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Some of the best stuff on this forum happens here , thanks kids.

I think he has a bit of Shelley Duncan in him.....

OMG Manuel has given Carter a nickname: The Animal. Val , do something here joking aside , it's a good article to read .

Intense, hard-working & intelligent white guy Chris Carter making serious bid for Mets' Opening Day roster

Murphy celebrating St. Patrick's Day a week late.

FU Pujols

Fman99 wrote: Don't forget! Drafting this Thursday at 7:30 PM EST. Should be fun..... I'll attempt this with the kid hanging from me and asking to watch youtube videos of steam locomotives , his new thing.

Nothing shocking here but damn it is right.

I think the Mets are saying the right things here , lets take it day by day and let's not commit to anything beyond that, if he's ready to go Opening Day then great.

TransMonk wrote: This is how I see the roster going north right now: SP1: Johan Santana (L) SP2: Mike Pelfrey (R) SP3: Oliver Perez (L) SP4: John Maine (R) SP5: Nelson Figueroa (R) CL: Francisco Rodriguez (R) RP: Pedro Feliciano (L) RP: Hisanori Takahashi (L) RP: Kiko Calero (R) RP: Pat Misch (R) RP: Fernando Nieve (R) RP: Bobby Parnell (R) CF: Angel Pagan (S) 2B: Luis Castillo (S) SS: Jose Reyes (S) 3B: David Wright (R) LF: Jason Bay (R) 1B: Daniel Murphy (L) RF: Jeff Francoeur(R) C: Rod Barajas (R) C: Henry Blanco (R) INF: Alex Cora (L) OF: Gary Matthews Jr. (S) UTL: Fernando Tatis (R) UTL: Chris Carter (L) I'd let Parnell, Nieve, Misch and Takahashi know that they are in the bullpen auditioning for a starting job should any of Figueroa, Maine, Perez or Pelfrey falter. I really don't mind our lineup, bench and bullpen...but that rotation is going to do us in. Didn't we say that in December? On edit: If Reyes isn't ready by opening day, then Tejada should ride some pine...but I bet Jose will be ready. I would say this would be pretty damn close to to what we see......nice work you monk

You don't like Manuel do you LWFS? , I eagerly await your new name for him each day. Anyway , because he has shown more command" than he did as a minor-leaguer. He's still a minor leaguer technically right? , when did he pitch in the AFL? , that wasn't that long ago right?...

it sure sounds like he is going north PORT ST. LUCIE - Jenrry Mejia passed what could be an important test Tuesday, pitching an impressive scoreless inning in a 7-6 win over the Braves as he was used on back-to-back days for the first time. "I want to see the adrenaline, how he responds with that adrenaline," said Jerry Manuel. "He was very impressive." Coming on to pitch the sixth, Mejia worked an easy 1-2-3 inning, striking out Matt Diaz with a 97 mph fastball. He also got a couple of routine groundouts. Mejia's ERA is 1.54 in 11-2/3 innings with only two walks, which is most significant to the Mets because of the control issues he had in the minors and last year in the Arizona Fall League, where he walked nearly a batter an inning. "The fact that he's throwing strikes is huge for him and for us," Manuel said. "That's what we need." Mejia said his command has improved since Manuel talked to him early in camp about throwing to only one side of the plate and primarily throwing his fastball, which acts like a cutter. "I feel much better than I did in Arizona," he said. Manuel, who wants to keep Mejia to help his late-inning bullpen, continues to say he won't use him immediately in the eighth-inning role, hoping instead to ease him into such pressure situations. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/2010/03/24/2010-03-24_give_jenrry_the_8th_jerry_might.html#ixzz0j6IL25NR

Gun to my head I would have said Vic Sage coined the term.

Yuck http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/mar/22/digital-domain-in-talks-to-buy-naming-rights-to/

Ceetar wrote: And the Mets would have to be insane if Reyes is even only 75% ready not to start him Opening Day instead of Cora. Just the idea of even writing DL next to Reyes name for 3-4 days. Wait , you want him starting even if he's only three quarters of himself? I don't know if anyone is ever 100% but I would like Jose to be as close as possible to his full self for him to start.

Olbermann has a good read take on this http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/archives/2010/03/im_open_to_realignment_too.html

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Okay, so how long has Jose been idle? About three weeks or so? With only 13 days until the season starts, I suspect he won't be quite ready, but maybe, if things go well from here, he'll be able to only miss a week or so. You're probably correct but what does he need to do to get ready? , a young guy like him , he's hardly lost a step or anything like that.

Watch him pull a muscle.

Handled correctly is a key phrase for me in this, can two words be a phrase? Anyway , look at that fat fuck over in the Bronx......not "Fat Joe" but "Fat Joba", guys lights out his first year coming from the pen then when asked to start the following year he looks decidedly average trying to throw four pitches and his blazing fastball is gone it seems. It's like he was two different pitchers in the same fat body, now it looks again like he's bound for the pen Rogers tells me in his top rated podcast(I don't keep up with them) , has he been handled correctly? This is what I fear for Mejia.

Marty Noble in a Q@A projected Mejia as the closer when K-Rods contract is up in 2012. Do you believe Jenrry Mejia's future is in the bullpen, or are the Mets just talking about that role for him this season? He seems like he might have the potential to be a top of the rotation starter. -- Scott F., Plainview, N.Y. We haven't seen him as a starter, and we haven't seen all that much of his as a reliever. For now, the club is looking at him as a reliever, not an eighth-inning reliever yet, but perhaps by the early summer if he is successful in his first big league endeavors. My crystal ball sees this scenario developing: he becomes a successful short reliever this year, returns next year in the same role and in 2012, when Francisco Rodriguez's contract has expired, Mejia becomes the closer. That is based on nothing his stuff, his age, his circumstances and Rodriguez's contractual status. EDIT to reflect end of contract