New York Mets 2011 Banter

[Coach Deg]

Carlos!!!!

[kelmac07]

Mets take another from the Rockies...9-5!! Tried to give it away.

Beltran smacks three dingers!! I still don't care for him.

[Humpdebump]

Beltran young his trade value

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by kelmac07

Mets take another from the Rockies...9-5!! Tried to give it away.

Beltran smacks three dingers!! I still don't care for him.

Damn...guy goes yard x3 and still no love?....some deep-seated feelings there my friend!

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by BigAsh

Damn...guy goes yard x3 and still no love?....some deep-seated feelings there my friend!

The Mets visited Walter Reed (to see Wounded Warriors) last summer when they were in DC. Only three players failed to show up...Castillo (GONE), Perez (GONE), and Beltran (needs to be GONE). All DIRTBAGS in my book.

Beltran is still a BUM!!!

[jonumberone]

Originally Posted by kelmac07

The Mets visited Walter Reed (to see Wounded Warriors) last summer when they were in DC. Only three players failed to show up...Castillo (GONE), Perez (GONE), and Beltran (needs to be GONE). All DIRTBAGS in my book.

Beltran is still a BUM!!!

Just so you know Mac, After that story broke it was reported that David Wright didn't make the trip to Walter Reed in 2009.

Some started accusing the Media of racism since Wright not going wasn't reported and 3 Latinos not going made the front page.

[BigAsh]

And it's rumoured that Wright loves Grape Tiparillos from the 7-11 near the stadium...just sayin'....

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by jonumberone

Just so you know Mac, After that story broke it was reported that David Wright didn't make the trip to Walter Reed in 2009.

Some started accusing the Media of racism since Wright not going wasn't reported and 3 Latinos not going made the front page.

At first that is what the news reported...but after some research was done, Wright was indeed present (he just showed up late). The other three never showed. That has stuck with me and always will.



******WASHINGTON— The Mets visited Walter Reed Army Medical Center Tuesday and unlike last year managed to escape without igniting a controversy. A team spokesman was quick to inform reporters that 42 players, coaches and team officials visited the hospital's rehab center. The only players that did not attend, relievers Francisco Rodriguez and Taylor Buchholz, traveled here Tuesday morning instead of with the rest of the team Monday night. The Mets gave both players permission to travel here Tuesday—and by extension, to skip the visit—because of family obligations. Of course, the hospital visit was voluntary. But that didn't stop last year's visit from turning into another episode of Mets Circus when Oliver Perez, Luis Castillo and Carlos Beltran didn't attend. David Wright was reported missing, but was cleared by management to arrive late. Wright showed up an hour after the team arrived.

—Brian Costa

*****“I don’t like to see people like that, so I never go there,” Castillo said. “Sometimes you see people with no legs, no arms. I don’t like to
see that.”

*****Beltran explained that he had a meeting that morning for the baseball academy he is building in Puerto Rico, but privately, he was fuming for being called out on his decision.

*****Perez declined to discuss it.

*****David Lennon of Newsday wrote on Twitter, ‘It was noticed,’ in regards to Carlos Beltran, Luis Castillo and Oliver Perez skipping yesterday’s trip to Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

“Everybody should go,” David Wright told Lennon.

*****“I think that just being an American and living in this country, we owe it to those guys to say thank you and tell them how much we appreciate what they put on the line every day,” David Wright told the MLB.com.

[The Poet]

Odd that those guys overlooked the most obvious excuse for their absence: "Hey, haven't those poor guys suffered enough without having a bunch of Mets show up?"


JK, of course.

[kelmac07]

While this was posted last year...I still believe it to be relevant. You know I HAD to share this one with you guys. Way to go Vinny!!!

Three Mets Disgraces Won’t Visit Walter Reed
Posted on September 9, 2010 by Vinny

"The worthless pieces of sh*t who play for the New York Mets declined to visit wounded soldiers at Walter Reed. Only two gave reasons…

Oliver Perez, who has the work ethic of pregnant cattle, said he only discusses baseball matters while he hasn’t mattered to baseball in two years. “I don’t answer anything about outside the stadium,” said Perez when asked why he didn’t attend.

Perez, the breathing straight-line with no curveball, will be grazing on a Mexican buffet the moment the Mets release him. Perez, more than anyone in any sport, reinforces the notion of the check-cashing leech who got big money on spec. God gave him a heavenly left arm and he did nothing with it beyond signing the obscene, $36 million contract the Mets myopically offered.

Luis Castillo, renowned for dropping balls then wondering why he doesn’t play, had this gem: “Sometimes you see people with no legs, no arms. I don’t like to see that.”

You have no brain, Luis, yet the Mets still pay you. The fans don’t like to see you, either, advocating for years that you to be traded or terminated. Though not as egregious as Perez, Castillo is emblematic of the timid team the Mets have become. Castillo does not have a language barrier; he has a logic barrier, aloof to the chore. You don’t wish him harm. You merely wish him gone.

Carlos Beltran, a divine talent who has put up sublime seasons, comes closest to exoneration. Beltran cited a clashing schedule while he apparently attended a meeting about a school he was funding in Puerto Rico. Very noble, Carlos, but reschedule.

Beltran, beyond his age and slipping skills seems to play with exponential apathy. We can understand an older player failing to reach a fly ball. We can’t understand failing to try. That’s where Mr. Beltran is headed – after he inhales the nearly $20 million the Mets owe him next year.

Bastards. All three of ‘em.

I hope the Mets show some stones and dump each and every one of them."

[kelmac07]

Mets come back from being down 4-1 to score 4 in the eight to pull one out. David Wright hits the game winning HR. Hopefully this puts him on a hot streak.

[kelmac07]

Mets drop one to the Astros...7-3. R.A. Dickey gets ROCKED again.

[jonumberone]

Shocked there was no " I hate Beltran" comment.
Not in the lineup due to a swelled eye.

[kelmac07]

Originally Posted by jonumberone

Shocked there was no " I hate Beltran" comment.
Not in the lineup due to a swelled eye.

HE SUCKS!! Swelled eye??? What BS!! The good news is that he's in the final year of his contract...hoping he keeps hitting and we trade his sad sack soon.

[jonumberone]

Interesting debate on sports talk last two days.

Beltran is obviously gone, but will the Mets trade him for a bag of balls and dump the salary, or shoot for a prospect while eating some salary?

If Jorgie doesn't start hitting, Yankee DH?
Beltran can play for me any day!!!

[kelmac07]

I would prefer to eat his salary and get a prospect (of the pitching variety). Why the hell not...we are already paying Perez and Castillo.

[jonumberone]

I think all met fans want a prospect, but the question is what will the Mets do?

If you remember the Billy Wagner deal, they sent him away for a non prospect just to save 3 million.
When he signed with Atlanta, Boston got 2 draft picks for him.
Mets could've used those picks!

[Humpdebump]

Just read that starting this year, the Mets will start paying Bobby Bonilla $1.25 mil. per year for the next 25 years because he deferred $5 mil in the 90's. Who the hell came up with that deal. So because of that, the Mets will probably make a total salary dump for Beltran before deadline and get nothing for him.

[BigAsh]

Originally Posted by Humpdebump

Just read that starting this year, the Mets will start paying Bobby Bonilla $1.25 mil. per year for the next 25 years because he deferred $5 mil in the 90's. Who the hell came up with that deal. So because of that, the Mets will probably make a total salary dump for Beltran before deadline and get nothing for him.

A very smart lawyer I'm sure...

[yachties23]

With all the financial debacles the mets have made over the past few years, does it surprise you that in the 90's the made that deal with Bonillia?

I just hope the Wilpon's realize that they got a sweetheart deal to "acquire" the team, so they should just be happy with what they got out of it, sell it and get out of the baseball business.