Elster88

Avoid the radio tomorrow unless you want to hear screaming knuckleheads demanding that Castro get the starting catcher job.

Cairo singles, Beltran doubles, Floyd intentionally walked, Wright doubles. Still no outs in the fifth.7-1I'm getting absolutely no joy out of this shellacking, because of the last two games. I'm just a grouch.

I agree with you on Beltran. When your marquee guy isn't hitting, and you have no one else picking up the slack, you've got problems.

I know this happened a few days ago, and I think was mentioned in an OoTS thread. But maybe it deserves it's own?Greg Maddux, one of the best control pitchers in history, joined the 3,000-strikeout club Tuesday night when he threw a called third strike past San Francisco's Omar Vizquel in the third inning. There are now 13 members in the club. Maddux joined Nolan Ryan, Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton, Bert Blyleven, Tom Seaver, Gaylord Perry, Don Sutton, Walter Johnson, Phil Niekro, Ferguson Jenkins and Bob Gibson.

] don't want to hear that Revenge of the Sith will be more successful than the original Star Wars (imagine how much money A New Hope would have made at $10 a ticket?)Good point.

How many years left on Floyd's contract? He's signed through 2006 right?

I liked it too, and my plug is for the "Jack-Jack Attack". I believe it was on the second disc, too.

7 for me (out of 10)I am becoming a Rachel McAdams fan.

Cute.OE: Ugh, I have to be Mike Scott for 20 posts.

="Rotblatt"]I think I was the biggest Mientky proponent, but even I never said that I'd rather have Mientkiewicz's glove than Delgado's bat. I said, after we had failed to sign Delgado, that because Mientkiewicz was relatively inexpensive, had been a solid offensive producer not that long ago, and had a great glove, he was a smart risk to take, particularly when all we gave up was a lower-level prospect like Blade. I also said that the money by passing on Delgado would allow us to make a deal for someone should Mientkiewicz not pan out. Had Mientkiewicz been able to reproduce his 2001 or 2003 seasons offensively, which I thought was possible, he might have been nearly as valuable as Delgado, taking defense into consideration. In retrospect, I look like a retarded monkey, but really, all we lost out on was Blade, who last I heard was struggling in the Sox farm system. Remember, Delgado's contract is expensive and it's long and he clearly didn't want to come here . . .Anyway, Mientkiewicz's OPS is only .040 behind Beltran's, and isn't that the real problem here? We banked on at least a .900 OPS plus a swath of stolen bases from Beltran and instead got .758 and 5 SB. Our problems at 1B and 2B don't loom nearly as large if Beltran is doing what we paid him to do. And as I keep saying, we have options to fill those gaps in AAA. Lambin, Hernandez & Valent are all doing well in AAA right now and all have more upside than Cairo or Mientkiewicz. Let's try them out and hope Beltran can do his thing . . .I couldn't remember who or what anyone said specifically. Just lashing out at the world in general as the Mets put up 3-spots in Colorado.

]Scott Spiezio measured the Shoeless Joe bat against his own and found that Jackson's handle was almost as thick as his is at the trademark.Wow.] They wouldn't have been more eager to hold them if I were carrying around actual working light sabers.LOLGood article.

Reyes with a double scores Williams.Cameron strikes out, I don't think he swung once.FUCKING SHIT WHY THE FUCK DO THE METS LOSE TO A SHITTY TEAM WHENEVER I START TO THINK THEY ARE IMPROVING.

Chopper bounces off of Fuentes' glove, Ice reaches first.

Ted and Fran are loving Fuentes, who overmatched Woody and Cairo.2-2 on Ice.

]Out of town, Matt Clement got sconced by a line drive tonight, something Ishii knows a thing or two about. According to Gary's OoTS, Clement is conscious and in good spirits.

ScarletKnight41 wrote:The Mets strand two runners and it's still 4-1 in the middle of the third.MK stomps off to bed in disgust.(Actually, MK's mean and unreasonable parents let him stay up past his bedtime already, but it's late and we sent him upstairs. He's leaving the television under protest. LOL, I remember those days. I feel for you MK.

Did everybody finally figure out that Delgado would be more useful to this team than Minky? Or are some still hung up on how much his sparkling defense has meant to this team?One left handed power bat in the middle of this lineup? How useful would that crap be?On edit: My link to Elster's picture on the UMDB appears to be shut down. Are you blocking them from being linked Yancy? I understand completely if you are, I can always find one somewhere else if need be.

I agree with all that, but by "bad times" I was referring to problems with management, too. Didn't he and Dallas make a bad couple?

I wonder how old he really is.

]Kent has too much bad history with the Mets.He did have bad times when he was here, but is anyone who was around then even remotely involved with the club? Seems like it could be a clean slate. Only the dickhead boo birds would give him a hard time.

Yancy Street Gang wrote:="duan"]"The Mets are increasingly pessimistic...I wonder how much they really care.Especially if they are being paid by insurance for time spent on the DL.

I'm dying here. Yancy's analysis made me crack up. I like it too, but I also think there are a few details missing. Maybe Texas wants Ishii?

Edgy DC wrote:You're right. STAYPUP sucks.No it doesn't. Change pressure to tension?

="Edgy DC"]STAYPUT!Stop Trashing All Your Plans Under Pressure!STAY PUP?

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