Comments on: postGame: Mets 3, Dodgers 2

By: RobertValentine

RobertValentine — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:07:14 +0000

Did someone going by the name “Gipper” really accuse Mr. Berg of shillery or did I take one too many irony pills this morning?

Maybe the Voodoo logic of this will trickle down to me someday.

By: ASod1975

ASod1975 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:31:55 +0000

Or sign them to multi-year deals (El Duque for example).

By: lordt78

lordt78 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:50:18 +0000

I can’t believe SNY did not show the encore of this game. Infidels!!!

By: VCarver

VCarver — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:43:35 +0000

Agree that pitching is the most important ingredient. And since their rotation is intact at this point, except for El Duque who no one was counting on anyway for a full season, the Mets should still easily be the class of the NL.

I think they can get around the injuries with the bench and farm system, but it Beltran is out too, then that will be a blow.

Next year they have Delgado ($20m), Alou ($8.5m) and El Duque ($6m) all coming off the books.That’s over $30 mill so even if they can’t get Teixeira they can improve the club in other areas. I’d actually prefer they use it on starting pitching.

By: gipper913

gipper913 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:36:43 +0000

*feel

By: Moses69

Moses69 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:31:23 +0000

Opening Day Lineup

Reyes
Castilla
Wright
Beltran
Delgado
Church
Chavez (Platooned with Pagan/Anderson)
Schneider
Pitcher

Alou is a killer but Beltran, Castilla, and Delgado will be alright

By: zen

zen — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:30:48 +0000

alou’s $8.5m wasn’t money well spent. hopefully with him leaving omar will take that cash along with delgado’s to make a run at texeira. i doubt they’ll get him with boras’ demand.

the offense is light this year, but pitching wins so it should be an interesting, tight nl east race this year

By: VCarver

VCarver — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:22:02 +0000

The thing with Alou was Omar didn’t need to pick up his option for 2008. I know most fans here applauded that, but it just didn’t make sense to me with someone of Alou’s age and injury history.

They’ll be lucky to get 60 games out of him this year, and I’m sure Omar was banking on at least about 110 from him.

I hope Omar learns his lesson about AARP players. Which is not that you stay away from them altogether, but just don’t acquire so many all at once and especially ones with spotty health records.

By: gipper913

gipper913 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:21:58 +0000

I hope so…but it certainly seems his progress has slowed dramatically.

By: MetsFanInVegas

MetsFanInVegas — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:21:42 +0000

*this week