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And to think I spent over ten freaking minutes looking for this thread.....seriously I really didn't think the ramblings of Wally warrented a new thread.

I wouldn't want him,and he'll probably want a three year deal.

Given the choice I would still want Beltran at the plate in that situation.

Like Wally I can't believe no one thought of this before...]Omar, Sori's your guyNovember 3, 2006Sometimes the solution to a seemingly complex problem is so simple, so obvious, you can't believe someone hasn't thought of it already. And you figure there must be some logical reason why it can't be done.In this case, the problem is the Mets' lineup holes in leftfield and at second base. The solution is Alfonso Soriano. It's so simple, so obvious, it can't be real. But try as I might, I am unable to talk myself out of it. Not only is it real, it is ridiculous.The Mets have the needs. Soriano has the goods. Omar Minaya has Fred Wilpon's money. If there's a reason why this shouldn't happen, I'm listening.Soriano is a free agent who happens to play both positions the Mets need to fill. He prefers second base, but even playing a reluctant leftfield for the Washington Nationals in 2006, he led the league in assists. Imagine if he actually liked the position he was playing.He also was a leadoff hitter for a last-place team who knocked in 95 runs and hit 46 home runs while playing half his games in a ballpark as big as Arlington National Cemetery. Imagine what those numbers could be at Shea, batting fifth or sixth in a lineup behind the likes of Jose Reyes, Paul Lo Duca, David Wright and the Carloses.Other than the salaries, nothing in baseball is guaranteed, of course, but you can be sure that had Soriano been at the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning with the bases loaded and the season on the line in NLCS Game 7, he would have swung at that 0-and-2 pitch from Adam Wainwright. And the 0-and-1 pitch, and the 0-and-0 pitch.That is the way Soriano plays. Fearless, aggressive and maybe a tad reckless.The odds are good that, like Carlos Beltran, Soriano would have struck out to end Game 7 and send the Mets and their fans into an offseason of disappointment and uncertainty. But at least Soriano would have gone down fighting, something the Mets did not do at the end of their season.Four of the last six outs were by strikeout, two of them looking, the last one on a curveball that cut across the zone for strike three to end the season with the bat sitting on the Mets' most expensive shoulder.If it were up to me, Soriano would bat fifth in next year's lineup, after Carlos Delgado, or sixth, behind Wright, who just got his first important postseason hit. Too bad for the Mets it came in an exhibition game in Japan.What the ninth inning in Game 7 called for was a little more aggressiveness, a little less caution. That is what Soriano brings to the Mets, along with a little more excitement to a team that left with a cloud of disappointment and uncertainty hanging over an otherwise brilliant season.Although his team won 97 games and its first division title in 18 years, Mets general manager Omar Minaya has a winter shopping list as long as Julio Franco's career stat line, and it ought to start at the doorstep of Soriano.He will not come cheap - think Beltran money for five years at least - but if Minaya wants him as badly as he wanted Pedro Martinez, Tom Glavine and Beltran, there is little to stand in the way.Soriano knows New York and likes it here. He still owns an apartment in the area. And unlike the rest of the Mets and most of the Yankees, he is a proven postseason performer, or have you forgotten his home run off Curt Schilling in the eighth inning of Game 7 of the 2001 World Series? That broke a tie at 1 and left the Yankees six outs away from a fourth consecutive world championship, if only Mariano Rivera could have held the lead in the ninth.That was done when Soriano was 25 years old and comparatively puny. Now he is one of the most feared hitters in baseball, a man who can play two positions capably, and both of them are positions in which the Mets are lacking.Last year's leftfielder, Cliff Floyd, is an expensive, often-injured free agent. His time here is up. His replacement, Endy Chavez, is a wizard with the glove whose theft of Scott Rolen's bid for a home run forestalled the inevitable in Game 7. The Mets can get by with his bat at the bottom of the lineup if they opt to return Soriano to second, his position of choice.If they believe $15 million a season is too much to spend on a second baseman, they can send him to left and pursue free agent Julio Lugo to play second, or even ancient Ray Durham, who hit 26 homers for the Giants.Either way, Soriano adds a dimension to the lineup that was missing at the moment it was needed most.The Mets had better not begin their offseason the way they ended their postseason: caught looking.

Beltran should be in with a shot,what about Reyes?

] 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. You think any of those players or most of the fans know anything about Ireland, I doubt it....and the stupid fool that gets dressed up as a supposed leprechaun is especially insulting to me, ND is not Glasgow Celtic, at least they can say they have a true Irish fan base and that they don't pander to silly sterotypes.

The Jon Stewert clip is no longer available....infact Comedy Central asked youtube to stop hosting clips from them...

LOL...no I don't really,I was home today so i had them on YES..some evenings I'll catch the last hour of the show...

NBA head bottle washer David Stern is a Mets fan, today on the WFAN Russo asked him about that, Stern joked that he's not been a fan since Seaver got traded,then talked about the 69 team and thought the 06 Mets were very exciting.

Why would they bluff though?

I wonder if this decision will impact Icirho and weather he wants to stay in Seattle.

Mota just cost himself a bundle of money,millions?

Of course you don't get it..it's my fault..if you read the Sorino thread all will be revealed..I should have put my post in that thread...sorry Cooby

Go back a page Cooby...

Mota admits to it... ] ''I have no one to blame but myself,'' Mota said. ''I used extremely poor judgment and deserve to be held accountable.''

When I googled Welcome A-Bordick I got this as the first link... http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?p=18794&sid=17bead61f93d92cd69aebf07321fb493 kinda funny.

How about a raging Roger?

WOW...he's back to being a prick again in my book..

Twenty four homers at RFK Stadium this season,hell yeah I would be happy to have him.

] Is his source Julio Franco or John Maine? Tony Bernazard is on the trip, maybe he's the source.

] Heilman on Cubs' radar By Paul Sullivan Tribune staff reporter October 31, 2006, 9:30 PM CST Carlos Zambrano and Rich Hill appear to be the only two certainties for the Cubs rotation next spring, so general manager Jim Hendry is likely looking to fill three spots this winter. Hendry will try to bring in one or two front-line starters through free agency or via the Japanese market, but sources indicate the Cubs also may get involved in trade talks with the New York Mets in hopes of acquiring right-hander Aaron Heilman. If the Cubs nab Heilman, he would be given a chance to earn the fifth starter's spot in spring training, along with veteran Wade Miller, whom the Cubs hope to re-sign. Mark Prior's uncertain status will force the Cubs to go to spring training with a surplus of starting pitching candidates. Heilman, a Notre Dame graduate who turns 28 this month, is a former starter in New York who went 4-5 with a 3.62 earned-run average in relief this season. He's 12-18 in his career with a 4.34 ERA and 252 strikeouts in 2881/3 innings. Heilman served up the game-winning home run to St. Louis' Yadier Molina in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series and may be used as trade bait this off-season, according to a New York Times report. Heilman was rumored to be part of a multiplayer package two years ago in a proposed Cubs-Mets trade involving Sammy Sosa. Mets ownership ultimately shot down the deal because it wanted no part of Sosa, who was traded to Baltimore.

Yeah, and does clutch only exist in late innings?

] Second base: Ray Durham, San Francisco Giants -- At 34, Durham enjoyed a career year, notching career highs in homers (26), RBIs (93) and slugging percentage (.538). The two-time All-Star batted .331 with RISP and .364 in close-and-late situations (seventh inning or later in a one-run or tie game, or with the tying run on base, at the plate or in the on-deck circle Shit,those are some nice numbers...is he available?

What I don't get is why he would rather not enter the HOF the same year as Maddox, are they not tight or what?

Omar must want him as a coach after his done playing...