Comments on: Welcome Back Carlos Beltran!

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:18:02 +0000

there are a ton of things you can point to that were way more costly than that Curveball…
Just because Beltran didn’t (or couldn’t) make up for them doesn’t mean he should wear the goat !

You have to give the Pitcher some credit for making that pitch!

By: Even Flow

Even Flow — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:05:35 +0000

I don’t know how he managed to do it*

By: Even Flow

Even Flow — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:04:33 +0000

Beltran should get a standing ovation tonight. No question. I know I’ll cheer for him. I’ve cheered for him since the day he signed with the Mets. I was one of those fans who NEVER turned on him after the ’05 season, after the called 3rd strike to Wainwright (even though there are a lot of dumbasses forgetting the fact that him and another unappreciated Met, Carlos Delgado, carried us throughout that entire playoff run), and especially after the Mets management rushed him back and Beltran wound up getting knee surgery before Spring Training a few years ago, with Omar and them throwing him under the bus and “fans” here saying bullshit like “I never was a Carlos Beltran fan anyway…” that is, until his last season here. I loved Beltran when he was here and I appreciated everything he’s done, and he’s done it with class. I don’t know how he managed to do, but Carlos….thank you. Gracias.

On a side note, ain’t it funny how, as of this post, SNY is playing a Mets Classics of the August 2006 game Vs the Cards in which Beltran hit that walkoff HR?

By: stick

stick — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:47:33 +0000

that was a killer. A guy missing a catch is more cut and dried than a batter not coming through, but Valentin not sticking the knife in (was that the 7th? bases loaded) is what even kept the Cards alive. Could have ended the came right there plating a couple of runs.

By: Fonzie13

Fonzie13 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:44:42 +0000

We lost that series when Shawn Green failed to catch Scott Spiezios triple that should’ve been caught in front of the bullpen fence but Green leaped for a ball that hit him on the wrist of his glove. He didn’t have to leap all he had to do was reach up and snag that ball. He catches that ball we win that series in 5 or 6 games max. El Duque was ready to pitch game 1 of the WS so who knows.

By: MetsMan86

MetsMan86 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:19:43 +0000

A standing round of applause is due for him tonight.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:17:34 +0000

Well Stick I agree with what you said…
But as we have debated here quite often, Maybe he was trying to work the Pitcher? LOL

In that situation I can understand taking one FB since he was having control issues….
But ahnjytime I see a player take a fastball down the pipe I want to run up and slap them upside the head!

If you don’t like that pitch as “Your Pitch to Hit” then you have no business waiting for a pitch to hit at all because it doesn’t exist!

I am betting Beltran was looking for the curve and hoping he hung one but he didn’t hang it he threw a nasty one instead.

That season and that series was lost long before that curve got thrown if you ask me!
We lost it the second Martinez came up lame at the end of the season

By: stick

stick — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:54:11 +0000

Better question might be, instead of looking at an unhittable hook with 2 strikes, what if he have swung at one of the 2 FBs he took for called Ks, when Wainright looked like he was unravelling and just laying it in to try and get a strike? Those were the pitches he should have ripped to try and end it.

By: Metsie

Metsie — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:41:27 +0000

Beltran won’t get booed the way Reyes did…
Largely because he didn’t leave on his own accord!

There are a few here who wanted to scrap the entire team after 2008 but they fail to understand that nothing asbout 2009 and 2010 or even 2011 would have changed at all!

we still wpould have had none of them here to win games in those 2 years and the Kids you might have gotten would just barely be ready to play today!

Considering how many Kids we have that ARE playing this year what would you have gotten?
Bullpen CF and C out of it?

Beltran earned every penny of his contract! People focus too much on the curveball and year of time he missed and not all the runs scored and driven in that he did not!

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:34:43 +0000

Taking everything into consideration I will be surprised if Beltran is booed. He conducted himself very classy last year from the start with him agreeing to move to RF and not signing with a division rival doesn’t hurt as well.

Hopefully there is a good crowd tonight and he gets a Piazza-like Thanks for everything.

By: Mr North Jersey

Mr North Jersey — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:31:25 +0000

Ha! Nice. Very original.

By: Russell Zanca

Russell Zanca — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:31:14 +0000

I think highly of Beltran and always will. However, I disagree about the called third strike with two outs and the bases loaded…it will forever be a blemish on his career as a Met. Because the counterfactual is that he would have been immortalized, to me–and I’m sure to others–I will never remember him as a Mets hero, like an Agee, Jones, Clendenon, Seaver, Koosman, McGraw, Piazza, etc. Thus the blemish.

But I do wish him well, er, except against us.

Here’s to hoping he goes 0-12 over the next three games.

By: Gina

Gina — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:21:39 +0000

Thanks for this post.

By: Metstheory22

Metstheory22 — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:19:58 +0000

The BEST CF we ever had.

By: Donal

Donal — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:06:36 +0000

Any “Mets fan” who boos Carlos Beltran tonight deserves to be stuck in an infinite loop of the 1992 season.