This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty 10-13-09
Posted by rustyjr on 5:16am, Tuesday October 13th 2009
I had a dream - more of a nightmare during the first week of this season. In this dream I was sitting in the stands of a ubiquitous stadium with with fans of two teams that I couldn’t discern . Whenever I asked a fellow spectator what was going on the person would say “the bleeps and the bleeps are playing in the World Series!!” I asked him again saying that I could barely understand him - he repeated the same line. Then I woke up. I considered it a odd yet benign dream. That is until I had the exact same dream last night but this time the bleeps were filled it with the wretched names of the two teams I despise the most ! ” The Yanks and the Phillies are playing in the World Series !!” I just realized this dream has turned into a nightmare ! I know what you are saying - both teams will face stiff competition from the Dodgers and Angels - but I am starting to see this as some time of cosmic slap in the face to all Mets fans because we are in a bit of a catch 22. If we root against the Yanks then we are rooting for a team that you have to admit are a strong team - yet they are our most hated team in the N.L. East . And If we root for the Yankees - well I’m not going there but it’s like having sex with your sister that you know has herpes - IT’S JUST WRONG !!!
Okay now with that said - IT IS TIME FOR THE INFAMY !!
Happy Birthday wishes go out to one of the longest serving third base coaches in Mets history ( ‘68- ‘75) - Eddie Yost (1926)
Relief pitcher from ‘73-’74 - John Strohmayer is 63 (1946)
Relief pitcher from the early ’90’s - Julio ” remember me?” Valera is 41 (1968) He was traded away to the Angels in return for past his prime second baseman Dick Schofield
New York Mets traded pitchers Ray Sadecki and Tommy Moore to the St. Louis Cardinals for catcher/ third baseman Joe ” Saint” Torre on October 13, 1974. Torre went on to become the player manager then sole manager of the team from ‘76- 81. He tried his best with the players that the front office gave him. He as we all know found success as the manager of the yanks from ‘96 - 2007.
Well the best thing I can say to get us sorta pumped up is that there’s only 175 more days until Opening Day at Citi Field against the Florida Marlins
Anyone notice the same theme I have during this post season?
Other than the ‘great Mariano Rivera’, the closers can’t seem to get the job done. From Wagner to Pappelbon to Street last night. What’s up with that?
And yeah, I said it. The ‘great Mariano Rivera’. No matter how much many of us can’t stand the Yankees, you have to admit that Mo goes out there and gets the job done. Night after night after night. He deserves that tag.
To think the Yankees came close to packaging him in a trade several years back. Just goes to prove you just never know…
Dodgers in 6.
Dodgers in 4! (wishful thinking)
Ha - Even better!
Rivera IS the greatest closer of all time no doubt in my mind. Maybe not the best reliever of all time but since closing became the main thing, there is no one even close.
Completely agree.
And he had Tommy John surgery before it all even began!
And his postseason record is off the charts unreal.
Did anyone read Amazing Avenue’s post: 2009 Mets Transaction Register, Part I?
This will give you an idea of this guy’s opinion of the transactions made all last season:
Trade KRod’s bad contract for Milton Bradley’s.
Uh, no…
Oh my god. “They might be able to swap him for someone else’s bad contract — Milton Bradley’s name continues to come up — but I don’t think the Mets are down on Rodriguez at all, let alone as nauseated as we are.”
Talk about being out of touch with reality! I’ll keep KRod, thank you very much. And who are all these people who are nauseated with him?
nauseated is probably too strong a word. But, he did have a poor 2nd half, and he did blow a lot of games. It was really overshadowed by the fact the Mets were so far out.
Can you imagine if the Mets had hung in, and were fighting for the playoffs, and he produced some of those stinker appearances?
He really didn’t “look” right in the 2nd half. Was it mental? Physical? Guess we find out next year.
And, unless yo are putting up a string of years like Rivera, it is a bad contract, from the standpint that if he has the best year he can, he would probably earn the money, but anything short of mear perfection, and he is overpaid.
2012 will be the killer, when they are on the hook (if the option vests) for 17.5mill! (3.5mill buyout).
I still wouldn’t trade him for Bradley of course, but don’t scoff at calling his contract bad.
Not to ever defend poor play, but if we were in the race, maybe KRod would have been better. It is certainly possible. Not excusable, and not cool, but possible.
KRod ain’t going anywhere, and anyone who suggests trading him for Milton Bradley does not belong writing anything anywhere where rational adults might see the writing.
Remember that series where KRod had to be carted off to the hospital on a stretcher with severe back spasms? And magically, he was O.K. a couple of days later?
It’s been my experience you just don’t get spasms for no reason. Wonder if they had anything to do with the down second half.
Or maybe, KRod is the rare breed that just needs to pitch more than less. With not many closing opportunities, that didn’t happen…
Speaking of nightmares, I saw a pretty creppy flick yesterday - Paranormal Activity. Udontmesswthejohan highly recommends it. It was scarier than the mets season, and that is saying something.