Comments on: Quote: Manuel on Sunday, Fans and Season

By: Cactus

Cactus — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:50:14 +0000

Are you sure the fans were tremendous? Reading this site, I thought all they did was boo and make their players feel sad.

By: Seav31

Seav31 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:48:18 +0000

Jerry has nothing to hang his head for. He did something his predecessor never did, namely, act like a field general. Jerry used strategy to motivate and steer this club, something I saw lacking in Willy. Only one major problem that hasn’t been addressed: everyone on this team goes to bat swinging for the long ball. Just look how streaky Wright and Beltran have been at clutch times. When Wright is hitting to the opposite field lobbing the ball just over the first baseman’s head look how productive that was. How about a little more slap hitting. Singles and doubles and GOOD bunting at unexpected times can lead to runs. Maybe next year HoJo will recall all the little hits that added up when he was playing and instill this ‘small-ball’ mindset in his charges. LET’S GO METS 2009!!

By: kd bart

kd bart — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:22:23 +0000

This team would’ve been out of it by September with Willie as Manager. They would’ve finished back there with the Braves.

By: kd bart

kd bart — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:20:40 +0000

2008 was nothing like 2007. In 2007, the team played on cruise control the entire season and felt it should be handed to them and it caught up to them in the end. That team was 36-18 after 54 games and played below .500 the rest of the season. This team started 2008 under the cloud of last year and the daily drama of will Willie be fired today for the first 2 1/2 months and were 6 1/2 games back and in fourth when he was eventually fired. They were 55-38 the remaining of the season but were eventually undone by the bugaboo that came back to haunt them all season long, a lousy bullpen that was only made worse by the loss of Wagner with 50 games left.

By: kd bart

kd bart — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:00:08 +0000

The bullpen blew seven games in the last 50 in which the Mets had a 2+ run lead at some point from the seventh inning on. I doubt the Phillies blew more than one. Decent bullpen and they make the playoffs if not win the division. Starting pitching was top 4 in the NL. Bullpen was bottom third in the NL. Enough said.

By: kd bart

kd bart — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:53:19 +0000

So you would trade a proven 25 year old everyday player about to enter the prime years of his career who is still under contract for 4 more seasons and an 18 year old everyday player who has tremendous upside potential for a 31 year old starting pitcher who might be entering the tail end of his career. You would make one lousy GM. The Blue Jays would jump all over that.

By: There's Always '09

There's Always '09 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:42:24 +0000

I would say Delgado, Beltran, and Murphy don’t deserve it either.

By: There's Always '09

There's Always '09 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:40:25 +0000

Daniel Murphy will never be a major league caliber 2B. Plain and simple. He did come up as a 3B though :-)

By: There's Always '09

There's Always '09 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:37:19 +0000

Murphy came up as a 3rd baseman. Murphy can move back.

We aren’t Kansas City. We can sign Manny Ramirez, K-Rod, Orlando Hudson, some bullpen arms. Manny more than makes up for the loss of Wright. Our lineup would be pretty stacked and our starting pitching would be pretty nasty as well. Not to mention, having a real closer rather than Luis Ayala. We can also replace some of those other bullpen arms and go at it again.

All I’m saying is, Wright has trade value and we can overcome his loss by signing Manny. Why not get another front line starter? Halladay isn’t built like Pedro. He is a big guy, more like Pelfrey. His body doesn’t seem to be breaking down.

By: wethreekings

wethreekings — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:12:50 +0000

I have no problem with us trying to improve the offense. But let’s try to fix the real problem first, kay?