Oliver Perez is quickly becoming the new Luis Castillo. Last year, Mets fans and journalists routinely ridiculed Mets GM, Omar Minaya, for giving Castillo a lucrative four year deal that was worth $25 million. This season Minaya is drawing similar criticism for the three year, $36 million deal that he gave to Perez. It’s hard to back Minaya up on this signing as Perez has been pretty much...
Read MoreHaven’t done this in a while…tonight’s song: Major Tom (Coming Home) by Peter Schilling, and covered by Shiny Toy Guns (really good song!) INT AAA: Buffalo 6/16/1, Lehigh Valley 12/11/2 2b Argenis Reyes 3 for 5, 2 runs, HR, RBI, .284 cf Jesus Feliciano 2 for 4, run, 2b, .305 lf Nick Evans 2 for 4, 2 runs, 2b (10), RBI (20), K, .195 1b Mike Lamb 1 for 4, run, .251 rf Chip Ambres...
Read MoreWinston Churchill said “those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it”, and with the 2009 Mets that seems to the case. Come back in time with me 30 or so years. Its the late 1970’s. Mrs. Payson has died and left her beloved Mets to her daughter, Lorinda De Roulet, who does not share her mother’s love of baseball and the Mets. She granted general manager M....
Read MoreEvery time the Mets go public with updates on their core of injured players, usually another setback like Carlos Delgado’s strained oblique, it is tantamount to the water torture prevalent during wartime interrogations. As Archie Bunker used to say, “Put a lid on it, Meathead!” I doubt Mets fans care to hear about another injury sustained by the debilitated as the countdown of...
Read MoreINT AAA: Buffalo 4/9/3, Rochester 9/14/0 ss Wilson Valdez 3 for 4, run, .250 2b Andy Green 2 for 4, run, 2b, RBI, K, .245 lf Nick Evans 1 for 4, run, .188 1b Mike Lamb 1 for 4, run, RBI, .251 cf Chip Ambres 1 for 3, 2b, 2 RBI, BB, .250 dh Jason Dubois 0 for 3, 2 Ks, .077 3b Javier Castillo 0 for 4, K, .248 rf Josh Petersen 0 for 4, K, .281 c Robinson Cancel 1 for 3, K, .242 Adam Pettyjohn 5 IP,...
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