The Mets Police

Always nice when I stumble across a non-Mets blogger making some fun Mets commentary.

Here’s one and here’s an excerpt:

Then there’s the second base dilemma, also known as “how much was Minaya drinking the day he gave Luis Castillo a four year contract?” I’d wager Omar was part of the test project for legalizing absinthe in the U.S. Perhaps the Mets can dump him (that is Castillo) somewhere–the White Sox are reportedly moving Alexei Ramirez to short, and perhaps Castillo would be just the kind of guy Ozzie Guillen would like around in the clubhouse to abuse. That has to be worth something. What should the Mets get in return, you ask? Peace of mind, my friend, peace of mind.

And if you’ve read this far, it’s time for the portion of the program known as “come dream with me” or “all free agents can be ours.” It’s a ridiculous feature of any and all hot stove essays, so who am I to tamper with tradition? I want Manny. He was so good when he came to LA last season, he made me a Dodger fan. That’s true baseball magic. New York should be big enough to deal with his flakiness. And I love the idea of a top of the order that goes Reyes-Beltran-Wright-Ramirez. The other 5 guys might not matter. And if that can’t happen, maybe go for Adam Dunn for a high-salary/low-years deal? After all, in my fantasy I’ve punted on defense, so what the heck.

Read the rest here.

I blogged about it all year and caught lots of grief from my name-calling, but it looks like Pedro-bashing is catching on.   People are starting to realize that Pedro did nothing after June 6, 2006 – something I first mentioned in this post and about 100 other times since….but enough about me, I’m just a fat dopey blogger.  How about the take of a respected journalist:

Here’s an excerpt from Bob Klapisch on Espn.com

Mets didn’t get their money’s worth with Pedro

Fern Cuza might be talking a good game for his client, but the Mets aren’t about to forget how quickly their investment in Pedro dried up, especially this past September. He went 0-3 while the Mets were being caught and passed by the Phillies, ending the season with a 5-6 record, the first sub.-500 campaign in a full season of his career, and a 5.61 ERA.

Plucking away Martinez was an enormous public-relations coup, but today the Mets’ hierarchy admits Pedro fell short of their expectations. “We thought we’d get three [good] years from him,” one senior official said. “Turns out we got 2½.”

Even that’s a generous assessment, considering Martinez spent long stretches on the disabled list in each of his past three seasons with the Mets. Pedro was terrific in 2005, winning 15 games, striking out 208 and posting a league-leading 0.95 WHIP. His dominance rolled over into early 2006, when he was 5-1 through May, allowing just 39 hits in 71 innings. But then came the first of two stints on the DL that season, and the old Pedro never returned.

The entire piece is a good read.

Meanwhile there are always Pedro Apologists like this guy. (below)

So the Hall of Fame ballot was announced yesterday and there are four players on the list that spent some time in a Mets uniform, 2 who were “real Mets”(Jesse Orosco & David Cone), and 2 who were rented players (Ricky Henderson & Mo Vaughn).
Now of course each team likes to promote their own players, be they deserving or not. So it came as no surprise yesterday when I saw an article on the Mets website doing just that. Except the title mentioned “A Trio of Mets” on the ballot, and who’s picture is included – Mo Vaughn!
Mo had some good years – in Boston
He even had 2 ok years – in Anaheim
But the man played only 166 games with the Mets.
I love that the Mets seemingly want to embrace history – but come on, embrace your own history, not someone else’s.

I was checking out some pics on Zell’s and noticed the below.

I guess that’s the bleachers we’re looking at.   Notice the blue seats.  I don’t see any breaks.  Is the person in the middle going to have to ask 25 people to move when he wants to get a hot dog?   Seems really uncomfortable in there to me.