Castro has to go, and I like him but his style of play is a silent killer. He DID sit behind home plate with a pitcher heading toward home. Ramon should’ve turned Piniero into a Pinada – he’s twice his size. Instead, he allowed him to score. For all of his shortcomings, Schneider would have never permitted Piniero to slide in uncontested. Castro’s a good hitter, but slow and lethargic behind the plate.

The team really has no balls. Remember how Eli Manning took off after Tiki took a swipe at his leadership skills and Jerry Reaves called him “skittish.” We need a few Mets with a football player’s mentality, and acquire someone such as Matt Holliday. Maybe he and Church can help DW find the fullback lost inside. Tatis and Murphy have mental toughness. Reed may, as well.

On the mound, I would absolutely wipe that smirk off Molina’s face. He would immediately become the most uncomfortable man in St. Louis – bear in on his hands, throw high and tight beyond chin music, waste a slider low and away, and throw serious heat high and tight again. I’d keep doing it until he understood that his personal safety was at risk.

On a positive note, the bullpen appears airtight. I like JJ Putz better than K-Rod, however. Stokes should get a crack at the rotation. Maine can’t put batters away.

Now that was good for a laugh.

The problem with the Mets isn’t statistical, or I think more of the posts here would focus on them. I guess their pitching woes are statistical, but then, you don’t need a supercomputer to crunch those numbers. And it’s basically what most people have been saying here for months: starting pitching will be a weakness on this team. But no significant moves were made. The chances that Ollie will be more “consistent” than in his contract year are slim, but I haven’t given up hope completely.

Those were both positive and as a matter of fact YOU CRITICIZED the series preview because I guess you thought it was too positive to hope for a three game sweep against the Nationals. (are you serious!!!)

How can anybody take you seriously? You mention MetsBlog which I detest, but I’m thinking it was a cover story and you’re a mole sent from MetsBlog. lol Nothing else makes sense.

Now I’d like to surf and read all the different Mets sites out there, and I don’t comment much unless it’s a poll or question, but you compelled me to comment on this post because I thought your remarks are unfair and there’s like five writers on this site who’s opinions I enjoy including the blog owners. I don’t always agree but I still enjoy coming here for their opinions.

Now from what I recall, there were at least two writers on this site one was named Christian and the other was Chris I believe. All they ever posted was statistics, graphs, and all this assorted mumbo jumbo that I don’t even understand. I don’t know why they don’t write here anymore, but from all the befuddled and negative comments they used to get, the non-egghead Mets fans ran them out of town.

Hey that’s it!!!! You’re Christian aren’t you???

And when you say you get a lot of different perspectives, I have to disagree – every post is the same. “this team has no moxie. they have no fire. screw statistics. this Mets team plays for themselves.”
I will give you this much though – you’re better than Metsblog.

This is the WFAN crowd isn’t? The same idiots calling in moaning about moxie and swagger and fire and hustle and leadership. This site is my daily laugh.

I disagree with that…Thought the team hasn’t looked great, the offense has done their best to keep the team in the game with late scoring. In fact, the team has reversed last years trend of scoring early and hiding, by outscoring opponents late. Unfortunately, it ends up being too little too late, but they are certainly trying to stay in the game.

Ultimately, the starting pitching needs to really tighten up. There are really no viable options outside of the 5 guys already in place, so we need to hope they can get their act together, and get going.