ok, ill preface this post with the fact, I AM A CARDS FAN. however, outside of that, i hold the game above all else. i can watch a tampa/ KC game if they play well. but this kid.. holy shit he is so fun to watch. 23 years old, and frankly, THIS SEASON, i would take him over pretty much any other NL player outside of pedro. he is clutch, a pretty good feilder, and a MONSTER with the bat. he lacks the overwhelming power of puljos, but hits better average, is more likly to land you the go ahead single than bonds, and is good on the basepath. big RBI guy as well.

any mets fans out there? yanks fans with respect? others? all year he is a highlight video with game winners, nice plays and brilliant running for a guy who isnt known for being terribly speedy.

also, jose reyes, is a phenom. his boxscores on a good day are something like, 3-4, 2 RBIs, 2 stolen bases, 3 runs scored. double, triple. fun guy and a spark plug.

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Nice to hear a Yankee fan acknowledge this. Wright and Reyes are my two favorite players, and the best part is they are home grown, not some mercenary free agent. The Mets have an awesome core with these two guys, and will be smart to make them career players a la Yankess with Jeter and Williams.

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the one thing i hate is moron mets fans trying to compare reyes/wright to arod/jeter.

be fair here, W/R are two guys, who havent played in a big game yet, and arent even in a full year yet. arod and jeter are two walk in hall of famers, both with big game experience and playoff experience. let the kids play and win something before we annoint them the next big thing, cuz i can rifle off a few names that were hyped bigger than them and shit the bed. also, i heard someone call alstings millege the next vlad gurerro, i almost punched him. that kid isnt even good. let alone great. his head is up his ass, and he fraknly, doesnt show the natural talent.

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the one thing i hate is moron mets fans trying to compare reyes/wright to arod/jeter.

be fair here, W/R are two guys, who havent played in a big game yet, and arent even in a full year yet. arod and jeter are two walk in hall of famers, both with big game experience and playoff experience. let the kids play and win something before we annoint them the next big thing, cuz i can rifle off a few names that were hyped bigger than them and shit the bed. also, i heard someone call alstings millege the next vlad gurerro, i almost punched him. that kid isnt even good. let alone great. his head is up his ass, and he fraknly, doesnt show the natural talent.

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Millage has looked awful in the bigs but his record up to this point speaks for itself, give him some time to settle in and I think he could impress. There sure are enough GMs out there who would love to get their hands on him.

As for Jeter/Arod, last thing I'd want to be caught doing in touting ARod's big game reputation. He doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Jeter, I don't care what his stats are, I predict that he never wins a world series in his entire career. Jeter OTOH is hands down the most clutch player I have ever seen in any sport .

The only point of my comparison is good solid players who come up through the farm system, these are the guys who make teams.

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actually its weird. Arod is cursed by NY, his early career in seattle showed he can be a huge playoff player. his stats back then are actually really good. but he was a kid then, no ego. nowadays, with the current yanks in particular, egos are killing us. giambi, sheff, and arod are all guys who try to hit home runs, instead of just trying to get a hit. they tend to fly out when we just need a bloop single to punch a run in. im more a fan of the champ teams when paul o neill was our best home run hitter and he never hit more than 35. however, this current linup, disregarding the pitching, is so much more of a team i would like. the kids, melky, canoe, phillips are all playing big, coming up with defense, clutch singles, and doubles, and heads up base running. nothing that giambi or sheffeild can offer. matsui is a more well rounded player. if we had more than 4 pitchers that we could rely on we would be OK. ill take unit, moose, wang and Mo any day, but proctor, dotel, farnsworth and sturze arent reliable enough.

i miss jeff nelson, mendoza and stanton.

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I don't routinely watch the Mets play live, but Wright is sure fun to watch on the highlight reel. Dude is really having a whale of a year...

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sightless, why do you always start threads talking about other teams and giving them credit and then changing the thread around to talk about your yankess? :) just curious...

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i was talking with kobe and he brought up arod's lack of clutch in NY, but he has a good history outside of NY.

the arod/wrignt thing is brought up here in NY about every 10 minutes and its HUGE garrick.

baseball, right now, in NY is so overwhelming. you have the best team in the NL, and the best sporting franchise ever battling for headlines, both teams with superstars of different breeds. we have top of the lineup guys in jeter and reyes, nasty third basemen, two great second basemen who are hitting a ton, exciting outfeilders and both teams have serious questions at the end of the rotation and bullpen.

NY is a CRAZY baseball town. and its so much fun chatting up about the sport i love and grew up playing, watching. and frankly, although we arent the best, the yankees are still the topic of chat 9 outta 10 times.

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and jimbo, ur right, the kid is just exciting. reyes too. when reyes turns first and knows he might have a triple, its just fun watching him rip across second and FLY to third. his brain is catching up to his talent as well. and the mets hired ricky henderson to be his personal advisor.

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i can imagine baseball is quite the buzz in NY these days. maybe if i was a fan of either NY team it would be more exciting for me, but it is just annoying when them and the BoSox hog the majority of the espn airwaves, the tv sports shows, the radio talk shows and pretty much every other facet of sports talk possible. i'm not telling you to stop talking about it, i've just got to get used to the fact that now there are TWO good NY teams that everyone creams over and that those teams simply draw more attention than others... my honest opinion, the media doesn't give other teams a fair opportunity to get into the public limelight.

i kinda got off-topic here. i do agree that david wright is an outstanding player. he gives that $20+ million a year player a run for his money :p

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he will be the 20+ million dollar player. mets are in trouble in a few years unless they want to go the route of yanks/Rsox/Wsox with allowing a high payroll. cuz they have 4 players who are gonna be commanding 20+. reyes, wright, millege, pelphry, and the other kid pitcher.

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and my mom sucks a little deeper every time.

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/me patiently awaits retort :)

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garrick , ill talk atlanta, but this year we might be wasting our breath. do you personally think thta smoltz is gonna be traded. he already stated that they have done so much for him, he would take a trade if it helped the club. imagine they trade him off to the yanks, or even the mets to reunite him with glavine? and Dr. Maddux might also be trade bait up in chi town.

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but hey, that super duper NL this year, for atlanta at least, isnt out of reach. at 5 under 500 baseball the braves are only 6 behind the wildcard.

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i know, that is sad isn't it? the world series has already been decided in my opinion (AL wins)... but i'll say something on the braves behalf.... :)

i don't think they'll trade the only pitcher that gets the job done day in and day out for most of his starts (honorable mention to rookie pitcher chuck james... he has been great so far). he is the only veteran pitcher that can teach our young pitchers how to pitch. every pitching staff needs that one veteran. [FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]John Schuerholz (braves GM) has simply said he doesn't feel he should trade anybody for anything right now because there is simply nothing to trade for out there..... nothing. i think the braves willll bounce back in a year, maybe two. they have brian mccann and jeff francouer who are both doing very well for being so new to the game and the have a very very good minor league system and had an excellent 2006 draft. best short term move for atlanta = sliding chipper back out to left field, sitting ryan langerhans on the bench and putting wilson betemit into the starting rotation playing 3rd base. i don't care if chipper is their poster child, he is not that great of a 3rd baseman.[/SIZE][/FONT]

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ps - i miss leo mazzone rocking on the atlanta bench. rob mcdowell has had his chance and i've never seen such bad pitching from the atlanta pitchers.

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yeah, but mcdowell can only work with what they give him. they might as well hire you , me and the tumor on juljos balls known as MY MOM to pitch and he would make us better, but still, we wouldnt be pro material.

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once glavine took off, they were doomed. then dr. maddux walks back to chi town....... bad news. nothing can replace what those 3 did for over a decade there. MONSTERS. few ppl compare what they did for a team in terms of body of work. biggio, bags, jeter, bernie, manny, pedro, rivera, frank thomas, bonds, etc ,etc,. i.e. the players who stood tall, stayed in one place and garnered a cult following in their towns by just playing thier asses off and being huge when it counted.

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glavine is freakin money. maddux is beginning to look past his time. he should start looking to change up his entire routine like glavine did. i can't believe how well he is working out with the mets.

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me neither. he went from looking old, beat up, and losing control to a pitcher who completely changed his style and is playing at the top of his NEW GAME. its cool to watch him and pedro take it to a more control oriented game using more off speed stuff and playing head games.

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The Mets deserve that after how many pitcher they have given up only to see them go on and still have great success: Seaver Ryan Gooden Cone Leiter

FINALLY we get a guy who is supposed to be past his prime but shows that he is that classy ageless vet with a couple more good years on his arm.

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LEITER???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

AY!!! que fumas hijo?

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Oh, OK-- I just check his 05 stats, not that good :LOL:

But Cone and Gooden, those still hurt @$%^&**&^%@!

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you cant blame the mets for gooden. blame keith hernandez for introducing daryl and doc to coke.

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who's waiting to see if jose canseco can make the big leagues again?:roflmao:

i seriously thought that was a joke when i heard it, but i gues not.

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you know what. give canseco credit. he is the only guy who was telling the truth. even schilling looked like an asshole. he went on and on about how bad they were, then when in the spotlight, he saw gene orza and don fehr in the corner and acted the fool.

canseco and giambi get a huge pass in my book, the only two involved to lay it on the table, tell the truth and bear the consequences. the rest of them.... foook u.

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agreed, i just think it is funny that is is making a comeback. i think i called that back when he first came out of the closet about steroids. first thing i said to several people "this is his route back into the big leagues." he actually looks like he is in good shape.

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[quote=thesightless]inasty third basemen, [/quote]

I hope by 'nasty' you mean 'shitty' because arod is batting .282 with something like 14 fielding errors this year, and he's a guaranteed no show in the playoffs. That's AAA material.

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aw, don't be so hard on Arod, Jenks, it hurts his feelings when they booo :p