Comments on: Jan. 28.10: Around the horn.

By: dave

dave — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:09:39 +0000

i caught omar on sny.

the host was actually pretty tough on him. the pitching staff, if they did enough, injuries, etc.

omar continues to say his staff is good. i guess he has to say that.

he also changed his story on beltran. that beltran did everything right, that he talked to him and he knew when the surgery was.

i take this to mean he and jeffy had a mix up. jeffy got pissed and had his boy do the press conference. i guess it means jeffy may have forced omar to do the press conference last year when he fired his friend, the idiot who ran the minors.

and we wonder why no one wants to come to the team.

we win 70 games
the owners are stupid and spiteful.

yes. please sign me up!

By: dave

dave — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:53:51 +0000

ollie is as ollie does.

he can pitch a shutdown game and then the next be taken out in the second.

the same thing inning to inning.

i cannot predict what kind of season he will have.

he can win 15 and he can win 3. no one knows. not even ollie.

By: Dan Gurney

Dan Gurney — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:18:49 +0000

Bud Harrelson used to come to come all beefed up and wilt during the summer months. Teams must not have been able to afford a buffet table back then.

“Mehanical adjustments” is the new phrase to describe “He’s lousy, expensive and ours for the next two years”.

By: Steve The Original

Steve The Original — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:33:06 +0000

(18) Yep, almost every spring training Sid used to come in in shape only to baloon during the season. It was kind of like Jeff Torborg saying…”I can’t wait till you guys see Bill Pecota play, you’ll love him!” lol

By: Gil In Orlando

Gil In Orlando — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:33:06 +0000

16 Steve O: I go back to the early ’70s with the Mets. I wish Ollie could be as good as El Sid was, back in the day. El Sid wasn’t nearly as wild and was far more consistent in racking up strikeouts — and contents of dessert carts. I don’t remember Sid ever having quite so many mental lapses as Ollie seems to have. Ollie also has the uncanny knack of completely unraveling after errors are made behind him.
And El Sid’s finest hour as a Met is hard to top: Completely changing the momentum of 1986 WS Game 7 by completely shutting down the Red Sox for 2.1 marvelous innings, which bought the Mets the needed time to figure out Bruce Hurst.

By: TMS

TMS — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:27:03 +0000

You’re right Harry (not quite 4 times as big but more than 3 times as big) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas

By: Harry Chiti

Harry Chiti — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:23:15 +0000

This is for Sadecki” You said there was interest in Bay from teams other than the the Mets. This is from Gammons: “The Mets were the only team in on Jason, which is unfortunate because he played his heart out for that team (Boston). He’s a great guy but there were serious physical concerns that were there, and Dr. Gill thought it was a tremendous risk to giving him a four-year contract without any questions. John Lackey went with [a contract with conditions] and JD Drew went with it.”

By: Harry Chiti

Harry Chiti — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:18:04 +0000

15. Ooooh… Mean to the host. Be kind, didn’t he grow up by the mistake by the lake?
16. El Sid in shape? Soemhow El Sid being in shape escaped me. OP’s problem isn’t his weight, try his 104 different deliveries in a 105 pitch outing.

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:03:51 +0000

(15) I was thinking we need to incorporate slippers, a bathrobe and a cup of cold coffee into the title.

By: Steve The Original

Steve The Original — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:03:38 +0000

(14) Gil: I don’t know how far back you go with the Mets, but in the 80′s Sid Fernandez used to come into camp in tremendous shape, only to balloon up again. Hopefully that doesn’t happen to Ollie, but he still ends up pitching as well as El Sid did.