Opening Day 2009

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

If the Mets new stadium opens in '09 as promised, and knowing what we know NOW!!!!, make your best guess as to the pitcher who hurls the first pitch at the new park in the home opener?

This will be a good one for the Prediction Archives.

Winner gets a free beer!

[Guest Rotblatt]

Petit.

[seawolf17]

I'll take Barry Zito.

[metirish]

Scott Kazmir, remember where you read this first,the Mets will reaquire kaz in 08 in a stunning move.

[Guest Rotblatt]

You know, Irish, I was thinking the same thing, but went with Petit instead, even though I have a sinking feeling we're going to trade him before July.

I could totally see us going after Kazmir in a few years.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Dwight Gooden, Jr.


Back to the Future.

[Willets Point]

David Wells.

[Guest vtmet]

Randy Johnson delivers a first pitch gopher ball to Rickey Henderson with Julio Franco in the on deck circle...one batter into the season, and the Braves hex still lives on...

[Guest vtmet]

metirish wrote: Scott Kazmir, remember where you read this first,the Mets will reaquire kaz in 08 in a stunning move.

will that be before or after his Tommy John surgery that Lord Petersen has predicted?

[Guest martin]

i'll take petit. by then his pinpoint control will be legendary. they will call him " el gordo greg maddux"

[Edgy MD]

I don't think "Lord Petersen" is on record as having predicted any such thing.

[Guest vtmet]

Edgy DC wrote: I don't think "Lord Petersen" is on record as having predicted any such thing.

Would you believe, "strongly hypothesized"?

[Edgy MD]

I think his hypothesis was and is that high school pitchers tend to need about 500-600 innings before being able to pitch consistently effectively in the majors.

[Guest vtmet]

Edgy DC wrote: I think his hypothesis was and is that high school pitchers tend to need about 500-600 innings before being able to pitch consistently effectively in the majors.

Luckily, he wasn't Davey Johnson's PC...otherwise, we would not have beared witness to most of Dwight Gooden's moments of greatness...

[Edgy MD]

C'mon. You're pleading the alternative now. You come up with one accusation and rather than acknowledge its unfairness when confronted, you just move to another.

[Guest SI Metman]

Pedro after coming off of his third Cy Young in 4 years. It'll be right after they raise the championship banner.

[metirish]

I have never heard Peterson say such a thing about Kazmir, he only ever saw him pitch two innings so that would be a dumb thing to say, does he advocate taking High School pitchers?, no he doesn't and he has numbers to back that up when talking about Kazmir, at least to him they make sense.....

[Elster88]

I went with Humber. I really have no strong feeling that it will be anyone, I just really doubt it will be Pedro.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hey, there were 2 votes for Mike Pelfrey, if you remember that was you come claim your prize.

[seawolf17]

Barry Fucking Zito?!? Nobody hire me as a GM.