Comments on: Marlins Reel In All Star Closer Heath Bell

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:49:53 +0000

No, i think STALKER is…

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:45:45 +0000

Just more words used incorrectly, just like Apologist……………..

Apolgoist – Now that has to be the site’s most mis-used word ever………………..followed closely by unclutch………

By: Donal

Donal — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:36:41 +0000

And then you salute them

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:30:56 +0000

Them

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:30:38 +0000

I don’t call others on this site liars, i called him losers, stalkers,baiters, etc…

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:28:19 +0000

He never once said he’d RATHER picks over Reyes, but funny how others on this site get called liars……..

By: Donal

Donal — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:09:39 +0000

In case you don’t notice, I don’t give a damn if I’m alone in any of my opinions. If I think the facts are pointing in a certain direction, that that is what shapes my opinion.

And Joe’s point was about just how valuable Bell is as a closer for the Marlins in terms of wins. I think the facts do not support his conclusion.

If you want me to stop pointing out how over valued closers are, then people should stop harping about how essential they are.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:59:20 +0000

No, Joe, he’s not bringing them an extra 5 wins”

can you please stop this obsession you have about closers not being valuable?? seriously, you’re the only person screaming about this.. we get it, you don’t think they should be pay highly etc, please stop it ok, you’re alone on this debate…

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:45:24 +0000

So True Dave!

Don’t be surprised to see it happen again with a guy like Pridie or Evans!

By: Donal

Donal — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:35:26 +0000

He talks about it because people ask

By: Donal

Donal — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:34:51 +0000

Paying for saves is not how you build a winner.

The Padres were 3% better than the Marlins over all in saves opportunities last year. Bell’s save % was 4% higher than the player formerly known as Nunez. Bell had one less blown save in a very pitcher friendly park.

Bell is a good relief pitcher and improves their bullpen. However, the closer role is a waste and they’ll actually be limiting his effectiveness.

No, Joe, he’s not bringing them an extra 5 wins.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:08:17 +0000

There’s a reason he’s been talking about it since september… don’t even bother replying back, that is just one of the many times the man has been talking about picks, if you want read about it go and find it out yourself, i don’t have to do you any favors ok..

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:05:27 +0000

That article does not say he would RATHER a draft pick over Reyes he is ensuring the team gets something in return jus in case. Keep spinning though.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:57:21 +0000

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/mets/sandy_assured_picks_lLWPex9IAchf4zC1cYUEWI

liste, he’s said this many times and i have stressed over it, i am not sure why i even reply to you but checked that linked out, i am sure you’ll read where he literally when and knock on the commissioner’s office about the picks..

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:49:19 +0000

Where do you get this, that he’d rather have a draft pick over Reyes? Is this more of your fantasy world in your He Man Sandy Haters Club? You can post this in every thread, still doesn’t make it true……….

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:46:56 +0000

By the way, if/when the marlins sign reyes, sandy alderson gets his much desire second draft pick..

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:35:42 +0000

when you have holes on your team, this is what you do, you go after the guys you think will make you better, is already December 2nd and the mets have done absolutely NOTHING, and i know what most of sandy’s apologist will say, ohh, nobody has signed, blah blah blah, but the mets haven’t not only signed anybody, they seem to just wait on the market instead of going after the market, is amazing and pathetic how MLB is allowing these goons to run a franchise operating like this, and allowing sandy alderson to be the GM of a large market team and have a mentality of the pirates.. is a real shame to tell you the truth, but it is what it is…

By: izzy

izzy — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:34:11 +0000

Did you see Nunez (don’t know his new or is it old name) attempt to close last year? He was one notch better than Parnell. The new park is big, but it doesn’t matter. They have upgraded a key position, something that Sandy Alderson has yet to do in his second Winter of sleeping until the worst; cheapest guy is left on the table.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:31:16 +0000

Second guessing here we come…

By: Tommy2cat

Tommy2cat — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:06:07 +0000

It gets better. Heath Bell – the 340 lb figure roller skater – loves to close games out against the Mets.

He gets the call from the bullpen, “C’mon down, Chuck Biscuit”, and Bell responds, “Wait a minutes…gotta eat…” So, on goes the roller skates and he glides down the tunnel that leads from the visitors bullpen to the visitors dugout, stopping by the locker room for a quick slice of pizza, 3 garlic knots and a diet coke, wipes his mouth with his hand, pirouettes to the dugout, quickly changes his cleats and tumbles out of the dugout tank full & ready to throw gas.

One needs to look no further than Omar’s subtraction of Heath Bell, Matt Lindstrom, Chad Bradford & Darrin Oliver – among others – from the Mets bullpen to understand the collapse in 2007 & 2008.

However – and I really mean this – I suspect Bell is nearing the end of his prime and may possibly get tuned up by the NL East, which has a lot of power bats from the left side. Just a hunch.

Chuck Biscuit…you go, Boy!