Comments on: Quote: I Feel Good

By: TheEndyIsNigh

TheEndyIsNigh — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:01:42 +0000

Carlos has been such a pleasant surprise. I had a lot of negativity regarding the team coming into this season for very good reasons, but this resurgence from Delgado was not something I had even dreamed to see. My question is, aside from all the reasons not to, if he continues to tear the cover off of the ball for the rest of the year, how the heck could the Mets not ask him back? It sounds ridiculous to me too, and there are more “ifs” than sense to it. But just a thought.

By: ParisWilponCOO

ParisWilponCOO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:25:13 +0000

Yes and unfortunately he would fit right in with every other lunatic who wrecked the city with the exception of Giuliani. Maybe he can go run for mayor of Vieques now that they killed the local economy by driving the Navy away.

By: Deadpanwalking

Deadpanwalking — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:09:43 +0000

Mayor of NYC? I like your thinking. Delgado has always been politically active, and is frequently described as “cerebral” and “a thinking man’s ballplayer.” Not a bad idea!

By: Deadpanwalking

Deadpanwalking — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:06:00 +0000

Yeah, Ted Williams was an insane hitting machine. I doubt we’ll ever see anyone like him again.

By: Hellbelly

Hellbelly — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:49:27 +0000

Carlos Delgado is the Eli Manning of baseball.

Run out of town early in the season ( by folks like me!). Turns into the hero.

Now, if he can lead us to the championship, the comparison is complete!

By: ParisWilponCOO

ParisWilponCOO — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:48:41 +0000

Wow- the guy finally earns SOME of his huge paycheck for the first time in 2 years and you want to make him mayor of NYC. How about we wait for him to actually put together TWO good months in a row for the first time as a Met?

This just proves my point that his “boredom” cost us the playoffs last year. THIS is what we paid 3 prospects and $40M for- this production EVERY month, not once per season.

Bookmark this and let’s see what you all have to say when he hits .190 in August again.

By: Jmiles

Jmiles — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:39:48 +0000

I’m totally confused.I mean which Delgado do we have.How is his hip? lets see if he can sustain some consistency If he can I will have big respect for him.Not that he cares what I think

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:26:30 +0000

This kind of thing is so idiotic. It’s absurd to think that anyone would subject themselves to the first half he had if they had any choice about it. If you watch baseball at all, you have seen hitters just lose it, and get so tangled up in themselves they can’t hit the ball anymore. The idea that they can “wake up” and decide not to embarrass themselves anymore is ridiculous. Utley, for example, right now must be dogging it — he’s in a comfortable situation, why would he care that he’s not hitting? He’s getting paid.

It seems like people like you have such a deep-seated envy of the money they make, you can’t see that in any job, for anyone, at whatever pay grade, to be that unsuccessful at what you’re supposed to be delivering would be so horribly, soul-destroyingly frustrating. It’s so tremendously impressive that it did not destroy him, he just kept “working his ass off” (and, I believe, was helped with a much better practice routine when Manuel took over), and turned the corner. Nobody, but nobody, expected him to get this back. But he kept plugging away. So admirable.

By: Prince Ollie

Prince Ollie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:23:51 +0000

i can’t believe someone just suggested delgado as a top 5 mvp candidate. I wouldn’t be totally opposed to picking him up for another year if we lost out on teix and could obtain a solid back up plan. if you look at delgado’s stats the last two years he’s been hto and cold from month to month, but his hot hasn’t been this hot. i still assume he’ll come back down to earth, but it’s undisputable that he is what the mets were missing. i don’t know if there was any correlation between the beggining of his hot streak and willie’s firing, but the reason for the mets success is the former.

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:08:54 +0000

eventually we’re going to see castillo back in there, however one may like it or not.