The Mets
 

I glad to see they won tonight.

Given the injured pitchers it may be a hard road, but lets hope they get to play the Yankees.

METS all the way :thumbup:

be careful what you wish for.....

i wonder who modcat will be rooting for?

M! E! T! S! Mets! Mets! Mets!!!!!

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It wouldn't be so bad to see this again (notice the logo in the background)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im...LE/AABP003.jpg

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Good question. Is he signed up for fantasy football? Perhaps he will be attending Westfest IV.:dunno:

I love Eric when he's not posting in political threads. :rofl:

Sad to say, I betcha there are 'bout 5 guys on this forum who could be starting pitchers for the Mets......

RACK IT! :rofl: :thumbup:

i betcha there are about 10 guys on the mutts who couldn't make the yankees AAA team :) lol

Perhaps a little bit of an exageration...LOL.

However, there is only one player on the Mets that would make the Yankees starting lineup, and that is Carlos Beltran.

The Mets won, seems like they have better players then that other NY team.

It was at the game in great box seats,

:confused: :drunk:

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO METS!!!!!!!
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of course it's an exaggeration, it's called taunting :) :):thumbup:

actually, no, they just have better players than the Dodgers... they would have to actually play and beat the Yankees to make your point valid.

I'd take Carlos Delgado over BOTH Sheffield and Giambi...I also prefer David Wright over PAY-Rod :nanana:

Delgado vs. Giambi is close, but Wright over ARod? Are you kidding? :rofl: :rofl:

Everyone is getting on ARod's back because he had his worst year in quite some time. That awful year looked like this:

.290 average, 35 HRs, 120 RBIs

and THAT proves why you're a Mutts fan... ;)

Guess the Yankess could of use Beltran and the rest of the Mets last night. :nanana:

absolutely not.

They absolutely lost so how can be so "absolute"?

you assume that just because the yankees lost last night that a mets player would have helped them win, unfortunately, like most of your thinking on here, that logic is flawed. Rogers pitched the game of his career, it's as simple as that.

Have a nice day.

Rogers did well but that is not the whole story. What happened the previous game guess it was that pitchers night as well?

I hope the Mets do well tonight.

We should do a poll of Mets and Yank fans?

Dodgers and the Yankees are my 2 favorite teams....with Maddux on the mound hopefully the Dodgers can pull out 1 win but will be hard w/out Nomar in the lineup...

As for the Yankees yiiikkes!!!! It's becoming a pattern now, win the first game then lost 3 straight..I have no faith in any of the Yankees pitchers besides Wang & Rivera

I am a big fan of the Mets but would rather see the Yanks win unless they are playing the Mets.

cybil.

You started talking about last night. I commented and gave a reason.

Do you now want to talk about game 2 or should I speak with your alter ego?

Steinbrenner for the past couple years has been focusing too much in the 1-9 lineup, this offseason he needs to rebuild the starting pitcher rotation....

R. Johnson needs to retire or maybe should convert to a closer, Wright can't handle the spotlight in NY and needs to get traded....in the end you win with pitching not an all-star batting lineup

What do you want to say about the game tonight?

5 nothing, I know its just the pitcher having the game of his life.

Still hope the Mets have a good game tonight.

I think it has more to do with confidence and trust....

I mean when the Yankee starting pitchers are giving up so many runs that early in the game it kind of screws up with the gameplan and the batters have less of a greenlight...and also psychologically it helps out the Detroit pitchers a lot because they have more room for error

But..Beltran? Sure he would have helped, but I don't think he would have been the deciding factor in a victory...we have enough allstar batters, we just need some friggin pitchin! Should have started Wang tonight not Wright

Guess you are right but the Yanks were playing stronger than the Mets at the end of the season.

Was hopping for a subway series

I honestly was hoping for Dodgers v.s Yankees LOL...I knew it was far fetched to begin win but one could hope right?

Assuming the Dodgers/Yankees get eliminated tonight I'll be rooting for Oakland and the Mets

Also I heard somewhere that it was possible A-Rod would be traded to the Marlins for Dantre Willis...what ya think about that?

Bet george is smoking mad.

I wonder if A rod and others willing be coming back.

Sometimes money does not buy happiness.

OK...Yankees are basically eliminated, down 7-0 and still without a HIT!!

It's absolutely certain now that A-Rod must go, make sure Matsui doesn't break his wrist again so we can get a full season out of him...our starting pitching rotation could be Wang/Mussina/Willis and fillers, hopefully with a different outcome next year

Will we be saying goodbye to Joe Torre as well?

Say what you want but the Yankees are done for this year!:nanana:

Sadly......and who cares if there's 10 players on the Mets who couldn't make the AAA Yankees team...fact is they won just as many regular season games as the Yankees, are still alive and have the advantage in the playoffs with less of an all-star cast + all the injuries in the postseason

I'm still a Yankee fan over the Mets but I'll give credit where it's due, as Yankee fans we can always look on the bright side..the Red Sox didn't make the playoffs!

Feelgood you seem like a reasonable person my last comment was meant for all those Yank fans with attitude. I am not a Yankee hater though I must say the Sox win was interesting.

I'm not bashing the mutts, i'm bashing blue... :thumbup:

That's a typical "yankee hater" comment. Here's how the scenario usually goes:

non-Yankee fan taunts yankees fan
yankees fan defends team
non-yankees fan claims yankee fan is an arrogant sob for standing up for their team.

It's the ridiculous double standard that non-yankees fans can bash the crap out of the yankees at will and expect yankees fans to just sit there and not say a word, and if they do? they're labeled as arrogant.

Whatever, I'll just leave you with this:

Got Rings?

and

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Some of us don't even have an x5 and I leave you with that.:thumbup:

Whats that suppose to mean???:dunno:

OBTW are you and blue coming to westfestIV ???

The Yankees problem is age, not any specific player. They are filled with vetran players who are no longer hungry. And of course they need better and younger pitching.

Back in the late 1990s, while they did not have all the superstar names that are on the current roster, they had young players who were hungry and who were clutch.

Alex Rodriguez is not the problem. While he had an awful series, so did Cano, Shefield and Giambi. ARod actually has a career postseason batting average of over .300. He just had a bad series. Back in the 2004 postseason, he was awsome and hit over .400. And in 2001 with Seattle he also hit over .400 in the postseason.

What the Yankees need to do is to get younger. I really liked how they brought up Melke Cabrera this year, and how both Wang and Cano developed into great players. They need to continue doing this.

Next year they are expecting Philip Hughes to be in the starting rotation. For all those who do not know who he is, he is the top pitching prospect in all of baseball and is only 20 years old. This season his minor league numbers looked like this:

12-6, 2.16 era, 146 innings pictched, 168 strikeouts, 34 walks, opposing batters hitting .179 against him

For next season, they have one too many outfielders. Hopefully they will trade one of the older ones in the offseason (not Melke Cabrera) for some pitching help.

I'm sure the Dodgers would love A-Rod...I'd think he'd shine in LA too, so why not trade A-Rod + fillers for Brad Penny + fillers

It's tough to follow because modblues logic is so impossible to follow, however, my best guess is that he's referring to the fact that I no longer own my '01 or '04 X5's, AND, as a result, don't belong on here.

That's just a guess, he could also be saying "i need a tissue", you never know.....

I'm not sure the Dodgers would take on his contract.

Aahhh. ok. Hmmmm:rolleyes:

His contract is not as large as you may think. Texas is already paying about $9 million per year of his contract until the end. The Yankees are responsible for $16 million per year. So you never know what kind of deal could be worked out if they wanted to trade him. But I doubt they will trade him. Look for them to trade one of the outfielders, perhaps Damon or Matsui.

Also, the talk this morning on the local sports-talk radio programs is that Joe Torre is out and Lou Pinella will be the next Yankees manager.

I saw that article in The Daily Snooze, I'm not buying it, at least right now. Firing Torre would be a PR nightmare for The Boss (remember Yogi?). I have a feeling that A-Rod is going to be gone for some young arms...

It's funny how a thread titled "The Mets" ended up being about the other team in NY :confused:

At least it's still about baseball and not politics thank goodness.

I thought A-ROD had a no trade contract?

There's no way I'd want Matsui traded...I'd rather have Sheffield gone, maybe Abreu can play another position

there's no way they trade damon or matsui or abreu, that's the starting OF...

Either way they need Melke Cabrera to play every day. The damn problem with this team is that they don't give the young guys a chance to develop.

People forget that most of the stars we had during the World Series years of the late 1990s were guys who weren't great when they first came up from the minors and had a few years to develop.

Bernie Williams hit .238 his first season, and did not hit .300 until his 5th year. But 3 years after that he won a batting title.

Mariano Rivera's first year he was 5-3 with a 5.51 ERA.

Jorge Posada's first 3 years he batted .250, .268 and .245 and averaged 11 HRs per season. But starting the year after that until this past year, he has averaged over 20 HRs, driven in 80-100 runs, and batted around .280.

With the mindset of the current management, these 3 guys would have been shipped out of New York within their first couple of seasons.

I'd prefer if they would trade some of the older guys to make room for the younger ones. That is how you build a World Series contender. You don't go out and sign 35 and 40 year old vetrans and expect them to play like they did when they were 30.

If they don't play Melke Cabrera every day, they are just plain dumb. You will see him win the MVP for some other team in about 5 years.

They don't build players they pay top dollar for players that are already developed. It has work for a number of years but they have had trouble recently. You should also remember that the players all get top dollar once they are developed so if a young player becomes really good he will leave unless you pay him. Its seems like baseball is all about the money and the Yankes gennerally do well because they have the money to buy players.

you need to look at the mutts roster and point out all of the home grown players and all of the free agents.

My comment was related to the Yankees and baseball in general. It is factual. Please lets focus on the facts.

The facts are that the mutts, who are part of MLB, do the same thing.

:)

The mutts are not part of the MLB, the fact is that the Mets are part of MLB! Gresch when are you going to get your facts right?

I cannot remember a single player in the last 15 years who they paid "top dollar" for who turned out to be one of their best impact players and helped them win a world series.

All of their superstars from the World Series teams were either home grown, or were players they traded for when they were still young. None were vetran free agent signings.

Rivera, Pettite, Posada, Jeter, Bernie Williams -- all home grown

Tino Martinez, Paul Oneil, Scott Brosius -- were traded for when they were young and were not superstars yet.

But since 2001, they have stopped letting young players develop and have consistantly traded all their young players for old vetrans and have tried to sign old vetran free agents to fill their roster. Look at the current group, all signed as free agents over the age of 30, and most of them now over 35 years old:

Giambi, Mussina, Damon, Matsui, Randy Johnson, Jared Wright, Shefield, etc.

This is the strategy they used througout the 1980s and which failed miserably. Back then they ended up with players like Andy Hawkins, Gary Ward, Ken Phelps, Jessie Barfield, Rick Rhoden, etc, and traded away young players like Jay Buhner, Al Leiter, Willie McGee, Doug Drabek, and Jose Rijo -- all went on to become stars for other teams.

Who are you kidding Modcat. Get your facts right. Stop the sharade. :nanana: OH and BTW the mutts are part of the MLB.:rofl:

The Mets has a great team from top to bottom, Pedro Martinez is down and they still win. The problem with the Yankees is that they have a great players and not a great team.

The Mets have not won any World Series yet. And even with them, you have some home grown young players who are stars like Reyes and Wright.

If you look at the teams who have won the last 10 World Series, you will find that every one of them, with the exception of the 1997 Marlins and 2001 Diamondbacks (both were expansion teams) did it with home grown players.

The Mets have not won yet, this is true but the fact is that the Yankees are out. LETS GO METS!:thumbup:

are you off your meds or something?

want another fact?

You and your alter ego are pretty freaky.

have a nice day.

Hmmmm. And i thought it was just my imagination, running away with me.:rofl: :rofl:

How about those A's?

Sounds like tonights game may be rained out.

Its already cold here too bad.

What do you mean freaky is this a personal attack?:confused:

Oh, you'ld know if I threw a personal attack at ya, trust me, freaky doesn't even come close....

Have a nice day modbluecat.

SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF BS to me

I've heard that Modcat and X54.4blue post from the exact same IP address. Is that true or is that B.S.?

are you calling me a bullshitter? now THAT is personal attack if you ask me...

tsk tsk...

:popcorn:

I think we know what the facts are and if you want to interpret them so be it

My IP provider use dynamic IP address (DSL).

OK. Stop beating around the bush and answer the question

Sunny California my friend. Not a chance. You got some bad information

Modcat and X54.4blue Please answer that question and let's put it to rest once and for all. :nanana:

I was taking about the Mets game tonight.

Well if you ask about the A's in one post then turn around in the next post and say it's gonna rain what do you expect folks will think:dunno: . Be specific. :nanana:

Once again my IP provider is Verizon DSL.

You need to ask Modcat who she uses?

:rofl: :whistle: :popcorn: :huddle :dance:

Sorry for the confusion; Do you think the A's will lose tonight in sunny Cal?

I don't do the half empty thing. ;)

I watch the game last night and it was much closer than the score would lead you to believe. That just did not lay down and die like the Yankees did.

Pouring rain, no Mets game tonight

How about those Mets, they sure kick butt last night!

Hope they take the next two.;)

How many friggin rain delays are there gona be? This may actually benefit the NL winner though, the Tigers have been resting for too long already.

Yes the Tigers have less injuries and more rest.

It sure does give them an advantage.

But I still think the Mets have a fair chance.

Will be watching the game tonight.

St. Louis pushes Mets to brink

Homers from Chris Duncan and Albert Pujols powered the 4-2 win as the Cardinals took a 3-2 series lead. The NL East champs are one loss away from frittering a 97-win season.

Go Cards!

I am a Mets fan but if they are out of it, like many times in the past I still am happy to see the Yanks win.

As a NY Metro person how and why would you route for the cards?

Because it's my prerogative.

have a nice day.

Go bobby go bobby go bobby GO. :rofl:

has anyone seen my "hamma-pants"? :)

Game 7
 

Mets won last night and now on to game 7.

Lets go Mets!:)

Tonight will be great, either way! Go Mets:beerchug:

Yes win or not The Mets have done better that almost any other team.

Right Gresch and Quicksilver?

Anyone going to the game tonight?

HOLY CRAP WHAT A CATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wow: :wow: :wow:

"I don't even know how you can look at this as a great season," Wagner said. "We didn't win anything."

Go Tigers! :)

Lets Go Cardinals!!! Lets Go!!!

Woo Woo!

:D