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I hope that in the end, Ollie reconsiders and accepts some other assignment within the Mets organization -- and very soon. The shame of it is that Ollie's averaging 7.25 strikeouts per nine innings this season. Anyone that can strikeout major league hitters at that rate has the stuff to be a very effective pitcher at the highest level. Someone needs to fix Ollie, and test him against live batters in game situations, just not NY Mets games.

So James Earl Ray gets defended after all, and Ollie is Jerry's fault.

Edgy DC wrote: And Ollie Perez isn't stabbing his teammates in the back? Edgy DC wrote: What else is there to learn? We know he's failed. This isn't about learning. And the issue doesn't end once we know he's failed. Right now, he's not fit to pitch. Therefore he shouldn't be on the roster. Sometimes I think that you go so far out of your way to defend anything Mets, that you'd contrive to defend James Earl Ray if he did his deed as a member of the Mets organization. This doesn't mean that you're wrong and I'm right or that I'm wrong you're right, but that passionate Mets experience their fandom in ways and emotions as unique to each other as snowflakes and fingerprints. Edgy DC wrote: ...the idea that somehow hating more is going to be our deliverance is disappointing. But the hate is also a red herring and moreover, doesn't exist in a vacuum. Right now, Perez has as much right to a Mets 25 man-roster spot as Al Jackson.

And Ollie Perez isn't stabbing his teammates in the back? The team has been trying to reason with Perez for almost three weeks now. Maybe now it's time for drastic measures. This is a desperate situation, especially because the Mets are in contention. If the season were to end one week from today, the Mets would still have a mathematical chance at either first place or the wild card spot. You'd think that this franchise, at this place and time, having been eliminated on the last day of the season twice in the last three years understands that nothing should be squandered and that the games in May count just as much as the games in September.

Speaking of middle-relievers, Pedro Feliciano leads all Major League pitchers in appearances with 29. Fernando Nieve is second with 28. Only one other pitcher has 27 appearances (Masset, Reds); several are tied for 4th place with 26 appearances.

When are they gonna solve the Ollie Perez situation? He's wasting valuable roster space and shouldn't be pitching. Down by three after two innings is not garbage time ... it's still a salvageable game there.

Frayed Knot wrote: Hart's HR was the first allowed by any NYM pitcher in 86 innings. The HR streak was likely aided by the Mets playing most of those games at home. Here are the 2010 home/road splits for HR's by Mets and their opponents: Citi Field --33 HR's/28 games -----1.18 HR/game Road-------46 HR's/21 games -----2.19 HR/game Quirk Alert -- The Mets have outhomered the opposition at CF by 20 to 13, but have been outhomered on the road 18 to 28. OE -- Maybe the Mets really are stealing signs at home.

Edgy DC wrote: How could you not want this guy on your team? I voted for Simba. And Carter.

I wished that Gary didn't update the Mets consecutive scoreless inning streak every two pitches.

Once the decision was made to bring in Pedro, I don't necessarily mind that he was limited to pitching to Fielder. But then why wasn't he allowed to pitch to Howard and Utley last night?

Rockin' Doc wrote: Clemente was truly spectacular. He could truly do it all on a baseball field. Alas, he loses out on a technicality as the vast majority of his years were before the advent of divisional play. I don't see what the technicality is. Otherwise, I'd be voting for Honus Wagner at shortstop and Stan Musial at first base.

I had Abreu and Parker, but then revised my vote by swapping Strawberry (in) for Parker (out), and then finally, Vlad (in) for Strawberry (out).

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: My thing is, are we building an imaginary team, or is this an honorific? I assumed honorific. Nothing else even occurred to me.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Oly and Keith. In that order. This belongs in the 3B thread but I'm telling it to you that I'm voting for Red Garrett and Robin Ventura. Not homer-ing here (well, not exclusively). Chop up those NL East-career WAR numbers for each of our candidates here by season, and you see surprising things. 1998 was a historically good offensive season, though it may not be as superficially impressive as Howard and Stargell's eye-popping power counting stats; take defense into account, and he's Pujolsian in value over the three Met years. I know what you mean about Oly. He was one of my favorite Mets. This might sound sacrilegious to many Met fans but pound for pound, or rate-wise, Olerud might've even been a better Met than Keith. His defense was not only underrated, but Gold-Glove caliber (whatever the hell that means). Olerud's Q rating during his Mets years took a beating as his years here coincided with the steroid era during which Olerud was probably considered less compelling a player in comparison to the dominant attention-getting performances of some morally "suspect" rival first basemen. Of course, I'm assuming that Olerud was clean and base my assumption on nothing more than subjective hunches. Still, Keith was an NL East superstar for about a decade, and an MVP. He's considered to be the best fielding first baseman in modern baseball history and a revolutionary who redefined the position. I don't see how Olerud, as great as he was, could've surpassed Keith's accomplishments in just three seasons.

Quotes: "It's the most impressive sweep I've ever been a part of," Francoeur said. "To hold that kind of team to no runs over three games is unbelievable. Of course, much of this streak coincides with the crafty Dickey and Takahashi - who have allowed a total of two runs over 24 combined innings during two starts apiece - replacing bullpen-banished Oliver Perez and inconsistent-and-injured John Maine in the quintet. .... Pelfrey certainly achieved that in improving to 7-0 with a 1.81 ERA and one save in 10 appearances aside from the ... six-run shelling over four innings against the Phillies on May 1 for his lone loss of the year.