Ah Spring!! Where the dreams of all Mets fans go to die!

Some start…did the Wilpons ask for their money back yet?

Take that confidence rating now…..

He threw that first pitch to Juan Gone RIGHT down the middle. You know he was thinking, “I wonder if this old man can still hit?”
haha

Who cares how he pitches on Feb 29?
It’s not even a real day.

I’m with you Matt, the team will rally around him, and you can see they look up to him already.

Team’s looking good to me. Reyes 1B, Clark 1B, Reyes to 3rd, Clark SB, who can complain??

Plus, we are watching SNY with our real announcers in February!

he sucks… lets trade him

spring training really doesnt mean squat. santana is notorious for being a slow starter and this is his 1st inning of work all year so whatever. my pessimistic met fan heart is tying a neuce but my brain knows not to care.

The sky is clearly falling.

The real test is going to see how he reacts tommorrow when at least one idiot reporter (probably more) will already be denouncing Santana and the Trade because of his frist spring inning.

Hank is busy getting the new contract ready for Cashman as I type this….

Santana is just helping Gonzalez get on the roster for opening day, so he can get another AB and quit again.

OMAR TRADE HIM!

we should trade Santana & Pedro for JOBA!!!! Because obviously neither of those guys are Joba.

He’s getting hit hard.

The only thing I worry about in spring training is injuries. The rest is who cares. Different players take different approaches to spring training. Results, individual and team, don’t really matter.

ALL I KEEP HEARING while santana pitches is THE CRACK OF THE BAT of the cards

Juan Gonzalez can still hit? I’m actually more surprised he could stand after all the ‘roids he did in the 90’s.

Everyone JUST CHILL….

Fire Omar. How dare he not only trade 4 of our top prospects for this hack, but give him the richest contract for a pitcher too.

I wish we had a real GM like Jim Duquette. . . .

Obligatory Albert Pujols “not impressed” line. Note: sarcasm.

It’s better he started like this.

Had he thrown 2 perfect innings, MLB would just handed us the trophy.

this is serious, our ace shouldn’t be giving up a HR to a steroid retread like Juan Gone. Truly pathetic, our GM, the genious Minaya, should have seen this coming. If you can’t pitch well in the 1st start of spring training, then when can you pitch well? Season’s over people, nothing left to see, well except if you enjoy watching a baseball team put together by a hispanic loving GM and a cheap skate owner. Pathetic. I’m telling you right now, we would have gotten through that inning clean if Vlad Guerrero was on the team, damn you Freddie Coupons! Do you hear me! No more money from this fan, haha! Take that Coupons!

After the game Juan Gone is having maybe the Cards will go sign Alfonso, Offerman, and Rocker to fill out their all ” LI Ducks” alumni team.

I don’t really care about spring training because its is just about preparation.

I was watching the game and Keith Hernandez brought up something very interesting. Which hurt more, the loss in 2006 or the collapse in 2007?

To me the loss in 2006 hurt more than the collapse in 2007. I began to expect the collapse, but that loss against the Cardinals after Chavez’s amazing catch? Nope, was not ready for that.