DocTee

A's announcer Ray Fosse said Scutaro will always wear the green and gold because of today's heroics... a bit of hyperbole to be sure but his gritty style has endeared him to the Bay Area (but so did Eric Byrnes' and he was shipped to the desert)

Previous "record" was held by Tommy John and Jerry Reuss..

If putting Wagener in with a one run lead is "as close as you can come to a no-brainer" because he is not likely to implode, then the risk of substituting Endy for Green AT THE SAME TIME as Wagner enters is also a no-brainer: Wagner will not blow hte lead so Green's bat will not be needed.

How is Delgado "African"? And he's a resident (or native) of PR, but an American citizen.

African Americans currently comprise a bit under 12% of the general population in the US, so 1/15th of all MLB players would represent a significant down-grade.

Zvon, good to see you again. Baseball, great to see you again! Seaver: hail!

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Interesting tidbit on Pud Galvin, who apparently injected monkey testosterone in a n effort to gain a competitive advantage: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5314753

He must've had a helluva time in middle school

So THAT'S why she asked to borrow my phone.

tru dat

I say Reyes is the preferred target because while he can hurt you on the basepaths, Carlos would annihilate me in a brawl.

The post-HR ritual with Delgado grates me. And if I were a pitcher Reyes would be a more inviting target than Carlos D. I was also unaware that the dance was pre-game-- which does make it more palatable.

D-Wright. If I were an opposing picture, I'd plunk Jose the minute after I saw him dancing in the dugout or engaging in any of his other antics.

1) Games Reyes 2) Hits Reyes 3) Doubles Wright 4) Triples Reyes 5) Home runs Delgado 6) RBI Delgado 7) Stolen Bases Reyes 8) Caught stealing Reyes 9) Runs scored Reyes 10) Batting average Beltran 11) On base percentage Beltran 12) Slugging percentage Delgado 13) OPS Beltran 14) Strikeouts (most by a batter) Delgado 15) Walks (most by a batter) LoDuca 16) Wins Glavine 17) Losses O. Hernandez 18) Strikeouts Perez 19) Walks Perez 20) ERA (low) Glavine 21) ERA (high) Burgos 22) Saves Wagner 23) BAA (low) Heilman 24) BAA (high) Sosa 25) Games started Glavine 26) Games pitched Heilman 27) Innings Pitched Hernandez Player-Specific Predictions Predict the player's specific stats in the category selected. Two points if someone guesses the number exactly. If no one gets the exact number, one point will go to the people who are the closest to the actual result, either over or under. 28) Jose Reyes: OBP .343 29) Jose Reyes: SB 68 30) Paul LoDuca: BA .277 31) Paul LoDuca: Games 125 32) Carlos Beltran: HR 25 33) Carlos Beltran: SB 27 34) Carlos Delgado: HR 36 35) Carlos Delgado: K 121 36) David Wright: RBI 90 37) David Wright: OPS .842 38) Moises Alou: Games 111 39) Moises Alou: BA .289 40) Shawn Green: Games 105 41) Shawn Green: HR 13 42) Jose Valentin: K 105 43) Jose Valentin: BA .255 44) Endy Chavez: Games 80 45) Endy Chavez: OBP .313 46) Julio Franco: BA .280 47) Tom Glavine: IP 190 48) Tom Glavine: W 14 49) Orlando Hernandez: Games Started 31 50) Orlando Hernandez: ERA 4.60 51) Oliver Perez: K 165 52) Oliver Perez: ERA 4.99 53) John Maine: W 12 54) John Maine: ERA 4.85 55) Billy Wagner: Saves 37 56) Aaron Heilman: ERA 2.26 57) Duaner Sanchez: IP 66 58) Scott Schoenweis: ERA 3.75 59) Chan Ho Park: Games Started 6 60) Mike Pelfrey: IP 130 61) Phillip Humber: IP 40 Name the top five Mets pitchers in Games Started in 2007. One point for each one named correctly. A bonus of five points for getting all five correct 62) Ghernandez 63) Glavine 64) Perez 65) Maine 66) Pelfrey Team Categories 67)Total runs scored 780 68)Total runs against 790 69)Team ERA 4.80 70)Team batting average .272 71)Record 81-81 72)NL East Finish (1st, 2nd, etc.) 3rd 73)Games behind NL East Winner -8 74)Playoffs (Division winner, Wildcard winner, no playoffs)None 75)Playoff finish - (Win WS, Lose WS, Lose NLCS, Lose NLDS, no playoffs) N/A

Am I the only one to think the Mets will not win 90 games this year?? I see closer to .500 and a second (or third) place finish. This rotation does not impress me, I think Wright's second half slump may be more than that, and a team with Franco, Easley and Alou looks like a geriatric unit to me. And I second JD's worry about our catching situation. The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

That's awful. Any one of a dozen CPFers could have created a better slogan. Let's see who can create the best.

X-Met X-Man needs X-Rays: http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2007/news/story?id=2777979

I read it as "More" --as in Cliff stirs it up (again)

As a Bay Area resident, I can handle Oakland.

I just figured the Mets needed an extra catcer to keep all the Spring Training pitchers loose and active-- don't see him sticking beyond that.

When the Jets left for NJ, they claimed Shea was a dump and that they needed a facility with modern amenities-- while it may not necessarily have been true at the time, conventional wisdom tells me that label stuck and can be traced to that period.

I like Gweck's idea of assigning hte season by halves (or thirds, or quarters). Getting assigned an August series in March is just too unpredictable-- peeps forget, leave the pool, go on vacation, et cetera. For example, I was in the middle of Wisconsin for my KTE, had trouble finding an internte connection and then had to rely on Edgy to post it for me after I sent it to him via e-mail. Time consuming, frustrating, not fair to him, and more trouble than it was worth. But I do appreciate the effort that most posters put into the KTE, and I enjoy reading these.

Elliott Maddox-- UM and NYM alum. Anyone else?

I associate Darryl Strawberry with Dwight Gooden for obvious reasons.