And away we go.

One good thing about the Mets' offseason.

12/7/2011 1:17:23 PM

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I hate that all the fans have to suffer for dumbass ownership.

Please sign David Wright to an extension, I can't handle losing anymore of my favorite players, which a year ago were in this order:

Wright
Reyes
Davis
Beltran
Pagan

[Edited on December 7, 2011 at 1:37 PM. Reason : -]

12/7/2011 1:33:28 PM

Davis will hit 35 homers if he plays 145 -150 games.

12/7/2011 1:37:07 PM

Bay is gonna bust out with the shorter fences. I'm thinking a dozen, maybe fifteen home runes.

12/7/2011 2:11:41 PM

dont know how angel pagan could be on anyone's favorite player list

but thats me

12/7/2011 2:33:06 PM

^ I hate the Mets, but Pagan had a very solid year last season.

12/7/2011 2:41:26 PM

By comparison, my top 5 on the team now would have to be

Wright
Davis
Murphy
Santana
Bay

Murphy has been up and down since he joined the club, but could end up being pretty solid at 2B (assuming we don't sign a 1B forcing us to move Davis). Bay and Santana are the highest paid players on the team, and in my mind, the most under-achieving.

12/7/2011 3:04:18 PM

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"Bay"

What the fuck

Have you watched a baseball game since 2005

12/7/2011 3:10:07 PM

Adam Rubin on twitter:

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"I know he's going to the best contract, but the Mets were barely in touch with Reyes or his agent. Marlins called every day."

And Joel Sherman on twitter:

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"Fascinating is #Mets r talking with suitors seriously about Ike Davis. #Rangers, #Pirates need 1B. Tex in particular is known to like Ike"

Edit to add this most recent tweet from Rubin (disputing Sherman's claim about Ike)

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"Terry Collins said he has not been in Mets war room for 90 minutes, but he said there's been zero dialogue on trading Ike Davis."

[Edited on December 7, 2011 at 3:18 PM. Reason : rubin tweet]

12/7/2011 3:12:09 PM

Talk that shit now, Ernie

12/7/2011 3:16:01 PM

I mean what if I said Nate McLouth was one of my favorite players from last year's Braves team

12/7/2011 3:19:58 PM

I'll post this in the new thread as well (already posted in '11 thread)

Mets sign Reliever Frank Francisco to 2 year, $12 million deal

Mets trade Angel Pagan to SF for OF Andres Torres and Reliever Ramon Ramirez

Mets sign Reliever Jon Rauch to 1 year, $3.5 million deal

12/7/2011 3:20:05 PM

Rauch seems like a okay 1yr gamble at $3.5 M. Francisco has been hit and miss, I wouldn't want him for two years at $12M, too much risk.

Trading your best OF and top of the order guy for a player who had one good season and was injured trash last year and middle reliever seems like a bad deal for NY.

Oh well whatever. Your rotation sucks dick just like it did at this time last year. Good luck fixing that this offseason.

12/7/2011 4:44:01 PM

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"What the fuck Have you watched a baseball game since 2005"

He was a great player until he got to NY. He's only in my top 5 because Reyes, Beltran, and Pagan are all gone. Who else do we have to hope for to have a good season?

12/7/2011 5:09:26 PM

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"I hate the Mets, but Pagan had a very solid year last season."

Pagan was pretty average last year. .262, .322 OBP. He was much better his first season with the Mets (2010). Pagan was rumored to have a pretty bad attitude and wasn't that well liked by the front office.

12/7/2011 5:23:31 PM

The bigger issue is a grown man having a top five favorite players list

12/7/2011 5:26:16 PM

^ LOL

^^ My memory sucks. I thought he had his good season last year. Oh well he and Torres are basically the same player so I guess the Mets got a reliever in the deal.

12/7/2011 5:29:51 PM

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"He was a great player until he got to NY."

Yeah, my favorite all-time Brave is Raul Mondesi

12/8/2011 9:48:01 AM

Nomar is my favorite Cub, in a landslide.

12/8/2011 9:51:37 AM

I guess it wasn't clear enough that I was saying he's only up there because everyone else left/was traded and he's the only one with any hope of having a decent season.

After the other 4 on the list who else do the Mets have who hold any potential?

12/9/2011 2:23:26 AM

Because Ernie is such a big fan of lists, I am going to name my top 5 favorite Met players of all time:

1. Dennis Cook
2. Mo Vaughan
3. Tom Glavine
4. Turk Wendell
5. Kris Benson

Just missing the cut were Shawn Green and Lasting Milledge.

12/9/2011 10:07:39 AM

don't forget robin ventura

12/9/2011 2:09:31 PM

Moises Alou? Roberto Alomar?

12/9/2011 2:30:21 PM

I LOVED Robin Ventura. Walk-off-grand-slam-single!

12/9/2011 4:53:31 PM

Todd Pratt once hit a big homer.

12/9/2011 4:54:47 PM

ha, shit I forgot he did that against atlanta otherwise I would not have suggested his name

12/9/2011 4:55:32 PM

The Mets still have a team?!

12/12/2011 4:25:14 AM

Hey NyM you got it backwards you fucking stupidass double chinned lazy eyed bandwagon inbred Jets Mets fan who couldn’t write a single coherent sentence about any sport.

1/31/2012 10:50:36 AM

1/31/2012 11:03:14 AM

Have I not posted here yet?

^^

2/1/2012 8:54:10 AM

5th in the NL East this year?

2/1/2012 5:00:31 PM

Meh, I guess I'm in for another ride this year. FML.

^ fuck off. Don't you have someone to vomit on or brutally murder in the parking lot?

[Edited on March 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM. Reason : x]

3/5/2012 5:37:59 PM

Quote :

"U.S. District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff ruled Monday that Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon, his family, businesses and charities must pay as much as $83.3 million to the trustee trying to recover funds to net losers in Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme."

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/7647107/judge-new-york-mets-owners-pay-much-83m-trial-decide-303m

If you're wondering, that's 0.79 Jose Reyeses

3/5/2012 5:44:11 PM

3/5/2012 5:48:15 PM

does anybody want to go ahead and lock this thread before it gets too bad? i mean opening day is just around the corner

3/5/2012 5:48:21 PM

please to embed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okXhAC78d4Q

3/5/2012 5:48:21 PM

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"01/13/12 New York Mets signed free agent SS Ronny Cedeno."

His career stats aren't very impressive to this point. Is that Roger's kid? If so, he certainly didn't inherit the speed.

Oh, and we cut Fernando Martinez. WTF.

[Edited on March 5, 2012 at 6:55 PM. Reason : -]

3/5/2012 6:52:37 PM

Roger Cedeno retired like five years ago

3/5/2012 7:04:30 PM

There's been a couple of cases of father and son playing in the majors at the same time before.

3/6/2012 12:55:44 AM

I can't think of any. no way it's ever happened.

3/6/2012 1:09:22 AM

Can't tell if serious...

The most notable was when Ken Griffey Jr snatched a ball out of the air that his dad was about to catch...that was a very famous moment in MLB history. They didn't only play at the same time, they were teammates.

3/6/2012 1:30:00 AM

^ LOL. Dude took it serious.

This is going to be one of the funnier threads of the summer.

3/6/2012 7:34:00 AM

i almost feel like it's better to be an orioles fan right now than it is to be a mets fan. maybe it is. i really can't tell.

3/6/2012 8:16:26 AM

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"There's been a couple of cases of father and son playing in the majors at the same time before."

Roger retired when he was 30 and is like five years older than Ronny

Ronny Cedeno has been in the NL for 6 or 7 years, how have you never heard of him

3/6/2012 8:36:43 AM

I've heard of him, just never knew the age differences.

Regardless, Martinez was untouchable in trade talks when so many teams wanted him, and now we just simply put him on waivers to make room for this guy. I really hate our management.

3/6/2012 11:08:32 AM

Career line of .183/.250/.290 and you expect something in return?

[Edited on March 6, 2012 at 11:20 AM. Reason : Teams wanted him before they saw he couldn't hit]

3/6/2012 11:19:55 AM

Lastings Milledge all over again. This team should just start trading young players before other teams realize they're garbage.

3/6/2012 11:21:56 AM

David Wright is hurt, but he says he'll be ok.

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"Two days after receiving an ultrasound-guided cortisone shot at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, New York Mets third baseman David Wright returned to camp and pledged to be ready for Opening Day on April 5. Wright revealed Wednesday that he had a muscle tear toward the left side of his abdomen -- technically, the rectus abdominis muscle. He believed he had a rib cage strain before an MRI exam revealed the true diagnosis."

3/14/2012 1:06:02 PM

The first 12 games of the season are against the NL East, and 15 of the first 19 overall. We'll see pretty quickly just how bad the team really is.

50th anniversary of the very first Mets season...we only won 40 games in 1962 and I wonder if this season will be any better.

3/30/2012 3:24:11 PM

72-90

4/4/2012 11:42:07 AM