What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
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>Earlier in the year when you were calling for Carlos Delgado to be just outright released I told you to remain calm.
Now you find yourself chanting MVP at Sunday Night Baseball (ESPN hates children and cancelled another Mr. Met dash).
I am hear to warn you not to be fooled. Should Delgado be waived? Of course not. Should the Mets pick up the option?
No.
How many times do you see a guy suddenly get a lot better when there is a contract at stake (cough Mussina cough A-Rod).
Then what happens the next year? The 'real' player comes back.
If the 'real' Delgado comes back y'all will be booing him out of Citi Field by May 1st.
It's first base. You'll get someone. You wanted Delgado gone in May. Remember that feeling. Let him go.
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Nice of Santana to be all ace-like last night. Nice to see that. Too often you get Cylonic Glavine type performances.
Answer to yesterday's trivia question of what's from Boston and can't be trusted: come on that was easy – Four Inning Pedro of course!
Joe Girardi in 4th place. Still has a job. George must be in a coma.
George should call Willie. That would be all kinds of entertaining. The subway series would be awesome. The NYY's would continue to underachieve and we could restart the Willie Watch. Fun fun fun. Come on George I know you have one call left in you.
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>Dialing around the league:
The Sparano’s looked pretty underprepared. Favre didn’t look that good (new system and all) and the Dolphins shoulda made that a game.
CBS Philly needs to switch away from blowouts. Pitt was up 35, come on dudes switch the game. Why not switch to the New England game and the big story of the day?
FOX NYC needs to switch away from blowouts. The Rams were completely usesless. Why not switch to Sea-Atl which was at least interesting?
The Browns looked completely useless.
I didn’t think the 49ers looked bad. There’s a lot of new folks there, but Gore looked like it will be a breakout year in a Martz offense.
>Cool aritcle on Philly.com about the last days of Shea and Yankee.
Here’s an excerpt, and the last line is for Fred “Giants Who?” Wilpon.
Despite its warts, the unsightly chop shops that used to be visible before new Citi Field began to rise beyond the center-field wall, and the annoying cacophony of jet engines from nearby LaGuardia Airport that interrupted at-bats, Shea does have some history. It hosted four World Series. In 1965, it contributed to the cause of Beatlemania in the United States. Shea Stadium opened in 1964. The Mets have played more games there than the Brooklyn Dodgers played in beloved Ebbets Field.
>Cool article about how Nobody Will Win 30 Games Again.
Excerpt:
Today a pitcher will typically lead the league with 35 starts; if he wins 75.6 percent of them he’ll record 26 wins. A winning percentage similar to Denny McLain’s just isn’t good enough in today’s game. To achieve 30 victories a pitcher needs to win 85.7 percent (30 out of 35) of his starts.
Using the Pythagorean method of forecasting wins and losses we can easily determine the ERA necessary to win 85.7 percent of 35 starts. The typical major league team in 2008 scores 4.63 runs per game. Given average support a starting pitcher would need to surrender no more than 1.89 runs per nine innings to position himself for 30 wins. In 2008 approximately seven percent of all runs are unearned, so our 30 game winner’s ERA would actually look more like 1.76.
