Comments on: Buzz: John Lackey looking for a 5-year Deal http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/ Latest Mets News, Links, Rumors and Opinion Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:22:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Agees Catch http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605670 Agees Catch Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:46:00 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605670 i still remember the Rose-Harrelson fight, and it seemd like evry other day the 86 Mets were getting into it. Yeah, we're role models for the 2009 Phillies. Maybe we can get some Canadian baseball players who know how to drop their gloves? i still remember the Rose-Harrelson fight, and it seemd like evry other day the 86 Mets were getting into it. Yeah, we’re role models for the 2009 Phillies.

Maybe we can get some Canadian baseball players who know how to drop their gloves?

]]> By: racemccloud http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605657 racemccloud Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:48:02 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605657 I thought of that Victorino/Reyes awful play and call in the Phillies/Rockies series. Fowler jumped over Utley and the announcers started talking about how Folwer could have been called for interference because the runner has to give way to the fielder. And I'm thinking, "Then why the hell was Victorino given second base when he ran out of the basepath to elbow Reyes in the ribs?" Oh, and Victorino wasn't making a "heads-up play" there, you smarmy Reyes haters. He was making a "dirty play" and inexplicably got away with it. I thought of that Victorino/Reyes awful play and call in the Phillies/Rockies series. Fowler jumped over Utley and the announcers started talking about how Folwer could have been called for interference because the runner has to give way to the fielder. And I’m thinking, “Then why the hell was Victorino given second base when he ran out of the basepath to elbow Reyes in the ribs?”

Oh, and Victorino wasn’t making a “heads-up play” there, you smarmy Reyes haters. He was making a “dirty play” and inexplicably got away with it.

]]> By: racemccloud http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605656 racemccloud Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:44:54 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605656 I like posts like this that don't actually have anything to do with the post they're referring to. I like posts like this that don’t actually have anything to do with the post they’re referring to.

]]> By: JohantheMan http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605654 JohantheMan Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:11:52 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605654 good point but the way I see it, the team that trades for halladay will have to pay him and the mets are in a situation where they can do that if they want too. They have to pay him and give him prospects so it may not be ideal as i said i don't know what it will take to get him but i don't think it will empty the farm and i wouldn't include pelf but i don't know, it's worth checking out though good point but the way I see it, the team that trades for halladay will have to pay him and the mets are in a situation where they can do that if they want too. They have to pay him and give him prospects so it may not be ideal

as i said i don’t know what it will take to get him but i don’t think it will empty the farm and i wouldn’t include pelf but i don’t know, it’s worth checking out though

]]> By: steadyeddie http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605652 steadyeddie Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:54:15 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605652 yup, wasn't for those darn empires we woulda won it all this year! Stupid guy only hit like 50 HR and had 900 rbi's. What a loser; did'nt even go on the DL! (and I'm a Mets fan, not a troll!) yup,
wasn’t for those darn empires
we woulda won it all this year!
Stupid guy only hit like 50 HR and had 900 rbi’s.
What a loser; did’nt even go on the DL!
(and I’m a Mets fan, not a troll!)

]]> By: reillys5 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605651 reillys5 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:53:32 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605651 and did u see victorino get picked off and try to run his elbow into beliard? .. it was the first time in about 4 months that i yelled at my tv when a baseball game was on..he is the dirtiest player in the game, and i cant wait until it all comes crashing down on him and the phillies and did u see victorino get picked off and try to run his elbow into beliard? .. it was the first time in about 4 months that i yelled at my tv when a baseball game was on..he is the dirtiest player in the game, and i cant wait until it all comes crashing down on him and the phillies

]]> By: racemccloud http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605650 racemccloud Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:17:44 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605650 Er... Werth flew OUT next AB, inning over. Er… Werth flew OUT next AB, inning over.

]]> By: racemccloud http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605649 racemccloud Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:17:15 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605649 Off topic, I know, but I just turned on Dodgers/Phillies and watched Kershaw strike out Howard twice in one at-bat, but both pitches (a check swing that broke the plane and a slider right on the corner) were called balls. Neither were close. One blown strike call? Yeah, that happens. Usually when that happens, though, on the check swing, shouldn't you get the borderline strike 3? And the slider that walked Howard wasn't even close to borderline. It was a perfect pitch. Thankfully Werth hit a long fly next AB... but can someone name me one ridiculous break the Phillies HAVEN'T gotten in the past three years? The umpiring in this postseason has been atrocious... Off topic, I know, but I just turned on Dodgers/Phillies and watched Kershaw strike out Howard twice in one at-bat, but both pitches (a check swing that broke the plane and a slider right on the corner) were called balls. Neither were close. One blown strike call? Yeah, that happens. Usually when that happens, though, on the check swing, shouldn’t you get the borderline strike 3? And the slider that walked Howard wasn’t even close to borderline. It was a perfect pitch.

Thankfully Werth hit a long fly next AB… but can someone name me one ridiculous break the Phillies HAVEN’T gotten in the past three years? The umpiring in this postseason has been atrocious…

]]> By: methead http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605648 methead Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:50:11 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605648 I would love Holliday as our #2, but I am pretty sure you are wrong. There is no way we will get Holliday without a package that begins with Pelfrey and Ike Davis. It will probably need to have at least 1 more to pprospect. Problem is....other teams will be able to beat that package because they have a #1 starter waiitng in the minors to deal. I think trading for Holliday is a better option than signing lackey. Except..Holliday will empty our system of top, almost major league ready talent and once again we will be back where we started, no true talent ready. I would love Holliday as our #2, but I am pretty sure you are wrong. There is no way we will get Holliday without a package that begins with Pelfrey and Ike Davis. It will probably need to have at least 1 more to pprospect. Problem is….other teams will be able to beat that package because they have a #1 starter waiitng in the minors to deal.

I think trading for Holliday is a better option than signing lackey. Except..Holliday will empty our system of top, almost major league ready talent and once again we will be back where we started, no true talent ready.

]]> By: methead http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605647 methead Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:40:10 +0000 http://www.metsblog.com/2009/10/15/buzz-john-lackey-looking-for-a-5-year-deal/#comment-605647 Pretty scary that we are going to pay lackey 16 million for 5 years assuming thats what he gets. I dont think thats smart investment but then again as a Met fan I am not sure I want to wait another year or 2 to be good. I know people say, who cares its not our money. And I agree. Problem is....outside of the Yankees who overspend....teams dont usually win throwing money around. I mean seriously. Our #1 and #2 starters will combine for 40 million? If I thought the Mets would spend 200 million, I would be all for it because I do think, in terms of spending to win, 200 million seems like "the nunber" that guarantees competitiveness,if not the playoffs. But we will spend 50 million less and I doubt we are going to spend 30 million a year in holliday AND lackey. Then again....I have no idea what the alternative really is. Pretty scary that we are going to pay lackey 16 million for 5 years assuming thats what he gets. I dont think thats smart investment but then again as a Met fan I am not sure I want to wait another year or 2 to be good.

I know people say, who cares its not our money. And I agree. Problem is….outside of the Yankees who overspend….teams dont usually win throwing money around. I mean seriously. Our #1 and #2 starters will combine for 40 million?

If I thought the Mets would spend 200 million, I would be all for it because I do think, in terms of spending to win, 200 million seems like “the nunber” that guarantees competitiveness,if not the playoffs. But we will spend 50 million less and I doubt we are going to spend 30 million a year in holliday AND lackey.

Then again….I have no idea what the alternative really is.

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