Ceetar

MFS62 wrote: Re "good soreness". Sometimes, after surgery, the person can feel the adhesions breaking. That is good. It frees up the area to act normally. I'm not sure if this should have occurred before now, but if that is what he feels, its ok. It it is anything else, it means that he still feels the rubbing of bone-on-bone, and that pain will be with him forever. That's not ok. Later Well, we're not really in 'after surgery' stage here. At this point I'd hope he knows the difference between the pain of the bone-on-bone that's plagued him, and just normal soreness from running. Makes me nervous, but i'm hoping everyone's just being overly cautious.

Nats game is on SNY, other one on Astros radio.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Maybe I missed something. Why was Beltran able to play regularly during the last half of the 2010 season, but now, even further removed from his surgery, he's so much more frail? No, you didn't miss anything. I'm confused as well. And i'm also confused because they said his bone bruises were better at the end of last season (not healed better, but less than it was in June). Supposedly he did a lot of working out trying to strengthen the muscles around the knee and try to ease the pressure. But not a ton of running, so maybe it's just that he's sore from getting back to running and because it's March 8th they'll give him extra days of rest (simulated game today sounds like). It's probably wise not to put undue pressure on the knee in practice if they can avoid it. It's still early, and he's swinging and working out, not like he's laid up. I think once we start crossing over the 3 weeks to go mark (Fridayish) is when we really need to see him either in the game every day, or at least playing the outfield. As far as the saeson goes? I'm hope this is just extra precaution, but I imagine he's gonna have to take days off here and there fairly frequently. And I think we'll see a little more of a 'slugger' look to him in his approach.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: "Sore in a good way," as per David Lennon. Merely precautionary, he asserts. So, yeah, should I get my Duda jerz in gray or white? Shouldn't you wait to see which team he's traded to first?

Gwreck wrote: As you mentioned -- the stadium was a ghost town in September, even though tons of tickets had obviously been sold in advance. I think we can safely presume that those numbers will continue to fall (how far, I'm not sure) with each successive crappy season. Package (season/plan) sales will drop a certain amount for 2011 as compared to 2010, and perhaps farther if 2011 is not a successful season. grain of salt for the source (Craig Carton) But he was apparantly reading something that said the Mets got 80% renewals on season tickets. either way, regardless of the quailty of the team, they're not going to be able to win over fans in a week to come out to a cold April game. I always view the 'swing' as late June/early July. Kids are getting out of school and the weather is warm. If the Mets are winning, people will start coming.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Gotay's a wannabe Marlin now? yup, and almost hit one out, but... Put it in the books. 4-3 Mets.

Valdespin hits a ball hard for the third out.

Russ Adams sac bunt. 2nd and third. Evans a single misplayed into a double and a Fernando Martinez walk. Sac Fly by Nickeas to put the Mets ahead.

Hu singles. Evans scores, Hairston thrown out at the plate and apparently is 'upset' (Marlins broadcasters) at Evans for not telling him the throw was coming. Good on Hairston to point that out though, since the Mets seemingly never alert the runners behind them about what's going on.

Ryan and Turner strike out with the bases loaded. Hu up. gee, bases loaded, no outs, can't score....what's familiar about that?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Ceetar wrote: Evans walked. hes' 1/2 with a walk although he got thrown out stealing and supposedly made an error. But he's playing 3B and he's done that very little in his career, and never in the majors. The error set up the Marlins' first-inning run, it seems (skipped throw on tough grounder by Hanley Ramirez, on which Coghlan moved to 3rd with one out). Hairston and Duda both have two hits now, and Evans has been on base twice. Castillo 0-3.

It's actually 3-2. Bases loaded now (evans walk, Hairston single, Duda single). Dusty Ryan up with no outs. Carrasco warming in mets bullpen.

Evans walked. hes' 1/2 with a walk although he got thrown out stealing and supposedly made an error. But he's playing 3B and he's done that very little in his career, and never in the majors.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Who replaced Young? Misch. Got beat around a bunch. It's 4 (4 i think)-2 Marlins now.

Audio feed via gameday/at bat. Young threw three good innings. Duda and Pagan with RBIs. 1st and third now for Marlins though, no outs.

Instructors. don't think I saw this anywhere. 86 Backman, Wally 84 Bones, Ricky 87 Conti, Guy 82 Easler, Mike 78 Floyd, Bobby 88 Jackson, Al 76 Jauss, Dave 83 Johnson, Lamar 80 Landestoy, Rafael 79 McCraw,Tom 00 Morgan, Kevin 85 Natel, Bob 73 Niemann, Randy 89 Scott, Dick 81 Teufel,Tim 74 Valdes, Marc

To continue the thought from yesterday. So and so (missed their names) joining you hear on raysbaseball.com for one of our 8 internet broadcasts this spring..

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ceetar wrote: Edgy DC wrote: I don't know, I don't know, and I don't know. But I don't think any negative answers there aredefinitively negative because Dan Warthan is the coach and not Dave Righetti or somebody. fair enough. The questions were mostly rhetorical anyway. I'm not positive anyone knows. I only suspect/guess/blame that Warthen could be doing more than he is, or is not doing his duty to answer said questions. Wait, I thought your issue with Warthen was that he was too blunt. Blunt? can they trade him to the Giants? Is he too blunt? other then the idiotic Maine comment, I can't really recall much of anything interesting he's said.

Edgy DC wrote: A two-out singe off of new pitcher Joe Kelly (righty) by Murphy plates run number three. Jenrry Mejia joins the shutout party with a scoreless. Murphy handled four chances --- two grounders, one popout, one tagout on an outfield assist --- without incident. Brad Emaus comes in and an infield hit to second occurs. Fernando Martinez has a hit and a walk. cool beans. One of the things i'm interested/concerned with is Murphy with the DP. Specifically when Pelfrey is pitching. Pelfrey's seemingly set himself up as a guy that gives upa lot of hits, but they tend not to be damaging,a nd part of that is grounders and DPs. But it sounds like there is a lot of guys audtiioning for second that will help the team. They'll be able to pick based on a position of strength, and have suitable backups should it be a short lived success. wish i could watch. damn work. 2 weeks.

Edgy DC wrote: I don't know, I don't know, and I don't know. But I don't think any negative answers there aredefinitively negative because Dan Warthan is the coach and not Dave Righetti or somebody. fair enough. The questions were mostly rhetorical anyway. I'm not positive anyone knows. I only suspect/guess/blame that Warthen could be doing more than he is, or is not doing his duty to answer said questions.

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Prince: I can't keep up with you. You crank it out faster than I can read it. Congrats on the gig. Good for you. this.

Edgy DC wrote: Ceetar wrote: My stance has always been that I don't believe the Ollie-Warthen tandem can work. I don't agree. sorry, "won't" work. most pitchers velocity is a little lower in Spring. I know he pitched in the Mexican league, but still. Shouldn't his velocity have ret urned by now? is the knee injury really keeping him down, or is that he's not getting his proper mechanics back? Didn't Chase Utley reportedly have the same tendinitis this spring? CC has knee surgery, should the Yankees be worried?

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Edgy DC wrote: Ollie's day ends after two innings and two hits, no runs and no walks. Looks like those eager for Oliver's head to roll will have to wait at least a few more days. Honestly the velocity and the no Ks doesn't actually bolster me as to this being a good performance. To me it's always been about how he sets up hitters, and how his pitches look. Also, why is it that the beat writers only seem to write about his velocity when he doesn't let up runs? It's like "accentuate the negative!" My stance has always been that I don't believe the Ollie-Warthen tandem can work. If Perez regains his 9 K/9 rate, I'll believe he can contribute. But despite his ptiches still having movement and his stuff being 'good' I don't have faith in him comprehending the 'art' of pitching, of setting up hitters, of changing speeds. The complement to that is that if even if Santana is somewhat diminished, I _do_ have faith in him still make his pitches work for outs.

bmfc1 wrote: Rubin makes his roster prediction. http://proxy.espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/15869/projected-roster Obviously it's way too early, but personally I'm not a huge fan of Emaus, and I hope someone other than Harris, maybe Evans, makes the bench.

I'm only had one encounter with him and it was in a group setting and he didn't seem scary or anything. He didn't seem overly engaged in the conversation either though.