or Tejada on his Offense?

or Duda overall?

sorry…but Wright is the exception, there are alot of players on this team that can use all the help they get

Valdespin has shown a bad attitude through the minor leagues. Send him packing!

Absolutely not. 2 entirely different personalities. Not even close. Just because they are both good guys does not mean they both share the same level of intensity as athletes.
Not. Even. Close.

And I think these extremely silly Wright/Jeter comparisons should stop. Now.

Pay special attention to what Strawberry had to say….

Then change your name to your usual so we know who we should be laughing at whenever you post with your usual nick!

he was a great player…however he may have helped lead straw and doc down a path to destruction. He was considered the ring leader of those party going teams.

Kid on the other hand was said to be a great influence.

David Wright grew up in a very politically correct, docile but talented Mets team.

You need guys who get in ur face…..Notice after BJ and Evan Longoria got into it…u never heard another story about BJ Upton not hustling….and that was several years ago….

The type of personality David Wright is…is very much like Derek Jeter…

good guy…put him on a team with leaders and ur fine

expect him to BE that leader…and ur expecting too much

which is why it is so important to have good leadership on a team to mentor them….

and what many seem to forget here is even if Wright is a good leader as they say, he can’t mentor everyone all by himself….

We had Hernandez, Carter and Knight in 86….
Between the three of them there was always someone there for them to gravitate to and get the mentoring they needed.

With as many kids as we have here even if Wright was as good a leader as hernandez there still wouldn’t be enugh of him to go around considering all the kids we have here.

Jordany is used to being a no-body that plays baseball.

had Jordany just opened another twitter account ( as most celebs do ) and kept it secret…Jordany could post whatever pic he wants

What Jordany needs is media management training. It sounds like common sense to folks who grow up in the states and KNOW how the media is here….

Again, if Jordany hits .340 with 45 HR and 60 SB…its not that big of a deal

since Jordany has no glove in the infield, has lil patience at the plate, and hasnt displayed alot of value, every lil thing he does is a big deal, esp in NY

this was something that Mike Lupica said today about modern day sports media

“– Kevin Youkilis, who has one of the biggest hearts in baseball and has always had one of the dirtiest uniforms, speaks from the heart about the Red Sox this week and you immediately got the idea that he’s slashed the tires on Joe Girardi’s car.

You know why?

Because it takes nothing these days for something to be treated as a controversy.
No, check that.

It takes less than nothing when we exist in a sports culture where we require a Big Story for every single news cycle.”

THIS is why we hear all the non-sports stories about athletes we do today…

Jordany Valdespin wearing a Marlins hat will have folks talking for months.

Carlos Beltran walking around the projects in the freezing December winter PERSONALLY handing out food and coats to poor people?

NOT EVEN A PEEP on metsblog…not even a peep on ESPN’s Met page ( adam rubin )…nada…nothing…

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/carlos-beltran-delivers-food-new-yorkers-wednesday-believes-mets-contend-2011-article-1.474329

When Carlos Beltran goes BY HIMSELF in the off-season to visit veterans….it makes no news on SNY…metsblog…ESPN

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/cheers-vets-mets-true-heroes-article-1.419967

10 months later…

when the walter reed incident happened…it was ALL OVER metsblog, espn, etc…then folks started yapping that Beltran, Ollie and Castillo ( but not Gee ) are not appreciative of this country…blah blah blah…

negativity sells…this is why Jordany can feed a starving village in Africa and if he wears a Marlin hat when he does it…thats all people are going to talk about

now the fact that the mets see more need in the infield…despite the fact that we have more need in the OF….tells me that they are setting him up for failure.

and b/c he is already unpopular, folks will never see it like that…

his choice of hats and regular joe-blow behavior on twitter blinds folks to that…

i never even thought of that….

the fact that NYC is a big club…with a large 7 day a week party going Dominican population…and Jordany was able to avoid any scandal…probably means he can avoid the scandal in Vegas…

No one cares what Valdespin’s fashion choices are.
The problem in a nutshell is: he’s heading towards 25 who is a professional ball player in the public eye, and he’s still on the immature side. Even more so he doesn’t posses a whole lot of common sense. You don’t give him a pass for that, you try and educate him.

He’s still self centered enough to get himself suspended, as recent as winter ball. After he gets suspended, he puts a pic out there of himself with a Marlin ball cap.
On the day he shows up to ST and is asked about that behavior, he puts a dirty joke out there on instagram.

Maybe the old adage is true….you just can’t teach common sense.

David Wright had to take Valdespin aside to let him know that the team likes having him around, and that he shouldn’t take the incident personally.

“I would never do that,” Valdespin said. “You know why? Because you’ve got to respect everybody. The example here is this guy, David Wright. He’s the captain of the team. He respects everybody.”

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=valdes001jor

In 2007, at age 19, JV hit .235
In 2008, at age 20, JV hit .285
In 2009, at age 21, JV hit .293
In 2010, at age 22, JV hit .272….this is his first year with TC…
In 2011, at age 23, JV hit .293 with 17 HR..

all the while he has played SS, 2B, CF

so not only has he had to perform offensively, he has had to learn different positions…

We’ve seen this happen with kids all to often.

Yes, switching them around the diamond randomly might hurt their development…

Jordany has to not only outperform his competition by a LARGE margin at the plate…he now has to outperform team favorites Tejada and Murphy….

like i said, he is being set up to fail here…

put Jordany in CF or RF, leave him there…let him adapt and grow…

what Terry is afraid of, is Jordany giving him NO CHOICE but to play him. The same way Jerry Manuel had his idiotic ways of putting folks in his dog house ( Ryan Church ), Terry is doing the same with JV

I think Valdespin is acting like any regular kid who just got his first job making some money…

I see 100 Jordany Valdespins in any random Uptown club.

The difference is all eyes are on him…and for the 1st time in his life, he just realized it.

Having a Beltran or Reyes is vital for someone like that…esp since a David Wright isnt exactly taking foreign born non english speaking kids under his wing

Sandy Alderson takes cheap shots at other players, GM’s and organizations for years….but he is the poster child for professionalism.

I like RA Dickey…and somehow he was also made out to be a bad guy on his way out of town.

Like I said, u folks are sheep.

bahhhhhhhhaaaaahhhhhhaaaaa

nope…never said he was humble…I said I dont know him…he COULD be humble…he COULD be family oriented and the Dominican version of Wally Beaver….in reality, I, NOR YOU, know Jordany Valdespin any more than we know Kerry Washington.

>Maybe more of the stuff you say would get reported if he wasn’t so immature?

Maybe that stuff is boring and not as sensationalistic as negative news….

There are plenty of people living with the same story you tell of his or worse and many of those same people do not post photos

- posing shirtless
- posing in designer clothes
- blinged out jewlery
- 20 pairs of shoes
- 12 belts
- his “baby” which is a red camaro

YES, and there are PLENTY of regular folks who pose pictures shirtless…with designer clothes…blinged out jewlery…20 pairs of shoes…etc…

go to facebook….i swear u’ll see a 1,000 folks with the same pics…the problem here is…most of you folks are not young…and urban….so u can not relate to someone living that lifestyle….Jordany Valdespin looks like the avg 24 year old from the Bronx….it doesnt mean he is robbing a liquor store, mowing down young teenagers in his SUV ( like A.Burgos ) ….or taking a girls pocketbook ( like Kirk N did in college ) …

it probably means he is attached to his smart phone…wears skinny jeans….and listens to really corny music…

>He’s earned every penny he’s made and I hope he makes more in his life, but spare me this >idea that Valdespin is just a humble guy with a tough upbringing.

My idea is I dont KNOW Jordany, and a few pictures doesnt do enough to bridge THAT GAP

>He’s a guy who likes flash, flare and likes to take photos of himself with no shirt on. He’s not a >humble guy. A humble guy doesn’t post photos like he does.

LMAO.

So I guess David Wright is no longer humble ?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Khw7WcX3uA/T6JcEJRN-hI/AAAAAAAAB7I/D8vqJOtiNAs/s1600/shirtlesswright.jpg

all i am saying….is that there are multiple sides to people…and looking at snapshots of people’s lives doesnt give enough to make sweeping judgements of their character….

where David Wright and Jordany differ is in their way of handling the media…

David is smart enough not to open that pandora’s box of social media…

Jordany does need someone to school him on handling public perception

cuz at the end of the day, with most of u folks, public perception takes precedence over production

I dont give a sh*t what Jordany wears, what hat he wears, what jewlery he wears,

our front office just traded American sports biggest philanthropist since Roberto Clemente, and TRASHED him on his way out…after giving us one of the best pitching seasons in franchise history…

and still Sandy defenders on this site were influenced by the wilpon-fed medial abeling RA as selfish, self-centered, arrogant.

u guys are sheep, incapable of independent thought.

if the media says X enough times…..u believe X