Comments on: Very Bad Things Are Coming

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:10:00 +0000

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:21:00 +0000

Comment deleted. Let's please leave race out of it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:05:00 +0000

Pull the fences in a bit? No way. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the dimensions. It's a pitcher's park, but what's wrong with that? Besides, other teams have come in here and knocked the ball out like it was nothing. What's the point of moving the fences in if the opposition is just going to hit more home runs? It's the Mets' lineup, not the fences, that is the problem. And the Mets are dead last in homers so it's not the park. They don't hit them anywhere.
There have been about 110 homers hit at Citi so far this season, about 1.7 a game. How many do you want? Over 3, like Yankee Stadium? I guess some people just can't enjoy baseball unless they're treated to a bunch of home runs.
Plus, it's not that hard to jack one out if you pull the ball. It's deep in the gaps, but so what? It should be. With all the bandboxes in baseball yielding cheap home runs that should be doubles or outs, I'm glad this park plays honest like it does. It's the one thing the Mets did right.
I would make one change, though. I'd extend the home run line along the base of the apple. If you hit it to the 408 marker in dead center, you shouldn't have to clear a 16 foot wall. 12 feet is fine. But that's IT.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:56:00 +0000

Jason,
We're too afraid to take out our ouiji board to see what's in store for the Mets future.
Let's just suppose everyone comes back healthy – if they can sign a power hitting left fielder then Murphy can stay at first. The bullpen should be more stable with a healthy Putz setting up Krod. With Maine and a healthier Perez (sic) our starting staff is shored up through the first four spots.
Better doctors and a better left fielder might be all we need in 2010. That, and pulling in the fences a bit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:31:00 +0000

reyes was AWESOME last year. statistically he hit as well as he did in 2006.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:30:00 +0000

I got a big, if slightly deranged, laugh out of the NYT article on the Mets' draft signings:
“Terrasas, meanwhile, disputed the notion that the Mets came in 30th in spending on the first 10 rounds in part because they picked players in higher rounds than they were projected to be selected and thus had to pay them less.”
Maybe so-and-so wasn't a 3rd round pick… right until you picked him in the third round. Typical Mets BS, try to sign an x-round pick with round x+5 round money by saying he's x+5th quality.
So which is worse, proving you're a cheap SOB or denigrating one of your draftees right after you sign him? That's the kind of management and public relations skills we've learned to expect from this bunch.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:12:00 +0000

Here's another thing to chew on is the future(s) of Reyes and/or Wright. They are incredibly undervalued in the sense of dollars, Wright save this season has been overperforming, Reyes underperforming. Then again, it takes players with as much god-given talent to play to their potential, then there is a small window where they can put up an MVP-type of year (see: Jimmy Rollins). In any case, the Mets really need to view how they are going to value these players in their walk years and therefore, give them a chance to perform on a team where their management actually gives two shits. seriously. I mean, every single decent player in the ranks has become a superstar elsewhere, why not Wright or Reyes? The fact is, we seriously low-balled them back in 2006, they were willing to stick around because they were young and on the precipice (or so they thought) of something huge. One huge-ass collapse in 2007, a mini-one in 2008 and the fan base turning severely vile in 2009 may have them rethinking their choice of cities to play in. I hate to sound so bitter because I've managed to stay upbeat and relatively positive. but this is something that eats away at me. While I want to see them stay Mets for the long term something tells me one thing or another will chase them out of town and we'll see them bud and flourish someplace else because some other team will pay them what they are worth and the Mets will just let them walk when their contract's expire…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:10:00 +0000

The Donald? Who's now concentrating on golf courses because his casinos file Chapter 11 every 15 minutes?
Dubious.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:30:00 +0000

Omar is a perfect illustration of the Peter Principle: every employee tends to rise to his or her level of incompetence, and there they remain.
From wiki:
“in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their “level of incompetence”), and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions.”
Or, in Omar's case, there he remains because the Wilpons don't appear to be willing to honestly evaluate his performance. He was a good scout. He's not a good GM.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:50:00 +0000

i think you're right, but sadly, i've been thinking this for years.
frankly, the only reason i'm still here is because of the fan community. including bloggers like you.