nymr83

what is the origin of the term "pattywagon"?

the writers strike me as ignorant or worse. to give a GG to a guy who played 20 games of the position smacks of ignorance to what is actually going on in the league

that would be boring, i'd support the "Cheap Jews" though, I'd be the first to buy the jersey as i'd find it hilarious

you could be automatically friendly

you could just put "Later" as the top line of your signature

3 years? i read in the paper today that the yankees might not even want to give him 2 years.

advance scouts are a good idea i think "former" anything could run into the same problem as the writers: they know a guy by reputation but dont know what hes done this year

TransMonk wrote: ="Vic Sage"] Reyes (s) Wright (r) [with his patience, baserunning and discipline, hitting 2nd behind Reyes would be like they MFY's Ricky/Mattingly 1-2 punch] Beltran (s) Delgado (L) Soriano (r) - surrounded by a guy with a .400 ob% in front, and a decent contact guy behind him, and his speed breaks up the slowpokes. Green (L) LoDuca (r) [finally hitting where he belongs] Aurilia (L) - punch at the bottom I don't think 113 Ks and 66 walks are an indication that a player has patience and discipline. Not that he might not get better, but David gets fooled as much as anybody on the team at the plate and has no business batting second. k's are the same as other outs i dont want aurilia either

well it does make him better than someone who claims not to have done anything wrong (Rose for example)

they need to have the players or managers vote on GGs, i simply can't trust the writers after the Palmiero incident.

Edgy DC wrote: He puts Bobby Valentine in place, gets them on the cusp and gets sent packing for his trouble. if by "he" you mean McIlvaine i agree, if by "he" you mean Everett i don't.

i'd move beltran up a spot and bat him 5th, but assuming they want to keep loduca 2nd i'd bat soriano 6th, a power-bat that doesnt get on base belongs behind the guys who can

that was probably the best thing Everett did for Mets fans.

they could have question marks on their sleeves and The Riddler could be the mascot

the mets arent desperate for hitting though, i wouldnt take that chance on a hitter...i think i'd have to pass on a 5 year "beltran money" contract to soriano.

who is setting up the "pick a team for each free agent" contest this year?

i like Fastball, i'm not too keen on the other two though, i'd go for free yeah.

metirish wrote: Quinn is not even close to the # 1 pick...at least from what I read...GO IRISH..what a load of bollox..it's insulting. As a person from Ireland I find the whole ND thing insulting to my culture...I want nothing to do with it... why does nobody seem to like sports teams named after their race/religion/nationality? if a college teams decided to call themselves the jews i'd wear their jersey and love it. we need a sports team.

is Seattle bluffing?

7-7 tie with a regular (non all-star) japanese team? thats an L in my book. how'd Reyes do?

if he shows it in the spring, or if nobody else steps up, then fine. but i don't think he should automatically have a rotation spot, and neither should Perez. Maine should.

]1)Maine, who proved he deserves a full shot 2) Bannister, who pitched well until he pulled a hamstring 3) Perez, who also deserves a full shot lets not go overboard here. Yes, Maine pitched well and deserves a rotation spot. But Bannister, while getting goodresults in a limited sample size, was letting runners on left and right. i wouldn't start him next year unless he has his walks down in the spring. Perez did NOTHING until the playoffs. while i do like the guy alot, i dont want to write him into the rotation just yet after the regular season he had this year. if we entered the year with Maine, Bannister, Perez, even as 3-4-5, i'd say we're not in very good shape. ](Wright sucking a big wet one in the post-season didn't help, either, I admit as opposed to Reyes, LoDuca, and everyone else not named Carlos? why the emphasis on Wright who wasn't even the worst of the bunch

30 Beltran - team MVP - - - - 29 Reyes - a good playoffs by J.R. or D.W. gets them 2nd place, since they did about the same i'll give it to reyes who showed much more improvement this year 28 Wright 27 Delgado - delgado's playoffs bump him up into the 2nd tier - - - - 26 Glavine - i wasnt sure but i couldnt put the team's best pitcher lower than 5th on my intial rankings 25 Loduca 24 Valentin - April/May kept him below glavine and Loduca - - - - 23 Wagner - best reliever 22 Maine - pedro/traschel started more games but given his postseason success and his regular season ERA a run better i gave him the nod over them 21 Chavez - - - - 20 Martinez 19 Heilman 18 Oliver - very good stats tempered only by "low leverage innings" 17 Floyd - stop getting hurt! 16 Bradford - - - - 15 Nady - would be alot higher if he wasnt traded away 14 Sanchez - likely tops Wagner if he had stayed healthy 13 Feliciano 12 Traschel - without the playoffs he probably is 3-4 higher - - - - 11 Hernandez, O. 10 Perez, O. - the playoffs get him this high above the guys who were of little major help in the regular season, though i certainly understand people putting him lower - - - - 9 Green - decent partial season and playoffs 8 Bannister - - - - 7 Franco - the rest of this list is "filler" 6 Soler 5 Milledge 4 Castro 3 Pelfrey 2 Woodward 1 Tucker well heres my first try at it. i think this year is even more of a judgment call than last, because of the problem of weighing the postseason. i may edit this upon seeing more arguments.

i wouldnt re-sign Floyd, he's got an awful lot of injury issues. while i really don't like Soriano i'd sign him IF it didnt interfere with signing a top starter. he's so much better than the other crap out there that it could be the best move even if he gets way overpaid and isn't a good defender. that said, i'd hope the Mets sign him with the understanding that he will play where we tell him to play (meaning LF if we decide we have a better option at 2B.) its bad enough out of a pre-FA guy trying to cash in on being a secondbaseman, but with a 6 year deal in your pocket and 80 million dollars you really need to be more of a team player

patona314 wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]adios that pretty much sums it up. doesn't this significantly lower his price? wouldn't you bring a guy like that in at league-minimum knowing you'd have him ready to go around June 1st?