Comments on: On The Wright Track: Mets Come Back From Four Run Deficit To Win 9-4

By: any

any — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:28:40 +0000

You can get together with Sylow from Metsblog, and maybe get a 2 for 1 special on the crow! I don’t think I have ever seen anyone as sure about a player not being able to play as him.

the OF experience? Just doing this out of my dim memory, but the year he came up in September (2008?), I seem to recall he did OK out there, certainly good enough for the FO to anoint him as the starting LF going into the next season. Not that he was a gold glove, but he certainly looked respectable.

so you get into 2009, and he had some well-documented adventure plays. But he really was not out there long enough to get settled in (27 games, then moved to 1st out of necessity, more than had he to be moved), and many guys had issues with LF in Citifiled to start with (not sure if it was the angles, sun, winds but it was not easy).

point is, if they had just left him out there for a full season and spent the time working with him (as with Duda), most likely Murphy would have developed into a perfectly fine LF that gets the job done.

By: Alex68

Alex68 — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:14:41 +0000

Great overall win by the mets, this is why you play the game, i remember how angelo was already packing it in by the fifth inning when bayonne mets fan told him to not give up this easily then… Boommm.. Mets win! This team despite the sabotage for first round early picks is showing a fight in every game.. Duda is coming up, he seems to be a streaky player, hopefully he continues to be hot, the more runs we score the less chances the bullpen gets to blow the lead..
Clayton, We get it. David wright is your hero. Do we have to put up with every post of yours be all lovey dovey about #5? Jeez…

By: Bayonne Mets Fan

Bayonne Mets Fan — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:30:05 +0000

yes i’m going to have to eat my words on Murphy. I am stunned and I’m sure I’m not the only one. I cannot believe that a guy who couldn’t play LF could turn out to be a middle infielder and I can’t recall if I’ve ever seen it before. You stuck with him Jerry M. and it worked out. I can’t even believe he’s making double plays

I still worry when the ball is hit to him though.

By: Satish Ram

Satish Ram — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:20:25 +0000

Nice nice. Another day, another hard fought game.

Freaking .411 … Wonder how long he can keep that up. I’ll take .350, David, no pressure.

Small hat tip to Parnell by the way. Very impressed with what I’ve seen from him this year.

By: Jerry M

Jerry M — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:52:20 +0000

Just a reminder to Bayonne Mets fan who said”Daniel Murphy would never be a 2nd baseman on this team or any other” Great plays by Murphy today and he can be a Allstar as said by Adam Rubin.

By: Russell Zanca

Russell Zanca — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:52:05 +0000

I’ll take these “going-nowhere fast” Mets over any team since ’06 not because they are better or more talented–they aren’t–but b/c we now have a “Gotta Believe” team spirit to go with a “til-the-last-drop-of-blood” attitude.

LGM!!!

By: larman

larman — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:15:25 +0000

Well let’s be honest, pitching is what makes you win ballgames, and then the offense. Sandy’s men did a horrible job in the off season again signing bad players who should not make what they get, over paid ballplayes is what the union want for these players, and this is a sin and hurting the game of wehat baseball really means to this sport. The system the mets still have is hurting, cus we still need a good starter, maybe two, and the bullpen can’t find the right location to pitch these hitters in game saving situations. today o.k. we did. But down the road in aug where things heat up is where we will see about our bullpen protecting games. Please wilpons leave, sandy, and as a whole we need to build around players like niese, wright, thole, teajia, davis when his whole in his bat gets better, Daniel m, We need to prove that we will plaY WITH PRIDE and show the world we will be champions now for one year but for a long time to come.

By: MetsMan86

MetsMan86 — Fri, 18 May 2012 00:08:09 +0000

I’m loving this team! When one part of their game isn’t firing quite right, they step it up elsewhere and scrap out a win. Dickey, their #2 ace, hit a skid in the 5th, then the Mets bats go from rather silent to putting up a 9-run final score against one of the few teams with a fully functioning bullpen. Hopefully the AL has forgotten to make a book on the Mets still views them as the easy W in the league.

By: Metfan Lou

Metfan Lou — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:28:38 +0000

Great comeback win and good recap. David Wright keeps on rockin’ but I would have given the game ball to Cedeno. He does an excellent job filling in for Tejada and the three run blast put the game away.

By: any

any — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:21:41 +0000

your first paragraph is a big part of the reason that I don’t think this team is going to fold the tent and fade away later in the year.

they may not make it to the playoffs, but it will be a shortage of talent not a shortage of heart or trying that makes it happen.

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:58:07 +0000

Mets down 4-0 comeback and get a split in the series and end up 2-2 on the homestand. Dickey battled and pitched better to me than what the 4 runs would suggest. Wright continues to be locked in. Murphy with a huge double play in the 6th continues to reward the Mets for going with him at 2b. His bat has definitely done more to help this team than his glove has to hurt this team so far in 2012.

Positives for me is Rauch and Parnell for doing their job and keeping the Mets within a run until they took the lead. Also Duda who now over the past 7 games has 11 hits in his last 29 at bats and is hitting .379 over that stretch.

LGM!!!

By: srt

srt — Thu, 17 May 2012 21:44:23 +0000

The difference between this team and the last several years is this current group of guys just never say ‘Uncle’. When down runs, even late in games, they don’t look defeated and they keep right on chipping to try and get back in the game.

Today’s game was a perfect example. Even got to the Reds very good BP in that comeback.

Might not be going anywhere this year, but I’m enjoying the heck out of watching them try.