Frayed Knot wrote: Back when Met fans were whining about Benitez many of them were convinced that just about any closer would be better, such as that Wagner guy down in Houston ... boy, if only we had HIM instead. And when that happened I would tell them that the two were virtually statistical twins and that their dreams that other closers would somehow only blow saves in UNimportant situations was, just that, a dream, mainly because there's really no such thing. And now if we compare their Met careers we find that they're still statistical twins: CloserIPHRERBBKWHiPERASvsBlSvSv Pct Benitez347.02251111041684561.132.701602586.5% Wagner172.21425948522161.122.50941685.5% Wow the similarity in those numbers is striking. Having said that I still don't have the vitrol for Wagner that I had/have for Benitez. Maybe it's the postseason melting that sticks in my craw - the J.T. Snow HR, game 1 of the WS, etc.