2009 Mets Season Thread

[PhillyGirl]

david wright is heating up big time

phils better find another gear or else the mets are gonna be 7 or 8 games up before the fightins know it

up what? shteins creek? While the Phils won 5 in a row, the Mets are a bunch of bumbling disasters and find ways to lose 3 in a row.

[ice grillin you]

take the bet or zip it......your choice

[PhillyPhreak54]

KRod was sent to the hospital today with severe back spasms...did he cause them with his ridiculous celebrations?

[BigEd76]

Reyes and Church to the DL, Fernando Martinez called up and they traded cash to the Indians for a minor-league SS and called him up too, and Beltran is out a few days because of his knee. Their lineup tonight is this:

CF Angel Pagan
2B Castillo
3B Wright
LF Sheffield
1B Tatis
RF Fernando Martinez
C Omir Santos
SS Ramon Martinez
P Livan Hernandez

....and they'll still win

[MDS]

the phillies won the world series last year, easy. stop this woah is me whiny mets are great act.

[Rome]

the phillies won the world series last year, easy. stop this woah is me whiny mets are great act.

He choosed Temple.

[Sgt PSN]

and majored in righting

[Feva]

the phillies won the world series last year, easy. stop this woah is me whiny mets are great act.

He choosed Temple.

Black Rob, ftw...

[Seabiscuit36]

beat me to it Feva

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBMgP3NIpmM

I used to work with this guy Rob, who was a felon for stabbing some dude in philly and spent 7 years in prison.  One day at work when this came out, i called him tougher than Black Rob, he wanted to stab me.  I had to make a tape copy for him to show him that Black Rob was real..lol

[PhillyPhreak54]

Mets depth chart on their website:

[ice grillin you]

and they still are better than the phillies

[PhillyPhreak54]

Mets recent call-up Fernando Martinez is off and not running at Citi Field

BY Michael Obernauer
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER

Thursday, May 28th 2009, 4:00 AM

One day you're the King of Queens, the next day you're hearing Bronx cheers.

Welcome to New York, Fernando Martinez.

The 20-year-old prodigy the Mets called up on Tuesday should by all indications enjoy a long and successful career in the major leagues, but if last night's game at Citi Field taught Martinez anything, it's that if he wants to get there, he'd better hustle. In his second big-league game, Martinez experienced the first bonehead moment of his young career when an inexcusable lack of hustle cost the Mets an out and curtailed their chances at putting together a big rally in the sixth inning.

And what a wild sixth inning it was. Two batters after umpires awarded Daniel Murphy what appeared to many to be a phantom home run, Martinez stepped to the plate with Ramon Castro on second and the Mets looking to build on their two-run lead. On the 3-1 pitch, Martinez got under a fastball and popped it almost straight up into the air, just a few feet in front of home plate.

However, rather than running to first base, Martinez committed the cardinal sin of standing near the batter's box and watching his pop-up. So when Washington catcher Wil Nieves made a complete mess of it - the ball eluded his glove, banged off his chest protector and plopped to the ground - pitcher Ron Villone had more than enough time to scramble to it, pick it up and throw out Martinez at first.

It was a terrible impression for a rookie to make, which the fans made clear by booing Martinez as he trudged to the dugout, and which both Martinez and Jerry Manuel acknowledged afterward.

"I don't know what happened but I just feel bad," Martinez said after the Mets' 7-4 win. "I promise that's not gonna happen again. I'm sorry (to) my fans; they booed me today, but I promise that's not gonna happen again to me."

"Martinez made a huge mistake," said Manuel. "A huge mistake."

Whereas Gil Hodges would have personally seen to it that Martinez got an early shower, Manuel decided to leave his rookie in the game. That only subjected him to further booing when he came to bat in the seventh from those Flushing fans who had given him a rousing ovation even before his first big-league at-bat on Tuesday.

All of this overshadowed Martinez's best play of the game, when he went back against the quirky fence in right field to catch Adam Dunn's second long drive of the night. Martinez, who went 0-for-4, is still searching for his first major league hit. And yet he already has something to live down.

"From what I know of him, that's not part of his behavior," Manuel said.

You're in trouble if you need Sheffield to be a leader

Which leaves only one man for the job.

Gary Sheffield, take a bow.

In a room without leadership, Sheff possesses every quality necessary to get the attention of kids such as Martinez and Daniel Murphy and the respect of veterans such as Reyes and Wright.

He's got the numbers (504 homers), the World Series ring, the self-confidence to say what's on his mind and the presence to ensure that others will listen to him. If every career in that room ended today, he's the only one headed to Cooperstown.

And right now, even though his presence on the team was an afterthought, occasioned by his bargain-basement price tag, he is the closest thing to a leader these Mets can scrape up.

I owe Sheffield an apology and, I suspect, so do many of you, for thoughts entertained and (in my case, anyway) words written after the announcement in April that he soon would become a Met.

At the time, considering his clubhouse history and recent production, I was wondering what in the world the Mets hoped to do with a guy like him on the team.

Now I can't imagine what they would have done without him.

In his two months as a Met, Sheff has been a model citizen and a marvelous player. Since May 9, when he began to play regularly, he has hit .400 (20-for-50) with four home runs and 15 RBIs, including a smoking two-run double in Wednesday's 7-4 win over the Nationals.

There's no denying that in the past, Sheff has had his character issues, too, but as a Met, he seems to have achieved a newfound maturity as both a player and a person. (I'm going to take him at his word that he thought Murphy's shot was a home run - which it eventually was - to explain why he temporarily got thrown out at the plate Wednesday night.)

When he came here, it was as a backup to Murphy, a converted infielder, and Church, who is getting into nobody's Hall of Fame. The Mets promised him nothing but some spot starts and pinch hitting.

[ice grillin you]

so with the phils west im watching a whole mets game tonight for the first time this year...i guess it doesnt shine thru as much when they are playing the phils because im concentrating on their opponent but jesus christ is this team beyond hatable...really hard to sit thru

[PhillyGirl]

haha, Mets blow 5-0 lead to the PIRATES and lose 8-5.

Better than the Phils.

[ice grillin you]

mets will be tied or ahead of the phils at 11:59pm on june 11

lock and load

if you disagree wager it up...phils have a 1.5 game lead and are the better team its a no lose bet for you....right?

lets rock n roll