Comments on: Read: El Duque’s Career May Be Over

By: Gina

Gina — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:48:27 +0000

Pagan and Vargas, Matt Wise, who I’m starting to think is dead, Trot Nixon, and Burgos but I guess he might be able to make a comeback this year.

By: Dennis A

Dennis A — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:02:23 +0000

El Duque is 42 years old. He was born in 1965. Wikipedia, baseballreference and espn all have him listed as such. With a quick search, Mets.com is the only site I found that lists him as born in 1969.

By: das2ble

das2ble — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:34:37 +0000

Glavine and Maine and pray for rain

By: das2ble

das2ble — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:28:36 +0000

First of all – do not call me a jerk.

Great – a year and three quarters of play – it does not matter. He was signed for 3! I wish I got paid for 58.3% of my work.

By: das2ble

das2ble — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:24:13 +0000

Oh great prophet – how could I ever doubt you? You know for a fact that if Duque was not there, they would not have made the playoffs in 2006 or been in contention in 2007? That is amazing. How can you rationalize something that never happened? How can you say what the Mets would or would have not done at that time? That is baseless.

Certainly he contributed – he was on the team. He pitched (as long as he could). He won some games. Great. But that does not make him some kind of fantastic star on the team.

How can you know what the team would have done without him there? It is impossible. They certainly have won a lot this year without him.

By: das2ble

das2ble — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:14:48 +0000

I quit. Talk about jumping all over a guy for voicing his opinion.

I should have just written he sucks and be done with it.

I only speak for myself, but it seems other people here agree with me.

Go have fun creating murals and shrines for the guy!

By: das2ble

das2ble — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:12:10 +0000

Right on!

By: das2ble

das2ble — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:11:33 +0000

Hallelujah!

By: MetsFan1976

MetsFan1976 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:58:04 +0000

Oh, no way do I think the Schoeneweid contract wasn’t bad! If I made it sound like that…oops!

What I am saying is that the Mets got screwed by the fact that the Orioles screwed up the market for middle relievers. In hindsight, yes, I would have much preferred to have Bradford over Schoeneweis for essentially the same ridiculous contract. Sure, Show has been pretty good this year, but it’s still *way* too much money for a middle reliever, and I agree that Bradford would have been better.

By: MetsFan1976

MetsFan1976 — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:51:43 +0000

LOL. I know what you mean. I’m not sure I ever understood one word that man said in his post-game interviews.

That being said, as much as he would have been better off using an interpreter, I always appreciated his effort to speak English. A lot of foreign-born players don’t make that same effort.