Comments on: News: Bobby V says He Would be Interested

By: Schneck

Schneck — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:11:20 +0000

Manuel signed…discussion over.

By: metsfrenzy

metsfrenzy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:33:33 +0000

We should remember that he did have an older team in NY and they did respond – Franco – Leiter etc. Besides i’m not sure Carlos D. is the right guy. Let’s also not go crazy with Manuel-3 yrs. is a bit much – he’s unproven as well.
Walter Alson worked for yrs as a i yr contract guy-where does manuel get off with a 3 yr demand. 2 Yrs was more than sufficient but I’m all for Bobby. This will take the negative soin out and he is the right person to lead the team. Can Fred and co. swallow their pride though!

By: metsfrenzy

metsfrenzy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:29:18 +0000

what dynamic is that- we lost – again! Time to make a change – Bobby can do that and the players will respond. At any rate, like to see Carlos D. moved after the Mets pick up his option. I doubt he can post the same numbers again. get something of value for him – what about Mike jacobs if you want to go on the cheap!

By: ridethesnake

ridethesnake — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:22:09 +0000

Why are Beltran and Johan leaders on Team B but not Team A?

By: Joe Bacci

Joe Bacci — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:54:39 +0000

umm, maybe you forgot he returned to the dugout in disguise after being ejected…

By: yagottabelieve

yagottabelieve — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:52:22 +0000

But they learned from the fold in 1998 and won in ’99 and ’00. That ’99 team was the toughest, most resilient Met team since 1986. And the ’00 team made the World Series with an OF of Perez, Payton and Agbayani… and would likely have beaten the Yankees in the World Series if we’d had any competent closer other than Benitez… or if Timo wasn’t a space cadet with delusions of granderu who thought there was no reason to run hard in Game One of the series, even though he’d only been in the big leagues for about 10 minutes. (And you can’t lay that on Bobby… because unlike this current bunch, the 99-00 squad was known for it’s high-octane, run-everything-out mindset. Timo’s blunder was an anomaly).

By: yagottabelieve

yagottabelieve — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:46:06 +0000

Tough, aggressive, intense, in-your-face and overachieving… basically the polar opposite of the identity we have now.

By: yagottabelieve

yagottabelieve — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:45:02 +0000

>>>Why mess with a good thing?

What good thing? It’s not like we owe the players anything after the last two Septembers. Get a guy in here who will win, and who cares what the players think…

By: mookstra

mookstra — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:16:53 +0000

one thing is for certain…he will deflect any negatives during the eason away from the players and onto him. I would think that type of personality would be great, and the distractions would be minimal

By: Free Aaron Heilman III

Free Aaron Heilman III — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:16:10 +0000

TMU … my comment was only addressing the totally unsubstantiated far-fetched statement by patrick regarding game 7 of the NLCS, Heilman, and the players being stunned. That was worthy of the Fatman.

If you’re saying Collapse I & Collapse II are all a result of trauma from game 7 of the 2006 NLCS than I still think that is pure BS.

If that’s what you’re saying, we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

And, yeah, we added Santana this year, but because the bullpen was so weak, that led to Collapse II.

They should have addressed BOTH Santana and the bullpen before this season.