Oye Como Va! The 2008 NEW YORK METS

Santana to help Mets forget Historic Collapse

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=txsantanaftr&prov=st&type=lgns

"And the fact that the Mets landed Santana - the jewel of the offseason - almost is as stunning as their September collapse."

AND NOW SHASTA WILL FORGET IT.

John Maine could throw a no-hitter this year. Duaner Sanchez will yet another way to be on the disabled list all year. Delgado might be hearing a lot of boos.

I hope there is some plan in place to help prevent the entire team from being exhausted in September this time.

sort of amusing from page six via mlb fleece factor:

If there was ever an Off-Field Fleece Olympics, this might take the gold. Richard Johnson of the NY Post’s Page Six (a leading gossip column) has the scoop on what was allegedly a very rough night for the Mets #2 starter Pedro Martinez.

While in Miami last week, Pedro decided to check out Prime 112 in Miami for some dinner. It seems that he walked in and was told to wait for a table. I mean, this is Pedro Martinez we are talking about here. So, Pedro was clearly miffed and one of Johnson’s spies said that Martinez began cursing and demanded to be seated. Eventually, he was seated.

Here is the kicker! As Pedro is waiting, Star Jones walks on in and gets seated IMMEDIATELY! Yes, Star Jones…formerly of The View! The spy said, at this point, Pedro ended his dinner quite early.

Miami: not a baseball town

miami IS a dominican town, though!

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/2008/02/large_AJOHAN.jpg

Mets not happy about Milledge's comments

"I can't go through anything worse than I went through in New York. It only gets better from here," Milledge said. "A lot of veterans didn't like the way I play the game. They thought I didn't respect it."...

"Everyone in the organization babied the heck out of him," Wagner said. "We couldn't get on him too much because we were told to lay off of him. It could have been a whole lot worse for him and all we did was try to help him to help us."

"The veterans were never mean to him or singled him out," Wright said. "They always tried to teach him. Some of that comes through tough love. I went through it, Jose went through it. All the young guys in the game go through that tough-love period. Some handle it better than others.

"Personally, I like Lastings. There were times when he messed up and he knew it and he learned from it. I don't see where this is coming from. I don't know if it's just trying to play that 'bitter traded guy' role. I don't know what he's trying to accomplish by the things that he's saying."

"The good vibes didn't last long, however. Chris Duncan and Albert Pujols both touched Santana for hits in the first inning before Gonzalez's blast just cleared the left-field fence."

^_^

wau, FEBRUARY GOPHER BALLS!

Delgadow

http://www.savetheapple.com/

"The apple is one of the most electrifying home run displays in baseball"

They've already said there'll be an apple in the new place. Probably "upgraded."

Nick Stone (East Village, New York City): Hey Jay, How much do the Mets's mounting injuries effect their status as NL east favorites? Who to blame for the spate of injuries? Luck? The front office of not making better contingency plans considering their fragile line up? Or the medical staff?

Jay Jaffe: Between the news about Delgado's hip, Beltran's knees, and Alou's hernia, I'd say that Mets fans should be very worried right now. New York doesn't have a ton of depth at the positions in question -- particularly at 1B -- they don't have prospects to deal anymore, and the NL East is looking to be a very competitive division, with the Phillies and Braves both capable of working their way past the Mets.

If you want to cast blame, it's on Minaya, who's assembled an aged lineup that's in win-now mode. I mean, signing Luis Castillo to a four-year deal is just a recipe for disaster.

o. perez not looking too hot today

Doesn't mean anything.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b103/crills/Mets_choke.jpg

yes, I've seen you in that T shirt.

experts, would any of these be especially advisable?

4/26 day v ATL (MR) (or 4/27 foam finger day, poorer seats)
6/1 day v LAD (UB)
6/23 schoolnight v SEA (LR)
7/26 night v STL (MR, Take HER to the Ball Game)
9/13 day v ATL (MR)
9/25 schoolnight v CHC (LR)

i say either ATL game, nothing like longstanding division rivalry.

I'll be there on 7/26, keep yr distance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSh5wUtXt4

Foam finger 4/26 gets my vote. Although there will be plentiful good seats for the meaningless Cubs game in September.

4/27 that is. All seats are made better with +4 blessed finger of foam.

Thanks for the advice. Attractions for the cubs game included proximity to The End, in addition to seat quality.

Gotay claimed off waivers by the Braves.

wtf? gotay was good. that bannister trade looking even more shit now

And to save a spot for Fernando Tatis?!

I am surprised they made Pelfrey #5, ie the right choice.

Sidd Finch, Phenom of '85

lol nice 4 inning season pedro

pedro: possible torn ligaments

Finch is probably one of my favorite pitchers ever.

he works for nails now

Yeah I heard that too.

Terri and Luke went home. Lenny and I went to the Four Seasons, for dinner. He walked in wearing his baseball cap, and with a laptop open. After telling the waitress that she shouldn’t offer Evian (“We saved the French”), he asked whether she had an extension cord and wouldn’t mind running it across to our table. “We’re low on juice,” he said. She indulged him, and even placed a chair from an unoccupied table over the cord at its midpoint, to serve as a kind of traffic cone. No matter: first one woman, and then another, tripped over it. “Why is everyone walking through here?” Dykstra exclaimed. “It’s a fucking magnet.”

This is better than that scene in The Blues Brothers

By the time he returned, the piano player had started his set. “Brutal—can’t take this,” Dykstra said. We moved to a table on the opposite side of the restaurant. After some consultation with her manager, the waitress informed Dykstra that the Four Seasons didn’t offer iceberg lettuce. “I do have romaine,” she said. “Would that be O.K.?”
“Give me a cheeseburger,” he said.

"Do you have Fruit Roll-Ups?"

"No, but we do have fresh fruit salad."

"Give me a hot dog."

im pretty sure from seeing him on hbo real sports that he has alzheimers so these quotes arent that crazy

who's surprised about Pedro? not me.

Randolph w/ classic can't-use-closer-in-tie-bullshit last night.

hey little omar, maybe you should spend more time cornholing andtwat than trying to pull that shit here?

did they kick you off the 30 minute computers at the Brooklyn Library?

no, I'm still employed.

Nelson Figueroa may be rotation-bound.

^_^

Could someone please explain to me how to prevent that fucking rickroller site from locking my Firefox and requiring me to shut down my computer and losing all the fucking work I had open?

Also, omar little, please die.

Trading Brian Bannister still seems dumb.

Kazmir was worse.

No doubt.

Could someone please explain to me how to prevent that fucking rickroller site from locking my Firefox and requiring me to shut down my computer and losing all the fucking work I had open?

Also, omar little, please die.

-- polyphonic, Wednesday, April 2, 2008 12:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Further loss can be prevented by not clicking omar little's link.

As a fellow rickroller, I submit that it was April Fool's Day. Voros "Quentin" McCracken has not yet quantified the mystery of defense, either.

it's premature to turn this thread into a repeat of last year's mets thread, innit?

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IT IS HAPPENING... AGAIN

lulzschoenweiss

Ouch Part Deux

there goes the carlos delgado for mvp lobby

wow. ouch indeed.

how the fuck does this team manage to pull this shit off??

wes helms

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greetings from a remote outpost of the Andes mountains not far from the center of the former Inca empire,

i just wanted to express my condolences to all Yankees Jr. fans everywhere.

¡lets go Rays!

Steve Shasta
The Alpaca Whisperer

^^^ consoling words for our dear disappointed doctor

cannot fucking believe it.

game mirrored that '06 cards game in a lot of ways complete w/ ollie pitchin pretty decent & insane endy catch ;_;

hey with all the soul-searching and reorganization the Mets are gonna do, maybe they'll dip down and pick up Barry Bonds?

LOL

shasta - enjoy peru - i was there in May!
when you're done whispering to the alpacas, try one - they're really tasty!

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^^ oh that Philly fan charm

You ever post here when you're not being a dick, Eisbaer?

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was there booing during the goodbye to shea pomp and circumstance? i could not bring myself to watch

Some fans were yelling to the Marlins "Get off the field!!!" just before the Extra Innings feed was cut.

The ceremony was touching.

also, thanks for not being bitches about this (except for 3 of you).

Yeah, it sounds from the NYT article that the fans gave Doc Gooden a nice hand.

Gooden's presence had been strongly hinted at, but bigger surprises for me were Yogi (not well liked by players in his managerial tenure), George (The Stork) Theodore (hooray), and Dave Kingman (ugh, what a rotten player; I booed).

Haha DAVE KINGMAN!

"Jay Jaffe (11:13:59 AM PT): Meanwhile, the Mets' flagship, SNY, is running a re-run of yesterday's game. That's a keeper for their audience."

That's cruel.

xp: But we did get Cleon Jones too.

Hey, I was at the game and watched the 2 Marlin homers again this morning. Before breakfast.

There is an awesome full-page photo in the Final Game Program of Keith Hernandez in front of a mirror, ca 1986, trimming his mustache. Clearly someone in the archives department had a grudge.

"Jay Jaffe (11:13:59 AM PT): Meanwhile, the Mets' flagship, SNY, is running a re-run of yesterday's game. That's a keeper for their audience."

they do that every day, genius

I'll let Jay Jaffe know that then.

i just wanted to express my condolences to all Yankees Jr. fans everywhere.

Are there rockslides in Peru?

Doc's presence at Shea explains his nephew not hitting number 500 yesterday.

FIX OLNEY

Buzzmaster: (1:11 PM ET ) Hang on folks. Buster is having Internet problems.

Buzzmaster: (1:22 PM ET ) Looks like Buster won't be able to make it today. But we're going to reschedule for later this week. We'll save your questions for then.

oh shit did Morbs get to him?

"Buzzmaster"?????

I did put a snotty question in the queue (fix Johan's slow starts).

Oye Como Va!

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/Tito%20Puente%203ww.jpg

xp: You're fat.

Shit, lovely to hear from the formerly interim manager:

On his first official day as the Mets’ manager, Jerry Manuel proposed molding his team into the Los Angeles Angels....

“What has been done in the past is that you get so many statistical people together — they put so many stats on paper — and they say, ‘Well, if you do this and you score this many runs, you do this that many times, you’ll be in the playoffs,’ ” Manuel said Saturday in a conference call after the Mets announced that he had agreed to a two-year contract. “That’s not really how it works. And that’s what we have to get away from.” ...

“You don’t see a lot of guys that have statistical numbers play well in these championship series,” Manuel said. “What you see is usually the little second baseman or somebody like that carries off the M.V.P. trophy that nobody expected him to do. That’s because he’s comfortable in playing that form of baseball, so therefore when the stage comes, it’s not a struggle for him.”

a five word phrase that should warm the hearts of mets fans this offseason: "free agent infielder david eckstein"

Orlando Hudson, plz

kenny lofton should be available too.

:/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/sports/baseball/24mets.html?ref=sports

In an interview on New York sports talk station WFAN on Thursday, Hamels, the World Series MVP, responded in the affirmative when asked if he thought the Mets were "choke artists."

"Last year and this year I think we did believe that [they were choke artists]," Hamels told the station, alluding to the Phillies winning the NL East in 2008 and '07, in part, with the help of back-to-back September collapses by New York. "Three years ago we didn't because they smoked everybody, and I think we all thought they were going to win it all. Unfortunately that didn't happen."

such a squeaky high-pitched voice, no wonder he got sonned in that bar a few years ago

LOCK THREAD

what's this bar nonsense about now?

Missed most of the 2004 season with an elbow injury, and much of 2005 when he broke his left (pitching) hand in a bar fight.

http://baseball.about.com/od/profiles/p/hamels.htm

Would you rather win a bar fight or the pennant?

The company that owns the Mets was one of a handful of ultra-wealthy investors prosecutors say were duped by Wall Street wheeler-dealer Bernard Madoff.

Sterling Equities, which owns the Mets, the Brooklyn Cyclones and major real estate developments in New York and Florida, confirmed it had invested money with Madoff.

The company would not say how much it had invested, how much might have been lost or how if it would affect the Mets.

"Among our various investments, we have accounts managed by Madoff Securities," the company said in a statement. "We are shocked by recent events and, like all investors, will continue to monitor the situation."

CNBC is reporting that Mets owner Fred Wilpon and partner Saul Katz, though their investment entity Sterling Stamos, could have lost as much as $300 million.

Madoff was charged Thursday in what authorities call one of the biggest Wall Street frauds ever with losses of up to $50 billion.

He is accused of duping his wealthy clients with a long-running Ponzi scheme, paying off some investors with the equity of other investors.