Great night by the offense, but forgive me if I don’t go overboard with this. There have been breakout signs all year, but they always slip back into a funk. Let them do it for a stretch, like maybe a week or two. Then we can talk about their offense.
Of course, you can talk about anything you’d like here. The offense. Tom Glavine. That great catch Marlon Anderson made in left in the ninth. Always plenty of things with the Mets.
Talk with you later today.
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Hi-ya John. I gotta say something about Gotay, yes more Gotay talk.
I dont know if you get the SNY feed during the games but I have to point out what the guys in the booth keep saying about him, of which I agree 100%. Its not that Gotay is batting
.350, it’s the QUALITY of his at bats. He has a great approach and works the pitcher. I dont see how Randolph can spin this one….he’s gotta play Gotay~~!
nice game, Glavine didn’t have it but he’s been good 3/4 of the time, which these days is good enough. Castro is ridiculuos, the best back-up in the game right now.
Lastly: How many balls has Green lost in the lights/sun this year i can remember 4 off the top of my head. It’s ridiculous. whne Alou comes back you’ll the “bench Greenie” movement will be fully underway, with me leading the chants.
Have a ggod night.
So do the other Met players call David Wright “Digs Himself”? That’s what a post on ESPN about nicknames claims.
Hi John –
Weather here has been chaotic – tornados on Long Island and in CT (New Milford, Thomaston, Bristol, Uncasville) over the last two days along with power outages and downed trees/wires etc.
Listening to WFAN on a transistor, I heard the Glavine implosion – again. My guess is that something ?? is bothering Tommy and he cannot block it out while on the mound. Too bad about last night, because the team gave him a gift in the first inning and he just couldn’t accept it.
Which pitcher is Ms Milano stalking these days?
The only thing bothering Glavine was his control. Even 9000 year old Vince Scully kept commentng about how he looked as bad as Lowe. to his credit though, he didn’t act like a baby when he was taken out of he game.
Whatever it was that the Mets ate on the bus ride from San Diego to LA, they should eat the same thing before the rest of each game this season. Now THOSE are the Mets I remember from last year—scoring first inning runs like crazy. I like what I saw and want to see some more.
Mel – Glavine has been wildly erratic this year – there is no consistency to his work. I’m thinking of the Detroit game now, but last night tops that fiasco. Can’t help thinking there is something else on Tommy’s mind these days besides his pitching.
what an up an down night. I couldnt stay up.
talk about a football score.
Lets Go Mets Go!
Once again. I caught something real late. Delgado made an error? something he should have caught? hmmmm
not delgado. where’s KEITH to set this guy right!
Steve C,
I love it when Keith preaches! “I’m sorry folks, this is the Major Leagues…”
Hi John –
I’d like to say something about the kids/veterans in sports.
Right now, there is a young man, an amateur – Rory McIlroy, age 18, from Belfast Northern Ireland – who will make the cut in the British Open with a two day score of +2. This means he ‘plays the weekend’ and it’s a really big deal. He will learn more about himself, the game, and how to play with the big boys this weekend than he would in any ‘junior program’.
Joe Torre knew this when in 1995 he asked that Jeter, Bernie, Posada, and Ramiro Mendosa be allowed to travel with the team during the post-season just to absorb the atmosphere. Lessons learned through that experience certainly helped in making the ‘95 group into the ballplayers they are today.
David Wright is another youngster who was brought to the Big Team at a very early age and learned what is expected of him as a Major Leaguer. David has become an asset on and off the field for his team.
So when I see baseball ‘veterans’ whose skills are not just lessened but almost non-existant anymore still clinging to their bats, gloves and uniforms, I cringe. Stats are the records of baseball and everyone knows when abilities go south.
There are lots of players at all levels in the minors and the A’s leagues of baseball who would flourish in the Major Leagues if only there were room for them. Some coaches and managers are more likely to ‘take a chance’ on a kid and I commend them. I just wish there were more of them.
Read something today that mentions Sosa.
It is an interesting idea. We need power, we need OF’s, we need protection when Alou goes down.
He is part of the steroids thing, plays no D and is batting 250.
Not sure, but it is interesting.
I’m definitely tempering my enthusiasm.
Annie
Tommie’s prolem is he’s gettin old. Him Maddux, Johnson, Bonds, etc are all less consistant because the body sometimes says no more and they are all trying to deny nature. He was inconsistant last year as well, excpet it was longer streaks of each.