Anyway, I believe many Mets fans were thrilled when Pedro came aboard and were not deluded into thinking he would perform at the level he did in Boston. However, we all hoped that three of the four years of his contract would result in productivity and number one starter status (at worse, our number two man).

The reality is he delieved wins in only his first season as a Met. And I truly believe asking for $5 million last season (he knew he would not be ready before the all-star break) was a bit galling.

I always believe the athlete deserves as much as he can get, but is it naive to expect he live up to his end of the bargain? I guess it is.

Incidentally, there’s a new concept called data. Any time you are ready to produce some re: salaries and ticket prices, I’ll be happy to read it.

I hope the evil empire knocks him all over tonight. If he couldn’t help the Mets out when they needed it the most you can sure as hell bet that I don’t want to see him win one for the Phils.

And Zanaca you’re a retard, don’t ever equate Pro Athletes with Factory Workers. The ludicrous salaries that Pros make and demand are what keep factory workers from being to afford a night at the stadium. If you want to see stats that support this look at the increases in salaries and ticket prices within the past 20 years. It’s got nothing to do with inflation.

Pedro made his price. No one wanted to give in. Phillies needed SOME sort of pitching and thus you had the pro rated contract signed. The point is, if you offer “too much” or give in, whose fault is it really? They just sign the line…

Anyways, i will be rooting for Pedro tonight and i hope he takes down the yankees. hopefully there is no 27 championships because thats all the yankees will talk about for the next 15 yrs till they win another one. that is all yankee fans have. they do not talk stats, no facts, just titles that they were not alive to see. they had a good run in the 90s but thats it and i hope they fall hard. i would love to see that. this goes beyond a rivalry between phillies/ mets (which did not exist before 2006) it was always the mets/ braves, which died down for the most part. For the record, i hate the phillies, but i want to see every yankee hat and sign burn!!

the day I blame the player for asking “too much” money is the day I start supporting factory owners over the workers.

Please provide the evidence showing that raised ticket prices reflect the salary paid to Martinez.

Here’s to Pedro throwing a no-hitter tonight!

However, where he had a chance to make it right was in the off-season and even in May when he was asking for a ridiculous contract from anybody who wanted him which included the Mets who he “wanted to play for.”

If he “wanted to be a Met” so bad and loved our organization and yada yada…he wouldn’t have demanded a $5m contract plus incentives at his age. And spare me the “looking out for his financial best interest” He earned $53 m for doing barely anything, I think he’s okay.

At his age if he wanted to play for NY, he would have given a hometown discount to the Mets based on the 4 year heist, but he didn’t. He wasn’t interested in helping the Mets or helping anybody… he waited to ride the coatails of a playoff team. Do I blame him? Hell no. But I certainly won’t root for him and praise him because he says he wanted to play here but clearly didn’t

its not his fault and you act like any individual would want to tear their rotator cuff just to get paid. this post is down right ridiculous to make the accusations that your making here. in 2007 he came back the last week of the season when we still had a chance and he gave up 3 runs in 6 or seven innings but we still lost that game. dont blame pedro for that, he had no run support when he was here and thats been the problem for this team. the days we score runs, our staff is horrible and days we score a run or two you have a guy like johan go out there and give his best and give up two runs and lose the damn game.

dont place blame on pedro for something he didnt do, he tried and he wanted to be a met all this time.

Look, I like his antics and I was super excited when he came to the Mets. But he did nothing but cash checks for the most part. I mean he came to us when he was not healthy, he practically spent more time in rehab starts than in major league starts and when he finally got healthy, he wanted to hold the Mets up at gunpoint for a contract. When if he REALLY wanted to be with them, he woulda given a discount to them since they paid for his vacation from the major leagues basically.

Frankly, I think he’s going to get rocked tonight. I wrote an article on here a while back about the Dodgers/Phils series before they announced Pedro would start in LA. I knew he would. He needs the warm weather. At his age, the cold weather is his biggest enemy.

I think the Yanks KNEW and rightfully so that by 1 time through the lineup that Lee was untouchable last night. All they need to do is take Game 2 and rock Pedro and they are fine and they know it.

The Phils refuse it seems to go to a 3 man rotation and pitch Lee on short rest which will lead to their demise. Lee needs to pitch in 3 games this series for the Phils to have a chance, and it doesn’t look like he’ll be able to with word coming out they likely will pitch a 4th starter for Game 4.

The Mets knew he was fragile when they picked him up, by the way (which is why Boston passed up on him).