http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2412654

No wonder he likes the bad boys. They remind him of himself.

• ... Washington Nationals general manager Jim Bowden was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol after allegedly running a stop sign while in Florida during his team’s series against the Marlins last weekend.

  He has Tony LaRussa disease.

Keith – Have you learned nothing yet? Mike C will be talking up LM ALL SEASON LONG. Just like last year.

One last word on LM. Yes he may turn out to be a good player, even a very good one. My question is if he is really on the list of top 10 young MLB players presented on this blog why did no one want him? There are many teams who need players.

He will definitely bring it when he visits Shea. If the Met pitchers are smart they stay off the fastball down the middle and throw junk off the plate.

I’ll say this for your owner. He put up seats at reasonable prices, something these Wilpons will never do. So even tho you are a DC jerk your owner is ok, and I look forward to going down there wearing my # 92 Super Bowl 42 jersey, you know super bowl champs, something your deadskins haven’t done in so long its almost as pethetic as the Eagles….. Maybe I’ll replace it with my 86 Darryl Strawberry champion baseball jersey… We’ve waited a while but hey, how long its been for you guys? 70-80 years or so? Of course my DC Navy Yard bullet proof vest will be underneath… Now go home read some more yo momma books and come back when you get good at this.

baseballevolution.com/guest/prattgms.html

That guy ranks Bowden as the #1 Bozo GM in the majors, lol.

http://baseballevolution.com/guest/prattgms.html

That guy ranks Bowden as the #1 Bozo General Manager in the majors, lol.

The Mets at least got to game 7 of the NLCS in ‘06 and the Yankees haven’t been there since ‘04. That is nothing but a big failure on their part.

The Nats/Expos history is one of the most dismal in the majors, no doubt due in part to the lack of interest in baseball in Montreal. But it’s pathetic nonetheless. And Bowden ranks near the bottom in terms of GMs. Don’t just ask a Mets fan, look at all the articles where they rank GMs. Omar is near the top and Bowden is near the very bottom. He’s a pure idiot.

and sloppy guy… you know trash talk. we have blogs, find em and we’ll have fun trash talking….. you really coming to our park? good luck? if you wear a church or schneider uniform you’ll see a lot of us laughing at you bro…..

Under this scenario, and also assuming that Reyes goes back to his 06 level, Wright does his usual and of course Beltran and Castillo are healthy, the offense should provide enough for Santana to win 18, Pedro 12, JM/OP 15 and Eld/Pelf 5-10.

No one should have been under the dillusion that the Mets don’t have issues, but as long as the above guys stay healthy and Alou and Delgado can repeat 07 numbers, Mets will be in playoffs.

Then it comes down to pitching. Santana/Pedro is as good as any tandem out their. So, they’ll have a shot to go all the way.

Bottom line-right now Mets are not the 80’s teams that did/could have dominated. But hopefully over the next few yrs they can pickup a couple of key FAs and Pelfrey and FMart become stars. If so, Mets will be a playoff team for a long time.

That is all you can ask for.

And I take umbrage to this statement. I want specific examples of my non existent baseball knowledge. Seriously, because I don’t think we should sacrifice every time we have a guy on 1B I don’t know baseball? Or the fact that I prefer Schneider over LoDuca (eschewing stats) because I place value on the intangibles of a defensive catcher? Or because I don’t just make conclusory statements about players without having a chance to watch them play or without pulling up their stats?

Really, I want to know what makes you think I’m a “fantasy baseball player.” What’s funny is I haven’t played fantasy baseball since high school (I’m out of college now) and I happen to think a lot of the fantasy baseball stats are overrated anyway. I’m interested in stats that correlate to winning.

Oh really, Ghost of Bad Mets Trades. Did you gloss over this: “Not to mention that having 5 tools means nothing unless one or two of them are superlative tools. Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder only have one tool… but their tool is that they can hit the ball into the next county. Their one superlative tool will make them bigger stars than Milledge and his 5 tools ever will be.”

Pretty sure that’s a scout based analysis of why I feel trading Milledge wasn’t that big of a deal. Hey, I could be wrong, but none of his 5 tools “wow” me.

You must have also missed this: “Baseball is a sport of skill. It helps to be athletic, but in the end, you need to be able to hit the round ball with the round bat.”

”...that go far beyond any stat that you have spewn out at us to defend every journeyman or has been that Minaya picks up.”

You know, it’s funny, I don’t remember seeing you around here for that long. Don’t pigeon hole me into being an Omar sympathizer or a stat freak because I’m not jumping to conclusions on Ryan Church like the rest of you. Yes, I am predominantly basing my position on Church based off his stats, because I haven’t seen him play all that much. A guy like Mike Pelfrey I was adamant about the Mets keeping because he has superb raw ability. I was pumped when we acquired Ollie because he has filthy stuff. I’ve even mentioned on numerous occasions that I wish we had given Milledge more of a chance. And truth be told, I would rather have Milledge over Church. But that doesn’t make Church a scrub or a AAAA player. I bet you guys were all killing Nady when we traded for him too.

So yeah, stats don’t tell the whole story of a player, but neither do his “tools.” You say I’v become tired, well, I’m tired of people making conclusory statements without backing them up. No Mets fan can call Church a scrub unless they watched every Nationals game last season. And even then, I would have to reserve judgment because his stats would indicate otherwise.

It just boggles my mind how people can have little to no knowledge of a player and jump to conclusions without looking at his stats or even watching him play.

“You trade your high ranking kids for stars, you don’t trade them for journeymen.”

I agree. I guess that’s why we traded Gomez and Guerra for Johan, while all Milledge netted us was Church and Schneider. Another comment no one has ever responded to was when I pointed out that the Twins did not want Milledge. The guy’s stock plummeted.

“You also think that your holy grail of assinine stats prove a players worth.”

Lastly, the game of baseball is deeply rooted in stats. This is part of the reason why everyone gets themselves all worked up over steroids… because it taints the record books. And record books contain…STATS! Again, stats don’t tell the whole story, but they record what actually happened. Your eyes can deceive you, but a .230 hitter is a .230 hitter.

And since Mets have no position player depth, no SP depth and little BP depth, it makes little sense to pay Peter and rob Paul.

The will have to hope Alou and Delgado will give them similar production to last yr and that whomever fills in is not an automatic out. I don’t believe that Pagan/Endy, Anderson/Easely are automatic outs.

Hence, better SP (if Pedro can go 25 starts) and BP will have to carry them thru.

Right now the SP should be able to give Mets 65 wins maybe 70 (18 Santana, 12 Pedro, 15ea JM/OP, 5-10 Elduqe/Pelfrey). Teams that have SP that wins 65 games or more, make the playoffs.

You’ll never get the point Keith. You trade your high ranking kids for stars, you don’t trade them for journeymen.

Also, you are very presumptive when you assume the Nats didn’t give Church a fair chance. You must be saying every AAAA player just got screwed, but fact is they are just AAAA players. You have shown you are nothing more than a fantasy baseball fan and you have shown the last several datys that your knowledge of real baseball is poor to non existent. You also think that your holy grail of assinine stats prove a players worth. If that were the case why in the name of wasting money woulkd any team every send a scout to watch a professional player. They’d fo to the stat book and make all their moves. You have become more tiring and old than Mike C by far. At least Mike C knows baseball is a game of judgement and skills that go far beyond any stat that you have spewn out at us to defend every journeyman or has been that Minaya picks up.

Since when does “held his own” translate into “blossomed immediately?”

Seriously. Read more carefully and take a look at some stats for a change.