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Posted by: min0 lee

Moises Alou diagnosed with hernia, could be sidelined until mid-May

They need to get rid of this fragile guy, he's always hurt.

Posted by: min0 lee

Damn, if this were the Yankees they would have fired their fitness trainer long ago.

Posted by: min0 lee

I guess I'll post all the Met goodies here.

Posted by: A Black Guy

I'd look for Nick Evans and Dan Murphy to move into the infield if the Mets can't get any trades done.

Evans has been groomed to be the future 1st baseman, but just not this soon. If he impresses this spring, I think he'll be a lock.

Another interesting scenario would be to go crazy and put Wright at 1st and bring Dan Murphy in at 3rd, he's looked strong coming in for Wright in the 2nd have of these spring games.

Posted by: min0 lee

Has Wright ever played first base? That may be an option, although he has practiced his throws to first.

Posted by: IainDaniel

2008 New York Chokes.

Posted by: min0 lee

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2008 New York Chokes.

It's better to have choked than to have never choked.....bad comeback.

Posted by: IainDaniel

Year Joined league Mets -1962 Jays - 1977

World Series 2 each

Posted by: min0 lee

Bah!

Posted by: min0 lee

SANTANA SHARP AGAIN

March 10, 2008 -- PORT ST. LUCIE -- The chance to face an AL team again had Johan Santana looking comfortable in his third spring start today. Santana gave up a leadoff single to Jacoby Ellsbury and was in trouble in the top of the first through no fault of his own because of a one-out error by left fielder Brady Clark on a lazy fly by Jason Varitek. Clark appeared to lose the ball in the sun and let it drop...........

Posted by: I Are Baboon

The Mets are a LOCK in the NL East. Too bad my local Comcast doesn't carry that gay homo Mets station.

Posted by: A Black Guy

They need to try and get something for Beltran and Delgado.

Both of them swing like they're not even trying anymore.

Posted by: min0 lee

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They need to try and get something for Beltran and Delgado.

Both of them swing like they're not even trying anymore.

Delgado's career is going doing downhill.

Posted by: soxmuscle

I'm surprised you mention Beltran..

Get rid of a guy penciled into one of the more important positions on the field as well as being your #3 or #4 hitter?

Is he really dogging it with that injury?

Posted by: soxmuscle

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Originally Posted by min0 lee

Delgado's career is going doing downhill.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I think he'll do better next year than he did last year (if he can manage to stay on the field).

Posted by: A Black Guy

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Originally Posted by soxmuscle

I'm surprised you mention Beltran..

Get rid of a guy penciled into one of the more important positions on the field as well as being your #3 or #4 hitter?

Is he really dogging it with that injury?

I mean, it's only spring, and I'm sure the guy isn't 100%, but I don't think there's any reason to keep this guy around at almost $14mil a year now.

Posted by: min0 lee

Too many injuries, this season doesn't look good. I see the Phils winning it.

Pedro leaves game with injury

Pedro Martinez was forced to leave Tuesday's Mets-Marlins game with one out in the fourth after clutching his left hamstring on a pitch that resulted in a groundout by Matt Treanor. The initial report was a strained left hamstring.

Posted by: Triple Threat

Pedro is getting too old to pitch this early in the season. He should pull a Clemens and wait until June.

Posted by: min0 lee

Unreal, this team is too old.

Posted by: Triple Threat

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Unreal, this team is too old.

How do you know when the team is too old?

When you can field a team for an old-timers game from the current roster.

Posted by: soxmuscle

Pedro just doesn't have it anymore.

It wasn't like he was lights out before the injury.

He probably shouldn't have even been in the game to begin with.

Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by Triple Threat

How do you know when the team is too old?

When you can field a team for an old-timers game from the current roster.

Ouch, I was wondering why the Met jokes ...I forgot your with the Yankees.

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Originally Posted by soxmuscle

Pedro just doesn't have it anymore.

It wasn't like he was lights out before the injury.

He probably shouldn't have even been in the game to begin with.

Have you ever seen his workouts?
He uses like what seems to be 5 pounds weights for curling... he's out of shape. I know you don't have e to be built but I've seen his body and dear lord it's fugly.
It's amazing he threw so fast for a small guy.

Posted by: min0 lee

Google Image Result for http://paulkatcher.com/images/pedro_martinez2.jpg

Revealed: The Pedro Martinez Workout Routine

Well, I know at least one baseball player who's not on steroids. He goes by the name of Pedro Martinez, and he shaves his armpits.

He's the Soul Glo commercial reject to your right, the newest ace of the New York Mets, the man struggling to throw a couple of 5-pound dumbbells to the sky.
Being that we're almost neighbors now — if you liken the Purple Dump to anything resembling the fashionable and exclusive Upper West Side, home to Yogi's and Gray's Papaya — I was able to gain an exclusive report on Pedro's workout, as he attempts to bolster his scrawny bod and earn his four-year guaranteed contract with the team that fared so well signing Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Mo Vaughn and Roberto Alomar.
Anyway, here's a look at Pedro's strenuous itinerary...
Warm-Up:
Ride a tricycle for 5 minutes
Jump over a rope
3 push-ups, or until exhaustion
Main Workout
Throw nearest 72-year-old man to the floor
Lift a Saturday edition of the New York Post
Call Nomar to plan 2005 arson of Fenway Park
Shoulder presses with 5-pound dumbbells (unless some chick is using them)
Cool-Down
Stretch Jehri-curls
Scour locker room to see if '86 Mets left any cocaine behind
Scour locker room to see if Kris Benson left horny wife behind
Go home and try to make nice with wingman Nelson de la Rosa

Posted by: I Are Baboon

Clearly Pedro wasn't keeping himself conditioned in the offseason. There is no reason to blow out a hamstring in your first start of the season. 2007 Yankees aside, you don't hear of this injury too often with pitchers...usually it's shoulders, elbows, backs and groins.

Posted by: I Are Baboon

So I was flipping through the channels the other day and came upon SNY on my Comcast digital cable. They must have just added it because I did not get that channel last year. It's not in HD, but I'll take it.

The Mets are still homos though.

Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

So I was flipping through the channels the other day and came upon SNY on my Comcast digital cable. They must have just added it because I did not get that channel last year. It's not in HD, but I'll take it.

The Mets are still homos though.

1986 was a good year.

Posted by: I Are Baboon

Did you see Bill Buckner throw out the first pitch at Fenway yesterday? Oddly enough, he didn't throw a baseball. He threw Mookie's head.

Posted by: min0 lee

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Did you see Bill Buckner throw out the first pitch at Fenway yesterday? Oddly enough, he didn't throw a baseball. He threw Mookie's head.

I always thought he was a hell of a hitter, I blame Scha....the reliever more than Buckner for that loss.

Posted by: I Are Baboon

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Originally Posted by min0 lee

I always thought he was a hell of a hitter, I blame Scha....the reliever more than Buckner for that loss.

Calvin Schiraldi and Bob Stanley. The ass bangers.

Posted by: Triple Threat

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Originally Posted by I Are Baboon

Did you see Bill Buckner throw out the first pitch at Fenway yesterday?

They were smart enough not to ask him to catch the first pitch.

Posted by: min0 lee

Ryan Church gets bell rung, Mets swept by Braves in doubleheader

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ATLANTA - That optimism generated by a Subway Series sweep didn't last 48 hours. The Mets were swept by the Braves in a day-night doubleheader Tuesday, undoubtedly renewing the chatter about Willie Randolph's future. Worse, Ryan Church - the Mets' top performer - headed to the hospital after suffering his second concussion in three months trying to break up a game-ending double play in the nightcap.
The Mets lost, 6-1 and 6-2.

Posted by: min0 lee

Mike Piazza retires from baseball

ATLANTA - Ten years ago Thursday, Mike Piazza landed in New York, helping to not only turn around the moribund Mets, but also finding a new baseball home after years on the West Coast.
Tuesday, the all-time home run leader among catchers officially ended his Hall of Fame career, announcing his retirement.
"He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer - certainly the best-hitting catcher of our era and arguably the best-hitting catcher of all time," Tom Glavine, Piazza's former batterymate with the Mets, said Tuesday in Atlanta.

Posted by: min0 lee

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Originally Posted by min0 lee

Ryan Church gets bell rung, Mets swept by Braves in doubleheader

Ouch!

Posted by: min0 lee

Mets fire Willie Randolph

BY ADAM RUBIN
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Updated Tuesday, June 17th 2008, 12:33 PM

ANAHEIM - The Mets have fired manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto, the team announced shortly after 3 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday.
Bench coach Jerry Manuel has been named the team's interim manager, while Ken Oberkfell, Dan Warthen and Luis Aguayo will join the staff.
The announcement came despite the Mets' 9-6 victory against the Angels hours earlier, which lifted the team's record to 34-35. Randolph's tenure as the organization's 18th manager ends with a 302-253 record, the second-highest winning percentage in franchise history, trailing only Davey Johnson.
The first African-American manager in New York's baseball history, Randolph was in his fourth season at the Mets' helm. He was due to make $2 million this season, and is still owed $2.25 million in 2009.
Manuel, 54, managed the White Sox from 1998-2003, and was named AL Manager of the Year in 2000.
Warthen, who was serving as Triple-A New Orleans' pitching coach, succeeds Peterson in that role at the major-league level. He rejoined the organization after spending the previous two seasons as the bullpen coach on Grady Little's Dodgers staff.
Oberkfell, a former major-league infielder, has managed the Mets' Triple-A affiliate the past four seasons. Aguayo was the Mets' field coordinator, overseeing minor-leaguers at the Port St. Lucie complex.
GM Omar Minaya, who let Randolph twist in the wind without a bona fide vote of confidence for the past month, will hold at press conference at the Angels' stadium at 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday. If the Mets continue to flounder, the scrutiny will undoubtedly shift to Minaya, who is signed through the 2009 season.
The 2007 Mets, Randolph included, will forever be stained for squandering a seven-game division lead with 17 games to play.

Posted by: min0 lee

I would say Minaya should recieve some of the blame.

Posted by: IainDaniel

Sounds like Omar treated Randolf like a bag of shit. Randolf questioned Omar a few times, and Omar lied to his face.

Posted by: min0 lee

Omar does love his over the hill latin players.

Posted by: soxmuscle

Minaya is a bad general manager now, just as he was with the Expos.

It's too bad for Willie Randolph because there are far worse managers in the league right now than him. I wouldn't be surprised to see him latch on as a bench coach next season and eventually be given another shot with a club that moreso fits his style of coaching aka a team not located in New York.

Peterson is just retarded, that dude should have been fired the moment he made the statement that he could "fix" Victor Zambrano causing an even stupider general manager in Jim Duquette to trade Scott Kazmir for him.

And even still, the biggest blowhard Mets general manager of the past ten years goes to: Steve Phillips.

What a poorly run organization.

Posted by: I Are Baboon

The way the Mets handled the Willie Randoph situation is nothing short of a complete joke. Prime example of why the Mets will ALWAYS be the AAA team of New York.

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