metirish

Fuck,Wagner

That was just fucking sweet, did you see the look Edmonds gave Heilman after the swing and miss?..priceless...

Whatever happens tonight I thank you John Maine....

Great stuff from Maine..two hits...lovely

] Where did Buck say Keith finished? With the Mets

] So was it Buck or McCarver? I swear it was Tim.

Snap

McCarver....." Bad walk for Maine and the Mets but not for the Cardinals" ....no fucking shit Tim....

Of course it's a terrible play if Beltran tries it...

Chavez with a good play....

Maine Man......

I don't like walking Pujols there.....

Oh fuck you Eckstein....

Time for Wright to get his shit going...

Buck is especially annoying tonight...I've soured on Gonzo....

Not the start we wanted....bases fucking loaded...

Why even play? ] "They [the Mets] saw the great Chris Carpenter. They saw a guy that was not at the top of his game and they couldn't finish him or finish us off," La Russa said. "That, to me, is why he's great. If he goes out there [tonight] and he's his normal self, they will see the greatest of the great."

I forget who,but one member recently expressed hatred for Mr.Met.

Carpenter is 0-0 with an ERA of 9.00 this postseason...Maine is 0-0 with an ERA of 6.75.......Mets win.

] Steve Trachsel will start and give us the pitching performance of his lifetime. Complete game 2-hitter, retiring the last 21 batters he faces. Willie has said Trax is in the pen. http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-spmnotes184937825oct18,0,558912.story?coll=ny-main-breakingnewslinks

Yes,you have gone mad....

Is he even looking at what he's drilling?

] Bobby V in pinstripes? Not right now, but given the chance to lead Yanks, he might go for it BY WALLACE MATTHEWS Newsday Staff Writer Published October 14 2006 The man who could be the next manager of the Yankees lives on a hilltop in Chiba, Japan, in an apartment with a view of Tokyo Bay. His commute to work is an easy half-hour, and he is widely admired for his accomplishments. The man says he has "a wonderful life and a wonderful situation," rich with good friends and fresh challenges. Yet the man says he might be tempted to chuck it all for what he considers "one of the great jobs in the world of sports." By now, you must have figured out the man is Bobby Valentine, and you have to suspect that American baseball has neither seen nor heard the last of him. This week, he has been rising early to catch his old team, the Mets, in their NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals. Because of the time difference, games start at 7 a.m. Japan time, but Valentine sets his alarm clock to make sure he doesn't miss a pitch. "Absolutely they have a chance to win it all," he said the other day. "I'll be watching and rooting. The timing is right for them. The Braves aren't good anymore, which helps. That's what life's all about, timing." Nor has he missed much of the news coming out of New York during the past couple of weeks, especially the rumors that Joe Torre's office at Yankee Stadium soon might be vacant. "I kept track of it for the first couple of days on ESPN over here," Valentine said. "And then the morning it was announced that Joe was coming back, my wife called me and told me what happened. Crazy, huh?" Crazy, yes. Valentine's life in Japan couldn't be further removed from his stormy seven-year tenure as Mets manager - if anything negative is written about him in the papers, he says, he wouldn't know because he can't read the language - yet he isn't ruling out returning to the United States should the most tumultuous job in pro sports someday become available. "I don't know if it's the right situation, but obviously, I'd listen," said Valentine, 56. "I've never talked to anyone over there, and I couldn't be happier with what I'm doing here. But who knows, I might be interested. Then again, I might not." As always, talking with Valentine is an exercise in semantics, carefully parsed sentences and hidden meanings. As he watches the Willie Randolph/Omar Minaya Mets, with their $125-million payroll and all-star-studded lineup, he says he harbors no resentment or wistfulness for what might have been had general manager Steve Phillips gotten the ax instead of him. "That's just the way it was. What am I gonna do, change it?" Valentine said. "Am I supposed to be mad at Steve because I got fired and he didn't? Something had to break, something had to change there, and usually it's the manager who goes." Valentine's Mets were as noted for the players they didn't sign - Alex Rodriguez and Vladimir Guerrero - as for those they did. Steve Trachsel is the only player managed by Valentine who still is with the team, but Valentine takes special pride in the development of David Wright and Jose Reyes, two players he says he urged the organization to hold on to at any cost. "I was kind of waiting for them," he said. "But my job was done there before they were ready." This year, Valentine's Chiba Lotte Marines, who won the Japan Series in 2005, faded in the second half of the season and finished third. Former Mets Benny Agbayani and Matt Franco play for him. He lives alone - his wife lives in Stamford, Conn., and visits every six weeks or so - but he says he is not lonely, spending his days immersed in the baseball of both sides of the world. "I had a great experience in New York," he said. "I lasted longer than most managers who ever were there, I helped turned that franchise totally around. They were a drab, nothing, no-one-cared franchise and I brought them to a World Series and respectability. I developed talent. I'm very satisfied with what I accomplished in New York." Satisfied, but maybe not finished.

Fascinating.......