Quotes of 2006

[Guest Edgy DC]

]"Is it painful to watch him go through that -- oh my God, was it painful," Mets leftfielder Cliff Floyd said yesterday. "You know what it reminds me of? You know when you misplace your purse or something, and you get all frantic, you start patting everything down, looking all over the place for it, almost going crazy until you finally find it -- and then you go, 'Ahhh?' It's the same with him. What he was is lost somewhere. It's just lost. But I believe he's going to find it." --- Cliff Floyd on Kazuo Matsui... and his purse

[Elster88]

I have never lost my purse.

[metsmarathon]

um, cliffy.... next time just use "keys" or maybe "wallet"

[Guest Edgy DC]

In Cornelius' defense, the article is written by Johnnette Howard, so he may have been trying to come up with an illustration that's meaningful for her.

[metirish]

] "It's not as strong as it obviously was with Kris and Jae," Steve Trachsel said about the rotation. "Jae was on the verge of really taking off. But it's still pretty solid."

Trax on the starting rotation.

[smg58]

Trax may have been a little too candid with that one. Not that I disagree with him, mind you.

[seawolf17]

smg58 wrote: Trax may have been a little too candid with that one. Not that I disagree with him, mind you.

That's the kind of attitude we can't have in this clubhouse. Maybe they can find a middle reliever somewhere and deal Trax out of here.

[Elster88]

]It's not as strong as it obviously was with Kris and Jae," Steve Trachsel said about the rotation.

Good thing improving the bullpen was more important than keeping the rotation as strong as possible. (Do I even need to post my SC here?)

Not that we necessarily improved the bullpen either. Pulling Heilman out and putting Sanchez and Julio in weakens it in my opinion.



I'm so mad. I'm much angrier than I should be over baseball. I still think CF put it perfectly by describing how the Benson trade weakens the rotation and the bullpen.

[Elster88]

LOL, seawolf. Considering that Benson's value is much higher than Trachsel's value, we might have to see if there's a reliever with a 2005 ERA over 7 that we can snag.

[Guest Edgy DC]

In his latest http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060123&content_id=1299330&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym' target=blank>sort through the mailbag, Marty Noble (sellout?) also scratches his head at what he sees as a downgrade in the rotation.

The funny part of Trax's comment is his unwillingness to suggest that he could upgrade Benson's slot.

[metirish]

From the same article.....

] Asked about the strength of the rotation compared to 2005's, Tom Glavine added: "I think we're going to be a lot better because of our bullpen. How about that?"

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/story/385641p-327269c.html

[Elster88]

These trades were so bad that they're even the main topic of conversation in the Quotes thread. I can't get away from them. I'm going to go hang out in the NBF.

[Elster88]

="Marty Noble"]Who can say whether the Mets have insights into Julio, that they know something that will make him as effective as he was in 2002?

I added the bold. The hope is that he can reach a level from 4 seasons ago. I am so angry. I am an angry man. Deep breaths.

[metirish]

I have faith in Peterson, and I am not being sarcastic.

[Elster88]

metsmarathon wrote: um, cliffy.... next time just use "keys" or maybe "wallet"

="Edgy DC"]In Cornelius' defense, the article is written by Johnnette Howard, so he may have been trying to come up with an illustration that's meaningful for her.

I don't think women should be allowed car keys either.

[patchyfogg]

I think Ms. Howard included Cliffy's quote as a placeholder for a future article or book on being a woman covering sports.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Elster88 wrote: I don't think women should be allowed car keys either.

Fine - YOU come down here and drive my kids all over the freakin' place then.

Come on - I Double Dog Dare Ya!

[Elster88]

I think you realized I was kidding, but in case anyone else out there didn't realize, I was just making fun of the juxtaposition of the two quotes.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Of course I did. I don't make it a habit to pawn my kids off on random people I only know through the Internet.

Well, most days I don't....

[Elster88]

I'm not random. I'm Elster.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

In that case, get down here and chauffeur my kids for me!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Strong quote from Cliff.

I kind of like what WWSB's saying in that article, by the way: Let's not pretend you haven't been a disappointment so far, but you can still have the job if you earn it.

[nymr83]

]Cliff Floyd plans to play out the final year of his four-year, $26 million contract rather than pursue an extension. Floyd indicated his agent may bring up the topic with the Mets before the season starts, but he doesn't expect any negotiations to occur until after the season. "I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all," Floyd said. "I believe that when you sign a contract, you play until the end, and then at the end of that you sign another one. If they choose to call you and say, 'You know what? We'll give you an extension,' you deal with that accordingly. Honestly, I've done good things, but you still have to establish yourself where you have a right to talk - 'You know what? I deserve this right now.' I haven't done that. I just want to play."

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/story/385665p-327268c.html

I'd like to hear more things like this and less things like "trade me, trade me!... and while you're at it i demand an extension"

[metirish]

Cliff seems to have assumed the role of media go to guy, I saw his bit on M&MD yesterday, he talked about taking the leadership role, it was good to hear.

[seawolf17]

Funny bit on WNBC4 this evening during the sports report. They played a short clip of Mets endorsing their choices for Grammys tonight. David Wright is a "big hip-hop fan," and loves Kanye West. The CG name underneath Wright on his clip said:

DAVID WRIGHT
Big Kanye West Fan

Then Tom Glavine came on, babbling something inaudible about something, with the following CG name superimposed:

TOM GLAVINE
Kanye West Sounds Familiar

Honestly, Ms. Wolf and I were laughing too hard to hear what Glavine had to say.

[Willets Point]

I have more in common with Glavine here than with Wright.

[metirish]

Rickey on the card game....

] "I think playing cards gave me the opportunity to relax in the game," Henderson said.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spmets0211,0,2493981.story?coll=ny-sports-headlines

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]"I didn't come here trying to implement the Yankee system or anything like that. I just felt like there were certain standards, things I wanted done, and since I'm the man, I just put them out there. That's all."

--WWSB, reconsidering the controversial goatee ban

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ]"... since I'm the man." --WWSB

Quite a brag for someone so widely challenged as to the diameter of his 'nads. Really quite open for debate, I'd say.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

] "He probably just got lucky and walked into one, but that's okay."

Willie on Matsui's HR off Wagner, 2/23