Stop with the insults you are much more interesting when you are not trying to bait.

I always liked Milledge. But I am also liking Church. While Millz has the potential to have a much better career, I think Church is a fine player.

Last yr he gave up 6 HR before AS game, 2 after. I believe he did about the same in 06. He pitches better in the 2nd half. He was only scored upon in 5 of his last 37 appearances last yr.

Inn Wk so era
87 37 106 3.17
87 28 73 3.62
86 20 63 3.04

Judge based on facts. Don’t be one of those emotional, uneducated callers that talks to fat man and puppy dog. Look it up before you speak nonsense.

The Mets problems last yr had little to do w/heilman. Their problems were Elduqe hurt, and no BP depth (Mota and Sele and Show stunk).

This is for all you Milledge haters:
http://washington.nationals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080411&content_id=2515813&vkey=news_was&fext=.jsp&c_id=was

Must piss some of you little metsies off to see a kid like Milledge doing good in the community….

As for Heilman, the guy drives me nuts, but he is actually one of the better setup men around. We’re spoiled by ‘06 when we had a ridiculous bullpen. I said it the other day, you could have picked names out of a hat that year. Everyone in that bullpen pitched awesome that year.

Actually Scott I do know about the early Mets. I grew up not so far from Pelham in the Bronx, near Pelham Parkway, you know all those big ugly buildings off of I-95, Co-op City, the most hideous thing ever built other than your current team. Ok, I agree the early Mets weren’t boring but the 2008 Mets are very very boring…...

Just get it, and put it in the books. And don’t get too hung up on the Aesthetics.

Your team was destroyed by the ownership of the team which was the Commissioner. A few years ago Montreal was a good franchise on a budget when baseball did their best to destroy the team.

There is talent on the Nats, notably the 3b – altho ours is better. You guys are young and not a threat although you may think you are.

Love you little metsies…. can’t even be happy when you get lucky and win a game.

dave: you’re ok too!!!!! dave the only difference between you and me is I know the worst gm in the world destroyed my franchise and its gonna take a long time to recover, and you haven’t come to that realization yet….

In my earlier post I said he is the 1B because of the contract. He is not useless. In fact if he was a walk on we would love him like Pagan.

Last year I defended him until about August. In 06 he was great and was the best clutch hitter in the post season we had. Last year his numbers were good, but considering who he is it was a disappointment.

I am watching him when I can to see if I believe he has recovered. At this early date I feel he is who he is. He will end up with whatever avg he will. He will probably end up with 20-25 HR. Not bad. But IMHO he adds no protection for Beltran and if they can throw an 89 mph fastball by him what good is he at 5?

I havent looked at the numbers but I believe Church has 8 rbi’s and is hitting north of 350. Again I have no long term faith in him. I hope HoJo has fixed his swing so he is effective. The real #5 is on DL. But I would rather have someone with the ability to fight off pitches and perhaps get a hit over someone who will get burned with RISP.

At this point I think this means Church over Delgado.

I do not think the mgr owes Carlos anything at this point. He is playing for next year and probably won’t be back. Willie is free to do what is best for the team.

Of course I’ll agree that Delgado is aging and not driving the inside pitch like he used to, but he’s our 1st baseman for better or for worse. Willie will never bat Church in front of Carlos because Willie loves his veterans, not to mention that Church hasn’t hit lefties any better than Delgado thusfar. Because of that fact, I choose to cheer Carlos on – especially when he’s hitting over .300 and going opposite field consistently.

It’s funny because last year everyone wanted to run Delgado out of town because he was hitting .220 and was trying to pull everything. Now he’s hitting over .300 and going the other way consistently and people still aren’t happy with him (granted it’s only been 8 games). I feel like Delgado will never get a fair shake here because people are expecting the numbers he put up when he was in his prime 5 years ago, and that’s just plain not going to happen.

one more thing, since your post are totally retarded and childish I will skip your post when I see your name because you have nothing to bring to the table when talking baseball, your post aren’t worth reading or getting excited over.

“2 out Reyes on second and he barely gets home and should have been out if there was a real catcher blocking him. Did he get slow over the winter or did he not hustle home becauase he wants to be like the old metsies anf be lazy?”

Dushbag, let me try to explain this so even your IQ could understand. Pagan has no power and is mostly a singles hitter so the centerfielder is playing shallow, that’s why it was a close play at the plate. Your comment shows you know nothing about baseball, case closed, just a low life that has nothing better to do with his time but to come on another teams blog and irritate people. I know your type, tough guy behind a keyboard but a little girl when confronted in person.

any mature adult would see from your post above that you know nothing about baseball. All you do is talk trash against the mets and there fans. That’s not knowing baseball, that’s just being immature. I really hope you are a 10 year old because if your not, that’s sad.

As for Delgado, yes he is hitting 300 but with the exception of a weekend with ATL we did not face good pitchers. There were many fat pitches with men on base that 2 years ago would be over the fence or at least roped and he wiffs or fouls off.

At this point I would rather have Church at #5.