Adam Rubin Chat

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Turns out that Newsday had scheduled its chat at the same time.

Today (Monday), Newsday has David Lennon at 1pm and the Snooze has Rubin at 2.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/

Lennon;s taking questions NOW. ... Come on let's give them something interesting to talk about.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

OK, Hubie Brooks Robinson is on the Lennon queue.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rubin's chat application isn't working for me. Ask him this one.

"Jose Reyes had a two-homer game at the start of spring training. But he hasn't hit squat since then, for the Mets or the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic. Is he one of those players who hit a few homers and get their swing messed up trying to hit a few more?"

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Rubin's chat won;t be taking Q's till later. Ask Lennon.

Besides, we shouldn't care care what a sportswriter thinks of Reyes' swing. Come on man.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I got two in the queue.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Crap answer on Dillon Gee. "Nobody's talking about him, so I don't have an opinion of my own."

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hubie Brooks Robinson, I think you broke his brain.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Prolly shouldn't have personally put him on the defensive but it wasn't a bad answer regarding Jerry's own selfish reasons -- I think he does do that.

I also thought Gee was not a hard-thrower.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Prolly shouldn't have personally put him on the defensive but it wasn't a bad answer regarding Jerry's own selfish reasons -- I think he does do that.

I also thought Gee was not a hard-thrower.[/quote:3tdzu7tm]

I could just hear him flipping through the dictionary to find "rancor."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Back in as "Mr. Worst-Case Scenario"

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Lennon certainly likes to give expansive answers , of course it could be that the quality of questions have gotten better .

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Going to start calling you ET now Edgy...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Dodged my enormous question.

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Mr. -Worst-Case-Senario is one of you guys?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes, that was me. I'm asking a similar question to Rubin under the name Jeff Torborg Experience.

[Guest Edgy DC]

My wife asks all the personal questions

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Comment From Jeff Torborg Expe...] Hi Adam, I recall a very good analysis you did around the time of the Willie firing last year suggesting that perhaps it was Bernazard who was the future king of the Mets. How if at all has that dynamic changed? Is Bernazard a bad guy? How secure should Omar be in the event of a poor start or poor finish? Well, I think the fact that Jeff Wilpon gave Omar Minaya a three-year extension after last season, even though Omar was signed through 2009, indicates he�s in great shape. I think things would have been different had the Mets just gone into a freefall in the second half and not made it a race until the final day. Tony Bernazard wants to be a GM, and has interviewed in Seattle and Pittsburgh. He�s a very intense guy, so he has friends and enemies. I think in the early days of Omar taking over from Jim Duquette, Tony was the primary person making decisions behind the scenes. I think Omar has asserted himself now a little more, and Tony�s opinion is strongly weighed but not the definitive word.

[metirish]

Missed the Lennon chat today but I'm reading over it now , Heyman is reporting that the Mets " are believed to have made an offer" to Pedro...Lennon says a team guy he talked to says no firm offer was made.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/2009/03/live_chat_with_david_lennon_14.html

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Lennon is on again today at noon. He says there is barely any drama tyo the selections anymore, as they're down to Dessens, Nieve and O'Day for the final bullpen slot.

That means we've got to come up with some creative questions.

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I have my Rubin question about the size of Piazza's balls locked and loaded....Lennon can have it.

Hi David , love your work..regarding Mike Piazza there has been a lot of talk about back acne , maybe too much talk , has there been any talk about "shrinkage" as George Costanza might say.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, George was talking about the frank, and you about the beans.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

OK, Lennon is underway.

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/

Sham-WOW has asked about Oliver Perez's disposition

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Duffy D'yer Maker asks about The Schneid

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mazzilli Vanilli has asked.

[metirish]

Pete Flynn's spade asked his question

[Guest Edgy DC]

Dude is taking a lot of redundant questions.

[metirish]

Lennon indulging silly questions...

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Sham -WOW up - good question

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For prosperity


[Comment From Sham-WOW]
David, Is there something about Oliver Perez's disposition, or maybe the way he treats writers, that invites critical coverage? How does he get along with teammates?
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Didn't know the WOW was all caps in Sham-Wow. Always learn someting during this chat. Perez invites critical coverage by his pitching more than anything else. I don't think he's a bad guy and his teammates seem to live him. From a reporter's standpoint, he doesn't express himself particularly well - in either english or spanish -- and that makes it difficult to get the full perspective from his end. Santana in particular seems to have struck up a friendship with him. That should help.

[Guest Edgy DC]

My question got cut off at my paragraph break.