I watched the opening game for the Met's in their new stadium. It sure looked like a pitchers park after that first game... has it played the same since?

Bam - Do you even have the ability to explain what you mean when you post something?

You've made some statments not only here, but in several other threads, and to be very frank with you they make absolutely no sense! You've never once have been able to clarify or explain what you may mean when you've been asked to do so.

well to be truthful here at times my sentence structure is crap, so i may fragment statements...i try to make sence at, but at times it doesn't help.

BAM, don't sweat it. Trying to get across your meaning in writing is sometimes more difficult than verbalizing.

Anybody?

Very much so. On the one hand, Santana has been virtually unhittable, but on the other, the Mets aren't hitting worth a damn either.

I think the Mets hitting will be fine. They're hitting, just not with men on base. As for the stadium, it's a pitchers park. More so for left hand pitchers. It takes a real good shot for a RH batter to hit one out in left center.

I believe he's talking about Nick Swisher, who recently made his first pitching appearance ever and looked far better than Wang

well i thought he would know, but guess not...also too i didnt know if he was in a joking matter (abbott and costello joke as a reply).

If I were a Mets fan I would be happy with having a pitcher's park over what appears, as pointed out, a joke of a park for the Yankees. A full season will tell the whole truth though.

Who's on first? I dunno..................THIRD BASE!

(I know that he was talking about Swisher, my who's on first reply...well. )

well I don't understand what's happening

BAM's original sentence remains a mystery. anyway I just needed to talk about that. it should've been in the Yankees thread no?

Murphy is officially a problem in left field.

I've had enough of Jerry Manuel. His moves in the 9th inning today were the final straw. For the 2nd time this year, he refused to bunt the winning and tying runs into scoring position with no outs in the 9th inning. Then perhaps one of the strangest moves I've ever seen. He calls in the 3rd string catcher who's in the bullpen warming up a RP, to pinch hit for catcher Ramon Castro who had 2 hits and an RBI.

Are there any general grumblings in NY about replacing Manuel?

Yeah. I heard his post game interview, and it made me even more livid. He was laughing and joking about the loss today. I wanted to punch my radio. When anyone questions his managing, he responds with a joke or sarcastic answer.

Get mad if Oliver Perez beats you.

the Mets can't stop to make a fool out of themselves against the Phillies. Beltran GIDP to finish the top of the 10th with men on the corners and the bullpen walked the winning run with the bases loaded!!!ugh!

S. Green almost makes me miss Aaron Heilman.

Another brutal pitching performance by Perez, and another terrible 1 run loss.

I've said it for two years now; Oliver Perez is NOTHING more than a 2 inning middle relief / mop up man!

As for the team as a whole, they disgust me. Not so much because they are losing. What disgusts me about this team is there is absolutely no leadership on it whatsoever. No fight! No tenacity at all.

I can't recall the last time that I saw a player on that team get mad or disgusted. You never see anyone on the team slamming, throwing or breaking things in the dugout.

It's as though they have this " ahh, so what, I'm still making my $25 mil a year" attitude.

They totally disgust me. And I'm sick of the Met fans that keep saying "Oh, it's early in the season."

Know what? This team, for the last TWO years, missed the playoffs by ONE game. That one game that they lost wayyyy back in April, when it was "early in the season" could have made the difference!

If this team does not make the playoffs this year, you can say goodbye to everyone from Omar on down.

I hate the manager.
I hate the pitching coach.
Wright and Reyes are the two most over-rated players in baseball.

Apparently MLB doesn't think too highly of Manuel's move either:



05/02/09 5:20 PM ET
Manuel fined by MLB for delay of game
Santos took long route from 'pen to pinch-hit Wednesday

By Marty Noble / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Major League Baseball evidently didn't buy Jerry Manuel's explanation about the delay of the game Wednesday.

Bob Watson, the vice president of on-field operations for MLB, fined the Mets manager for "failure to comply with pace of game" regulations during the Mets game against the Marlins. Watson was acting in response to a complaint filed by Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez.

Manuel said he was joking after the game Wednesday when he was trying to disrupt Marlins closer Matt Lindstrom when he summoned Omir Santos from the bullpen to pinch-hit. The Mets manager claimed Santos, who was wearing his spikes, didn't want to cut across the field, so the catcher walked gingerly through the concrete runway under the stands.

Manuel subsequently said Santos had sufficient notice to get to the plate in a timely manner.

"That's not what I do," the manager said. "The games are long enough."

I made my first trip to Citi Field today. The place is beautiful. The park has some little quirks which need to be ironed out, but it's an awesome ballpark.

Yeah that does look like a nice field. It definitely seems the Mets ended up with the better of the two new stadiums in New York!

I plan on going to the new Yankee Stadium soon. Other than making fun of it for playing like a "band box", I won't pass judgment on it until I see it. I do know that the newspapers here trash it on a regular basis, but it's mostly do to the homeruns, and overpriced empty seats.

Nice pics, Lou. Thanks for sharing.

Nice job Lou.

It looks like Jerry "The Genius" Manuel has put and end to the Mets 7 game winning streak by deciding that it was a better idea for Pedro "I Really Suck" Feliciano to pitch the 7th inning tonight than Santana.

Good for Santana. He was pissed off at being pulled tonight. Said Manuel never even asked him how he felt.