This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty - 11-07-09
Posted by rustyjr on 10:21am, Saturday November 7th 2009
Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That’s an easy thing to say, but if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend
That you can build them again
Look around, the grass is high
The fields are ripe, it’s the springtime of my life
Ahhh, seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won’t you stop and remember me
But look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
- Hazy Shade Of Winter, By Simon & Garfunkel
Well my friends the 2009 Base Ball season is officially over and now come our Winter of (dis)content ( take it as you will if you are either an optimist or a Mets fan). This coming Monday starts the Gereral Managers Meetings in Chicago , where Omar will sit down with the other G.M’s from the other teams to lay down the foundations for possible trades and hob knob with the various agents to get a feeling of how much it will cost to obtain their services . Omar So let us just hope Omar Doesn’t get fleeced in a trade that will send us a third string outfielder in the mold of lets say JEREMY REED for a prospect such as IKE DAVIS !!! ( think positive thoughts ! think positive thoughts ! - breathe in and out Rusty!) Okay I’m feel much better now. So now on with the INFAMY !!!
DUMB & DUMBER ?
First off today would have been first base man for the ‘66 Mets - Dick Stuart”s 77th birthday.
Reserve catcher for the ‘90 team - Orlando (Mercado is 48 ( 1961) .
Utility player - Andy Tomberlin is 43 (1966).
One time pitching ace in training - Glendon Rusch is 35 (1974) Glendon Rusch was a breath of fresh air when we obtained him from the Brewers In the winter of ‘99. He surprised many coming out of that Spring Training by securing a spot in the starting rotation. He never did reach his potential and has become a journeyman pitcher , last pitching with the Colorado Rockies this past season.
Pitcher Kris Benson is 35 ( 1974). We obtained him from the Pittsburgh Pirates during our faux playoff run in ‘04. ( DAMN I MISS ANNA !!)
Scrub reliever from ‘07 - Wille Collazo is 30 (1979)
New York Mets signed free agent Rick Reed on November 7, 1995. He was the poor mans Greg Maddux and I was very disapointed when the Mets traded him in ‘01.
The Florida Marlins signedMets free agent outfielder Brian Daubach on November 7, 1996.
And remember there are only 149 tediously slow more days until Opening Day when we host the Florida Marlins at Citi Field
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Doesn’t get fleeced in a trade that will send us a third string outfielder in the mold of lets say JEREMY REED for a prospect such as IKE DAVIS !!!
Considering that is not in his history I am not too worried.
it was meant in sarcastic jest seeing Omar is under the gun with his head on the chopping block ( wow how many more cliches can I use lol) I dont think Omar would do it - but remember his ” total autonomy ” has gone by the way of a the liberal republican lol
Brian Daubach like Rick Reed was a scab!
Not that I had any problem with it.
I’m not a union man.
Just sayin’……..
Or conservative Democratic.
Just,…ya know..sayin’
Well according to multiple commenters at MLBTR in the Pedro Feliz post the Phils may be considering trading Vicki as a cost cutting measure and promoting from within to fill his spot. There’s our new LF!
Miguel Olivo to the Mets was suggested in a previous thread and he has actually engaged in on-field fisticuffs with Jose Reyes. Surely Vickie doesn’t hate Jose THAT MUCH! Bring ‘em both on. If they can’t straighten out Jose, no one can.
(this is sarcasm and does not represent the actual views of the author)
Thought I read in a few places a couple yrs ago that Olivo
and Reyes were actually close friends though.
Not that it would ever happen but I’d take Victoino in a
New York Second.
I also read that about Olivo/Reyes. Close friends fight, brothers fight, fellow Met fans fight. Stuff happens.
In most cases I am able to put my emotions aside about a particular player and welcome them to my favorite team, but there are a handful of guys currently (and formerly) in the majors that I, right or wrong, cannot do that for, and Vicki is one of them.
I respect the Phils players and their accomplishments both individually and as a team and would welcome any of them as Mets, except one. Lucky for me I agree that “it would never happen.”
I’m glad you posted this comment.
As I’m of the female gender, I can name a dozen players over the years that I hated to get rid of - and conversely never wanted to see in a Met uniform, if for no other reason but just pure emotion.
For most, my baseball brain knew it was time for some to go (like Keith and Ventura and maybe Tug). I never wanted ARod back when he was available and not just for the expense either. I hated Orel Hershiser and could never come to terms with him being a Met.
Others not so much though - like I had no problem when it was time for Piazza to go.
Obviously that Seaver trade was not in this same category.
I often wondered if it’s the emotional attachment I sometimes have for certain players, teams, dynamics. I hated when management started breaking up the ‘86 team, even if I understood at least the reasoning as to why the FO was doing that. Backfired for the most part, to be sure, but man, that team…..
I’m glad to know I’m not the only Met fan where it’s not just strictly business all the time. In order to have that passion as a Met fan, don’t you have to feel some connection to the team, the players? Isn’t that why some of us sport player jerseys, tees, caps? Heck, I even have a pair of Met socks.
Not sure if I’m making myself clear or not. I’ll just say that I would have a very hard time rooting for Victorino in orange and blue. Am not going to be thrilled if Myers makes his way over here either.
i dont think you will have anything to worry about - i dont believe pricterino will ever become a met lol
That picture and caption brought me immense joy this morning and made my whole week, Rusty.
Anyone gonna be in Chicago this week?