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| meanwhile, a collective yawn is heard over the entire mets fanbase...to hell with clemens.
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It's on like Donkey Kong, Clemens you are going down you egotistical ass!
As you can guess things are a bit flustered here in Bostonia after his announcment... I got about 4 phone calls simultaniously as it happened.
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the thing about that story is that he keeps getting billed as "a former mets employee," with the implication that the mets employed a personal steroids supplier. the guy was a batboy for the mets, and in any case is not being accused of having distributed steroids during the time period in which he was employed by them. it just makes the mets look bad for no reason.
/end rant. :)
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SIGTAULEFTY
5/1/07 1:32 P
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I think it'll end up being a race between Arod and Pujols for the #1 spot - I don't think A. Jones will make that much of a run.
I agree that Bonds wasn't the only one using. How many relief pitchers in the league are on something to help them pitch every day?
There is a story coming out about a clubhouse worker from the Mets who supplied tons of drugs to players from both leagues and numerous teams and he's cooperating with the Mitchell investigation. Should be interesting to see the names he names.
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SINCEREX13
5/1/07 12:30 P
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KINGWIER - I will be excited to see the record get broke by Bonds. I don't hate the man, the way I see things, it was steriod "era" for a reason, Bonds was hardly the only one using. I love the game of baseball, its my favorite of all sports but I just never got all worked up over 'performance enhancers'. I am surely happy that the MLB is trying to level the playing field and will be happy when steriods are irradicated, but I won't lament that they were part of the game.
Secondly, Bonds new record will not be standing for long, so I'll enjoy it for what it is, a hollow yet monumental achievement. Guys like Arod, Andruw Jones and Albert Pujols all will make a run at Bonds record and not one of them have had roids accusations swirling about them. Eventually the record will be held by a clean ballplayer.
In the end I'm just here to enjoy the sport, not curse it b/c of a man named Bonds.
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| I'd like to see The Braves win the series this year. It would be nice to see Smoltz get another one before he gets too old to pitch anymore.
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| Guessing that I'm the lone Rockies fan in here, I had high hopes at the begining of the year, but as usual they fell apart after a few games. Just my two cents........
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ANDYSARTORI
4/21/07 12:49 P
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| I am just happy to see the Braves atop of the NL East again. No offense at all but the pitching has been outstanding thus far. Hope Smoltz and Hudson can keep it going this year.
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I guess we might as well get used to strange ideas. Next after chemicals is bionics. None of us may be alive to see it, but I'm betting there will be controversy surrounding the first pitcher with a bionic arm or stolen base king with bionic legs... on it goes.
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| The most sacred of baseball's records will be broken and no one, outside of the Bonds family and some Giants fans, will celebrate. What a hollow achievement.
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Crazy4blues,
Not just because I am a natural rival of the Giants, but I'd rather see Bonds break Jim Rice's record for being beaned by pitchers in a season than watch him break Aaron's record. The guy is an embarrassment and he will not have got it the right way. Hank Aaron won't even go to the ball park to acknowledge him when he breaks his record.
http://tinyurl.com/yo2oyx
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MICKEYMETS
4/10/07 6:20 A
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| have to say, it was nice to sweep the cards (though they looked a lot better yesterday against pittsburgh - braden looper, of all people, pitched a nice game). but far more satisfying was watching jimmy rollins boot a ground ball yesterday AND ground into a double play after saying that the phillies were the team to beat in the NL east. man, if they are the team to beat, then this shouldn't be too hard, unless their starters pitch complete games every outing. their bullpen is terrible!
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| Last years season of suffering for Cardinals fans--except for that quirky WS victory--seems to be carrying over to this year. Could they stink any worse against the Mets? At least the bats are coming alive and this pitching staff might be better than last year's. Free agency did a nice housecleaning job for the Cards. Maybe a Cubs fan can explain why the Cubs saw fit to reward Jason Marquis with a fat contract after he sucked so badly last season. Play ball!
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Pitchers are looking great so far for the Sox... Papelbon looked like a man possesed last night. Papi finally got the bat going, now its Manram's turn.
Home opener tomorrow, stadium is a couple blocks down the street, may make my way over with a few buddies to try and get tickets, already have a bunch of buddies that got tickets. To bad Sox tickets are probably the rareset and most expensive tickets to acquire in all of sports.
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| mets home opener today at 1:10 - meeting friends for breakfast and then heading over there. best day of the year!
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Heh, heh!!
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| Well I'm a tiger fan. I think they will do great this year. Man look at our Opening Day Lineup, you have Magg's batting behind Sheffield.
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| i hear you - i am a met fan in an office and half a family full of yankees fans.
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| I'm a huge Red Sox fan.. As a matter of fact I'm watching opening day on NESN right now. Schill's not looking so good today. It's 2 to 1 KC right now.. Can't wait to see Dice-K. I'm going to opening weekend on 4/14. Can't wait!! Everyone else in my family are Yankess fans.. (makes for a fun baseball season!!)
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My problem is that my boyfriend doesn't like baseball. He claims that he likes it fine, but what he really means is "I don't HATE baseball" or perhaps "I tolerate baseball."
If I didn't know better, I'd think he was a musical theatre queen like my roommate!
Which is why I end up hanging out in places like the Guy's Lounge, I suppose. There really aren't any baseball forums out in girly land...
-Sarah
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MICKEYMETS
1/16/07 9:36 P
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| i know, right? seriously, though, she's been awesome about learning about the mets, watching games, and all that jazz. although she still runs and hides when my family and i watch football games together and scream at the TV. "why all the yelling?" she will exclaim. it's all good - i like baseball a bit better anyways.
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Mickeymets, you're joking, your girl was bothered by that???
Where are her priorities?
Just kidding. My husband's lucky I'm the serious fanatic in this house, when I take him to a game for father's day or get him a 7 pack for his April birthday, I just look like the perfect wife!
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CRAZY4BLUES
1/16/07 4:54 P
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WONG:
Well, as you probably know, I'm a Giants fan, and my initial reaction to the Zito deal was similar to yours. However, after thinking about it for awhile, I like the deal more and more:
1. The Giants lost their ACE (Schmidt). Zito, is, in fact, an ACE.
2. He was a very strong pitcher last year (no, not in the Cy Young running), but he was still very good in a superior league. The NL STILL has only two good teams: St Louis and Da Mets. So Zito won't have the same type of line ups to pitch to. So a very good pitcher in the AL becomes a GREAT pitcher in the NL.
3. He's only 28 years old. He's been good with a good team for so long, a lot of folks assume he's 37 or something.
4. The money really isn't an issue. The Giants have the '07 All Star game, so they'll be able to generate a lot of revenue for at leat one year.
5. Finally, Zito already lives in SF, so he wouldn't experience any culture shock. Frankly, an East Coast or midwest team wouldn't like him. As soon as he started having a slump they'd just say that it's because he's some New Age space cadet.
6. He'll be joining a stable of very good eperienced and younger arms. Matt Cain, IMHO, represents what Kerry Wood was supposed to have been. Also, Noah Lowery, while he may not be the next Tom Glavine, he is definitely on track to equal Kirt Reuter's very good record as a left for the Giants. Throw in Matt Morris and Russ Ortiz, and things could get good for the Giants.
So, to me, it looks good on paper. I'm willing to wait out a whole season before I really make up my mind on this one. I don't think that Zito really has anything to prove; he's already done that. If he continues to do what he did for the A's, the Giants will benefit.
The Giants STILL need somebody to protect Barry Bonds in the line up. Basically, they need Jeff Kent back. He's just that type of hitter.
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MICKEYMETS
1/16/07 12:27 P
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pitchers and catchers report on my fiancee's 30th birthday. i made the mistake of mentioning that this very important event was coincidentally occuring on the same day as her birthday and she was quite offended that i would even place them on the same plane. whoops.
another mets and jets fan here, waiting impatiently for baseball season to begin.
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I think that Johnson will help out our pitching rotation a lot, but I don't see how anyone should get paid those high prices. I am a teacher and see how that money could really be used to help better society. Kind of like Beckkham's $256 mil for playing soccer for LA. Oh well such is life I guess?
Andy Sartori, have you been to a game yet here? Chase field is great, although I will still call it B.O.B. for a while.
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ANDYSARTORI
1/12/07 8:10 P
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| I just moved to Arizona and I am trying to become a D-Backs fan. I think Johnson will do fine here. He still throws a 90+ MPH fastball. Whats not to like about that? Anyway, Bring on Spring Training.
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That's right, J-E-T-S!
But now that all of the NY teams are out of football, it's what, 30 days till pitchers and catchers? Time to get out my Mets stuff. All the way this year...
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| So the D-Backs get back Randy Johnson with his big price tag. Only have to have his physical and he is in. Not too sure if I want him here or not. We still owe him $40 million for when he was here before. Must be nice to get that type of money. I am a 5th grade teacher and could think of a lot of use for the $40 mil.
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OK, can any SF Giants fan explain how we (the A's) managed to unload Zito on you guys for $126 million? Granted he was great in the Big 3 era (Hudson, Mulder, Zito) but he's been getting worse and worse for the past 2 years.
I can understand paying that much for say Santana, but Zito?? The mind boggles....
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| It will be interesting to see what J.D. Drew will do in Boston. Will he play every day or will he be injured half the season? The White Sox made some changes. It should be another good race.
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| I was kind of hoping that the Dodgers would have picked up a power bat in the off season but I do like picking up Pierre and Schmidt. Wasn't sure what to make of Werth leaving. I was hoping he'd turn into that power bat but he had like no batting average to speak of. One day he'll figure out how to hit the ball and then we'll all be ticked off.
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| My wife and I are big D-Back's fans and are not too sure about bring back Randy Johnson. He was fine when he was here, but that was before all of his surgeries. They have 72 hours to come up with a $ package to offer him. We already owe him a lot of money already. See what will happen.
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MIKESNYDER
12/20/06 1:14 P
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