dude.

shit dude damn

glad I didn't buy a 15-game pack!

PRODUCTIVE OUT for Murphy

Is this really what K-Rod looks like now?

http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/v/mlb/players_l/20090403/7029.jpg

Dr. Morbseuss,

4/24-4/29. I assume you'd want to see the Nats (better chance of a Mets win)?

http://www.ricesigns.com/real_pictures/bump_signs.jpg

if somebody else is BUYIN'?! (for the jobless)

LIVAN 6.2 IP (longest start for a Met yet), 2 R, W

CASTILLO .357 BA, .438 OBP

wait a sec, SS, I already have tix for Mon night the 25th. You can have one if you're coming. (and you don't tr*ll)

actually, scratch that -- i have MAY 25th, so it's up to you...

man kiner looks so old. dude is still awesome tho

yeah, Ralph is finally looking all of 86, or like Little Big Man.

Pads are really gettin some cheap RF HRs and bloops tonight.

K Hernandez bringin the Blazing Saddles refs for Headley

Steve Phillips said that when he was GM, he heard Bernie Madoff's name at least once a week.

"not even bernie madoff would give that size contract to [fill in the blank]"

Gary Sheffield in the on-deck circle!

Wasn't that his second plate appearance this year?

Heh.

yeah he K'd on Sunday

LOTS OF BASEBALL LEFT

arrrgh

wright!

BAAAAAAAAAAABBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ugh corner OFs

Ryan Church pulled a Murphy out there.

Christ, the love affair between announcers and David Eckstein continues.

He tries so hard! Come on!

Duaner Sanchez looked pretty good.

fu Heath Bell

Bloomberg got a ball! he'll hold it w/out charges for 72 hours.

bloomberg didn't have to catch it either. it just kind of rolled to him. these things happen when you are rich.

Mets paid attendance was 62% of capacity last night! empty seats behind home looked like D.C.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3551/3434886899_4afeff6d76_o.jpg

u in?

nice

who's selling it?

Cheapest available Saturday tix to see Johan Saturday on team site: $79

No Mas will be, i think...

http://www.nomas-nyc.com/scorecard/2009/04/im-calling-it-shea.html

it's on their Store page -- $25!!

is that a "!!" of "NIGGA I AINT GOT NO JOB" or "!!' of "RIGHT ON"

#1

forearm tendinitis for Pelfrey, btw

i guess it's good that there is some explanation for pelfrey?

kid in a Mets jersey in the $200 seats cost em a run picking up a leftfield-line double last night. get one death penalty

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/jezebel/2009/04/juliamets041709.jpg

morbs, i'm willing to take the train to Flushing for any day game and just see what happens with a $20 bill.

When did the Mets sign Julia Stiles? Bet she plays a better LF than Sheffield does now.

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Met_article_large.article_large.jpg

Mr. Met Having Trouble Sleeping In New Home

no mas is hipster as fuck but i've had this shirt for 4 years now:

http://us.st12.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-17662218345253_2050_5476971
but in pink

now i remember in 2005 or 2006 i saw dontrelle willis pitch at shea and i had that on
got a bunch of high fives and a lot of quizzical stares

so the hi 5s were other Yankee fans?

SS, you get here next Friday? I might be in CT w/ yhe family for a day or two.

new archbishop being interviewed on SNY; he's a born Cardinal fan yet not a CARDINAL.

what's with Livan being good twice in a row?

TO A POINT, OF COURSE ... JERRY

SHEFF 400TH ties it!

that is, 500th

lmao

this has to be such an infuriating team to root for

what happened? a double play from third to home? watching hockey here

really weird play

beltran tagged from second to third on a fly ball to right, ankiel threw it to third and when thurston went to swipe the tag the ball flew out of his glove as he did it and it rolled out to the pitcher's mound. motte was behind third so thurston had to run up to get it because beltran was running home and he threw beltran out at home because beltran didn't slide

i guess ludwick threw it not ankiel

then we got another classic episode of The Adventures of Daniel Murphy

http://mandatorymustache.blogspot.com/

<<<<<<will be at game tonight ^_^

i had no idea Casey Fossum was a Met!

lol i texted almost that same thing last night

Have fun with that.

couldn't be less fun than watching Johnny Maine walk the game away

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Arb2aiKdNYZcMgRbAb3i2QY5nYcB?slug=jp-santanahandshake042309&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

lolivan

does any other team in mlb have a bigger disparity between young stars and old ass worthless fux than the mets?

reyes, wright, k rod, johan vs sheff, lolivan, cora (srsly what the hell)

it's really too bad they ditched pedro come to think of it

why not hate Julio Franco while yr so full of venom

lolpologist.

At 6-9, the Mets have a worse record than the Knicks (7-8) did through their first 15 games and only marginally better starting pitching.

during the game yesterday someone from the cards hit the ball to left field and immediately i decided it was going to be an out and then it just dropped into left and i said "what the hell?" and then sheff jogged into the screen

altho dude did look kind of fast trying to run out the DP that he hit into

dude, Cora is just the backup 2B

wow, Nats were a joke in the field today.

also, Citi beer vendors serving acne-ridden loudmouth teens in row behind us.

perez to Triple-A???

Fossum DFA'd

CAN YA FUCKIN RELEASE SHEFFIELD ALREADY

morbsy what was the nature of the error

not being Ryan Church

or Murphy, as the case may be. who they seem to be doing pretty well w/o.

SHUT

UP

single-game tix for June thru end of season on sale Sunday

gonna get the swine flu at the pitching duel tomorrow

we can only hope

so what is the deal w/ollie perez anyway? injured? mechanics out of whack? karmic payback of some kind?

he is not a good pitcher.

he was, the 2nd half of '08.

yes. and cliff lee was good in'08 too somehow.

cliff lee's last 3 starts were vv quality. i might not lump him in with the jose lima/esteban loaiza/bill swift crowd just yet though he could end up there.

+carmona

^^^

i'd have more faith in Carmona turning it around than Lee, tbh.

the mets have tripled in 10 straight games, 9 different players.

i bet there's something wrong with putz. i love the guy, but he wasn't right last year. i sort of think the mariners knew something and that's why they wanted to move him before the start of the season. i bet they figured that his value wasn't going to go up as he played games.

― alpha ville (jergins), Monday, 15 December 2008 17:52

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/putz-looks-hurts/

sean green as part of that deal looks pretty sh1tty now too

NEVER TOO EARLY TO PANIC

I saw the 8th & 9th inning rallies fizzle on the monitors in SNY Plaza in midtown, with other unamused onlookers.

that pinch hit choice was really bizarre

was it? Cohen mentioned speed for an error/infield hit as a factor.

really j crunch, if you're gonna bury Green after 11.2 IP you should go to a game with gabbneb.

yeah idk, i mean i guess santos is faster than castro but fast enough to get an infield hit? plus castro had 2 or 3 hits already? also a rookie in a pressure situation. all told i'm sure they had a relatively equal chance of getting a hit, but it was weird that it seemed like manuel was completely unprepared for the possibility of castro coming up w/ bases loaded

morbs i hope putz/green turn it around as much as you do but im sure you watched his outing yesterday, dude did not look good out there

yes, the delay in getting Santos up was weird.

no, I don't watch every game. I do take the Fangraphs take on JJ seriously.

putz will be fine - today he threw a ball on 3-2 to cantu and one to hermida on 3-2 after he had fouled off a few pitches and then ross knew he was getting a fastball and he got one that was up around the letters. was kind of a flukey inning and if he had thrown a few more strikes it would've been alright.

green was grooving pitches otoh

santos might be a rookie in a pressure sitch, but he has some cause for confidence, no? supposedly his hitting got noticed in spring training, while castro was sub-200 before today. has green looked good in any game thus far?

if you're gonna go to a game with gabbneb, you better be prepared to see a Tatis homer and a tight loss spend most of your time eating. i like el verano's tomatillo-chipotle, carnitas and mole, and catch of the day's ginger limeade (though i'm guessing that the blue moon on offer - or a hoegaarden, eg, from the meyerland beer island - might pair better with the lobster roll, and imagine el verano's brooklyn 'sabrosa' is nice (but no brooklyn pilsner in the ballpark? boo)). of course i also like carvel chocolate with rainbow sprinkles, so ymmv XD. place is awesome, at least when it's below capacity.

dr morbius hangs out in midtown.

oh and i got the mexican bird swine flu or whatever

just got back from UES, what did i miss?

it's been a gr8 visit

“I think Santos has a little shorter swing,” Manuel said later, explaining why he pinch-hit one right-handed hitter for another, catcher Ramon Castro, who had gone 2 for 4. “And when you have a little shorter swing, it’s easier to get to a guy that’s throwing in the upper 90s. If it had been, let’s say, a sinker-slider guy, then Ramon would have continued to hit.”

FIX DAVID WRIGHT

sacrifice flies are usu the only productive outs.

didn't know Chan Ho was the 2 grandslams in 1 inning pitcher for Tatis -- wait, it was the SAME pitcher???

Keith thinks Wright was still bailing a bit on RBI double

Another bad start for Ollie.

feel bad for him - he has a dope beard

nah, fuck that punk imo

yo murph/castro back2back!

that's what happens when you try to get more than 5 innings out of gramps

i liked citi field. good times for $11 on tuesday night.

throw a strike

so many things wrong with this team

yeah, but they're in THE NATIONAL LEAGUE so no biggie

ha its funny cuz its true. theyll be ok

in the best division in baseball, save the nats

u mad, not even the best East

4realz

way deeper than the AL

marlins, phils, mets are all better than the yanks, the rays don't look too good, and i mean... i guess the jays but

braves are certainly better than whoever is 4th best in the nl east

The Marlins are currently (on the second day of May) one game better at beating NL teams than the Yankees are at beating AL teams, but, uh...

yall have been brainwashed by espn

Praising their sharp analysts is a custom here, yes.

btw, winning percentages of opponents so far

marlins: .459
yankees: .447

btw obv im projecting but the yanks look a mess 2 me

silliness rampant here

AL East is far and away the best league in MLB.

Tried to figure out the best way to display this quickly and dirtily, took the average rank by division of the BP Power Rankings (3rd order W/L, Adjusted EQR/EQRA, etc.):

AL East = 10.0
NL East = 15.8
AL Central = 16.7
NL Central = 17.4
AL West = 18.0
NL West = 18.8

NL East is the 2nd best league in MLB, but the distance from #2 to #6 is much closer than #1 to #2.

better still than the marlins is the pirates, tbh. they swept the marlins, who are better than the yankees.

the pirates are good, ppl are sleeping

some good hitters on that team, they're gonna be pesky

maybe this thread needs riot police ; )

^_^

eduardo perez's bbtn analysis of ollie perez was so idiotic

i lol'd at $36M walking Jamie Moyer on 4 pitches.

that's nice. did u bring yr lordly fan-of-no-teambutt to Shitty Field?

Going to Citi on Wednesday. Appreciate any info on things to do before the game or good seat advice.

per the CSTB report, do a self-upgrade if your seat is not to yr satisfaction.

things to do before the game - eat too much in meyerland; check out the view from various angles and levels (excelsior), including outside views of the auto shops (up by the pepsi porch) and the water
seat advice - buy the cheapest one you can find, then grab a standing spot behind an unobstructed-view field level rail

plz don't do that to me this early in the season.

send Delgado down already, god

^today I may quit ILBB^

you don't see many games reach the 7th-inning stretch w/ 3 hits by both teams.

u dont often see delgado score from 1st on an infield hit (thanks feliz y worth)

Citi > nu Yanqui

Had a great time in Flushing. The LA dude in me resulted in me leaving early to avoid subway anarchy. Was also with a non sports fan if we're making more excuses...

leaving a 1-0 game early with K-Rod coming in... I hope the Dodgers get smacked outta the playoffs 3-0 this year.

u worse than gabbneb

Are Manuel's benchings of Murphy as random as they seem, or is there some logic behind it?

He has sit a couple times this season against lefties, but .391/.429/.696 in 29 career PAs does not scream NECESSARY STRICT PLATOON.

Can somebody please put Ralph Kiner out of his misery?

Howard Stern producer Gary “Bababooey” Dell’Abate threw out the ceremonial first pitch as the host of Autism Awareness Day. He didn’t get the ball close to the plate

no, he didn't, as I could see even from Sec 537.

what was wrong w/ Kiner? he's been OK the last few times I heard him; just old.

Pirates looked as bad in the field vs Mets as the Nats did 2 Saturdays ago, and I didn't think that was possible.

btw, first place.

Pelfrey is 4-0; over 28 innings: 14 BB, 6 K.

6 runs, 1 earned

how many games have been submarined by their defense this year?

you know, as some seamheads have pointed out, letting the pitchers off scotfree for allowing unearned runs to score makes no sense. This is a flaw of ERA, even when "adjusted."

who the hell are these guys?

buy a scorecard

wow @ steve somers in the booth. guy almost looks more haggard than kiner

well, Sheffield aint a leftfielder either

and now, his monthly homer

Somehow you've made it sound like you're sorry he hit it.

.178/.351/.333 does look about right.

man, there's been bad baserunning in this series

helluva curve to end the game there.

if you're gonna go to a game with gabbneb, you better be prepared to see a Tatis homer and a tight loss

what'd i tell you?

fun day at the stadium anyway. lotsa kiddies in my section.

Brian Wilson just wasn't made for these times

morbs, come on, troll Steve Shasta a little. he deserves it and this is your moment.

at 11 out of 13, I'm obv too classy for that.

Excited to see Tim Redding bring it tonight at Dodger Stadium.

"bringin it"

OK, Tatis can't play first. NEXT.

Alex Cora DL'd w/ torn ligament. Ramon Martinez is back. :o

OK, Tatis can't play first

hey neither can Delgado

loving the Valenzuela love on SNY

hey Cohen, Koufax had a helluva pitcher's park to throw in. Pedro was just as great, at least.

lol ryan church

lol other mets outfielders

vin scully: 'if you're old enough to remember the 1962 mets, this game will revive your memories'

wowowowowowowowowow

Church misses 3rd! Pagan drops the ball! It's Marv Throneberry all over again.

maybe sheffield can play left and tatis can play first again now?

Tatis did start at first today until late inning hijinx ensued.

And he also made a shitty throw to home in the first.

fortunately fell asleep by 11th.

ban gabbneb, obv

thanx for the info, xp

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?mid=200905194624777&c_id=nym

Vin Scully laughing at you is some advanced shit.

yeah well... he still did the NBC call of the Buckner play!

no HRs on the roadtrip yet.

Newsday via CSTB:

A resident of Liberty became ill last Wednesday, three days after attending a Mets game at Citi Field on Mother’s Day, said Sullivan County manager David Fanslau. The unidentified victim became the county’s first confirmed victim of the H1N1 virus Monday afternoon, he said.

Because the woman’s trip to the game was her only known foray out of Sullivan County lately, Fanslau said, local officials officials suspect there may be a link.

Another woman from the county has a probable case of swine flu, Fanslau said. She showed flu-like symptoms over the weekend, Fanslau said. Sullivan officials believe she contracted the illness from the first woman, he said.

“Obviously, we don’t know for a fact, but it’s the first case we have in Sullivan County and we talked to her and the only travel she made was to New York City for the Mets game,” Fanslau said.

i blame Jackie Robinson

Murphy playing like Keith Hernandez at first tonight

he's got a 'stache?

playing, you dumb dumb fuck

:(

http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2009/05/first-baseman-mets-need-a-shortstop.html

you dumb dumb fuck

http://www.objects-of-design.co.uk/UploadImages/ProductImages/LargeImages/Letter-U-260.jpg http://www.studio3d.com/images/Mad101.jpg

http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/archives/2009/05/3_up_met_trade.html

3. This might make you laugh, but Carroll is actually one of Minaya's under-the-radar favorite players.

Good fucking lord.

hey, Sheffield can actually play LF (at least in Fenway).

Nice

Omir shuts up the frat boy

"that Calvin Schiraldi look in his eyes"

k, why no K-Rod??

I think I heard something about neck stiffness.

i have that too!

WHATTA 9TH

LOOOOL at Papelbon screaming out of the dugout after the force play.

I really dislike that fatass

those are harsh words for a guy who hit a game winning hr

Associated Press

BOSTON -- New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez was back with the club on Sunday and feeling better after being hospitalized for back spasms following Saturday night's game.

Mets manager Jerry Manuel was unsure when Rodriguez would be available, but expects shortstop Jose Reyes to play Monday at home against the Nationals. Reyes has been sidelined with tendinitis in his right calf.

Manuel said after Saturday night's game that Rodriguez couldn't walk following batting practice. The right-hander said "his legs locked up," prompting medical personnel to take him to an ambulance on a stretcher.

"That was scary," Rodriguez said on Sunday, talking to the media with his back wrapped while the Mets took batting practice before their game against the Red Sox. "I've never felt anything like that.

"They gave me some medicine and it feels better."

16 WALKS does not make the hours fly.

amd tonight is Fernando Martinez Night. Reyes & Church DL'd, Belytran day-to-day on a cortisone shot. :p

(also Wilaon Valdez acquired from CLE)

bring back jose valentin

Sheffield and Livan making the smart folks look foolish!

carlos got away with one there

Sheffield runs into a win!

CAN YA FUCKIN RELEASE SHEFFIELD ALREADY

― Dr Morbius

omir picked up david wright tonight

I'm not right all the time, you know, it just seems like it

The New York Mets have traded backup catcher Ramon Castro(notes) and cash to the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Lance Broadway(notes).

Castro hit .253 with three homers and 13 RBIs in 26 games this season with New York. Castro was made expendable by the play of rookie Omir Santos(notes), who drove in both runs in the Mets’ 2-1 victory over the Florida Marlins in 11 innings on Friday night.

Broadway is 0-1 with a 5.06 ERA in eight games with the White Sox this season. Mets general manager Omar Minaya says he will be assigned to Triple-A Buffalo and work as a starter.

!!

lol @ Lance Broadway

lol @ jj putz

yeah, heilputz can go suck it, jergins called that he was damaged goods

they're gonna deal him apparently?

can a mod change the thread title to lol @ __, mets baseball 2009!

can fans of sub-.500 teams plz to shut the motherfuck up?

(also teams whose regulars aren't on the DL)

i feel bad for johan

xp morbs who does this leave???

u mean AFTER Ramon Martinez's dislocated thumb?

hopefully Beltran is done puking today

or maybe not:

Mets facing swine flu scare
An SNY employee who travels with the Mets has been stricken by an unidentified strain of the flu, prompting concerns about swine flu in a clubhouse that has had two players come down with a stomach virus in the past several days. The Mets would not identify the person, but a source close to the situation said it is a member of the network's technical staff. The employee has been isolated from the team since coming down with the flu Monday, and -- as with everyone who has the flu these days -- is being tested for swine flu. However, it could take up to a week before test results reveal whether it is swine flu. In the meantime, the Mets are taking every precaution possible.
(Newark Star-Ledger)

But I read that Beltran and Maine have been tested and don't have swiney.

Beltran and Maine are dead, morbs

thank you, Dr McCoy

j.j. putz is certainly dead

Beltran w/ a double right outta sickbed

My prediction: dude loses his job to Putz by the ASG.

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:58 PM Bookmark

yah that was not really a smart prediction

consistent with history

umps are having a rough game

Pirate pitching gonna make a game of this

ladies and gentleman... mr j.j. putz!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Broom_icon.svg/400px-Broom_icon.svg.png

I think you should boycott that image.

Putz just tryin to help Bucs to that first .500 season since B&B Era.

When did ESPN add OBP to their box scores?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=290604123

Today?

yahoo added whip sometime last week

YES has had it for a couple of years now which is nice

The New York Mets have traded backup catcher Ramon Castro(notes) and cash to the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Lance Broadway(notes).

― L. Ron Huppert (velko), Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:17 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

dude sounds like Sam Champion's next love interest. definitely doesn't sound like he's from Venezuela. i bet he has a square jaw.

weird espn also added a #P category

altho i guess its interesting that pujols went 2-4 only seeing 7 pitches while carl crawford went 2-4 (with 1 bb) seeing 26 pitches

Putz admits to feeling sharp pain in his right elbow. Worse:

Reyes Tears Tendon in Right Hamstring
By Ben Shpigel, NY Times

PITTSBURGH — An M.R.I. exam in New York revealed a “small” tear in Jose Reyes’s right hamstring tendon — a new injury, not a re-aggravation of the calf problems that have kept him out of the lineup for most of the last three weeks. He is scheduled to rest for two days before resuming treatment, but then what?

Will he be out for another week? Two more weeks? A month? More? The Mets did not offer a timetable, but two to three weeks is a conservative estimate. Even though this tear is new, apparently sustained Wednesday morning during his second at-bat in an extended spring training game, the problem is old.

snakebit

My prediction: dude loses his job to Putz by the ASG.

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:58 PM

prognostication: tougher than wakeboarding

and just to be clear, he didn't mean Jimmy Fallon wd lose his job to Putz

yay, Putz out 8-10 weeks. Maybe Billy Wagner will have his job by Labor Day.

not a whole lotta laughing at LOLivan these days, eh?

as for Livan, he's Plan G, or N.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:14 (3 months ago)

Johan gives up 4 bombs for only 2nd time in career (I'm guessing he didn't win the first time)

LOBs gonna get ya

I had a bad feeling after Werth's "Swoboda" catch

that lineup facing redding tomorrow should lead to ugliness

oh YEAH?

Mike Pelfrey
2-3
1 RBI

redding not ugly :-D

still, I'm glad I went to an off-Broadway show.

NEED REYES AND A FIRST BASEMAN

yall can make it to the point where delgado gets back

tbh the mets should just buy russell branyan from the mariners

Delgado assumed gone for the year

oh i had no idea - i thought it was like... a month and a half more :-/

tbh the mets should just buy russell branyan from the mariners

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:56 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

fleeced them for jj, why not round two?

John Maine placed on the disabled list Thursday with fatigue in his right shoulder

dag, so who is pitchin saturday

yeah Raul Ibanez definitely doesnt belong on the all star team LOL

no, i said he doesn't deserve to START based on one freakish (no doubt PED-enhanced) third of a season.

http://deadspin.com/5288255/mets-fans-are-a-bunch-of-decrepit-old-dudes-poll-finds

Over all, the Yankees have more fans than the Mets citywide by a 9-point margin, with 34 percent of New Yorkers in the city supporting the Yankees, 25 percent favoring the Mets, 34 percent saying they do not have an allegiance to either team, and 6 percent considering themselves fans of both teams.

Demographically, the poll found some differences between Mets and Yankees fans. Women are more likely than men to say they do not support either New York team, but over all, women who are fans are significantly less likely than men to back the Mets.

City baseball fans under the age of 45 favor the Yankees over the Mets by a 2 to 1 margin, but those 45 years of age and older are evenly divided in their support.

ok my mistake morbs i thought you were taking his inevitable second half regression into account

actually i will just flat out confess i was trying to bait you into a freakout so i could post this image i made yesterday:

http://i44.tinypic.com/dxjnr8.jpg

(plase bookmark for future use)

no breakdown by borough = fail

no, i said he doesn't deserve to START based on one freakish (no doubt PED-enhanced) third of a season.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, June 12, 2009 8:47 AM (2 hours ago)

come now, morbs

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/06/10/whats-eating-raul/

mostly kidding there.

Livan is good for maybe 5 innings before things unravel.

ok where the fuck did Switzer come from?

i guess i missed the callup when Maine was DL'd. I wish he had.

SNY broadcast crew getting mad sardonic about home run wind lift and steak sandwiches like Pat Kiernan and shit

lolomg :O :O :O :O :O

Luis Casteeya

TO THE BAR

well, Phils lose....

Wright now hitting .364.

clutch-rod

the fact that he bothered running to first upped his CLORP like a quarter point

June 13, 2009
Francisco Rodriguez ripped by Yankees reliever

That didn't take long. Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has been in New York for little more than two months, and already he has been ripped for the theatrics that accompany his saves, theatrics more than familiar to Angels fans.

Rodriguez blew his first save of the season on Friday, but only because Mets second baseman Luis Castillo dropped a pop fly. Rodriguez got no sympathy from a fellow reliever, Brian Bruney of the New York Yankees. Here's what Bruney said to the Hunterdon County (N.J) Democrat today , while on a rehabilitation assignment at double-A Trenton:

"Couldn't have happened to a better guy on the mound, either. He's got a tired act. I think that's bad, but two years ago, when he lost the game ... He was in Oakland and he was pitching for Anaheim, didn't get a call, and so he was, like, complaining. The catcher threw it back and ... (it) hit off his glove and bounced behind and the guy from third scored and they won the game.

"He gets what he deserves, man. I just don't like watching the guy pitch. I think it's embarrassing."

The game to which Bruney referred, since known to Oakland fans as the Rodriguez "sulk-off," took place on Aug. 11, 2005.

Rodriguez had this response to Bruney, according to the Westchester (N.Y.) Journal News: "I don't even know who that guy is."

owned

ASS = BRUNED

He actually said quite a bit more:

"Instead of sending a message in the paper, next time when he sees me at Citi Field, come up to me and say it. Don't be sending a message to the media. I don't even know who that guy is, somewhere in Double-A and not even pitching one full season.

"He's always been on the DL, that's all I really know right now. He'd better keep his mouth shut and do his job, and not worry about somebody else. If it was somebody big, I might pay attention to it. But somebody like that? It doesn't bother me.

"If somebody comes out with that, somebody big like Mariano [Rivera], somebody who has been around and is good at what he does, I would respect that. But for some guy that I don't even know who it is, that hasn't even played a full year in the big leagues, that's always been hurt? It doesn't bother me."

fucking awful checkswing K call there on Cora

NEW YORK -- The Subway Series is getting awfully testy.

Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez shouted at Yankees reliever Brian Bruney during batting practice Sunday and the two were separated by teammates. That came one day after they exchanged barbs through the media.

In video footage on YES Network, an angry Rodriguez could be seen pointing at Bruney from a few feet away before Yankees reliever Jose Veras stepped between them in left field.

Bruney held his ground and appeared to say little, if anything. Mets pitcher Mike Pelfrey got in front of Rodriguez and escorted him away.

Bruney criticized Rodriguez on Saturday, calling the closer's exuberant celebrations on the mound a "tired act." Rodriguez said Bruney "better keep his mouth shut."

both dudes pretty much otm though. k-rod does come off a tiresome prick; brian bruney should probably stfu

david wright: singles hitter

yes, Citi Field has made him into Rod Carew :p

he's slugging .529, 4 pts under career, smartypants

ha yeah mostly due to just getting SO MANY hits

lol what was that

i think this goes for k-rod, paps, etc - i think closers have the license to be overly celebratory because they have won the game in a tight situation. it's different with a starter like joba celebrating in like the second inning

the mets are messed up right now - sheffield has like saved the team it sounds like

also it's june xp

holy shit almost a triple play

i was just going to post the AP story.

i think he knows who he is.

as much as i love to see the mets lose, it kinda sucks that today's game didn't provide for a k-rod appearance

Ump obv just wants to go home

i'm going to miss keith hernandez and co.'s passive aggressiveness in the booth for this one way rivalry:

oh, the ump's brother is a pitcher. so he's a pitcher's ump.
mark teixeira is a machine on the field. and a robot with the media.

i don't think that last line was intended as a dis!

david wright: singles hitter

― my god, it's full of straws! (k3vin k.), Sunday, June 14, 2009 6:21 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

He's on track for a career-high 50 doubles, and I expect the HRs to go up even with $iti.

wouldnt "¢iti" make more sense

countdown to panic trade 5....4....3....

'twasn't pretty

GODDAMMIT CASTILLO STOP BLOWING SAVES

man, they're gonna start this game and get 3-4 innings in...

Ken Belson, NYT:

Perhaps it’s the opposition, perhaps it’s the economy, perhaps it’s the Mets mediocre record. Whatever the reason, the Mets are discounting tickets to their upcoming home games.

Select tickets for the three games against the Tampa Bay Rays are going for half off, while tickets for the four-game set against the St. Louis Cardinals, who will play at Citi Field starting Monday, are being discounted by one-third.

Baseline box seats that cost $90 this weekend can be had for $45. Metropolitan box seats that have a $180 price tag can be bought for $90. Tickets are cheaper for the games against the Cardinals because they are “bronze” games instead of the “gold” games being played this weekend.

6 TB outs to an officisl game

man this tim redding dude is one terrifying short-armer.

between him and ryan franklin the two worst beards in baseball are in one stadium

santos is like one of the 3 redeemable players on this team

J0rdan S. who is your team?

Was at the game with my cousin the Cardinal fan. yay Pujols DP ending the 8th.

Got there by 4pm, made circuit of the Shea base markers in the parking lot.

J0rdan S. who is your team?

― mookieproof, Monday, June 22, 2009 9:21 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

mahlins

hey morbs

ive heard two diff visiting announcing teams talk about how the atmosphere at citi is drastically worse than at old shea and i was wondering if it's true or not? are the "real" fans being priced out or is the thing just too cavernous or what?

meh, I dunno. My last 2 visits were in the first row of the upper deck near home, and the main problem was people going up and down the stairs near my sightline during the game. Plus the Wave. Same shit everywhere, right?

I don't know how it's "cavernous." The seats are closer to the field and there's more room on the concourses.

oh yeah, Beltran to the DL. fuck fuck fuck

Fernando Martinez back up, Takahashi and Wilson Valdez down; for the bullpen, Elmer Dessens (OMG) and Pat Misch up.

Elmer Dessens (OMG)

dude holy shit

what a disaster for Flushing, NY

My prediction: .500 @ ASG

― Every Day Jimmy Mod Is Hustlin' (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, December 14, 2008

lookin good at this point tbh

yeah, I think The Troll wasn't expecting half the fucking team to be on the DL tbh. It's a miracle they're where they are.

oops, that wasn't SS, just a Yankee fan!

Yankees, Mets..... what's the difference?

about $70 mil

lol

anybody watching the SNY broadcast of this game? they show an aerial view of the defense and one of the announcers says "playing him pretty much straight away, no?" when clearly everyone on the field has shifted drastically for a pull

i <3 this nieve fellow

"playing him pretty much straight away, no?"

didn't see the game, sounds like Keith

tomorrow's game could be over in like 90 min.

hope not, I paid about twice what I wanted to for my ticket...

fernandomania

it actually is kind of amazin' what the mets are getting out of people like livan and various other pieces of crap

it's also amazin' that they have to resort to them, tho

just came up on shuffle

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/875/xman.jpg

callalldestroyer (who is a very pleasant fella) and I saw catcher's interference and a 6-5 force in consecutive innings. Also 4 Cardinal pitchers in the 8th inning (Mets didn't score).

glad that "Meet the Mets" is the new 8th-inning singalong, but just since Monday they dropped the bridge:

Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the streets,
Where did they go? To MEET THE METS!
Oh, they're hollerin' and cheerin' and they're jumpin' in their seats,
Where did they go? To MEET THE METS!
All the fans are true to the orange and blue,
So hurry up and come on down -
'cause we've got ourselves a ball club,
The Mets of New York town!

well, i guess that could have been worse

bad nuff

David wright: strikes out against chien-ming wang

k-rod walking mariano is up there with castillo's dropped ball.

(walking mariano with the bases loaded)

this mets lineup couldn't have gotten 2 runs off of rivera if they had 9 outs

lolll @ bb-rod

glad that "Meet the Mets" is the new 8th-inning singalong, but just since Monday they dropped the bridge:

morbs (great meeting you btw!) i meant to ask you if this was a long-standing tradition or something but from what i gather here it's new.

during the part that goes "the mets are really sockin' the ball/hitting those home runs over the wall" the 16 yo dude next me deadpanned a perfectly timed "NO" and i cracked up.

well the song is from '62, they used to play it when there was a live stadium organist the first 20 years of the franchise... Then it vanished, and there was ac rappy '80s synth-driven version that changed the lyrics. Now they've resurrected the original the last couple years (since the redo mentioned "Shea").

oh yeah--feels like there's no way that song could have been written at any other time than 50s or 60s. it's got retro charm tho repeating the entire thing twice is a bit much.

well, moreso when you edit out the bridge.

ac rappy '80s synth-driven version that changed the lyrics

WHAT DE FUCK YOU TALKING ABOUT OLD MAN?

that song shreds and SHREDS forever and all time

http://www.youtube.com/v/Ol75BB7ly4k&hl=en&fs=1&

I meant "a crappy," and that's not Meet the Mets, Shasta Jr.

Fernando Nieve finally pitching like Fernando Nieve.

lol @ shasta jr

oic only one person can think the mets are complete garbage on this board ok

at least trolly-stylee.

also, the current active roster is not the Mets. It's THE STEMS.

mets kind of are complete garbage atm, dogg. when they get healthy that'll probably change but it's hard to watch this smallball bullshit right now

It's not smallball, it's benchball. or AAAball.

wtf is this camera angle on espn right now??

dunno, blackout here cuz of Mets cable.

I didn't know COMPLETE GARBAGE could take 3 of 4 from St. Loo.

NOW THAT'S GARBAGE

lol i turn on the mets game & keith and ron are talking abt the furry convention in pittsburgh

keith: "i rode down in the elevator with them and the odor was overwhelming"

whoops keith & gary i mean, no ron

"he was petting his beaver"

the current Stems' throws NEVER arrive in time, NEVER

this is gonna be a long and torturous afternoon....

battle of amazing pitchers

it just occurred to me who mccutchen looks like: the dancer dude from showgirls

uh oh

laroche crushed that ball

always

xp

unbelievable

luckily for yall the phillies are playing equally as bad

mets are gonna be like 6 back of first at the break tho

and it doesnt stop

and (respectfully) piss off, jordan

Meta take 2 of 3 in Philly this weekend

tatis has had a great game..of course, he wuz due

i dread the bottom of the 10th...

ok, who else is a mets fan here? we need to hold shit down until morbs returns(?)

maybe the mets will sign morbs to play 1B while he's gone from us

wouldn't be the first gay redhead to play first for them

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_RJnZXOek6bo/SdWH7sJhM-I/AAAAAAAADG4/eWNGYMvFrTE/s320/84F%2BRusty.jpg

wait what?

morbs got suggest banned

Thursday, July 2, 2009 5:57 PM Site Dr Morbius has been banned permanently. ILX SYSTEM: user has received ban requests from 52 users.

perm or temp? oh boy...

suggestbanned users have been allowed to return after a few weeks but i guess it's a case-by-case thing

what happened? im confused...

FireJerryManuel you know what's a fun game? looking at how many scrub middle infielders have more homeruns than david wright. jayson nix! ramon santiago! 10 minutes ago from web

lol but (like swimming in Amityville on July 5th) nice job evading the wrath of Morbs w/r/t the timing of this.

B-b-but it's a quote from a Mets fan!

castillo is really the worst

SI_JonHeyman all is not lost for the mets. ollie perez is on his way back! oh ... never mind
about 2 hours ago from web

this dude is zingy as all hell

SI_JonHeyman which is worse - mets defense or mets baserunning? discuss about 3 hours ago from web

neither as bad as this clueless 'tards's writing tho

i like heyman

He isn't the worst, but I don't like him.

hey, man

lol at david wright

no offense to the good dr morbs (may he rest in peace here for a month) but this mets lineup at this point is like the lions offense in football where in fantasy im trying to pick up whatever pitcher is facing the mets

i dont read this shit anymore except for ILB occasionally.
morbs caught the ban? DAMN HOMEY.

last time i can do this:

Meta take 2 of 3 in Philly this weekend

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, July 2, 2009 5:13 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

lol @ sansky

• David Wright asks Jerry Manuel to be in Mets' lineup, goes 0-for-4 Jul 2 (New York Daily News)

^^^favorite headline every hands down

ever*

what we are beginning to witness here will heretofore be known as "the curse of the 51" alternatively "the dr. morbius ban curse"

the way that people are talking about the mets it's like they're a team of emotionally abuse orphan children

wau @ murph play at 1st (lucky tho)

ump to mark loretta: "it doesn't matter that you beat the ball to the base -- that play was pretty."

the curse
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If you check the Stasi log on the board, it's 52 Suggest Bans, you goddamn troll.

How's YOUR team doing, Mr. Warmth?

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Stasi log

...has got it going on!

B. Worbius MD Jul 2 30-day Butt bruise, Obama thread
C. Beltrán CF Jun 22 15-day Bone bruise, right knee
J. Maine SP Jun 7 15-day Right shoulder fatigue
J. Putz RP Jun 5 15-day Right elbow surgery - out 8-10 weeks
R. Martínez SS/2B Jun 3 60-day Fractured left pinkie finger
J. Reyes SS May 21 15-day Right calf tendinitis
C. Delgado 1B May 11 60-day Right hip impingement
B. Wagner RP Mar 27 60-day Left elbow surgery - out for season

hahahaha

dr pepper on keyb

worbius makes me think of:

http://www.searchviews.com/wp-content/themes/clean-copy-full-3-column-1/images/wario.jpg

Guys I was at the game last night and the Mets are a bad team!

I can confirm!

oh you went to the new shake shack in queens? how is it?

6 beans for a tiny milkshake :\

NY Mets
A. Pagan CF 0-2
A. Cora SS 0-1
D. Murphy 1B 0-1
D. Wright 3B 0-1
J. Reed RF 0-1
F. Tatis LF 0-1
B. Schneider C 0-1
A. Reyes 2B 0-1
F. Nieve P 1-1

lolololololol francoeur

[17:11] Harry Lime ARL: THIS IS LIKE ALL MY CHRISTMASES HAVE COME AT ONCE

^^^ade^^^

http://i43.tinypic.com/2u9ib2r.jpg

jesus kevin that display name!!!

see tbh i think that's one of those sns that's like too punny for its own good

it is really, really intense and i admire it because it is something i never ever would have thought of.

Is that an ILXor's real name?

That's what I figured. This is not cool.

sorry, changed

A+ name though -- sorry but it just wouldn't be kosher.

what was it (someone PM me)

J. Francoeur singled to shallow right, L. Castillo and A. Pagan scored, D. Wright to second

: )

lol GIDP on his first AB in ATL

lol, Atl's skullfucking Pelfrey

dude pelfry

now that morbs is away i can say that this team imploding is probably the best thing that can happen to it because minaya has completely fucked it up. yes, injuries are horrible but not having a credible plan b at so many positions and a weak farm system is his fault. problem is, they won't fire the guy until at least another year unless he commits a crime or something.

Sheff's done for a while.

they won't fire the guy until at least another year unless he commits a crime or something.

the defense i saw them play tonight bordered on criminal~

the zings write themselves

Poor Morbs... I can't imagine what he thought of that Francoeur play...

... or can I?

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2009/07/22/2009-07-22_with_tony_action_off_the_field_beginning_to_look_worse_than_play_on_it.html

Bernazard, already notorious for his alleged influence in the firing of Willie Randolph and Rick Peterson a year ago, apparently was so incensed on a trip to observe the Mets' Double-A Binghamton team that he ripped off his shirt in the clubhouse after a game and challenged the players to a fight.

prefer the singletary pants drop tbh

or any rick majerus story

morbs checked in today to say he's stopped watching some games.

was he watching every game b4? i gotta be honest i probably only tune in for about 1/3 of atlanta braves games every year (listen to the rest on radio tho) (which is retarded, because boog >>>>> sutton, but whatcha gonna do)

http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/mets/archives/2009/07/washington_--_i.html

Mets New York Mets All-Star closer Frankie Rodriguez confirmed this afternoon that he exchanged words on the team bus last week in Atlanta with Bernazard, the club's embattled vice president of player development.

"Yeah [it happened], but I'm not going to talk about that," Rodriguez told The Post before tonight's game here with the Nationals. "Not going to get into it."

Another player, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post today: "That guy [Bernazard] is crazy. No one likes him."

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/144164/failcoeur_duck.gif

Haha

lol sleep in hades frenchy

lol he looks like me when i play baseball

loooool

i saw that last night and the best part is the slo-mo close-up replay, if someone can get a gif of that i would love to see it.

hahaha

anyone up for bets on omar's firing date?
http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/omar-has-lost-it

not an omar fan in the slightest but i'm not totally sure what he was supposed to do--mets have a win now team so he's trying to win now. comparing them to the pirates is silly.

the contracts to castillo and perez revealed his win never strategy

lol yeah and you should never, ever trade for frenchy but looking at the injuries they have endured saying "oh why is there no depth in this org" and blaming the gm is a bit of a dumbshit position.

the frenchy trade is pretty A+ imo - would any mets fan even have cared if they had just str8 up released church? - pretty low risk - i mean i guess the downside is that you're forced to actually play francouer but he's certainly no worse than frankie martinez

mostly the francoeur trade irritates me because i know for a fact i am exactly as good a baseball player as francoeur, so why didnt they just put me in the lineup

because you're gay

dude they started mike piazza for years

yeah, losing church is whatevs but making a move in the midst of a complete team meltdown that consists of taking the #1 stiff off the hands of division rival is the kind of tonedeaf bs minaya has been pulling the last couple of years. i avoided the fire minaya cry up until recently, and i still don't think they should fire manuel tho he is kinda clueless, but when things go this badly after 2 epic chokes, something's gotta give. it's pretty clear to me at this point that minaya has absolutely no idea about how to run a baseball team. on the plus side, we won't have to endure a sept. choke, so maybe omar did us a favor

yeah the francoeur trade was absolutely terrible without question, since the dude will not help in any way and in fact this helps ATL. if minaya was smart he could have traded church for a more useful utility player maybe.

Howard Johnson has experienced the high of winning a World Series with the '86 Mets. As for lows, the Mets' current plight tops the hitting coach's list.

As the Mets try to regroup Friday night against the Astros after an off-day, HoJo has watched his hitters get shut out five times this month and nine times this season. In July, the Mets have scored an MLB-low 49 runs and also rank last in homers with four. The longball total through Wednesday was a full seven behind the teams ranked second-to-last: Kansas City, San Diego and Washington.

Nationals rookie Craig Stammen - yes, Craig Stammen - limited the Mets to one run and four hits in 7 1/3 innings in their 3-1 rubber-game loss Wednesday in Washington. One Met called Stammen among the least-impressive pitchers he had seen this season.

"I'm trying to stay positive every day," Johnson said. "Guys come and get their work in. We try to prepare them as best we can. I know the guys are out there giving their best effort. We're just not good enough."

wow

lol hojo why don't you give them corked bats & coke, worked pretty good for the mets in the 80s

In July, the Mets have scored an MLB-low 49 runs and also rank last in homers with four.

Wow. The Blue Jays hit four homers in four innings the other night.

atl got half a good player in exhcahnge for francoeur which is one half more than they had w/him on the team OWNED basically it is like when montgomery burns is like RELEASE THE HOUNFS and the braves are the houndz or perhaps mythical beasts of yore like a basilisk or maybe like, the (space) battleship yamato http://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/yamato.jpg

*hulks out*

bye bye Bernazard
http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/archives/2009/07/bernazard_fired.html

^_^ canks

wtf?

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/mets-fire-tony-bernazard/?hp

The news conference took a strange twist when Minaya said he “scuffled” with the first published reports, by Adam Rubin, the beat writer for The Daily News, because, he said, Rubin had lobbied him and others in the Mets organization for a job in player development.

Rubin said later that he was flabbergasted by the remark, saying he thought Minaya was accusing him of “taking down” Bernazard because he wanted his job. “I asked, How do you go about getting a job in baseball? That’s the extent of it,” Rubin said in a televised interview after the news conference.

“I don’t know how I can cover the team now,” he added.

lol omar is trying to take the entire ny baseball industry w/ him

Francoeur HR vs the Rox.

That's his two for the month then. Attaboy Frenchie!

ollie perez with 42 walks in 43 IP this year

After the news conference, Minaya discussed what had transpired with chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon. The pair visited the Citi Field press box about two hours later, before the start of the Mets’ game against the Colorado Rockies.

Minaya said he stood by his comments about Rubin but acknowledged that it “was not the proper forum to raise those issues.” Asked if he would reach out to Rubin, who left the ballpark shortly after the news conference, Minaya said, “Possibly.”

Wilpon said Rubin had also consulted him about career advice.

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that,” Wilpon said. “I believe Adam was just doing what anybody else does. I probably get a call a week from someone asking for career advice.”

Francoeur HR vs the Rox.

― Mark C, Monday, July 27, 2009 8:50 PM (1 hour ago)

see as a person i feel like kind of a dick but as a baseball fan not so much when i say i'm completely rooting for francoeur to fail. it's like when you're at a poker table and some dude calls a flop open shove with his eight-high flush draw for shitty pot odds. you just wanna root for the guys who make the smart plays and minaya/the mets are like that poker noob who's chasing something that looks nice but in reality won't/shouldnt happen

are you telling me when you play poker that you don't sometimes chase low-risk/high-reward opportunities at a low cost

i hate the mets and would love for all of their players to die of swine flu on the field and i have derived lots of enjoyment out of rooting for the team that knocked them out of the playoffs in the past two years and of course this hilariously tumultuous season but i think it was a good trade and i think it would be dope if omar minaya snuck in and stole this dude for some slow fat ass rf that is only average at best

are you telling me when you play poker that you don't sometimes chase low-risk/high-reward opportunities at a low cost

― meme-first attitude (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 27, 2009 10:28 PM (5 minutes ago)

not to derail too much here but the point is that the hypothetical flush draw call was supposed to be w/ shitty pot odds

xp francoeur to me is like the epitome of those guys that dumbass fans who don't read stats love...a five too guy who nevertheless totally sucks. i always root against these bozos

like my mets fans friends loved this trade not because of francoeur's "potential" (which is still fucked, if he never learns to walk idc if he hits 40 HR) but because they legitimately think he's a good player. i get the feeling this is the perception most ppl have of him

most mets fans follow what happens with the braves and know francoeur has stunk up the league the last 2-3 years. but they would love for him to turn it around, so far he's been more than decent but small sample size etc

i mean i don't have to "root against" frenchy cause even if he has a good run or a hot streak or something, i know that he is a bad baseball player and will ultimately fail. i also got pretty tired of lol ignorant baseball fans a couple years ago--life's too short to turn into joe sheehan.

not to derail too much here but the point is that the hypothetical flush draw call was supposed to be w/ shitty pot odds

― Mr. Sb, n r u? (k3vin k.), Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:35 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"the bluffcatcher" is a really good backhanded nickname for a player like francoeur

some slow fat ass rf that is only average at best

^^^francoeur fwiw

it's like when you're at a poker table and some dude calls a flop open shove with his eight-high flush draw for shitty pot odds.

oh yeah, it's just like that (what is this gibberish)

lol poker

3 STRAIGHT W'S - BREAK THEM UP

We're trying!!!

Fucking Mets. We lost the one sure-fire win of the series.

guys i live in binghamton and our mets are the laughing stock of AA, so it could be worse i guess?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/29/sports/29mets.600.jpg

uh sorry.. no, omar. nice touch witht he scratch, you are not cool enough to pull off that robert de niro impression.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/28/alg_omar.jpg

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/300-1.jpg

how much are they paying BB-Rod this year?

great use of him mixing up those consistently blown leads in the 7th or 8th with staccato pulses of beating up on the other team by 5 runs.

dude is getting PAID to keep in shape at this point.

wau, smell all the joyfully discharged piss in this thread...

WELCOME HOME

http://missionalrevolution.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/he-is-risen.jpg

http://rlv.zcache.com/welcome_home_daddy_tshirt-p23580521094618886033ia_400.jpg

i'm really touched that you guys wanted me back the night of the Francouer trade so you could use me as a pinata.

I can't endure being the only Mets fan on this thread next year, if I'm still here. You could just call it METS HATE and let Shasta run roughshod.

What's up, Doc?

Frenchy has been lighting it up.

ONE WALK AS A MET

extrapolated over a full season frenchy would have 34 HR and 162 RBI!!!

a remarkable 60 runs scored!

I personally believe that the NY Mets of Queens are able to come back because, uh, some fans out there in our nation don't have faith and, uh, I believe that our, uh, fandom like such as in, uh, Baseball Prospectus and, uh, the BIll James and everybody like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our run-production over here in the tri-state area should help the Mets, uh, should help Carlos Beltran and should help NL East and the Phillies, so we will be able to build up our future for our team.

is that Jeff Wilpon or Nixon?

hahaha shasta

at the SABR convention, Paul White of USA Today said the Mets' front office "needs more balance" in their analytical approach. YA THINK

Nelson Figueroa vs Danny Haren going about as expected...

YEAH GARY, CASTILLO BUNTING IN THE FIRST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, JUST LIKE THE 2003 WORLD SERIES

the high-RBI periods in Francoeur's career do more to prove what a fucking useless stat it is than anything since the retirement of that hack Joe Carter.

come now morbius, carter's rbi total very nearly matches that of confirmed HOFer jim rice

$5

(Keith Law joke)

cstbtweet
Mark Reynolds - 4 HR's in 12 Citi Field AB's. David Wright - 4 HR's in nearly 200 Citi AB's. Fuck it, blame the Mets pitching.

Second baseman Luis Castillo(notes) left the New York Mets’ game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night with a sprained left ankle after he slipped and fell in the dugout.

Castillo grounded out leading off the seventh and was on his way back to the bench when he tumbled down the dugout steps and had to be helped up the tunnel by some teammates.

BB-Rod coughs up a few and costs Santana yet another decision (not that he pitched well or anything).

wal-k-rod

k-rod looks tubbier then I remember

what about 28year old Albert Pujols:
http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/sp/v/mlb/players_l/20090407/6619.jpg

AYO FRANKEEEEEEEEE

http://i44.tinypic.com/dxjnr8.jpg

can some1 explain why bb-rod's stretch set-up isn't a balk? is it b/c he's not "set" yet?

the mang is 29 1/2 fyi

games very much in character

mets = slump-breakers

not bad for an old guy w/ declining power, eh? ;)

I misread the thread title as "2009 New York Mets thread."

and so the Angel Berroa era begins.

Niese injured in the 2nd inning.
Nelson Figueroa w/ 2-run triple.

Waiting for the first Mets on field fatality of 09. Its the next logical step.

omar probably thinking about signing lohse for next year

TS: tearing a bandage off slowly (season of folly) vs. ripping it off in one quick motion (september collapse)

damn
http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/08/06/alg_niese.jpg

heard someone say mets team photo should be MRI

a Mets blogger suggested MASH theme will be new 8th-inning singalong.

lol that's great

yeah, it was a lot funnier before i read about Bimble today.

:-(

no walks thru 5 for Ollie!

Mets just robbed on call at home.

hahahahaha

i kind of feel bad for frankie cuz he's the only big mets player not to totally live down expectations, but, uh, lmao

u r a roothless bastid, J.

BB-Rod lives up to his name with a 3BB/0K performance.

morbs, aren't actual mets fans just laughing at this point anyway?

just the fact that it was the guy's second career homer and the pads first grand slam of the season is just too much - only the 09 mets

I'm shrugging, not laughing.

understood

from Faith & Fear in Flushing:

Was I so drowsy that I think the Mets were robbed of a 2-1 win by a lazy umpire who couldn't be bothered to open his eyes or move his feet? Not exactly. Putting aside the Mets' standard-issue pacifistic hitting attack after the first (with no hits after the fifth), K-Rod's definitely going through another Bramando Fragner phase wherein the Mets closer of record can't be counted on to shut the door of a dollhouse. He did walk Blanks and did he allow a very long hit to Will Venable as prelude to Marvin's misjudgment — but instead of it being 2-2, runner on third, nobody out, it should have been 2-1, runner on third, one out. Big honking difference, I'd say. Without Hudson's river of carelessness, we're not semi-intentionally walking one batter and then handing out four purposeful balls to the next guy. We're not loading the bases and playing five infielders and two short-centerfielders and that whole desperation thing that generally never works.

Guess what — it didn't work. Everth Cabrera, whom Gary and Ron were talking about Thursday as one of those Padres who couldn't possibly be ready for the majors, lofted a grand slam to right as you or I might toss a crumpled up piece of paper into a wastebasket. Game over, a good nap spoiled, Marvin Hudson a disgrace, Ollie's unexpected effectiveness nothing but a gauzy memory and K-Rod's S-Lump yet one more Met concern to throw on the teeming pile of them.

http://brooklynmetfan.com/mexisms.php

Everth Cabrera, whom Gary and Ron were talking about Thursday as one of those Padres who couldn't possibly be ready for the majors

Fifth-place San Diego can't afford to have Cabrera end up like Jose Reyes (with fewer hits, better plate discipline).

Reyes (first 54 games): .304/.321/.416, 11 SB/2 CS
Cabrera (first 54 games): .263/.341/.414, 15 SB/2 CS

Were they supposed to give Royce Clayton a call?

nice plate block by Santos

excessively fortunate Ollie Perez line:

5.1 IP, 6 H, 1 R, 6 BB, 7 K, 111 P-59 S

Team is cursed.

NEW YORK -- David Wright has left the New York Mets game against San Francisco after being hit squarely in the helmet by a 94 mph fastball from Giants starter Matt Cain.

Cain's 0-2 pitch with none out in the fourth inning of a scoreless game Saturday hit Wright just above the brim of the helmet, sending it flying as Wright fell to the ground in the right-handed batter's box.

Wright lay motionless on his stomach for over a minute before trainers helped turn him over onto his back. One trainer leaned in close as Wright was on his stomach, talking to the third baseman. After Wright was turned over, he sat up and a trainer shone a light in his eyes.

Wright was helped to his feet and walked off the field with limited help. Fans gave him a loud ovation.