2008 Mets!!! LETS GO METS!!!

I'd hire Mex as hitting coach in a heartbeat, but I get nervous about all these guys who think that just because they played for the team, they can manage it. That said, managing a baseball team is an easier job than coaching a basketball or football team. I do think Mex would be unafraid to give these guys the kick in the *** they so desperately need. And maybe that's enough.

I'd still call up Bobby V and drive a dump truck full of money up to his house, but as Greg noted before, he's probably not interested. Nor, it sounds like, is Davey Johnson, who never should have been fired in the first place.

 

Mets Refugees. A little hard to get used to the swearing and off topic but best i have found for info and discussion.

 

Ya, isnt that a change? Believe me though, we wish ours was gone...

 

Has a manager ever been fired the day after getting a vote of confidence? More listless play last night.

 

We should bring in Wally Backman.

Gotta suspend beer sales at the stadium...but hey, it could mean that we turn this around.

 

Mike and the Mad Dog brought up a good point on the ride home from work today: This team got off to a blazing start in 07 and it wasnt until after they got about 18-20 games over 500 that they started to play lazy which has carried over in to this year obviously. theyre 6 games under 500 since then. What other conclusion is there then to say this group collectively has lost their fire?

When is Jose Reyes going to stop pressuring himself into mistake after mistake?
When is David Wright going to be having fun again and go back to being top step David?
Among other things those differences are also painfully obvious.

On a different note: Matt Wise to the DL (mercilessly)...Carlos Muniz recalled. Muniz has some upside and has pitched well in limited duty here.

Heilman may get a quick demotion at some point a la Steve Trachsel a few years back. Ron Darling among others believes that Heilman is getting hit more due to the dip in velocity and throwing sidearm instead of the 3/4 delivery he had a few years back. Personally, I dont think that alone fixes the guy as I think part of his problem is mental but hey anything to make watching the bum more bearable!

 

Johan pitching well though not k'ing a ton of guys. Did get a double and looked like he wanted to go for 3...

Met Moises Alou today as he came in to the Verizon Wireless location I work in.

 

He just gave up his 12th homer of the year, THAT I didn't expect from him.

 

Gave up 34 of them last year most in the AL. One thing I noticed is that Johan is always around the plate. Hitters get comfortable against him because hes so accurate and almost never throws any chin music. He needs a little Ollie Perez or Pedro Martinez to him.

 

I hope you held the door for him and made sure he didn't trip on the carpet. That guy's so fragile that he should be encased in bubble wrap everywhere he goes.

 

Good call. Pedro was ALWAYS ready to throw some high, inside heat just to make the batter uncomfortable. And with Ollie, he's such a nutcase that he might decide to earhole every seventh batter because it's Tuesday and there's a full moon. I half expect to see him and Brian Schneider play out the "hit the ****ing mascot" scene from Bull Durham one of these days.

 

Good win...

We are gonna be playing a pretty big game for this early in the season. Ollie vs. Olsen.

You guys got a glimpse as to why Larry Beinfest is such a great GM. The marlins have a great bullpen and Beinfest built it with scouting and picking up other team's rejects.

Sometimes I feel as if Minaya does his scouting by reading his Baseball America subscription.

Beinfest found Gregg, Lindstrom off the scrap heap..and Pinto through information from his south american scouts. All are top relievers.

Do we even have any scouts?

 

Man we havent had scouts since Minaya was promoted from the position years ago. Our scouting has always been among the worst in baseball. Its so bad that when Wayne Krivsky was fired two weeks ago as Cincy's GM I was wondering how long it would take the mets to realize that he drafted Jay Bruce, Homer Bailey and Joey Votto, made a brilliant signing of Josh Hamilton, before not so brilliantly trading him but at least getting a seemingly talented arm in Edison Volquez. Id be pretty if we hired him as head of scouting or something like that....

 

You gotta look at where they are sent oo and what pitches they are being asked to throw. AAA is a "testing" ground. AA ball is much more competetive.

Humber WILL be a stud. Stuff is stuff. Humber has it. Not so sure about Mulvey.

 

Agreed. Mulvey is the player I hated to give up. He has 4 pitches and will probably bloom in another 6-8 months. hes still only 22 I believe.

Humber on the other hand still hasnt regained the velocity he had pre-Tommy John surgery and has had to become an entirely different pitcher. His ERA is misleading because I think hes still in the Pacific Coast League which is a notorious hitters league that plays a lot of their games in high altitude cites like Colorado Springs.

 

Also there has been some talk lately that Eddie Kunz may be brought up at some point this season. he just has a few control issues he needs to hammer out. Once he does I think we will have our closer for the post Wagner era. Not only does he bring 95mph heat but he mixes in a nice slider. Last i read he was working on a change up which i think he'll have a better chance to perfect being around Pedro and Johan everyday, owners of what may be the best 2 change ups in baseball.

 

per www.hotfootblog.com, Phil garner has suggested we bat Beltran number two. He did manage beltran for a short amount of time but beltran flourished under him in Houston. If Church and Moises ever come back I think i would support this idea since Castillo is quite possibly the most useless slug in all of baseball.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this at all this year, considering how much it was discussed to death when he struggled in 2005.

Reyes
Beltran
Wright
Church
Alou
Delgado
Schnieder
Castillo
Pitcher

I could live with that

 

Thanks...didn't know too much about Mulvey.

 

Finally our first comeback win all year. After being 0-20 in games in which we trailed after 6 we get a beautiful game from the pen. Heilman, Schoenturd, and Wagner gave them a perfect 7th, 8th, 9th, 10, and dirty sanchez gave us a perfect 11th as well before serving up a solo hr to amezaga in the 12th. But alas, Fernando Tatis made us all realize why he was allowed to marry Omar's daughter with his 2 run walk off double in the twelfth

The scary part is that the pen had retired 19 in a row at one point. We struck out 15 batters as a staff in 12 innings. Yet we nearly lost because of the 5 hits we allowed, 4 were homers.

An unlikely night indeed. A pinch hit homer by Chavez to tie it in the 9th and a 2 run double by Tatis to win it. Anyone know the odds that Luis Castillo and Endy Chavez would homer on the same night? And Alfredo Amezaga has to be thrown in that mix as well....

 

Huge win.

Now we gotta put some series wins together.

 

Guys, we won a game a couple of days ago, and we won a game last night...we are currently winning a game tonight..that would be three in a row...that is called a winning streak..it has happened before.

 

Geez a class trip to Fenway? Man, I wish I went to that school growing up.

 

Sounds awesome to me. Boston is a great city to be in for a few days, although I'd have to say I'd rather be in Chicago if all else is equal. Too bad she couldn't have seen a Sox game at Fenway.

 

BY this group? Im sure it wasnt intentional!

 

Another awful 8th inning meltdown by Heilman. Anyone got a sack of hot turds we can trade him for?

 

On the goodside Castillo got injured and the Stache is rehabbing in AA. I smell an 06 like revival. Now if only Delgado would wake the heck up.

 

New Rank: 18
Last Week: 18

New York Mets

Histrionics about race and job security aside, the Mets are not in terrible shape. I mean, I'm not expecting y'all to listen to simple reason (that's how we talk in the South). But if Carlos Delgado ever wakes up, and if someone can put some fear into Mike Pelfrey (0-5, 6.08 ERA in May), I reckon the Mets can still rise again.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/john_donovan/05/30/donovan.PRs530/index.html?eref=T1

 

Man if you can figure this team out...please let me know. Dead in the water..lifeless for 7 innings...jekyl and hyde

 

And then they come back and win as carlos beltran finally gets a meaningful homer with a runner in scoring position to tie and tatis wins it! Watching the replay now...Pelfrey did an excellent job battling and keeping us in it. He retired the last 12 he faced and the bullpen retired the only 6 they faced. 2nd come back win in a week. The tide may be turning....