My comments keep not showing up, not just delayed, so we’ll see if this one does (I didn’t realize I was writing such incendiary comments)!

I do not think the rule that a player who has been sent to the minors cannot be recalled for 10 days applies once the minor league season is over. The AAA Zephyrs’ season is done 9/1, so I think Argenis could be recalled then, even if it is less than 10 days after he was sent down.

Anybody know if the above is, in fact, the rule?

how do you know he did it and it wasnt omar ’suggesting with great authority’ that he read this publicly?

i still say include castillo in a move this offseason for uggla who that fish need to move a big contract. kee argenis to back up uggla.

We don’t know if this was his idea and I doubt it was. Who’s to say he’s not doing this because he was told his playing time would be dramatically reduced and because his ego is so huge he decided to sit out a few more days.It’s all very interesting.

Well, after seeing the first 6 innings of this game, it looks like Luis is *definitely* getting the play of the day for the Mets.

thats total bull….don’t believe the hype……the ny media hype

This HAS to be purely coincidental. If him simply being on the team has this impact on Reyes, then why would the Mets even risk keeping him around anymore. I know the Castillo hater likes to paint him as this horrible influence who takes Jose out late at night and doing lines of coke off of hooker’s chests and such, but has any of this type of behavior been anything more than speculation? Prior to his coming here and Jose’s subsequent slump, I have heard nothing but positive things about Castillo…..

And your evidence that Castillo’s presence/non-presence has absolutely anything to do with Reyes’ performance is what exactly?

Great comment—see the very first sentence of the post above yours for a description of your entire post.

MetsGrrl…I also think that, for some reason, the Mets didn’t play as well with Luis in the lineup (I have discussed in detail how I think it has to do with his inability to hit the ball more than 10 feet beyond the infield, so I will have mercy on you poor souls and not get into that again here), but I don’t see how he has impacted Jose’s play at all. At worst, I would say the absence of Jose Valentin (which resulted in the acquisition of Luis) affect Jose Reyes, but since he picked it up again, that seems unlikely, too. And Willie’s departure may have helped, too, since they seemed to have issues (though Jose should’ve sucked it up while Willie was here, if that was the case).

As for the comment in response by Jeff, about never hearing anything bad about Luis, when he first came over here, Gary Cohen mentioned some things along the lines of him being a “space cadet” and not that focused, which really surprised me. And, of course, there is all the unsubstantiated speculation about his partying too much. That’s all I have heard, though. I never heard that he was a bad influence in the clubhouse. In fact, as was recently pointed out on another thread, Johan was very upset when Luis was traded from the Twins, and happy to join him on the Mets.

No logic connects your suggestion, unless you know more than you seem to & are just not into justifying publicly your speculations.

Fact is, nobody know much of anything.

And I’m not even sure that’s right.