As one of Omar Minaya’s biggest supporters, I do believe it will be time to demote him after this season. When you take a look around the big leagues, you notice there are eight teams that will continue to operate with a team salary of over $100 million. Those teams are the Yankees, Mets, Cubs, Red Sox, Tigers, Angels, Phillies and Dodgers. There seems to be one glaring difference between their...
Read MoreHaven’t done this in a while…tonight’s song: Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling, and covered by Shiny Toy Guns (really good song!) INT AAA: Buffalo 6/16/1, Lehigh Valley 12/11/2 2b Argenis Reyes 3 for 5, 2 runs, HR, RBI, .284 cf Jesus Feliciano 2 for 4, run, 2b, .305 lf Nick Evans 2 for 4, 2 runs, 2b (10), RBI (20), K, .195 1b Mike Lamb 1 for 4, run, .251 rf Chip Ambres...
Read MoreAs I wrote back when the Mets first acquired him, the Mets were the big winners when they dumped the lackluster Church in exchange for the young righthanded former first rounder, Jeff Francoeur. About a week and a half later, I indicated that his recent hitting woes were simply a matter of making adjustments. Here is what I wrote on July 28th, In Francoeur, the Mets got themselves a player who...
Read MoreWinston Churchill said “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, and with the 2009 Mets that seems to the case. Come back in time with me 30 or so years. Its the late 1970’s. Mrs. Payson has died and left her beloved Mets to her daughter, Lorinda De Roulet, who does not share her mother’s love of baseball and the Mets. She granted general manager M....
Read MoreEvery time the Mets go public with updates on their core of injured players, usually another setback like Carlos Delgado’s strained oblique, it is tantamount to the water torture prevalent during wartime interrogations. As Archie Bunker used to say, “Put a lid on it, Meathead!” I doubt Mets fans care to hear about another injury sustained by the debilitated as the countdown of...
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