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Luis Castillo left today’s game after the fifth inning with what the team called ‘left-quad discomfort.’
| NL East | W | L | LB |
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| Mets | 53 | 47 | 1 |
| Marlins | 53 | 47 | 1 |
| Braves | 47 | 53 | 7 |
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Luis Castillo left today’s game after the fifth inning with what the team called ‘left-quad discomfort.’
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Awesome. This investment is going to be well worth it in three more years. Wait nevermind, I guarantee he is a bench player after this season. I just don’t understand the logic of Omar overpaying for Castillo the way he did, especially when it really didn’t seem like anyone besides the Astros were interested in him.
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booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
matt should not allow people to advertise thier blogs
Can Binghamton 3B Dan MUrphy play 2nd base?????
I vaguely remember someone in her posting that none of them, Murphy, Evans or Carp are very good defensively. I might just be lumping Murphy in with the other two though.
Aren’t Castillo and Santana good friends after spending time together in Minny?
If that is the case, do you think that signing was maybe to entice Johan a little more? After all, the rumors at the time were that he pushed the deal a bit and wanting to come to Queens.
I’m not saying that the signing had a lot to do with it, but maybe inking Castillo had some other benefits for the organization.
I don’t buy that for one second. Where else was Johan going to go?
By the way, if the Yankees or Red Sox seriously wanted to deal for him, that’s where he’d be.
You know, when you make about $6,000 a pitch, you can make new friends just about anywhere you go.
In other news the sun is expected to rise tomorrow.
Get well soon. Don’t rush back this time.
Starting to think Castillo is 30 in dog years. Im not sure he could steal on Mike Piazza anymore.
Dude, he has 7 steals this year. That’s second on the Mets and 10th in the NL.
Let’s do a little research before we go off.
anybody else here willing to trade this colorado announcer wayne hagin for a bag of balls yet? he makes jon miller sound exciting
I was listening to WFAN between the two games yesterday and heard one of his calls. Maybe it was Schneider’s HR? I thought it was one of the Reds announcers. He’s not a good fit here.
Yes. Agreed. Hagin is very unprofessional. Now, you can get away with being unprofessional, but if you do that, you also have to be entertaining, memorable, and incisive when the need arises (I’m looking at you, Keith Hernandez….). But Hagin is NOT entertaining, NOT memorable, and NOT incisive. Also, while Keith Hernandez generally acts like your crazy neighbor or that one college roommate you had, Hagin is very robotic and unemotional. I say dump him. I almost wonder if Howie should just broadcast the games alone. He’s good enough for it, IMO. Because unfortunately, you’re probably not gonna get Eddie C. into the booth as much as we’d all like that. You could even try Kevin Burkhardt, in theory. He’s unpolished, but I think he’ll be a good broadcaster with some experience (remember folks, that was the knock on Gary Cohen when he first came here).
Matt should do a poll of Hagan’s popularity. I personally find him to sound like a machine. No heart just words
Burkhardt called a AA game on SNY last year and I thought he did a good job. I think him and Howie Rose would be a great radio team.
Howie and Matt Cerrone. Now THERE’S a broadcast team.
HE IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hagin is the only blight on an otherwise excellent Mets broadcast team, both TV and radio.
Hagin must go!!!
Sounds unanimous…….. Seems like a nice guy, but not cutting it. After losing Bob Murphy and Gary, they need to do a better job finding a partner for Howie.
I hope that Omar bought the extended warranty when he got Castillo. He is going to really need it.
Assuming Castillo goes out for a period of time (at least a 15 day DL), what is the back up plan? Easley every day? Or do they call up one of the young guys from the minors (or do they have a veteran 2B down there?) to play for him?
It never seems that the Mets have a prospect ready for a try at the right positions (any positions?) when a starter goes down.
I’d love to see Marlon Anderson play 2B every day if Castillo is out (well, frankly, even if Castillo is healthy).
Its a good thing they are a bunch of fly ball pitchers, because a Delgado/Anderson side of the IF will be brutal at getting to balls.
play Easley at 2nd
bat Easley 2nd
Castillo should be suffering
left-out syndrome, not left-quad syndrome
very bad signing - cut your losses, Omar
Yea I know, I mean afterall Castillo played so bad today and yesterday.
i have discomfort every time I realize we signed this slap-happy corpse to a quad-year contract
When talking about the lack of position player depth in the farm you people fail to realize over the last 4 years it has yielded david wright and jose reyes
Agree Dan, what a pathetic bunch of comments on Castillo. Its unfortunate but 25% of the Met fan base this years is a bunch of low lifes who are happy when one of our players get hurt. Don’t hate Castillo. Hate the contract Omar gave him.
Absolutely agree, it is the contract we dislike, not the man. as soon as the deal was announced a collective groan eminated from NY. Guarantee when Omar is out of a job, the explanation will be, we had to go 4 years, in order to show Johan that he was truly in charge of the franchise. Louis either tells jokes that Johan really likes, or maybe he brings him late night snacks when the team is on the road…. Today’s extra base hit was great. it only the gappers could come more frequently; the rally killing squibs and rollers get to be really deflating.
Recall earlier in the year when people were posting how bad our record was when Castillo was batting 2nd. Well this week 3-0 this week with Luis batting 2nd and 0-3 when he was not!
note it also corresponded to alou coming back and being able to move church to 5, alou to 6 and delgado to 7 where he belongs. castillo doesn’t bring much to the table but the limited tools he brings are best utilized in the two hole.
Batsinthepelfrey has it right.
yeah, I wish the negative fans would just stay away from shea and the comments section.
does anyone know if Matt Wise can play 2B?
At times I believe that they are booing Randolph not the player. Still not cool but better for me to accept
It is always cool to boo “Brains” Randolph.
Castillo is a good #2 . …the Reds announcers love they guy….bottom line if hes out .. platton Marlon/ and Damon to the Pitching match ups (R/L) and put Church 2nd again
Reyes
Church
Wright
Beltran
Alou
Delgado
Easley/Anderson
Schneider
P
that IS the lineup
but Ryan Church is too young for Willie
he needs an old guy in the 2 slot
It’s amazing that people are still talking about this “booing problem” as Shea, considering the team is now 11-6 at home and seems to enjoy scoring plenty of runs now. It’s too bad that the whole thing was blown out of proportion from the beginning, to the point that people actually believed it was hurting the team at home.
If you only knew just how little booing has actually gone on there this year… Heilman and Delgado being the exception. And most of us have not booed even one player. Most of us have now once again stood by our team through the worst of times, and continue to support them unconditionally, and yet people still want to believe everything they hear from Mike and the Mad Dog, etc. It’s not your fault, but many of you have been misinformed.
Edit:
It’s amazing that people are still talking about this “booing problem” AT Shea.