Quotes of 05 (cont.)

[Guest Elster88]

HAHAHAHA. I like Traxx. He was out there shaking hands after yesterday's game.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I've missed Trax's sense of humor <g>

[Guest metirish]

Mike Jacob's on being in the big leagues..

]I definitely realize what's at stake," Jacobs said.. "Two out? That's right there, that's so close. I think the best way to describe it is that it's surreal. I still don't even believe I'm here. I still don't believe I'm playing."

Love it, it must be something else to be him right now.

Willie brings us back to earth,

]"Let's not make him out to be Babe Ruth yet," Randolph said. "He's just a kid who's getting a taste and he's taken advantage of it so far, so that's good for him."

[Guest MFS62]

From Suzyn Waldman (the last time he started) "The starting pitcher for the Mets is Carlos Zambrano."

Hey, Suzyn, its not like you don't live in New York and have access to the New York Sports Pages. Try reading one for a change.

Later

[Guest metirish]

Ah that's a common thing MFS62, Jim Duquette thought it was Carlos he was getting in the Kaz trade.

[Guest Benjamin Grimm]

="MFS62"]From Suzyn Waldman (the last time he started) "The starting pitcher for the Mets is Carlos Zambrano." Hey, Suzyn, its not like you don't live in New York and have access to the New York Sports Pages. Try reading one for a change. Later

Says the guy who spent a month calling Carlos Beltran "Beltre."

[Guest Rotblatt]

Yeah, no kidding, Irish! I'm really happy for him. I don't expect him to keep this up, but I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.

At the very least, the kid's got some pop and would look nice coming off the bench for us when Mientkiewicz returns.

So you think Wright's got the kid carrying his bags for him? :lol:

Although I think Jacobs has two years on Wright. Crazy-ass shit, right there. Wright is YOUNG. And he's all ours . . .

And one more addition to our quotes thread:

http://soxtease.com/shop.htm

My fave: "I'd go wicked fah with Millah"

[Guest MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Says the guy who spent a month calling Carlos Beltran "Beltre."

Do as I say, not as I do?

Good point.
My mistake was really a succession of brain farts. But once my mistake was pointed out to me, I knew what the right name was.
I have no doubt that Suzyn doesn't know what the correct name really is.

Doesn't anybody around this place have a short memory?
Sheesh!

Later

[Guest Elster88]

"Coach [Rick] Peterson compared how I was pitching to golf. He said I had 14 clubs in my bag and I was using only seven." -- Tom Glavine, on his development of a cutter and curve

[Guest MFS62]

He's added two new pitches?
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

If anyone stayed up to watch it, Heath Bell unveiled a splitter last night, which he evidently came up with during his AAA assignment to learn a change up.

Whiffed 2 guys on it, swinging, by a good margin.

[Guest TheOldMole]

Anyone can make a slip like that. Suzyn, in spite of her unfortunate Yankee predilection, is a great sports journalist.

[Guest Benjamin Grimm]

Who are we, the devoted listeners of Ralph Kiner, to cast stones at Suzyn Waldman for getting her Zambranoes mixed up?

[Guest Rotblatt]

MAN does she suck on the play-by-play, though. Or color commentary or whatever it's called.

I mean, I'm spoiled with Gary & Howie, but I'd rather listen to the scintillating back-and-forth of the Braves TV announcers than Suzyn.

long pause

Announcer # 1 "Chipper's a pretty good hitter."

pause

Announcer # 2 "A-yup."

long pause

[Guest MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Who are we, the devoted listeners of Ralph Kiner, to cast stones at Suzyn Waldman for getting her Zambranoes mixed up?

1) This is a quotes thread. This is the one thatcame to mind. But she constantly demonstrates her lack of knowledge (or is it interest?) in the other major league team less than 10 miles away.

2) As for the fumbling of names, unfortunatley, Kiner had a stroke. And at least he has some charm and great stories. What's Suzyn's excuse?

3) She deserves it anyhow, for crimes against (baseball) humanity.

Later

[Guest Benjamin Grimm]

Kiner was fumbling names for more than thirty years before he had his stroke.

[Guest MFS62]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Kiner was fumbling names for more than thirty years before he had his stroke.

He was loveable.
She is not.
B'sides, she works for the MFYs.

Later

[Guest Rotblatt]

And I think we make fun of her more for the blinders she wears than her name mix-ups.

I mean, I only tend to listen to Yankees games when they're doing poorly, which this year has happened to fall on a large number of "Big Unit" days and I can't tell you how annoying it gets to hear comments like "Ooh, that pitch was great! I think he's finally turned the corner!" or, during his tenth or eleventh bad start, "I'm really suprised by how much Randy's struggling!"

And I agree, unlike Kiner, there's nothing loveable about Suzyn.

[Guest DocTee]

Peter Gammons on BB Tonight:

"David Wright may well be the best position player the Mets have ever had..."


WOW

[Guest TheOldMole]

Kiner knows so much about baseball, sometimes it can take your breath away. He's one of the great announcers, and I don't care how many names he mixes up.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Mole - have you read Kiner's book, Forever Baseball? I think you'd enjoy it.

[Guest TheOldMole]

] "David Wright may well be the best position player the Mets have ever had..."

Strawberry? Piazza? Hernandez? Carter?

[Guest Elster88]

I don't count the last three in your list because they weren't Met farm players.

And if he continues the way he is (big if, since it's his second year), he might be better than those three, all around:

Straw -- longer career with longer peak
Hernandez --- more power
Carter --- longer career with longer peak
Piazza --- better fielder

In fact, this post is a huge jinx on the kid. If he gets hit by a bus or something you know who to blame.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]. "It's crazy, 32 runs in two days. It's pretty tight, man. ... I know what these guys are thinking -- 'Are you serious? What is this kid doing?' I'm just enjoying myself."

Jake the Rake, 8/24

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Elster88 wrote: I don't count the last three in your list because they weren't Met farm players. And if he continues the way he is (big if, since it's his second year), he might be better than those three, all around: Straw -- longer career with longer peak Hernandez --- more power Carter --- longer career with longer peak Piazza --- better fielder

I say the Mets' best position player ever is going to be conceived this coming Wednesday afternoon in Tupelo, Mississippi. He will be named Frederic Tutenkhamin O'Grady shortly after being born prematurely next May, and will grow up to be a powerhitting Gold Glove secondbaseman. "Tut" will have a 23 year career, and his best season will be his 19th year in MLB, at the age of 40. He will make Wright and Strawberry look like two skin irritations on the ass of a water buffalo.

[Guest Elster88]

Notice the words "big if".

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

I'm just showing you a bigger if.

[Guest Elster88]

Dammit, I want to have the biggest if.

[Guest seawolf17]

[Guest seawolf17]

Kaz Matsui made a heads-up play by stopping short of Counsell, and in the rundown that ensued, the Mets scored not one, but two runs before Matsui was eventually tagged to complete the double play. At the start, Counsell tossed to first to get Beltran, but Matsui duped the others to scramble after him, and they totally lost track of the other runners - with Ramon Castro rumbling in from third base and Reyes coming all the way around from second.

"That was a very unorthodox-looking play," Randolph said. "It was probably the first time I ever saw that."