Maine's surgery complete
The Mets just announced that John Maine underwent successful arthroscopic surgery to remove a lesion from the back of his right shoulder socket. The operation was performed by team physicians David Altchek and Struan Coleman at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Maine will begin rehabilitation immediately and is expected to have a full recovery before spring training.
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I just watched the Mets legends say goodbye to Shea clip on here, I think I figured out everybody except, first player shown, #33 . I would be very happy if anyone could fill in the gap.
Could someone pick out each Met?
FIREOMAR has been dead on. When we talk about trading a Wright or Reyes, you have to remember how good these players are and the value we would get for them. The point is that these players are not untouchable. Would you not trade David Wright for Joe Mauer and two great young arms? Not that the Twins would ever do that. No one is saying we should dump Wright. Just saying if we could get EQUAL value then it's at least worst considering.
David, in terms of other teams hating the Mets, again FIREOMAR is dead on. Where the final weekend of the year the Phillies got to play a Nats team that just wanted to go home, the Mets got to play a Florida team that would "crawl to the batter's box just to beat the Mets." All of the FLA players repeatedly explained how they hate the Mets and want nothing more than to end their season and see their fans cry. I wish I could have seen that kind of passion out of the Mets players in the last week of the season.
And YES if the other teams didn't hate the Mets it WOULD make playing them easier. What's so ludicrous about that? The only thing ludicrous is you failing to see the relevance of how a bunch of dancing cocky idiots incites the other teams. Remember Hanley Ramirez's first at bat on Friday? -- He led off with a single and immediately stole second -- his face all serious ready to do anything to beat the Mets. When Reyes led off he was smiling and bopping around and made an easy out. Reyes was smiling throughout the whole last week of the season. What exactly was there to smile about? And enough with the "that's just Reyes being Reyes," who does everyone think he is, Manny Ramirez? When Reyes is the best hitter in baseball and wins a WS then he can dance all he wants, but until then he should quit the antics and take his job seriously.
The Mets have themselves to blame for their antics. All this garbage about how they are the best team and how they should have won is nonsense. The 4 best teams made the playoffs, the and Mets were hardly cheated out of anything. That's why they lose down the stretch--they think they have some God-given right to make the playoffs with out earning it. There was no fight in that team down the stretch--no one trying to clutch and crawl their way on base. The only ones fighting were the Marlins, who ironically, had nothing to fight for.
"Where the final weekend of the year the Phillies got to play a Nats team that just wanted to go home, the Mets got to play a Florida team that would "crawl to the batter's box just to beat the Mets."
Did you ever consider the fact that the Marlins happen to be a lot better than the Nats?? Guzman and Zimmerman looked pretty ticked off when Zimmerman hit into the DP - didn't seem like they "wanted to go home."
my 2 cents..I don't know if the Marlins 'hate the Mets' per se', it is the way baseball is. Listen to Brocail's quotes about forcing the Astros to play in Milwaukee. If Hurricane had postponed a Yankee, Met or Red Sox series, you think they would have let them lose that revenue. It is not the players they hate, it is the way baseball is. I hate the Yanks for the same reasons and sadly, Mets are getting close. Now it is lets sign KRod and Sabathia. When Yankees won, it was players like O'Neill, Brosios, Lehritz, then they started with Knobloch, Mussina, Giambi. Best players at each position don't always mean a championship. You need a Todd Pratt, Al Weiss, Ray Knight, someone to get the big hit. I love seeing Yanks lose, but would take Jeter on my team anyday.
RQ, you asked for #33. Well a lot of players have worn that number but after looking at the list (see the site below) I would have to say it was Ron Hunt.
http://www.mbtn.net/roster
"Did you ever consider the fact that the Marlins happen to be a lot better than the Nats?? Guzman and Zimmerman looked pretty ticked off when Zimmerman hit into the DP - didn't seem like they "wanted to go home.""
I did, and the Mets couldn't beat them went it counted either.
Ed Coleman brought up another reason the Marlins hate the Mets
is that at Marlins home games half the crowd roots for the Mets. It ticks them off and does fire them up.
Marlins were 84-78, won 10 games in a row in September and weren't out of the wild card until the last week.
Fire Omar, David Wright hit a two out, two run single to tie the game in Santana's win over the Cubs. He's not so much unclutch as a very, very streaky hitter
I am 51 years old abd have seen more teams play out the string then I care to remember. All of them say they want to be spiolers More often then not like The Cubs this year or The Mets in 2004 they do take a proffessional attitude and play surprisingly hard. I have never seen anything like the body language and the look in the eyes that Florida displayed