OMG, Alou is hurt!? Say it isn’t so! Who could ever see this coming?

Who can believe Alou is hurt…Martinez is hurt….the other guy with the strange windup is hurt…the second baseman can’t move…Delgado can’t catch up with a fastball…and that Willie thinks that its a matter of race.

yesterday I said the Mets would have to take advantage of Alou’s hitting because he’d be on the DL in two weeks. I was 13 days too generous.

Part of the reason why this team can’t get into any kind of rhythm is that these guys are constantly in and out of the lineup and rotation with injuries……and that blame needs to fall on Omar…no?

On the injury topic, looking at Chavez and Anderson here make me wonder what the hell is wrong with our bench??
Not that I think Bobby V is the answer…..but weren’t his benches always strong, because he rotated them into games constantly….or was that not the case? I do recall Joe McEwing going 0 for August under the magical Bobby V…..then again, I do recall Joe McEwing sucking……so….

gee i wish we had a younger team!

you could have a younger team…if the mets organization would stop being asinine…

when they stop gathering all the has-beens released from every bottom feeder and really start DEVELOPING their kids, they could have a younger team. There are kids in the minors clawing for a chance..

hell give it to them. they could muster the kind of effort this squad is. It’d probably be more fun to watch too

Uh, c’mon guys. Obviously Willie should have done more to keep Alou focused on his leg so it wouldn’t cramp up. Someone like Bobby Cox might have even run out there and massaged that cramp away for him.

Too bad. The Mets can never get in a rhythm because old guys like Alou continue to be in and out of the lineup or on the DL. It’s all Willie’s fault.

this is off-topic, but I don’t think there is any doubt that Mark Teixeira is the Met 1B next year…every time I watch him play the Mets it looks like he’s auditioning.

Oldest Players on 1986 Team

Gary Carter 32

Keith Hernandez 32

Ray Knight 33

2008 Mets

Carlos Delgado 36

Luis Castillo 32

Damion Easley 38

Moises Alou 41

Marlon Anderson 34

Pedro Martinez 36

El Duque 59?

i would rather see a kid hit 222 and hope he improves than watch carlos delgado swing and miss at everything!

Alou is decrepid!

The Mets are decrepid

remember the 2008 draft is coming up lets hope with 2 picks in the 1st round and a sandwich pick that we draft good players!

alou’s not really hitting with any power or driving in runs from the middle of the lineup, it’s all singles…

I’ve finally come to accept it. The Mets are a mediocre team, that hot streak we were waiting for, it’s not coming. I’m already looking forward to next year. How bout we sign Dempster and Texeira :D that would make me a bit happier…

lets also hope the mets dont pull a ”mcguire wants to much money ” thing and sign a ‘’shawn abner”!

its a cramp… he’ll take some fluids and be back tomorrow,

what a talented guy who has so much fear that he was never able to move to the rhythm of the beat of an everyday player and make sure his body and mind were synced and his workouts were good to prevent this.

COME ON GUY lol

I also realized listening to the game in the car just now that many of us have been looking at this all wrong.

The Mets are not underacheiving. They are, in fact, about an 82-85 win team, so they are right about where they should be.

Yeah, a couple of guys are below expectations and could get hot at some pint, leading to a few more wins (but that is really just Beltran and Reyes at this point). Other than that, they are what they are.

I guess they could get some breaks and sneak into the playoffs with 90 wins, but that doesn’t really seem too likely at this point.

Oh, Omar (or whoever is the GM) has to seriously clean out the dead wood on this team, even if it means “rebuilding” (I won’t use the term take a step back, since that would be hard).

ANd they might wnt to start early, to avoid the rush.

Next year, Du