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Last night, Lastings Milledge played his fourth game at Shea Stadium as a member of the Washington Nationals, and was 1-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI.
Milledge, on playing against the Mets:
“It’s good to come out here and do some damage here, don’t get me wrong. But I plan on coming out and doing damage every game, not only in New York. I’m trying to do damage everywhere I go…They can boo me, I don’t care. I want to see how loud they can boo me. I don’t care. It doesn’t bother me, so it’s funny. As they say, you must be doing something right if they boo you.”
…that’s right l-millz, fan the flames…
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I think it would be sooooo great if when guys like Milledge and Rollins get up….the crowd just goes silent! DEAD silent.
It will never happen, but I think it would be quite funny. Im sure it would throw them for a loop….
We boo Rollins and Milldge for different reasons. People like Rollins, Burrell, Chipper, Jeter get booed out respect for their abilities. People like Milledge get booed for their actions off the field… like running his mouth like a teenage girl that just got dumped after the mets traded him. And from what I recall, Milledge knows a thing or two about the temperment of 15 year old girls. (at least loduca waited til they were 18).
miledge has better numbers than reyes, beltran, delgado, castillo, schneider……….the list goes on. As of right now, our 1,2,4 hitters are no better than a pompous showboat with more energy than this team combined. Keep bashing met “fans” – in the end both the nats and the mets will be watching the playoffs.
I try not to engage people with idiotic opinions, since you can’t prove an opinion wrong. FACTS however i do like to correct, so here are some numbers for you regarding our 1,2,4 hitters. I took Castillo to be the #2 hitter.
(Avg, OBP, Slugging %, RBIs, Runs, Ks)
Millz: .252, .325, .345, 13, 16, 28
Reyes: .266, .335, .434, 13, 22, 20
Beltran: .246, .377, .444, 22, 28, 30
Castillo: . 245, .355, .292, 8, 16, 11
So based on the actual numbers and not your wild ranting, milledge has worse numbers than our 1 and 4 hitters. We’ll say the numbers are comparable to Castillo’s. And if we take Church to be our #2…
Lunacy dismissed, please resume your daily activities.
Yeah Milledge banged a 15 yr. old when he was 18 and in hs. Lo Duca was in his thirties and is a mook. That’s the guy Mets fans should be booing.
Can someone explain why people are booing Milledge? I understand the trade that we made, but I kinda wish he was still sitting in our farm system.
He ripped the Mets in the offseason.
Wasn’t he justified in doing so? The Mets organization gave him absolutely no support during his time here. None. I will NEVER understand how the Mets could have let a rookie take the PR abuse milledge got for his high fives after his home run. He had no chance here.
The organization can only protect the player so much. Eventually the player has to be accountable for his own actions, and his act got real tired, real fast. He was and still is an immature player.
You know, I really wish the Mets organization could have backed up Milledge after the high five situation. Look at what’s going on with Joba Chamberlain over the past week. He spins and screams and pumps his fist over a strikeout in the 8th inning, and everyone defends him. They say that the Yankees need that fire in the clubhouse. But when Lastings goes out and high fives some fans, he gets blasted. That’s garbage to me. That’s a double standard. I wish it wasn’t like that. I wish the Mets could have supported our own when he was our own.
If Milledge was even half as important to our future as Joba is to the Yanks then people would’ve defended him.
good comparison
I don’t like him but since when did Joba release an incredibly offensive rap album and have run ins with the law?
1)his run-in with the law consisted of having sexual contact with a teenager while he was a teenager. This happened all the time when I was growing up and nobody got prosecuted. Of course, we were all white.
2)I haven’t listened to his rap album, but why does it matter? The bottom line is the Mets didn’t like him. That was clear from the get-go. And I think they spent the last couple of years trying to get Mets fans into not liking him as well. And if Metsblog is representative of the Mets fanbase, I think the Mets were pretty successful.
I’m sorry…there is NO reason to boo Lastings. Yes, he said some comments about the Mets but that was AFTER he was traded. In my opinion, you can boo a player who leaves on his own behalf, but you should never boo a player that is traded.
Also, not sure if anyone heard about Looper and how he played through an injury in 2005 because the team needed him. That is true. However, Mets fans are fickle and I’m sure, will boo him as well. THE BOOING HAS TO STOP. Shea has become a combination of the bad elements of Yankee Stadium and Citizens Bank. This is our last year at Shea.
You can pretty much boo anybody not wearing a Met jersey last I checked. or even some wearing Met jerseys at Shea these days…but you know what I meant…
It was unfair to boo Looper in retrospect, but no one ever said anything about him being hurt and gutting it out, so you can’t totally blame fans for it. That was one case where I think the booing was directed more at Willie and Omar for continuing to run out a horribly ineffective closer that it was just hatred for Looper. I think most booing is in that category – we feel for guys who are struggling, but it gets frustrating constantly seeing them run out there.
Milledge badmouthed the Mets organization. I am a fan of the Mets organization, thus, I have a problem with him and his comments. Since I can’t confront him in any other way, I choose to boo him. Don’t tell me what I can or cannot do with regards to booing. In this case it’s not being fickle, it’s paying attention to what is going on.
When we boo Mr. Met, we will have gone too far…
What Milledge means is, “Phew, glad Endy wasn’t out there for a sure catch, or I would have been 0-fer at Shea, again!”
I think he meant “I still have so little of a clue about this game that I think driving in two tack-on runs, when I’ve already failed in more clutch situations earlier in the game, still constitutes ‘damage’”
those two runs he knocked in were 50% of what the whole mets lineup scored against a last place team and a winless pitcher.
Sigh…while I corrected your comment at the beginning of this post for just being wildly incorrect, here I’ll have to go after your crazy cherry-picking of stats.
Wins for a pitcher is a stupid statistic (if you don’t believe me see Trachsel tied for the team lead in Wins in 2006). More telling is that he came into the game with something like a 3.3 ERA and 0 wins, meaning he wasn’t getting any run support.
Could we and should we have scored more runs? Absolutely. Lets not call him a “winless pitcher” like he’s Matt Chico (0-5 6.42 ERA)
I can’t undertsand the Milledge Boo’s. Who the hell is booing? Unfortunatlrey not all fans follow the team as closely as we do. Or they just don’t understand baseball.
If fans decide to boo they better have done their homework. Milledge was traded, he had no say in the matter. I love the trade, great, but why boo him. We brought him up.
I understand he is not the most endearing player, I clapped when he came up against the mets a few weeks ago. Maybe I’ll clap a little longer for Carlos Gomez when we face him beacuse I like him more as a player and a personality.
None the less I applaud both.
I boo because he’s on the opposing team. And because he ripped the Mets on his way out the door.
BOO!
What did he say? I remember him just pointing out that dome guys in the club house felt that he did not respect the game. I don’t remember him saying much else.
I have pretty good idea why he is getting booed, but there is no need to go there.
Isn’t not respecting the game enough in itself to get you booed?
And yes, please don’t go there because that argument is tired. He was seriously immature, from the high 5’s to showing up late to games, to the bad rap album, to the over the top celebrating on the next to the last game of the season, not to mention all the baggage he came with before he signed with the Mets. And after all that, he’s got the attitude of well, my experience in DC can’t be any worse than it was in NY.
Yeah, okay….
The media was always on the kid. In D.C. he has more breathing room. So, yeah, people did make his NY stint tough. He was a 21yr old, and people expected him to carry himself like a 30yr old. He would not have had any problem if he was playing in any other city. What makes David Wright so special is that he is the exception rather than the rule.
The top step celebration thing is tired. The 1986 Mets were just as brash, and for Keith Hernandez to get on Lastings for that was just strange.
Lets not forget Prof. Reyes was the one leading the charge with all those handshakes and high five.
So yeah, lets cut the crap people.
and another thing……….
He felt that some guys FELT that he did not respect the game. He went on to say that he felt they were wrong.
The kid never loafed when he was on the field. He played his butt off and brought an attitude that if possesed by other vets, could have prevented that late season horror show.
With his attitude, Brad Penny would not have dared stepped up to Green after striking him out.
That’s not true, the last week his defense was horrible and loafed on a really important play.
“As they say, you must be doing something right if they boo you.”
or be a complete jacka$$…
Mets fans boo Milledge because Mets fans are incapable of understanding that a trade can be a good one even if the players sent away don’t fall flat on their face. Mets fans want virtually every player we trade away to fail. With the occasional exception – say a Todd Hundley who had his job taken by a Hall of Famer and who fans loved and wanted to see do well since trading him was an obvious move, or an Xavier Nady whose trade was also somewhat necessitated by injury fans will always root against players dealt away…and that goes up exponentially when they are prospects.
I would venture to guess that most fans want to see Gomez, Guerra, Mulvey and Humber to have successful careers.
Lastings is different…
Exactly.
I don’t cheer any opposing player anyway unless he has the name “PIAZZA” stitched across his back. Doesn’t look like I will be seeing that again anytime soon…
I happen to agree with Milledge here. You know, sometimes he seems so well spoken and intelligent. And then other times…
I was upset to see Milledge go, although I am quite happy with the addition of Church, besides Alou, he is the most professional hitter we have right now. Either way, the booing is unnecessary and I proudly wear my Milledge Mets shirt to every Mets v Nats game.
hmmm i wonder why shea has such an irrational distaste for milledge…(sarcasm)
When is Milledge battery day? Maybe we should wait until Dukes is in court so that we don’t get shot.
Probably because he still doesn’t know he’s in the majors. And if does, he sure doesn’t act like it.
But I’m sure you have a host of conspiracy theories.
Lastings who?
Best comment yet in my opinion.
Who really cares? He’s Lastings Milledge. He’s done NOTHING as a major leaguer… and we have Ryan Church because of him.
I say, cheer Lastings Milledge. As loud as possible. He’s given the illusion of a top prospect so that we could go get two solid, even if unspectacular players for him.
And good luck to Lastings. I hope he has a good career. Again… what Mets fan really cares if he does or doesn’t?
Right, I will Boo Milledge because he plays for another team, said bad things about the Mets and uh he sucks.
I dont get booing Lastings. I understand he is not a good guy but it is not like he was a great Met who left the Mets through free agency to get more money. He barely played with the Mets. He was forced to leave via trade. If you want to boo someone for Lastings being on another team, boo Omar. It is not Lastings fault so cut him a break. I dont like him and I am happy he is gone, but save the booing for people who deserve it- ie Rollins or Chipper. In the same idea- stop booing Delgado. What benefit can come from booing a player on the Mets. You think the thought that “Oh the fans are booing me- maybe I should get a hit”. The more pressure you put on him the harder it gets. He knows he has to hit but when the fans put this pressure on him it becomes much harder. This booing is getting absolutely ridiculous.
Again, why can’t I boo a guy on another team that I don’t like that spoke badly about the Mets after sabotaging his stay while here?
“Whateva whateva! I do what I want! It’s my hot body!”
– Lastings Milledge
I thought that was Cartmen.
All this BOO talk is nonsense. Boo if you want. Cheer if you want. It’s a show of passion for a game you love. What’s worse is sitting there lifeless. As a baseball player, are you such a girly-man that you can’t take some booing? Is it gonna hurt your feelings. Are you going to cry? PULEEEZE.. Grow some thicker skin… for fans and playeres!
I’m with you, MetLifer. Apparently, I’ve taken a 20 year Rip Van Winkle nap and awoken to a whole different breed of Mets fans who find it “oh so offensive and unbecoming” to boo at the ballpark. And to boo someone in a Mets uniform? Oh my goodness. How crass and rude. To hear boos from the home crowd must make the poor players feel 1 inch tall and certainly in no mood to perform at professional level for the rest of the day. I’ll never do it again! And I would never eat a hot dog at Shea without Grey Poupon, either.