Well, when the Mets signed Moises Alou, they knew they would be lucky to get 120 games from him. So this down time shouldn’t come as a surprise. The thing about a strained muscle is these things take time to heal … longer when you’re 40-plus.
The Mets got Alou for down the stretch and October, so it’s a little early to say this signing is a bust. If you’re looking for a silver lining, it’s that it is early and not August and September.
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120 gms was about what I expected. How long is he out for? Every game like yesterday makes the fans impatient but I have to attribute some of yesterday’s lackluster offense to Doug Davis. The Mets have a good bench and should be able to do alright without Alou and Green until they come back.
How can the Yankees continue to employ ARod now that his ‘alternative lifestyle’ has been exposed? And, how can the Yankees explain or excuse his off the field activities now that everyone, including children can read about them every day in the newspaper?
I don’t think anyone envisioned Alou, Green and Milledge all to be injured simultaneously.
i must say, i don’t like Arod, but annie, asking a team not to employ a player because of cheating? What is this? church? Get real, baseball is a job, and there’s only one thing that matter, results, you simply can’t fire someone for cheating. What’s next? An amazing surgeon who saves lives daily at a hospital is caught cheating, will the hospital fire him? To even think that is ridiculous. If its taken you this long to realize baseball is about nothing more than machismo, money, and winning, you’re lost.
Why can’t we just talk about Mets on a Mets site. Did A-Rod get traded to the Mets? If not I don’t care what he does or who he is except when he is playing against the Mets. If I want Yankee crap I’ll turn on ESPN.
Alou seems soft. Maybe the injuries are severe, but when he or the team keeps announcing new delays in his return he doesn’t seem to have fire. Last year Floyd always was fighting to play even though he was really hurt, and this year Green wanted to try to play. We don’t hear of that stuff when it comes to Alou.
Annie, if you are a yankee fan then post on the yankees blog. I really dont want to see yankee chatter here. its bad enough i have to suffer through it during a met game on SNY. Does YESS spend as much time on the Mets? Doubtful.
We dont really care diddley squat about the yankees, and I would like this a safe haven away from the chatter. I dont care about them…. at all. ———-
Alou’s bat when alive is impressive. his and greene’s fielding are very inconsistent. if they dont get a jump on the ball they wait for the bounce. beltran chavez gomez are really fast at the pickup. Gomez is still very green however. He needs more patience at the plate.
I am just wondering about poor milledge I thought he had come around and I wanted him to get that fair chance .. :-\
oh well..
Not having Alou would not be a big deal of Beltran and Green were still in the lineup. It seems that Beltran is a fragile little girl who takes time off for any injury. Alou’s injury to his leg muscle seems pretty weak too, considering he has all the treatment in the world available to him and he can’t go out there a few hours a day and play, at least every other day? I have more repsect for Green who says he will be ready to come back Sunday with his broken foot as well as Valentine who is playing on a torn ACL. Alou and Beltran need to suck it up as I am sure guys have played with worse injuries then their injuries. It’s a good thing these guys aren’t hockey players or they’d be winning the Lady Bing trophy for pansiness!
listen nothing is as bad as when STRAW took time off for a hangnail. now thats being a pansy.
i like to see endy in the field. his plays are just so enormous compared to greene. yeah he makes great plays only if he gets a head start on the ball.
Interesting…I read this morning that the Mets have not had their Opening Day lineup on the field together since April 28th. And still 4 games up!
Reyes
Wright
Beltran
Delgado
Alou
LoDuca
Green
Valentin
An FYI…Floyd has been fighting injuries all year as well with the Cubs
I would put money on Alou playing more games than Floyd this year. I didnt see anything wrong with this signing because you know what you are getting with him – he is injury prone but when healthy is a solid .300 hitter and very clutch. That was more than enough knowing that Milledge was waiting in the wings and Endy is the best backup outfielder in baseball. The real problem was Milledge’s fluke injury, which has significantly weakened the team’s depth, forcing them to call up guys we never expected to see before september.
Do we know when Alou might return? If he’s back around the all-star break and plays most of the second 1/2 and post-season, all is forgotten. I liken his contribution to El Duque’s.
To Metfan, Mel, Steve C. et.al.:
Do you think bad behavior is limited to the Yankees, or the American League or MLB? All Pro Sports are having their ‘come to Jesus moments’ in these days of 24/7 media coverage. MLB is particularly culpable in the alcohol, drugs, and steriod abuses of the recent years, and those issues are now being addressed. As far as the type of behaviour exhibited by ARod which has put him in the wayward celebrity section of mainstream media, every day brings new stories about professional athletes of all kinds who are abusing their $$$$ and fame in strange ways.
What nobody speaks or cares about are the sports crazy children who worship these athletes and who are the fans who will hopefully spend time and money in the future supporting their favorite teams. However, parents,grandparents and others are having a hard time explaining a lot of what is going on in professional sports with those athletes who are out of control to their young family members.
Who knows what goes on behind all those closed clubhouse doors? Thanks to ARod, those doors have been opened.
Alou will be fine.
Hey John, are you going to chime in on Sheffield’s comments about why there are more Latin American players than african-americans?
Personally I think he is FoS, and if there is a race with pride as its central focus, its not his own, but the ones he tried to throw under the bus.
Annie,
Please don’t worry about the children. They will get over the news that their beloved A-Rod may have cheated on his wife. If the New York Post didn’t sell an extra 25,000 copies when they ran a story about Alex Rodriguez maybe, possibly, cheating on his wife the children would never know about it. But they do know about it. Somehow I think that they will be ok.
Secondly, as has been pointed out, Alex Rodriguez is on the Yankees, not the Mets. This is a Mets blog. LoHud has a Yankees blog where discussion of the Yankees is expected and appropriate.
Mel, I’m always in favor of players waiting until they are healed to start playing again. Look at Beltran last year as compared to the year before. He attributed his awful 2005 season to playing through an injury. Sure he played but not well. Floyd was terrible last year as compared to the year before when he was healthy. The Mets have capable backups in Endy, Newhan, Johnson, and Gomez. They don’t need to rush injured players back. They are in 1st place also. I think its wise for these guys to heal up properly and then come back rather than playing poorly on top of risking re-injury.
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