Comments on: Note: Dauner feels like a Rookie

By: kandiman

kandiman — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:31:11 +0000

I have DIrectv extra innings package as well and so far this year 90% of the time including last night they had both feeds going. SO I got Gary and Keith and the Nationals announcers You should check to see if they are both on.

I have the Superfan with the HD for 50 bucks more but I don’t think it should affect it. If so it might be worth 50 bucks to get Gary all year.

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:16:19 +0000

so she keeps telling me :-)

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:05:24 +0000

Sure, but they don’t get to read about themselves the next day if they don’t boo.

By: MudvilleNine

MudvilleNine — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:01:56 +0000

Well I would hope that would show all those people who said we could have kept Estrada just to keep Milledge, how bad that would have been. To those Milledge fans out there, relax, I’m only talking about the Estrada side of it here. The guy’s a backup to our former catcher, he’s big, slow, and has no arm left to throw anybody out. As much as I hate losing a guy with such upside as Milledge, we got back just as good in return with two solid starting players, including a catcher that will work wonders with our pitching staff.

By: twassel

twassel — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:21:40 +0000

Your wife is a wise woman. You are blessed.

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:06:41 +0000

my wife, who’s relatively new to NY, thinks mets fans are fickle idiots. And when I disagree, she’ll just point to the screen when Heilman gets showered with boos because he gives up a leadoff hit. “Do they know anything about baseball?”

By: euchreking

euchreking — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:00:38 +0000

Was at the game too. Splurged for seats behind home plate for the first time (quite a shift from wtaching the ’80s Mets from the Upper Deck). Great game, execellent seats, and spent the game listening to some scouts behind me talking about Pelfry. They weren’t impressed, amazingly enough. Said his slider wasn’t anywhere near the strike zone (down low all night) and a good hitting team would sit on his fastball and drive that because of a lack of movement. They were also very amazed that Heilman got booed for giving up a lead off double. I talked to them about that, about how the atmosphere was poisonous because of the september collapse. Still, they couldn’t believe that 12 games into the new season they would be that much animosity, especially in a game that was 6-0. Welcome to NYC, in the wake (perfect word) of last september…

By: jamie

jamie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:45:46 +0000

I really don’t have a problem with Schoe facing any lefty, up to and including the best in the game. He’s excellent against lefties…12 extra base hits in the last 294 abs against him.

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:14:02 +0000

What astounds me isn’t nitpicking after a win, it’s the complete bipolarity of the fans — all positive posts after a win, and all negative after a loss — and the depth of the negativity is impressive — doom, doom, and gloom. People — the best teams of any given year will only win 60% of their games. Just a fact. I hope they finish April a few games above .500 just to calm everyone down.

That said, I have my concerns, generally, and I worry that if the team is scuffling along in mid-May, they may want to think about a shake-up. I’ll be cautiously optimistic, the true Way of the Met Fan.

By: toomanyuniforms

toomanyuniforms — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:09:58 +0000

It’s not just the LOB after a leadoff triple — he didn’t score after leading off three innings with hits. Astounding.

Apart from Church’s K, however (why he was swinging from the heels is beyond me — a groundout could have done the trick — no need for a fly ball), Wright hit the ball hard — Zimmerman is just a vacuum cleaner over there — and Pagan had a decent AB. It happens. It was solid strategy pitching around Beltran.