metirish

I'm certainly not saying I love the bunt play , it has it uses and Bobby knew when to use it, I do not like bunting early in the game.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: metirish wrote: batmagadanleadoff Personally I would like the next manager to be a National League type. How come? Maybe it's now an outdated idea on my part but I think a manager who has a National League pedigree is better suited for the Mets , I always liked how Valentine would try and make things happen during a game, stuff like that.

Nothing not to like about any of that batmagadanleadoff , although I would prefer a walk , a drag bunt for a hit and then a three run home run.

So it was the thong and not the HGH that helped Giambalco, the image makes me want to vomit.

Maine 3.5 Church 3 Schneider 1.5 Wagner .5 Wright .5 Alou .5 Sanchez .5

Vargas 3 Schneider 2 Beltran 1 Feliciano 0.5 Smith 0.5

batmagadanleadoff , are you in favor of a manager that plays for the big inning , more of an American League style? Personally I would like the next manager to be a National League type.

Wagner said on his radio spot yesterday that he will talk to the guys today ,that would be the guys he ripped after the game , I really don't have a problem with what he did , last season LoDuca felt the need to criticize the same players , no names were mentioned either time but apparently the players are Beltran and Delgado. My question is then , shouldn't the manager sort this stuff out , it happened last season and Wagner had an outburst already this season, Willie talked to him IIRC. From Rubin's blog , not a big deal but it annoys me when I read stuff like this. ] DAY AND A HALF OFF: Despite his fifth-inning ejection Wednesday night, Moises Alou sat out the matinee anyway. It was ambiguous how Alou ended up left off the lineup card. Randolph suggested he got a vibe from Alou that he needed the day off. Alou suggested Randolph told him to take the day so he could play the entire weekend in the Bronx, when a DH - and extra bat - is needed. "Unfortunately it looks bad now because we lost 1-0," Alou said. That shouldn't happen.

I think how secure Minaya feels in his job will help determine Randolph's tenure , if the season continues as is then Minaya might well feel that his job security is on the line and he will push to fire will Willie becuase he will be in survival mode. An interim manager will then be put in place until the end of the season , Minaya then will make a play for Acta .

Beltran claims on that play he will always be running , I don't know , it was all so sudden , bam the game is over.

Watched a few innings of this , wtf was Castillo doing loafing on the bases , and Wright as well, hate that shit.

Pelfrey - 5.5 Wise - 1

Mets now at 20 - 19 , 4 - 6 in the last 10 games , they've been a .500 team for far too long now .

] Now, who's going to punch Fman in the neck?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Delgado smokes one, but it turns into a game-ending double play. Stunning , I'm stunned. Great job at play-by-play Ben.

Nice job big Mike.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Pelfrey batting with two out nobody on. I like it.

Yeeees....sorry ...noooo

I'm very conflicted here , if it is to happen I want to see it.

Chrissake , am I going to miss a Mets no-hitter ?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: This is his second start without the mouthpiece. What was the story on that thing? My guess is they were afraid he'd bite off his tongue. Yeah it's to protect his tongue , they were afraid he would trip over it when he finished his wind up and went into his follow through.

Darvish featured quite a bit in the Bobby V film on espn the other night.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Oops, they're not as high us as I first thought. They seem to be just behind the box seats. Hold on a sec , Gary spent all week jawing about doing the game from way up in he nose bleed section , what happened?

STFU about he Mets you prick. ] Steaming Hank Steinbrenner lights fire while threatening to burn some bridges Thursday, May 15th 2008, 9:21 AM You have to understand, it's not easy being Hank Steinbrenner, entrusted with restoring his dad's Yankees to their past glory, looking at the standings and seeing them wallowing around .500 while, of all people, those longstanding baseball doormats, his hometown Tampa Bay Rays, are in first place. It's embarrassing. It's frustrating, and, well, it's downright annoying. And, so, the Son of Boss is lashing out all over the place these days, much the way his bombastic father used to do, but while the brunt of his anger is vented at his underperforming moneyed players, his veiled criticism appears directly aimed at the general manager, Brian Cashman. This is what the new "Hammerin' Hank" had to say to me Wednesday when I reached him in Tampa with the greeting: "How 'bout those Rays!": "They're a great story down here right now," he said, "although it's terrible that they're only drawing only 16,000 a game. They're playing a lot better than us, that's for sure. I know we're gonna come on at some point in this season, but right now, other than (Chien-Ming) Wang, (Mariano) Rivera, (Derek) Jeter, (Hideki) Matsui, (Johnny) Damon and (Mike) Mussina, after I got on him a little, we're not doing jack (bleep). "What bothers me is that these guys are all working for me and my brother and they're all making more money than we are. That's what makes me mad. But while I'm confident they'll come around, we'll just have to wait and see what happens this year. And if they don't come around then changes will have to be made. I've just got to clean up the mistakes of the last five years and make us what we should be." He didn't say anything more about having reluctantly deferred to Cashman on walking away from the Johan Santana deal last winter because of the GM's faith in the young kids, Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy. Or about wanting Joba Chamberlain in the starting rotation. I think, by now, everyone pretty much knows how he feels about those issues. But with Santana slated to pitch at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night - in a Mets uniform - in the opener of the first Subway Series of the season, does that figure to rekindle his lingering frustration? "No," insisted Hank. "The Mets aren't doing that well, either, although I believe they, too, will get it going. I don't look at this series as critical for either team, other than to say we need to start winning games, period, not just against the Mets. Right now, we're not 100%. We're missing A-Rod and we're missing Posada and those are two big bats, but at the same time, these other guys need to start picking us up. Our bullpen has been excellent. Heck, Rivera's having the best year of his life so far and the starting pitching's been okay, with Wang being outstanding. But it's no good if you're scoring 1-2 runs a game." Somehow, I got the feeling that Andy Pettitte's inability to get past the fourth inning of late has got Hank particularly concerned and that, if it continues, this could be his next boiling-over point. Remember, it was Pettitte declaring he wanted to come back on the eve of the winter meetings in Nashville last December that was used by Cashman as the impetus for not pursuing the Santana deal. Although unstated, the inference was clear: At $16 million, Pettitte would serve as the Yankees' ace and there wasn't room in the payroll for another starter earning even more. "I don't know what's wrong with Pettitte," Hank said. "I think he still has his confidence - he's even talked about coming back next year. Right now, I'm really concerned about the whole team." I tried to tell him that it's still very early and that the Yankees were in a lot worse shape this time last year. That seemed to assuage him somewhat. "It is a topsy-turvy American League right now, with the exception of the Red Sox and the Angels," he said. "The Rays? They're for real. They've got a lot of good young kids. There always seems to be teams coming out of nowhere every year. I don't think they're ready to win it all, though and it's been terrific for Tampa Bay, although they built that ballpark (Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg) on the wrong side of the bay. It's a pain in the butt going over there." Which is probably why, until Wednesday night, Hank Steinbrenner hadn't been attending the Yankees-Rays series. What other reason could there be ?