At Sully Baseball, Paul Sullivan compares the best all time Mets roster of home grown players versus their best acquired players.
…very cool, i would take the homegrown rotation any time…
New York Mets Online pleads their case to keep Oliver Perez.
The guys at League of Nations would rather see Megatron at the plate than Pat Burrell, and give their reasons why.
Ted Berg of SNY chimes in on whether or not David Wright is, among other things, overrated writing:
“Take a look at the list of Hall Of Fame third basemen. How many of them had four full seasons with an OPS+ over 130 before they turned 26, as Wright does? Just one: Eddie Matthews. Dick Allen did it too (and probably belongs in the Hall of Fame), but none of the others saw so much consistent success so early in his career.”
…i don’t know how people can say that the mets should trade wright for reasons like ‘he is not clutch’… in my opinion they just say it for shock value since that argument carries very little weight, even if he sometimes fails to come through at the plate…he more than makes up for those rare shortcomings the rest of the time…
Im not sure why Lil Wayne has a blog at ESPN, but he approves of the Mets signing K-Rod.
…oh, thank goodness…
On that note, this site proves that there is a blog for just about everything.
Hate to see the Google search that turned up that blog, Regis.
“…i don’t know how people can say that the mets should trade wright for reasons like ‘he is not clutch’…”
I don’t know how somebody can say we’ll only have to put up with this crappy comment layout for a week and then ignore all the users who plead for him to put the old style back, almost two weeks later!!!!!
David Wright is SO BAD!!!
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there. Now that we got that idiocy out of the way…
does anybody know where I can see pictures of Mike Pelfrey as Santa Claus?
“Im not sure why Lil Wayne has a blog at ESPN, but he approves of the Mets signing K-Rod.
…oh, thank goodness…”
I’m not sure why Regis Courtemanche and the rest of those dopes over at MEtsblog have a blog, but they apparently also approve of the Mets signing K’Rod.
Oh, thank goodness.
ZING
Don’t diss Lil Wayne.
Hey, here’s this post again, I saw this an hour ago before it was taken down lol.
Anyways…I love the Sully baseball article and Ted Berg has a good one too.
before we start bashing him, in all fairness, he needs to shut up sometimes, he gives away too many quotes, like “HE MADE A GREAT 3-2 PITCH THAT STRUCK ME OUT” . He’s the future of the mets but he needs to addres-s that as well as not get caught up with his numbers..
Wow…from the ESPN link (Lil Wayne):
“I’ve thought about it, and my song would be “Closing Time” by that group Semisonic. You know the one: Closing Tiiiiiiiime. Except I’d just have that loop over and over again “Closing Tiiiiiiime, Closing Tiiiiiiiime” while I came in from the bullpen.”
That might be the worst choice for closer’s theme ever. It is just so…unintimidating.
To be fair, Wayne’s blog isn’t that bad…I was actually kind of impressed.
I, for one, had no idea Lil’ Wayne was a Semisonic fan. His choice of Purple Rain for an at-bat song is pretty inspired, though.
Lets have Lil’ Wayne do the new Mets song.
His blog has been the most readable thing at ESPN.com for months now.
Dude, I’m partial to homegrown too. Oh wait, what website is this?
IAmKeithHernandez;
I believe Lil’ Wayne is employing what is known as “reverse psychology” in his choice of closer entrance music. The man is a genius.
ya lets have lil wayne make are new meet the mets sing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there would be cursing in every part of the song lol
i meant meet the mets song
Can we just stop this right now. Anyone who says we should trade David Wright is 1. not a Mets fan and 2. knows nothing about baseball.
hernandez I was about to post that. that’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
The Sully thing was really well done and very funny, if a bit typo-heavy.
“i don’t know how people can say that the mets should trade wright for reasons like ‘he is not clutch’”
Fatcessa started this in order to create some buzz for his MadDog-less, punchless show. And like sheep, some sports fans actually gave credibility to Fatcessa’s brainbird idea.
Can you bring back the old-style comment section please?
Meet the bleepin’ Mets,
Meet the bleepin’ Mets,
Yo stand up and greet the bleepin’ Mets
Bring ya homies and bring ya shawties
It’s a guarantee you havin’ a party
Cuz the bleepin’ Mets are really bleepin’ that ball yo
Slammin’ them home runs over that wall yo
Eastsiderz (Wat up?)
Westsiderz (Wat up?)
All my homies comin’ down yo
To bleepin’ meet the M-E-T-S Mets
of 718!
heres what lil wayne said bout the mets signng k-rod got it off espn.com
I’m a big fan of the Mets signing K-Rod. That was a smart move for them because they’ve got all the talent in the world but they’ve lacked that killer instinct to push them over the top.
The LiL Wayne post is hysterical.
That made my day. Ah…the simple things in life.
Just so dumb. Remember how the Knicks fans grew weary of Ewing. What has happened to the team since he left?
Lil’ Wayne is absolutely right about the killer instinct. . . .
. . . how is his DP pivot?
who is little wayne?
wayne newton’s son?
where are the pictures from the Christmas Party?
was Willie the elf again…he looked good in that hat…
Richie Allen and Joe Pepitone were ahead of their time….today they would fit right in
personally I loved both of them back in the day….
Nrmax, please, for the ever love of god, GET A LIFE. No one, and I mean NO ONE, cares what you think. If you don’t like this blog, then just f off…
That nrmax guy’s posts typically just bash other folks in the comments section. Branching out to bashing a Metsblogger is a significant advance in the evolution of a D-bag.
LOL TMU!!
Is DW overrated? I don’t think so.
Is his defense overrated? Maybe. (notwithstanding his two gold gloves).
Is he clutch? As much as anyone, I suppose.
Does he strike out often in clutch situation? I don’t know if it’s more he should, but it seems so.
in that homegrown vs. acquired page the dude says that because of billy wagner goin down we over payed for rodriguez .
i really dont see how we over payed for the guy who holds the record for saves in a season
I enjoy the information your blog provides, but please, Matt, can you stop with all the “the way I understand,” “from what I hear,” “for what it’s worth,” “the way I read it,” stuff. Every single post is littered with it.
To OP:
I wish people would stop being apologists when it comes from David Wright. He was flat out with RISP, not just “some times” he was awful 75% of the time. Delgado was clutch and Beltran was clutch at the last month at least.
Yet, I’m seeing trade proposals for Delgado and he was the most clutched hitter on the plannet. Absolutely obsurd. I could also say that this Mets fan base does not like Carlos Beltran, and that is a fact.
People need to shut up, A-ROD is the least clutch person but yea people rave about him because of his numbers and the globs of RBIS he gets per RBI hit. I am happy the mets arent built and centered around one person, whereas david wright or beltran have to make big hits. Our clutch players will not come from hitters but from our pitching which has defined great Met teams in the past. We have a great flyball pitchers park, and so we arent gonna get players who are going to hit for great hr numbers. One thing people need to address about David Wright is that he gets to pull happy, and so in the beginning, he usually hits the other way, which is dangerous against other teams and something we yearned for and had with xavier nady (who i liked a lot and miss for his godd left handed hitting) David wright i believe falls into too much pressure and thats why pitchers learn to pitch away with sliders against him (watch every john smoltz matchup in the past against david wright and count the number of hard sliders he throws). David wright, if he tries to go the other way like he did his rookie and second second, will be that much more dangerous again. All the great players have told david wright to just be natural and try not to let the pressure get to him. We need David wrightl he may not have the mouth that we need in him like a pedro and a krod will have (which we really need) but at least he takes every at bat seriously and tries to carry the team on his shoulders unlike certain players on the team.
Sam you forgot the one he uses the most…
“From what I gather”
For Mr. Bacons:
“He was flat out with RISP, not just “some times” he was awful 75% of the time.”
DWright Career with RISP: .300/.394/.501
So I guess he only fails 70% of the time. And only fails to reach base 60.6%.
“Yet, I’m seeing trade proposals for Delgado and he was the most clutched hitter on the plannet. Absolutely obsurd.”
That’s true about Delgado being “clutched.” In fact, he led the NL in hugs received over the last few years. It’s probably more Absurd to expect that someone with a limited grasp of English would be able to understand what makes a good baseball player.
” I could also say that this Mets fan base does not like Carlos Beltran, nd that is a fact.”
Speak for yourself dude, because I happen to think that Beltran is awesome.
Sorry if I was mean, but I find it ridiculous that there even have to be “apologists” for David Wright. He is going to go down as the greatest Met of all time (non-pitcher).
So, that Sully Baseball link was cool.
Except who here would take Bud Harrelson over Jose Reyes.
I’m still waiting.
Oh, and personally, I’d take Rey Ordonez over Rafael Santana. But they’re essentially the same player, so it doesn’t make much of a difference.
Yeah, I would have to agree, that Reyes is much better the Bud Harrelson. Rafael Santana was all glove no bat, but Rey Ordonez had an Ozzie Smith type glove game so I would have to go with Rey.
I am ashamed to say it but Rey is one of my favorite all-time mets.
Reyes has Bud beat in almost every single statistical catagory created…u know u have an agenda with the guy when the ONLY thing u mention is the fact that he is a “hotdog”
lol
Bud or Kevin Elster need to be on that list as a backup…