FTN wrote:

I want a real gangsta on this team. Somebody like Cody Ross or Shane Victorino. A SPARK PLUG! Somebody who a) speaks English and b) who won’t put up with other teams talking smack about them. I don’t want to hear the company line anymore and at this point I don’t care if David Wright ever plays another game.

Only spark plug you need is one where you poor gas all over your face then go by a lit stove you gutless coward!!!!

Yea maybe they should trade or get rid of a guy who hit 300,33hr and tied the franchise leader in RBI’s…..

Good move, next year do us all a favor and become a Marlin Fan, b/c Fish is what your Wreak of you whiny B*I*T*C*H

ReadingPhilly wrote:does "phat" even make sense in that context?

ReadingPhilly wrote:does "phat" even make sense in that context?

meatball wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:does "phat" even make sense in that context?

No, but props for a very nice professionally-done sign.

FTN wrote:They were depending on Uranus Reyes, Tatis, Robinson Cancel, Ramon Castro, and Ramon Martinez. Really.

For the second straight year, on the last day of the season, against the Marlins again, the Mets were eliminated from postseason contention. Throughout the winter, spring and the entire season next year, they will again be questioned about the makeup, chemistry and leadership of this team, and why this group of players has blown division leads in back-to-back years. A season ago it was an epic collapse; this year fell apart because of injuries and a woeful bullpen. That very bullpen caused the Mets' downfall Sunday, when the Marlins won 4-2 in the Shea Stadium finale. The Mets' loss gave Milwaukee the National League wild card because the Brewers had defeated the Cubs in a game that ended only minutes before the final out was recorded at Shea. And with that, the Mets' season ended at 89 wins.

"It's always going to be grouped together," third baseman David Wright said of missing the playoffs two years in a row. "Last year, for lack of a better word, we collapsed. This year, I think we hit a little rut in the wrong time to hit a rut."

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"I think we underachieved last year and I think we overachieved this year," said Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon. "It's nothing against our second baseman today -- look who our second baseman was, look who our left fielder was, look who was in the bullpen. No Billy Wagner, no John Maine -- you can go right down the list to what happened."

When asked whether knowing the weakness of his bullpen was frustrating, Wilpon flatly said, "The whole thing's frustrating."

Schoeneweis would be the goat on this day. He came in after Carlos Beltran had tied it with a two-run homer in the sixth inning, only to give up a leadoff homer in the eighth to pinch hitter Wes Helms. The collective groan could practically be felt, and the sold-out crowd immediately started booing, even though the Marlins only had a one-run lead.

"To [homer] in front of 50,000 people, especially the situation at hand, it makes you feel good," Helms said.

"We don't want two teams in our division in the playoffs," Helms added. "The Phillies already won their division; let's keep it at that."

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Reyes was sitting on his chair in front of his locker when a few people came over and consoled him. He then exhaled a few times and put his head back in his hands before finally going into the back of the trainer's room. When he emerged, he was asked whether the feeling is the same this year as it was last.

"It's harder this year I think," Reyes said. "It's happened for two years in a row. Nobody feels good about that."

Now there is no reason to cheer in Queens anymore this year. Perhaps the move to the new Citi Field will be good for the Mets. All indications after the game were that Manuel would return, as will most of the core group of players that has been here for the past few years. Since the team will largely be the same, perhaps a new ballpark can make some sort of difference.

"It is what it is, guys," Beltran said. "I have no more words."

Not until next season, anyway, when Beltran and his teammates will return to spring training and face the same questions about how and why this happened again.

FTN wrote:

unless major changes are made in the offseason I will not follow the Mets next season or until they do.. I cannot handle MENTAL WEAKNESS.. AND LACK OF LEADERSHIP

DAVID WRIGHT MAKES ME SICK.. HIS PRETTY BOY NICE GUY ATTITUDE MAKE ME WANT TO VOMIT.. HE IS A TOTAL WUSS..

Marion wrote:

FTN wrote:

"I think we underachieved last year and I think we overachieved this year," said Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon. "It's nothing against our second baseman today -- look who our second baseman was, look who our left fielder was, look who was in the bullpen. No Billy Wagner, no John Maine -- you can go right down the list to what happened."

philliesphhan wrote:

FTN wrote:

"I think we underachieved last year and I think we overachieved this year," said Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon. "It's nothing against our second baseman today -- look who our second baseman was, look who our left fielder was, look who was in the bullpen. No Billy Wagner, no John Maine -- you can go right down the list to what happened."

Not much room under that bus for all the people he's throwing under it. Might as well say "It's too bad these suck asses had to replace Maine and Wagner."