Mets Chat Room: Going to Disney edition
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- June
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On a layover heading to Anaheim. I am tempted to go to Disneyland when I get there and ride roller coasters, but I may watch the Celtics put away the Lakers.
I checked tickets. About $3,000 a pop. Little rich for my blood.
What’s the most you’ll pay for a ticket? And, the event, of course.
The way things are going, you don’t have to mention 2008 Mets World Series tickets.
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Josh here again. That was a mighty swat by Carlos Delgado. They just announced the ball traveled an estimated 430 feet. It hit halfway up the “Verizon Yellow Pages” sign on the scoreboard, slightly below the clock.
Also, Trot Nixon’s roller up the box was his first hit as a Met.
Disneys a ripoff. I prefer Knottsberry farms. Vaccarro had a good whack today. He said Mets got rid of Floyd because he was too brittle, Who was his replacement? Iron man Alou!!
Ray…(Josh again) I’m with you. I’ve been to Knottsberry Farms and had a great time. A much better place for adults.
Alou, Green, Floyd… all these ancient weaksauce excuses to not develop the Milledges of the world because they know that the NYC press will “care” more about guys who were All-Stars ten years ago and… maybe they’ll “keep up” with the Yankees in the papers.
No more, no less.
Strike that: no more and so much less.
Beltran just sent one over the wall.
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(Josh again) Nixon has to feel good. He’s been very involved in this one so far, with three putouts in RF, a walk and a single.
You know what he brings that the Mets could use a much-needed dose of? OBP.
Maybe they knew the Milledges weren’t as good as their hype…
JD, Whats with the (joshagain) thing? Theres a couple of articles in todays papers about this being the 25th anniversary of the Keith trade. The Cards GM at the time was none other than Joe McDonald, archetect of the Midnight massacre here. Thanks for returning the favor, Joe.
(Josh again) Huge play. Feliciano relieves Maine to face Ramon Vasquez and throws a wild pitch. Gerald Laird moves to second, making it second and third, and Feliciano gives up a two-run single against a drawn-in infield. I believe Reyes and Castillo would have turned two on that had Reyes been back.
That’s why baseball’s a complex game. One wild pitch changes the alignment, and – boom! – it’s a two-run single.
What do you “know” about a Milledge at 22?
In comparison to, oh, dumping Gotay for a four year contract on Big Poppa Limp, for example?
There’s a much bigger chance that a four-or-five-tool prospect could live up to his scouting report than the odds of Delgado waking up tomorrow and he’s twenty-seven again.
Or so on.
I don’t see Nixon being a Big Fix, I don’t think there’s any lightning in that bottle?
But he’ll certainly be better than the parade of AAAA washouts that were being put in that position, your Tatises, your Christina Agueleras, your… oh God… that Pascucci feeb some particularly delusional fans wanted called up from the Zefs or so on or so forth…
And he’ll certainly be better, in the short-term, than trying to rush AA firstbasemen that might be good in two or three years but just aren’t ready into being MLB corner outfielders out of desperation.
People who want Trot Nixon to have a freak half-season of his peak potential because they saw that once, a long time ago, with Jose Valentin?
They’ll be disappointed.
But he’ll be better than those other ridiculous stopgaps.
It’s really hard to win close games when you have a lefty specialist who can’t get out lefties, and a right handed specialist who can’t get our righties….
Mike C. ... I agree about Nixon. I don’t think he’ll be great, but he’s an improvement over the assorted guys they’ve rolled through the lineup this season. He gets on base at an above average rate, which is more than you can say about the others.
Josh…Excellent point. Plus, the bullpen just does not strike people out on the whole. That’s a huge negative, especially with runners on base.
Did anybody catch Schowenwies warmed up 20 days in a row? No wonder the pen is getting hammered. They are already tired. Thats why it was so stupid to pull Pelfry the other night. Instead of a day off, the game went into extras and they used 4 or 5 releivers.
Mets making some noise here, lets see what happens….
What do I know about Milledge? His minor-league stats indicate two things to me: That his power has dropped with each level of competition and that his OBP numbers are being propped up by HBPs. At his current rate, he projects to be a Randy Winn-type.
Kinsler gives willie a fathers day gift. Its getting interesting now. 8-4 Texass.
(josh again) Not a wise decision to send Schneider there. Randolph could’ve brought up Ramon Castro with the bases still juiced. Instead, it’s only 8-5 and the Mets still have a long way to go.
I don’t know what Sandy Alomar was thinking there with Schneider running. It wasn’t even that close.
Thoughts?
But didn’t the inning-ending sequence just look like a microcosm of this season? Reyes, overaggressive when the pressure is on the other team, lofts the lazy, shallow flyball, and Alomar goes for broke by sending the slowest man this side of Ed Kranepool. That’s the Mets in a nutshell.
Sandy Alomar shows questionable judgement again….
And can somebody please tell me why Marlon Anderson is still on the Mets????
Sandy Alomar is the worst 3B coach in baseball… I can’t even count how many times that delusional old fool has cost us runs…
Heilman is helping again….I think he is just mad that he is the only reliever that has not given up runs yet and does not want to be left out.
Terrible ab by Reyes again. first pitch swinging with that uppercut hack produces a lazy fly ball. Schneider looked like he was running in quicksand. Another tease.
Its good to see someone with a worse bullpen than ours. LETS GO METS!! 8-6.
It’s up to Shrek…
That was excruciating….
In honor of Art Howe, We battled. You have to laugh to keep from crying.
Play of the game….Toss up between Feliciano’s wild pitch, and, Alomar sending Schneider.
It feels like they only bother to make it close, just so that the end can hurt more. That’s… basically where we’re at emotionally.
wow
This game is on the bullpen… If anyone of Feliciano, Schoenweis, or Smith had done their job, we could’ve actually won this game…
just . fire omar willie sandy alomar cut delgado. and why did we not bunt in the 9. we stink…
Call from the Wilpons to Willie. Take Sandy out to dinner tonight and take the rest of your staff with you. Don’t worry about the flight to LA.
Just saw Willie’s after game interview. He never takes responsibility for anything bad. This team needs a stand up manager that understands that what goes on with the players is ultimately his responsibility.
...by the way….Schneider just reached home plate.
Joe McDonald may have been Cardinals GM 25 years ago but everyone knew Whitey Herzog ram the show. He didn’t like Hernandez’s cocaine use or his style of baseball (patient at the plate, not very fast on the bases). M Donald Grant (with help from Dick Young) ran Seaver out of town by refusing to renegotiate and insulting Nancy Seaver in print (said she was jealous of Nolan Ryan’s wife for making more money). McDonald goofed by taking Cincinnati’s offer of Zachry, Henderson, Flynn and Norman instead of the Dodgers of Don Sutton and an injured Pedro Guerrero.
40 years ago NY Giant fans would demand Allie Sherman be fired by chanting “Goodbye Allie! Goodbye Allie! Goodbye Allie, we’re glad to see you go!”. Once the Giants fired him after losing an exhibition game to the Jets, it took a mere 13 years and draft pick debacles like Rocky Thompson and Eldridge Small to make the playoffs.
We will see if the fix is in for the Lakers to extend the series. NASCAR got what they wanted..Junior won a race!
So how are we going to lose game two?
Do you imagine the uproar if boards were around in 83 when the Mets got Keith? “I can’t believe it…trade one of the top relievers on the team plus a can’t miss prospect (and frisbee thrower,) in Rick Ownbey? For what? A 29 year old player who has clearly had his best years behind him. FIRE FRANK CASHEN!!!!” :-)