Comments on: Read: Brian Schnieder Day at Camp

By: dave27

dave27 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:26:50 +0000

NO! Stearns and Mookie were my favorite Mets as a kid. Talk about a guy doomed by being on bad teams (although he did get a few all-star spots out of it).

I for one was thrilled the guy just got to be around the Mets as a coach in 2000 to finally experience winning baseball in Queens. The Monster’s out of the cage!!

By: dave27

dave27 — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:22:52 +0000

Ditto John Stearns.

By: SevenTrain

SevenTrain — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 03:33:35 +0000

Personally, I am very impressed with Schneider. Others have made the case for why he as good as Lo Duca offensively; and no one can question that he is better defensively.

I think, as fans, we are simply spoiled by the memory of Piazza. He was the best offensive catcher in the history of baseball.

Schneider may not be flashy, but I have a feeling he is going to win over his critics.

By: TNUC1

TNUC1 — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:09:42 +0000

Has everyone forgotten John Stearns, A hard nosed, Speedy catcher who played for the Mets from 75-84 Before his career ending injuries, He was pretty popular around Shea.

By: squad

squad — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:50:07 +0000

Yeah, but LoDuca threw his helmet, argued with umps, and generally showed “fire” and “heart” so he was adored by the masses. Those kind of things don’t show up in the box score or in your fancy pants “statistics.”

By: squad

squad — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:47:21 +0000

I think Peterson is a good pitching coach, but he does have his flaws. The Bell situation was a debacle (I always like Heath, perhaps b/c his first name rhymes with mine, but whatever) and I have a problem with the way Mets pitchers tend to nibble rather than just going after guys (although this could have been Lo Duca, who called a terrible, predictable game.)

I also think that for whatever reason, the Mets have done a poor job developing pitchers recently. The only pitcher I can think who they have brought up and had any kind of success on the Mets is Bobby Jones. Everyone else they’ve either traded (Kazmir/Izzy/Bannister) or have handled horribly (Wilson, Pulse, Humber, and Pelfrey.)

By: Gaspar

Gaspar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:42:02 +0000

The Mets can have a Professor Jacket’s Metaphor Academy (like Prof Reyes’ Spanish Academy) so we can learn to better express ourselves in odd, esoteric ways.

By: GravediggerHebner

GravediggerHebner — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:56:56 +0000

Dark and Squad, thank you for sharing your thoughts, you’ve both given me alot to think about. After spending the last 3 days over at LoHud Mets blog banging my head against a wall of “Ryan Church is a bad player, a selfish person, and an anti-semite” posts, I suppose I had my hackles up, and the last thing I wanted to do was return to the supposed sanctuary of metsblog only to find it infiltrated with polite but antagonistic phils fans and then get into an argument with fellow Mets fans over whether Rick Petersen is great or merely very good. You’re clearly happy to have him, I’m happy to have him, and please trust me that I don’t boo the Jacket when a Met pitcher quickly whips his head around to watch a home run fly out of the park. I wish/hope that someone would give the Jacket a radio or tv show because I really like the way he expresses himself.

By: Bill Buckner

Bill Buckner — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:21:57 +0000

Actually, Phillips was only good for the Mets his first full season (2003) – in 2004 (his last season with the Mets), he went .218/.298/.326. That’s pretty terrible.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:45:37 +0000

Can we ever get over Milledge? Or our feelings for him ever-Lastings??

How long did it take to forget about the Scott Kazmir deal? Or Brian Bannister??

Just wondering….