14
2012
It’s Dickey! Mets Knuckleballer Wins Cy Young!
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Congratulations to R.A. Dickey who was just named the winner on the 2012 Cy Young Award!
Dickey received 27 of 32 first place votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Dickey now joins Tom Seaver (1969, 1973, 1975) and Dwight Gooden (1985) as the only Mets ever to have won the award.
TOM SEAVER
“My hat’s off to Mr. Dickey. I watched one of his outings when I was in town and I was amazed by his control. I was always looking for new ammunition to bring to the mound so I attempted the knuckleball. It’s a very difficult pitch to throw and needless to say, I never mastered it. I congratulate him on his tenacity not only to succeed against all odds but to excel and achieve this very high honor. I look forward to congratulating him personally.”
DWIGHT GOODEN
“I saw R.A. pitch at least 10 times this year. I’m really amazed how he was able to remake his career. I never even thought about throwing a knuckleball. To win the Cy Young Award at his age is more incredible than when I won at age 20.”
The Mets ace led the NL in both complete games and shutouts, and led the majors with 25 quality starts. He also won the NL strikeout crown by one whiff over runner-up Clayton Kershaw.
Congratulations to a class act who symbolizes more than any other Met player in the last decade, Ya Gotta Believe!
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Nice! One of the few feel good stories for us this year. Well deserved.
Congratulations to RA Dickey!
So happy for him – and us fans.
Oh My God! So happy for R.A. and His Family!!!
So proud of his accomplishments and being a Mets fan today!
He’s just one of the greatest stories in professional sports today. Got to read his autobiography.
WOO-HOO!!!
Congrats to R.A. on a well deserved award.
another bright thing in a otherwise dark 2012 season . Congrats RA , the metsfanbase is proud of you and again proud of beeing a mets fan . THANK YOU VERY MUCH
Well, trophy presentation is over, lets check out the trade offers . Do the right thing , trade him NOW
So you pick this thread to tell Dickey to get lost? Classy.
Couldn’t the same be said about you gloating that he mentioned Omar below?
I cant believe they got the vote right!!! Congratulations to R.A. Dickey!!!!! See you on Opening Day!!!
Congrats to R.A. Dickey on a magical season. I saw him pitch three times this year and he never disappointed they were all dominating wins!
Right on, good for Dickey!
Hopefully we see him get his award on Opening Day and not in a different uniform.
YEAY! CONGRATS DICKEY!
Where’s that Braves troll who said Kimbrel was gonna win? HAHAHAHA now he has another thing to cry about this offseason.
Congrats to Dickey. Well deserved win.
THANK YOU, GOD!!!!
WITH ALL OF THE BAD AND ROTTEN NEWS AROUND THESE DAYS, DICKEY’S SEASON AND STORY MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD ABOUT BEING ALIVE. THANK YOU, R. A.
Absolutely agree with you!
I have been thanking God since I heard the news! I couldnt be more happier.
I couldnt be more happier for someone who I dont know personally.
Congratulations R.A! I was afraid he wasn’t going to get it….and he thanked Omar Minaya by name lol
Great minds think alike. lol
The only guy to ever complain about being raped by a very well endowed and attractive 14 year old girl. I bet back then she wasnt covered in tattoos. Thats the same life experience i share with the great Dickey.
All is as it should be. Very happy for Dickey, and 10 seconds into his reaction he thanked Omar Minaya for believing in him. Yes, he did. Believe it.
bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha
He didnt thank Sandy
He didnt thank Fred
He didnt thank Jeff
Nope
He thanked Omar…aka the guy who cant speak English but knows how to pick em better
take that suckerz !!!!
Just_Da_Damaja
Last I recall, Omar spoke English just fine. Being of Latin decent, I don’t really find your ignorant comment offensive but your STUPIDITY is revolting! I don’t mean in an “I’m offended by your stupidity” way. It’s more like I feel bad for you. I have a hard time imagining people like you still exist!
I’m pretty certain that nearly everyone here has praised Omar’s talent evaluation skills. It’s his overall administrative/GM skills that are greatly lacking.
Who really cares who he didn’t thank (someone is always left off that list). But again it’s sad how you take what is perhaps the brightest moment (tough call between RA & the no hitter) in a tough season and attempt to turn it into an ignorant hate filled rant about insignificant things. Go back to your widdling.
You are a neanderthal that doesnt understand the concept of sarcasm
RA Dickey in his brightest moment thanked Omar Minaya
SNY + Metsblog have yet to include any mention of that or Omar in general yesterday
But they will gladly remind you that Omar signed Jason Bay
and as far as administrative duties…WTF are you talking about?
Was he supposed to answer phones too?
I uderstand sarcasm just fine. When it’s funny or ironic. You bringing up his perceived (by you) language issue is ignorant not sarcastic. I will type slowly so you can keep up with what I meant by “administrative duties”, grab your crayon and try to follow along.
As a GM you are an Administrator (Hence “administrative duties” are you still with me), you need to be more than a talent evaluator (something I still say was Omar’s strength).
You need to deal with the media, a weakness with Omar when he often contradicted himeself and even attacked (not how accurate his allegations were and I don’t care) a member of the media.
Most of the contracts he handed out were terrible over-payments. The only one I have no problem with was Beltran’s (I actually liked him very much and realized he needed to be pushed to come here.)
His handling of Randolph’s firing was brutal!!! I wasn’t the biggest fan of Willie’s as a manager (I’m not alone because he bombed in many interviews prior to the Mets and hasn’t gotten a skipper job since) but flying him out to CA and firing him in the middle of the night was weak and it showed huge flaws in his administrative style (there’s that word again).
Then there’s the whole Tony Bernazard fiasco. A strong administrator (are you following along?) would never have allowed one of his loose cannon buddies to run amuk like he did with Bernazard. I don’t just mean the taking off the shirt and challenging players to fight thing, TB’s club house meddling and back room pacts with Jerry Manuel (another administrative bombshell) showed how weak of an administrator Omar was.
I actually wanted Omar to succeed very badly but in the end it all got away from him.
If you need me to include other examples to better illustrate what I meant by administrative duties I’m happy to do so. I hope you are now more comfortable with meaning of the phrase and maybe one day if you work hard you will be able to use it correctly.
Please spare me the Sandy is terrible at this and that too retort because that’s boring. You asked me specifically:
“and as far as administrative duties…WTF are you talking about?
Was he supposed to answer phones too?”
I hope you see that it is more involved than that.
Well when it came to firing Willie – everyone knew that his subordinate was going over his head and collaborating with Jeff Wilpon ( who never liked willie either )
in 2009 even Willie himself said it wasnt Omar’s fault for the way it went down
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2008-06-17/sports/17900728_1_general-manager-omar-minaya-firing-jeff-wilpon
In 2008, everyone pretty much knew that Tony was tighter with Jeff ( aka Omar’s boss ) than Omar was.
Omar didnt have enough pull to fire Tony ( who was desperately trying to fire Omar’s 1st managerial candidate since day 1 )
you think Omar ( who vouched and FOUGHT for Willie ) was cool with insubordination because it either fits your agenda or you do not have the mental capacity to put 2 + 2 together
And you say most of his “large contracts” backfired
He only had 2 contracts over 4 years ( Beltran and Johan )
Beltran was a stud most of his tenure here..
Johan was a stud til he got injured
And for someone who had 1 hand tied behind his back in terms of being able to invest in IFA and the draft, he outproduced most of MLB
sorry to break it to ya, but considering he was able to get young talent and simultaneously turn around a sinking ship in 04, WITH THIS OWNERSHIP, Omar performed a miracle.
In terms of PR disasters, our super professional saber metric grand wizard has been an epic failure in that department.
Imagine if Omar let David Wright walk….without an offer….then David goes on TV to say he was hurt that the only team he has ever played for never wanted him back…and Omar replied that he would send a box of chocolates…
you guys would’ve been going ape-sh*t
so please…spare me…
He also thanked the great Mets fans for all their support.
No
He said thank you for all the Omar Minaya loving Met fans
Had Most of you Omar haters gotten your wish in 2009, RA Dickey is winning that award for another team
There ya have it, yet another thread about something actually good, and you have to turn it into your childish poison with your lies and immature crap.
hahahahahahahha
I know you would like to sweep Omar’s name under the rug..( unless you want to talk about contracts holding the mets back in 2013 )
But Omar is the reason why we have a no-hitter under our belts and a Cy Young in 2013
No I want to congratulate the guy that won the award and not make this into another pissing contest. GROW UP
I congratulated RA
I noted that RA thanked Omar
Yes, you can do 2 things at the same time
#YESWECAN
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/dickey-award-article-1.1202362
I wasn’t aware that Dickey wrote an article for the Daily News as well. Thanks for the link Kay.
What a year, what a pitcher, what a human being. Hey Dickey, you are the best pitcher in the National League. I applaud you!
That’s terrific. I am super Happy for R.A. He is a class act and I hope he remains a Met for a while more. What a great story. You can’t write it any better than this.
Wow!! I’m just so thrilled for him and his family! (and for us too!)
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer, classier guy.
Wilpons SIGN him!!!!!!!!
When Dickey receives his CY Young award it will probably look something like this.
http://realdirtymets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Cy-Dickey-Award.png
His landslide victory is clearly a mandate to stay a Met. Three more years! Three more years!
What a great story.
R.A. reached the pinnacle in more ways than one.
So happy tonight and so angry at the thought that the Mets are trying to shop him around.
Yes, also saw the MLB Network coverage and Minya was one of the first names he mentioned, right after saying this was an award to be shared by everybody – him and the fans who he can’t stop talking about.
So all this talk about trading him while he is high in value in return for younger players which hopefully would keep us competitive way past R.A. should stop. There is something that being a fan one needs and R.A. and David ending their careers as Mets are two of them. They have to remain in a Met uniform. It is part of our heritage. It is part of our genes.
Yes, that a completely illogical position to take but nevertheless something that makes the Mets so meaningful to which cannot be measured in statistics, ledger sheets and treating things objectively. Please take this into consideration, Sandy, even if it’s only to keep from having more empty seats at Citi Field this coming season.
Talk to anyone who lived through the 1977 massacre. Losing The Franchise and Elvis within two months was just too much to take.
“So happy tonight and so angry at the thought that the Mets are trying to shop him around”
It is BS that the fan-base (including me) feels like it is on a position that the only way to possible improve is to trade him off.
Hi Salty,
We will have to see if those calling for Sandy to trade him are now second guessing that thought based on the joy we are all feeling tonight. I wouldn’t expect that from Sandy, however, since when it comes to business he seem devoid of any emotion.
I agree the guy has as much emotion as a rock, but the question is is that what we need right now? Dickey has been a tremendous story and I feel that a deal that locks him in for the next four years including the option is not risky at all, but with the low salary what is out there to gain? I don’t care who is the GM is, this is a very tough decision.
Hi Salty,
I somehow feel Sandy has made his decision one way or the other and is now working how to best implement it.
The fact that we have to even be talking about the team’s own future plans of our first Cy Young winner in 27 years and such a great guy who is something uniquely special to the players and fans alike is in itself a sad commentary about this organization.
And because of that current state that I personally think the team could have performed a little better in the second half. It didn’t, in part, because despite of the multi million dollar contracts and players not having to “grow up” like the rest of us baseball is still a game – and a game is supposed to be fun. By being so cold and devoid of passion the front office it is not allowing that feeling to permeate down to the field. Remember Ike Davis’ comment about this being their “job”? When one feels that way, it is difficult to not avoid losing just a bit of that competitive spark. Two years of being in a playoff hunt more than half-way through the season and stripping them of their best players, replacing them with mediocre ones and still not getting help when it was most needed would definitely be a morale breaker (i.e., “hard to swallow” and feeling “kicked in the teeth”.
That is why I wouldn’t put it past Sandy to send our Cy Young Award winner packing.
As negative as I am with the organization as a whole I don’t agree with such a negative view Joey, but as always I appreciate your candor.
Also as in terms of Sandy making a decision, I do agree with that. What ever direction it goes in, his mind is currently made up on which way to go and since he doesn’t have a contract yet, I am inclined to believe that he will be traded.
Hi Salty,
Please know the feeling is mutual.
Enjoy the cordial sharing of different opinions
I might feel more the pessimist because because I know how demoralizing it was working under such circumstances and can see that happening to the players too. It’s not about malaise as it is the players actually questioning the ownership and front office’s commitment to winning. Can’t remember such negative statements targeted at the owners from players since 1980 when after chewing out the players in the clubhouse, Rick Cerone shouted 2″f–k you, George” to the boss. And that was actually due to Steinbrenner’s demand to win at all cost oblivious to the feelings of his players.
Actually, I thought the stall in contract negotiations was probably more on RA’s agent. Figured he was waiting for the CY award winner to be announced, hoping it would be Dickey – as that would give him more leverage in contract negotiations.
You could be right in that he still winds up being traded. I just think his agent was doing his due diligence in waiting to see if he could add the 2012 NL CY winner to his list of accomplishments to add when discussing a new contract.
Congratulations R.A.! You desrve it! I’m very happy for you and your family. I must admit I got tears in my eyes when I heard the news. You are an inspiration for all of us to never give up. God bless you!!
Go R.A.!
Congrats to RA! To steal the headline “Really Awesome”!
Wow, now that he has actually won the CY, SA now has to step up and do what is right for Mets and fans, not just the dollars involved.
If a 3 yr deal with money agreed upon by SA and RA why not re-sign him to be an inspiration to all the up and coming pitchers and players on how to persevere through tough childhood and professional career.
Come on SA, lets make an honest offer to RA, and RA if you want to stay with Mets as you say then it will take some give and take on your side.
I just hope that Mets FO is not out there putting out 5 or 4 year demands from RA unless it is true, don’t try to make it look as bad as the Reyes situation was and became.
Congratulations and God Bless You RA for an inspiring year for Met fans, especially the 2nd half.
Lastly your game in Tampa was AWESOME!
That is why fans cannot come close to running a baseball team. Emotions cannot come into play. The joy everyone feels for Dickey winning the CYA has nothing to do with future decisions. Here are the facts and not the emotions:
A. Dickey is a risk at 4 years on top of his extension. Smart baseball is not to sign him to that. If he is insistent upon it, get it elsewhere. Let someone else shoulder the burden.
B. The Mets need help and they have few trade assets. Dickey is one of them. Depending upon what he can net, it has to be explored.
It is not a call to necessarily trade him nor to sign him…it depends upon the deal. 2 years after this with a team option on a third, I say take it. Dickey for a starting CF with speed and a RH RF with power, I say take that.
The deal and the circumstance needs to be the deciding factor, not the emotion over some award.
without emotion,For a knuckleballer,40yrs old is not that old.
4yrs for AR is much better than 7 yrs for DW. You know that.
Hi Task,
But it’s exactly that irrational passion and emotional bond that makes so many of us fall in love with a particular team so much as to lose literally live and die with each each victory or defeat. But besides the wins or losses is the comfort of having a player so special that even in his declining years – will know he will still be with us.
There indeed used to be a much bigger connect between players and fans than today when the reserve clause unfairly gave ownership complete control over a player’s career but unfair as it was, it also formed that unique connection between certain players and fans that is almost unheard of today. That is why when we have a R.A. Dickey – a rarity in which one is indeed loyal to the team that gave him a chance and does not see money as the beginning and end for everything that even us cynical and grown up adults embrace him as a hero – is all the reason why we should not let go him go.
Why? Because everything this front office has done is too much reflective of the coldness we find in the real world in which we don’t want to think about when it comes to the Mets. The team serves as an important escape from all that. How many no longer find the Mets as that diversion not because of the losing seasons but because everything the front office does is devoid of sincerity and emotion and only focused on keeping the owners from selling the team – an ownership that had already showed indifference to the fan base when it designed a smaller capacity ball park and figured fans would pay whatever they would charge for the fewer amount of tickets available (making it impossible for many families to spend a day at the ball park anymore).
The big mistake is not appreciating how much one means to the team in terms of both the players and the fan base. It’s one thing if he walks away but taking him away from us is not worth the players one could get in return. Anyone who remembers how it felt seeing Tom Seaver in a Reds and White Sox uniform will certainly understand what I mean.
Good for dickey… Whether is on negotiations for his contract or in a trade, his value has risen a lot now because any conversation will start with the Cy Young winner Robert Allen Dickey..
It was nice to see how humble he was in his press conference.. He thanked many people, first and foremost the guy who believed in him OMAR MINAYA, he also thanked the fan etc.. Very nice to see a person showing humility… Congrats Dickey!
SNY completely avoided mentioning Omar’s name yesterday
lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Omar Minaya all over Twitter yesterday
https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=Omar+Minaya&src=typd
SNY still never mentions his name
LMAO
Omar Minaya = Virgin Mary + Candyman put together
Lmao… For real?? i mean, i was actually watching the MLB Network, and as soon as he won they had him ready for an interview, and in his first words he did mention omar and THEN the fans..
Nope, Metsblog showed a separate interview, questions asked, no mention of Omar
Congrats to Dickey! A great pitcher and outstanding human being.
Who plays him in the movie?
Edward Norton is my first pick
Congrats to R.A – well deserved. Couldn’t have happened to a better person!
He is not just a great pitcher in HISTORY. He is an AMAZING human being as well!
He has his own foundation where he helps children from getting sold to the sex trafficking industry. WHAT A MAN.