2009 New York Mets thread

i had no idea Casey Fossum was a Met!

lol i texted almost that same thing last night

Have fun with that.

couldn't be less fun than watching Johnny Maine walk the game away

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Arb2aiKdNYZcMgRbAb3i2QY5nYcB?slug=jp-santanahandshake042309&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

lolivan

does any other team in mlb have a bigger disparity between young stars and old ass worthless fux than the mets?

reyes, wright, k rod, johan vs sheff, lolivan, cora (srsly what the hell)

it's really too bad they ditched pedro come to think of it

why not hate Julio Franco while yr so full of venom

lolpologist.

At 6-9, the Mets have a worse record than the Knicks (7-8) did through their first 15 games and only marginally better starting pitching.

during the game yesterday someone from the cards hit the ball to left field and immediately i decided it was going to be an out and then it just dropped into left and i said "what the hell?" and then sheff jogged into the screen

altho dude did look kind of fast trying to run out the DP that he hit into

dude, Cora is just the backup 2B

wow, Nats were a joke in the field today.

also, Citi beer vendors serving acne-ridden loudmouth teens in row behind us.

perez to Triple-A???

Fossum DFA'd

CAN YA FUCKIN RELEASE SHEFFIELD ALREADY

morbsy what was the nature of the error

not being Ryan Church

or Murphy, as the case may be. who they seem to be doing pretty well w/o.

SHUT

UP

single-game tix for June thru end of season on sale Sunday

gonna get the swine flu at the pitching duel tomorrow

we can only hope

so what is the deal w/ollie perez anyway? injured? mechanics out of whack? karmic payback of some kind?

he is not a good pitcher.

he was, the 2nd half of '08.

yes. and cliff lee was good in'08 too somehow.

cliff lee's last 3 starts were vv quality. i might not lump him in with the jose lima/esteban loaiza/bill swift crowd just yet though he could end up there.

+carmona

^^^

i'd have more faith in Carmona turning it around than Lee, tbh.

the mets have tripled in 10 straight games, 9 different players.

i bet there's something wrong with putz. i love the guy, but he wasn't right last year. i sort of think the mariners knew something and that's why they wanted to move him before the start of the season. i bet they figured that his value wasn't going to go up as he played games.

― alpha ville (jergins), Monday, 15 December 2008 17:52

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/index.php/putz-looks-hurts/

sean green as part of that deal looks pretty sh1tty now too

NEVER TOO EARLY TO PANIC

I saw the 8th & 9th inning rallies fizzle on the monitors in SNY Plaza in midtown, with other unamused onlookers.

that pinch hit choice was really bizarre

was it? Cohen mentioned speed for an error/infield hit as a factor.

really j crunch, if you're gonna bury Green after 11.2 IP you should go to a game with gabbneb.

yeah idk, i mean i guess santos is faster than castro but fast enough to get an infield hit? plus castro had 2 or 3 hits already? also a rookie in a pressure situation. all told i'm sure they had a relatively equal chance of getting a hit, but it was weird that it seemed like manuel was completely unprepared for the possibility of castro coming up w/ bases loaded

morbs i hope putz/green turn it around as much as you do but im sure you watched his outing yesterday, dude did not look good out there

yes, the delay in getting Santos up was weird.

no, I don't watch every game. I do take the Fangraphs take on JJ seriously.

putz will be fine - today he threw a ball on 3-2 to cantu and one to hermida on 3-2 after he had fouled off a few pitches and then ross knew he was getting a fastball and he got one that was up around the letters. was kind of a flukey inning and if he had thrown a few more strikes it would've been alright.

green was grooving pitches otoh

santos might be a rookie in a pressure sitch, but he has some cause for confidence, no? supposedly his hitting got noticed in spring training, while castro was sub-200 before today. has green looked good in any game thus far?

if you're gonna go to a game with gabbneb, you better be prepared to see a Tatis homer and a tight loss spend most of your time eating. i like el verano's tomatillo-chipotle, carnitas and mole, and catch of the day's ginger limeade (though i'm guessing that the blue moon on offer - or a hoegaarden, eg, from the meyerland beer island - might pair better with the lobster roll, and imagine el verano's brooklyn 'sabrosa' is nice (but no brooklyn pilsner in the ballpark? boo)). of course i also like carvel chocolate with rainbow sprinkles, so ymmv XD. place is awesome, at least when it's below capacity.

dr morbius hangs out in midtown.

oh and i got the mexican bird swine flu or whatever

just got back from UES, what did i miss?

it's been a gr8 visit

“I think Santos has a little shorter swing,” Manuel said later, explaining why he pinch-hit one right-handed hitter for another, catcher Ramon Castro, who had gone 2 for 4. “And when you have a little shorter swing, it’s easier to get to a guy that’s throwing in the upper 90s. If it had been, let’s say, a sinker-slider guy, then Ramon would have continued to hit.”

FIX DAVID WRIGHT

sacrifice flies are usu the only productive outs.

didn't know Chan Ho was the 2 grandslams in 1 inning pitcher for Tatis -- wait, it was the SAME pitcher???

Keith thinks Wright was still bailing a bit on RBI double

Another bad start for Ollie.