2009 New York Mets thread

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I think you should boycott that image.

Putz just tryin to help Bucs to that first .500 season since B&B Era.

When did ESPN add OBP to their box scores?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=290604123

Today?

yahoo added whip sometime last week

YES has had it for a couple of years now which is nice

The New York Mets have traded backup catcher Ramon Castro(notes) and cash to the Chicago White Sox for right-hander Lance Broadway(notes).

― L. Ron Huppert (velko), Saturday, May 30, 2009 12:17 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

dude sounds like Sam Champion's next love interest. definitely doesn't sound like he's from Venezuela. i bet he has a square jaw.

weird espn also added a #P category

altho i guess its interesting that pujols went 2-4 only seeing 7 pitches while carl crawford went 2-4 (with 1 bb) seeing 26 pitches

Putz admits to feeling sharp pain in his right elbow. Worse:

Reyes Tears Tendon in Right Hamstring
By Ben Shpigel, NY Times

PITTSBURGH — An M.R.I. exam in New York revealed a “small” tear in Jose Reyes’s right hamstring tendon — a new injury, not a re-aggravation of the calf problems that have kept him out of the lineup for most of the last three weeks. He is scheduled to rest for two days before resuming treatment, but then what?

Will he be out for another week? Two more weeks? A month? More? The Mets did not offer a timetable, but two to three weeks is a conservative estimate. Even though this tear is new, apparently sustained Wednesday morning during his second at-bat in an extended spring training game, the problem is old.

snakebit

My prediction: dude loses his job to Putz by the ASG.

― (*ﾟーﾟ)θ L(。･＿･)　　　°~ヾ(･ε･ *) (Steve Shasta), Sunday, December 14, 2008 1:58 PM

prognostication: tougher than wakeboarding

and just to be clear, he didn't mean Jimmy Fallon wd lose his job to Putz

yay, Putz out 8-10 weeks. Maybe Billy Wagner will have his job by Labor Day.

not a whole lotta laughing at LOLivan these days, eh?

as for Livan, he's Plan G, or N.

― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 15 February 2009 19:14 (3 months ago)

Johan gives up 4 bombs for only 2nd time in career (I'm guessing he didn't win the first time)

LOBs gonna get ya

I had a bad feeling after Werth's "Swoboda" catch

that lineup facing redding tomorrow should lead to ugliness

oh YEAH?

Mike Pelfrey
2-3
1 RBI

redding not ugly :-D

still, I'm glad I went to an off-Broadway show.

NEED REYES AND A FIRST BASEMAN

yall can make it to the point where delgado gets back

tbh the mets should just buy russell branyan from the mariners

Delgado assumed gone for the year

oh i had no idea - i thought it was like... a month and a half more :-/

tbh the mets should just buy russell branyan from the mariners

― let free dom ring (J0rdan S.), Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:56 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

fleeced them for jj, why not round two?

John Maine placed on the disabled list Thursday with fatigue in his right shoulder

dag, so who is pitchin saturday

yeah Raul Ibanez definitely doesnt belong on the all star team LOL

no, i said he doesn't deserve to START based on one freakish (no doubt PED-enhanced) third of a season.

http://deadspin.com/5288255/mets-fans-are-a-bunch-of-decrepit-old-dudes-poll-finds

Over all, the Yankees have more fans than the Mets citywide by a 9-point margin, with 34 percent of New Yorkers in the city supporting the Yankees, 25 percent favoring the Mets, 34 percent saying they do not have an allegiance to either team, and 6 percent considering themselves fans of both teams.

Demographically, the poll found some differences between Mets and Yankees fans. Women are more likely than men to say they do not support either New York team, but over all, women who are fans are significantly less likely than men to back the Mets.

City baseball fans under the age of 45 favor the Yankees over the Mets by a 2 to 1 margin, but those 45 years of age and older are evenly divided in their support.

ok my mistake morbs i thought you were taking his inevitable second half regression into account

actually i will just flat out confess i was trying to bait you into a freakout so i could post this image i made yesterday:

http://i44.tinypic.com/dxjnr8.jpg

(plase bookmark for future use)

no breakdown by borough = fail

no, i said he doesn't deserve to START based on one freakish (no doubt PED-enhanced) third of a season.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, June 12, 2009 8:47 AM (2 hours ago)

come now, morbs

http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/06/10/whats-eating-raul/

mostly kidding there.

Livan is good for maybe 5 innings before things unravel.

ok where the fuck did Switzer come from?

i guess i missed the callup when Maine was DL'd. I wish he had.

SNY broadcast crew getting mad sardonic about home run wind lift and steak sandwiches like Pat Kiernan and shit

lolomg :O :O :O :O :O

Luis Casteeya

TO THE BAR

well, Phils lose....

Wright now hitting .364.

clutch-rod

the fact that he bothered running to first upped his CLORP like a quarter point

June 13, 2009
Francisco Rodriguez ripped by Yankees reliever

That didn't take long. Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez has been in New York for little more than two months, and already he has been ripped for the theatrics that accompany his saves, theatrics more than familiar to Angels fans.

Rodriguez blew his first save of the season on Friday, but only because Mets second baseman Luis Castillo dropped a pop fly. Rodriguez got no sympathy from a fellow reliever, Brian Bruney of the New York Yankees. Here's what Bruney said to the Hunterdon County (N.J) Democrat today , while on a rehabilitation assignment at double-A Trenton:

"Couldn't have happened to a better guy on the mound, either. He's got a tired act. I think that's bad, but two years ago, when he lost the game ... He was in Oakland and he was pitching for Anaheim, didn't get a call, and so he was, like, complaining. The catcher threw it back and ... (it) hit off his glove and bounced behind and the guy from third scored and they won the game.

"He gets what he deserves, man. I just don't like watching the guy pitch. I think it's embarrassing."

The game to which Bruney referred, since known to Oakland fans as the Rodriguez "sulk-off," took place on Aug. 11, 2005.

Rodriguez had this response to Bruney, according to the Westchester (N.Y.) Journal News: "I don't even know who that guy is."