2009 New York Mets thread

wtf?

http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/27/mets-fire-tony-bernazard/?hp

The news conference took a strange twist when Minaya said he “scuffled” with the first published reports, by Adam Rubin, the beat writer for The Daily News, because, he said, Rubin had lobbied him and others in the Mets organization for a job in player development.

Rubin said later that he was flabbergasted by the remark, saying he thought Minaya was accusing him of “taking down” Bernazard because he wanted his job. “I asked, How do you go about getting a job in baseball? That’s the extent of it,” Rubin said in a televised interview after the news conference.

“I don’t know how I can cover the team now,” he added.

lol omar is trying to take the entire ny baseball industry w/ him

Francoeur HR vs the Rox.

That's his two for the month then. Attaboy Frenchie!

ollie perez with 42 walks in 43 IP this year

After the news conference, Minaya discussed what had transpired with chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon. The pair visited the Citi Field press box about two hours later, before the start of the Mets’ game against the Colorado Rockies.

Minaya said he stood by his comments about Rubin but acknowledged that it “was not the proper forum to raise those issues.” Asked if he would reach out to Rubin, who left the ballpark shortly after the news conference, Minaya said, “Possibly.”

Wilpon said Rubin had also consulted him about career advice.

“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that,” Wilpon said. “I believe Adam was just doing what anybody else does. I probably get a call a week from someone asking for career advice.”

Francoeur HR vs the Rox.

― Mark C, Monday, July 27, 2009 8:50 PM (1 hour ago)

see as a person i feel like kind of a dick but as a baseball fan not so much when i say i'm completely rooting for francoeur to fail. it's like when you're at a poker table and some dude calls a flop open shove with his eight-high flush draw for shitty pot odds. you just wanna root for the guys who make the smart plays and minaya/the mets are like that poker noob who's chasing something that looks nice but in reality won't/shouldnt happen

are you telling me when you play poker that you don't sometimes chase low-risk/high-reward opportunities at a low cost

i hate the mets and would love for all of their players to die of swine flu on the field and i have derived lots of enjoyment out of rooting for the team that knocked them out of the playoffs in the past two years and of course this hilariously tumultuous season but i think it was a good trade and i think it would be dope if omar minaya snuck in and stole this dude for some slow fat ass rf that is only average at best

are you telling me when you play poker that you don't sometimes chase low-risk/high-reward opportunities at a low cost

― meme-first attitude (J0rdan S.), Monday, July 27, 2009 10:28 PM (5 minutes ago)

not to derail too much here but the point is that the hypothetical flush draw call was supposed to be w/ shitty pot odds

xp francoeur to me is like the epitome of those guys that dumbass fans who don't read stats love...a five too guy who nevertheless totally sucks. i always root against these bozos

like my mets fans friends loved this trade not because of francoeur's "potential" (which is still fucked, if he never learns to walk idc if he hits 40 HR) but because they legitimately think he's a good player. i get the feeling this is the perception most ppl have of him

most mets fans follow what happens with the braves and know francoeur has stunk up the league the last 2-3 years. but they would love for him to turn it around, so far he's been more than decent but small sample size etc

i mean i don't have to "root against" frenchy cause even if he has a good run or a hot streak or something, i know that he is a bad baseball player and will ultimately fail. i also got pretty tired of lol ignorant baseball fans a couple years ago--life's too short to turn into joe sheehan.

not to derail too much here but the point is that the hypothetical flush draw call was supposed to be w/ shitty pot odds

― Mr. Sb, n r u? (k3vin k.), Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:35 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"the bluffcatcher" is a really good backhanded nickname for a player like francoeur

some slow fat ass rf that is only average at best

^^^francoeur fwiw

it's like when you're at a poker table and some dude calls a flop open shove with his eight-high flush draw for shitty pot odds.

oh yeah, it's just like that (what is this gibberish)

lol poker

3 STRAIGHT W'S - BREAK THEM UP

We're trying!!!

Fucking Mets. We lost the one sure-fire win of the series.

guys i live in binghamton and our mets are the laughing stock of AA, so it could be worse i guess?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/07/29/sports/29mets.600.jpg

uh sorry.. no, omar. nice touch witht he scratch, you are not cool enough to pull off that robert de niro impression.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/07/28/alg_omar.jpg

http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/img/300-1.jpg

how much are they paying BB-Rod this year?

great use of him mixing up those consistently blown leads in the 7th or 8th with staccato pulses of beating up on the other team by 5 runs.

dude is getting PAID to keep in shape at this point.

wau, smell all the joyfully discharged piss in this thread...

WELCOME HOME

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i'm really touched that you guys wanted me back the night of the Francouer trade so you could use me as a pinata.

I can't endure being the only Mets fan on this thread next year, if I'm still here. You could just call it METS HATE and let Shasta run roughshod.

What's up, Doc?

Frenchy has been lighting it up.

ONE WALK AS A MET

extrapolated over a full season frenchy would have 34 HR and 162 RBI!!!

a remarkable 60 runs scored!

I personally believe that the NY Mets of Queens are able to come back because, uh, some fans out there in our nation don't have faith and, uh, I believe that our, uh, fandom like such as in, uh, Baseball Prospectus and, uh, the BIll James and everybody like such as, and I believe that they should, uh, our run-production over here in the tri-state area should help the Mets, uh, should help Carlos Beltran and should help NL East and the Phillies, so we will be able to build up our future for our team.

is that Jeff Wilpon or Nixon?

hahaha shasta

at the SABR convention, Paul White of USA Today said the Mets' front office "needs more balance" in their analytical approach. YA THINK

Nelson Figueroa vs Danny Haren going about as expected...

YEAH GARY, CASTILLO BUNTING IN THE FIRST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, JUST LIKE THE 2003 WORLD SERIES

the high-RBI periods in Francoeur's career do more to prove what a fucking useless stat it is than anything since the retirement of that hack Joe Carter.

come now morbius, carter's rbi total very nearly matches that of confirmed HOFer jim rice

$5

(Keith Law joke)

cstbtweet
Mark Reynolds - 4 HR's in 12 Citi Field AB's. David Wright - 4 HR's in nearly 200 Citi AB's. Fuck it, blame the Mets pitching.

Second baseman Luis Castillo(notes) left the New York Mets’ game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night with a sprained left ankle after he slipped and fell in the dugout.

Castillo grounded out leading off the seventh and was on his way back to the bench when he tumbled down the dugout steps and had to be helped up the tunnel by some teammates.

BB-Rod coughs up a few and costs Santana yet another decision (not that he pitched well or anything).

wal-k-rod

k-rod looks tubbier then I remember

what about 28year old Albert Pujols:
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