I don't think you should watch this sad excuse of a team. You might become suicidal by the 3rd game.

And I find it interesting that a guy who is so in to the young player would even defend Duquette at all. He was Jeff Wilpon's lacky who traded away one of the best prospects the Mets have had in the past 10yrs.

Gotta disagree here slop. As a GM you need to know when you have a real shot, and when you don't. The Mets did not have a shot at going far even if they made the playoffs. We would have all been better off if they had stood pat.

Metsfan: You are not worth reponding to becuase you have a thought process that thinks that if you think Omar and his team of warriors is not perfect you are a lesser person than you are. However, once again your premise is wrong and insulting. You ask why I "hate" Minaya so much. I don't actually hate him at all, I actually find him quite entertaining and interesting to listen to when he's on a game. However, i think he is a poor excuse for a GM. he did a lousy job with Montral. Unlike successful small market GMS who have a plan of getting rid of high priced guys to keep a flow of talent rolling to stay competitive, he kept getting rid of the talent and got little if any talented kids in return as is evident by the fact that he left the expos/Nationals with a minor league system bereft of talent. When he came to the Mets it seemed he was this superstar recruiting stars, but the fact was he he got guys who were rejected by the Red Sox and Yankees for the most part. The notable exception was Wagner. He claimed when he came here that the team was going to gewt younger, but just like he did with Montreal he has created a farm bereft of talent. We have a team that is excellent on paper if we have ZERO injuries. And we don't have zero injuries and we won't, It doesn't happen. Excpet for Reyes and Wright he has built a team that has no fire, no passion, and while it doesn't matter in a runaway, it sure mattered ina close race. he cost the team the pennant last year by doing nothing to help the pen. He made no moves the entire year on a bullpen that started with 5 decent guys and became a 4 man pen when Smith became an A ball pitcher.
You can knock duquette and poke fun at him, but at least when he smelled first place he tried to make the team better. His results were obviously very flawed but at least he tried. As for Steve Phillips, when Minaya gets his team to thew World Series then maybe you can compare the tweo, but until then Phillips was one of the very few GMS to get this team to the World Series. He brought in Piazza and didn't do it contingent on singing a deal ahead of time. He brought in Leither, he brought in Hampton over the protests of most Met fans who thought Cedeno was the next Lou Brock. Even many of his bad moves like Alomnar were universally praised when made. So come back to me Omar lackey when he (Omar from Pelham or whatever he's changing his name to) has the Mets in the World Series.

I just do not think Pelf is ready at this time to pitch at Shea. But since he is here, I hope they keep him up. There is no reason to send him down in 2 weeks or whatever when Hernandez gets back.

If you want to develop him by throwing him in the water then throw him in and let him learn to swim. Otherwise send him to AAA and find some other way to hold the fort until Duque is back.

That is just the way it is. Don't expect him to be happy. He is sloppy.

We all get frustrated w/the state of the team from time to time. However I could not be in a continuos state of glass is half empty (or maybe completely empty) all the time.

If anything, his confidence would be boosted by it.

Why do guys post when al;l theyare capable of doing is repeating the company line. Its not Groundhog day. Bill Murray did that/done that.

Citing past performance for these kids, while certainly significant, doesn't mean it's written in stone that Pelfrey or whoever won't realize their potential.