tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post2751712325643670533..comments2024-03-28T17:57:21.603-04:00Comments on Mack's Mets: Mike Freire - Playoffs?Mack Adehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09730548449011685243noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-82135057928402202212018-06-27T14:24:57.149-04:002018-06-27T14:24:57.149-04:00The Mets fans dilemma
The fans historically want ...The Mets fans dilemma<br /><br />The fans historically want to just win. Does not matter how or with what young or old team the Mets field, just win. Not me. I have to be a contrarian. Of course I would love to win a WS again. However, I am much more in favor of building a young dynasty NY Mets team, a team that could win multiple WS rings, than be a winner one time like the 1986 NY Mets were. Now that was a dynasty team! But can the fans wait for the younger players to fully maturate is the question. I guess it all comes down to knowing your team is on the right course despite any and all opposing baseball fans and critics opinions raining down from every which way and clogging up the television sports shows with their unabashed viewpoints. Maybe they have never sat patiently waiting for much in their own lives. Who knows. Maybe they cannot.<br /><br />This notion of "dynasty building" is not new to MLB. The old time Tommy Lasorda Dodgers used to build their teams each season with this in mind, as did the 1990's Atlanta Braves. Both teams followed a season by season strategy replacing the old with the new, one by one.<br /><br />The 2000's Yankees were an exception to this rule of constantly getting stronger by getting younger each season. They fell in love with their players and when they almost all got older those older players stayed on as Yankees and started, which says something about the NY Yankees loyalty to its players. But then one day, their Yankee team got old, very old. Several seasons post Jeter and Mariano, this new NY Yankees team we see today is back on course to the WS and strong as all get out. All that is really left in 2018 for them is getting by Houston and Boston. They have everything that they will need now, the big bats, great pitching, a solid manager, and the sensational Gleyber Torres on second base, their next true Captain a la Derek Jeter.<br /><br />Hopefully, the NY Mets can learn from these teams I have just mentioned above and build something great here in Flushing, a dynasty. I think they can. Patience still advised.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-88182704603676252732018-06-27T14:04:40.603-04:002018-06-27T14:04:40.603-04:00Everyone is thinking Mets trades lately, the past ...Everyone is thinking Mets trades lately, the past three weeks...<br /><br />But the Mets actually do have more young talent not yet up here. Like Alonso, McNeil, six AA relievers who all throw very hard, Drew Smith is already here as is Tim Peterson, and the Mets have reliever Callahan out hurt currently, but he's on youtube if you want to see him while still pitching and healthy. He looks awesome. So yes there is adequate depth. However, maybe one true star more from outside would not hurt here. My guess? Maybe Machado. <br /><br />MLB Criticism/Homeplate<br /><br />I don't know any baseball fan anywhere that likes the strikes and balls calling by the home plate MLB umpires overall this season. The strikezone "used to be" letters to knees on the batter. What happened to that? Now it is all over the place, depending on what the homeplate umpire had for dinner the night before. i.e.: If fish, then the strikezone is ankles to belt buckle. If pasta, then the strikezone is mid-shin bone to two inches below the armpits. Maybe it's time to go to computer sensor readings, or even a robot who looks like the late Rodney Dangerfield will do, because what we have here now is not getting it in the consistency department but needs to very soon.<br /><br />I loved the Wilmer Flores game winning basehit last night. It went right thru the third base umpire's legs somehow, while he was in motion trying to get out of the way. Amazing. <br /><br />Stick around, this New Era of Mets Baseball is happening now and it will be a good thing.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-66520536234217643092018-06-24T13:29:11.777-04:002018-06-24T13:29:11.777-04:00Marcos Molina for Miguel Andujar - seems even to m...Marcos Molina for Miguel Andujar - seems even to me. <br /><br />After all, who wouldn't want a pitcher who is 1-9 and allowing 8 runs per 9 innings? Tom Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032383157195393857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-33468004973883976912018-06-24T12:57:16.405-04:002018-06-24T12:57:16.405-04:00It's not invectives they need, it's inject...It's not invectives they need, it's injections, rejections, dejections and everything else Arlo Guthrie once said about the draft board in Alice's Restaurant. Reese Kaplanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12993445356545875409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-66749104253036959092018-06-24T08:22:43.035-04:002018-06-24T08:22:43.035-04:00Not incentives, invectives.Not incentives, invectives.Tom Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032383157195393857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-10916706425922632512018-06-24T08:22:00.473-04:002018-06-24T08:22:00.473-04:00They should have kept Robles a few more days and l...They should have kept Robles a few more days and let him throw 100 pitches or ten homers, whichever came first.<br /><br />I am going to a family HS ahead party today. My younger brother will unleash incentives at this team. Believe me. He is the opposite of Mellow Mickey.Tom Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032383157195393857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-592615130369356022.post-17727261663160054502018-06-24T08:16:24.313-04:002018-06-24T08:16:24.313-04:00Today, we don't have a starter.
Yes, that'...Today, we don't have a starter.<br /><br />Yes, that's right... a professional major league baseball team has a game on Sunday and the manager says he will wait until everyone arrives and ask how they are feeling before naming a starter.<br /><br />What do you think the odds makers in Vegas are doing right now after ready the article this morning by my friend, Kevin Kernan?<br /><br />And this is the team we chose to root for and write about.<br /><br />Winter is coming. Mack Adehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09730548449011685243noreply@blogger.com