Also if you look at Church’s offensive numbers he is pretty much top 4 across the board and that is with a month off.

Or perhaps you would prefer they DFA Church since he is just a pair of boots?

The “best hitter on the team” couldn’t be depended on, health-wise, to start that game either.

So your argument is kind of suspect.

in exchange for that we gave up a young player who thinks he is the best player in the game who cannot play better than your avg OF and who is hitting 250.

complain about all the old backup players and broken down players on this team if you like, but the other two who you have complained about since they got here are doing what they were traded for. namely starting LF and the defensive catcher who can help all the young pitchers we have.

Beyond that, though, is the idea that it takes a broadcaster to address this ongoing problem with Reyes. No manager, coach or teammate seems willing to put themselves on the line to call Reyes out publicly. The idea that it falls to a broadcaster, even one who has played this game in the media before, speaks volumes about what’s still wrong with this clubhouse.

Blame the Mets front-office for building a team so ridiculously dependent on oft-injured old guys and Expo wash-outs that Minaya still had a shine for that…

The Mets had to send out a starting line-up that included Damion Easley, Ramon Castro, Endy Chavez… all fine back-ups who are not starters… Christina Aguelera and the brokedown 2008 model of Carlos Delgado.

Beltran’s a quite good player in a slump.

Those guys are three bench players, a AAAA org-filler and the corpse of a guy who was an All-Star five years ago.

Blame them and blame the organization for leaving themselves in a position where those guys were all they could trot out there.

btw, Beltran has a whopping 4 hits over his last 10 games. I guess Manuel was right to give the guy a day off. I hope Beltran proves me wrong tomorrow and starts a nice hot streak. If he ever lived up to his potential, he could carry the team.

He puts up good numbers but when the game is on the line to frequently he does not come through.

However, we have many holes on this team. Losing your everyday CF and a mainstay of your offense will not make you better.

Yes, your right, I am a tad harsh with my criticisms sometimes, but not nearly to the extent of you..

In this space of posts alone, you call the Mets “choke artists”, “suck @ss”, “losers”, “losing bunch of characters”, “stinking Mets”, and you say you hate them, they suck, they’re losers, they’re going nowhere, they’re pathetic, you call anyone who doesn’t agree with your mindframe delusional, and finally, in almost every post of yours tonight, you insult the team in any possible way…

Many of your criticisms are valid; the Mets aren’t a very good team, and they have a very small chance of making the playoffs… But why the need to post something negative every other post?

Finally, why do you continue to watch this team if it fills you with contempt? Watching baseball is supposed to be fun, and criticisms are usually valid and needed, but you just blast the team nonstop, and it makes it much harder to read this blog….

Again, I’m sorry I told you to STFU, but when I read posts like yours on almost every Mets fansite, it just depresses the heck out of me…Much of it is valid, but extremely excessive

Want a reason for tonights loss

1-5 in the line up combined 1-17

tomg- I hear you. I don’t think the Phils are that great. But the Phils have heart and guts. We do not. Maybe we can win in spite of that. I was hoping our starting pitching would be the catalyst. But how much better could we have gotten than the game Santana gave us this evening? I agree with you about Omar. After seeing the fruits of his labor I think he is a bad gm. Apparently, he does not see the huge flaws this team has had for some time now. Like I said. I hope we can find a way in spite of them. I still have not given up hope, but you may be right about this club.

Believe me when i tell you that the phils aren’t that good, it’s just that the mets have a losing bunch of characters on there team when it comes to winning when it counts. That is a winning team and the Mets are not that team. Omar Minaya is the guy who built this team so he is the one to blame. I’m tired of saying this all year. I can’t wait until this season is over when all you fans who knocked me for being negative will see I was right all along.

Omar not having a back up plan for Alou is the one truly critical error he made in building this team.
None of the others would matter if he had an answer for Alou being out.

Screw all those bloggers who come on here and knock me for posting the way it is with this club. Those bloggers show me that they know nothing about the team they route for and have no business saying anything towards other bloggers. The 2008 NY Mets are a bunch of losers, losers, losers!!!!