It All Started With Torrealba...
by CharlieH on Oct 27, 2009 3:10 PM EDT
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I was thinking about the Mets' woes recently. Well, I've been thinking about the Mets' woes constantly, to be more exact. It's what I do.
There are the usual jokes: what gypsy did they piss off? Is CitiField built on a Mohawk burial ground? Has the Satanic deal for '86 finally come due? Then I realized: it all started with the phantom Yorvit Torrealba signing. That's when we should have known there would be something very, very wrong with 2009. It was the first chip in the facade that covered the dysfunction.
Call 2009 Yorvit's Revenge.
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the Mets almost signed Torrealba before the 2008 season, not the 2009 season.
by Eric Simon on Oct 27, 2009 3:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Ohoh, nice
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on Oct 27, 2009 3:32 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yorvit's Revenge, yikes
Don’t drink the water
by James Kannengieser on Oct 27, 2009 6:06 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, because he didn't pass his physical just like Guerrero had a bad back.
Meanwhile, BOTH have been to the postseason multiple times.
by fxcarden on Oct 27, 2009 6:07 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Which means literally nothing.
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on Oct 27, 2009 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
to be fair
without Torrealba, the Rockies would have had a lot more wild pitches
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
by cjmulrain on Oct 27, 2009 11:52 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
because
Torrealba was the reason the Rockies have made the playoffs
by RIPShea on Oct 27, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No he wasn't.
but he did play on a team that won, which is more than Schneider, Castro, Cancel, and Santos can say.
by fxcarden on Oct 27, 2009 6:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
so...uh...what?
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on Oct 27, 2009 7:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
More like priority of value fail
"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw
by squid92 on Oct 27, 2009 9:51 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What about Johnny Estrada before him?
"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Oct 27, 2009 6:51 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
If the Mets signed Torrealba, they wouldn't have blown the playoffs in 2008
Because they wouldn’t have had a lead to blow.
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by All Shook Down on Oct 27, 2009 7:24 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I agree
no trading of Lastings Milledge for a catcher=championship.
by Sam Page on Oct 27, 2009 9:57 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wrong.
no trading of Lastings for a catcher = champtionship. My version is much more grissiony.
"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez
by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Oct 28, 2009 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I hate being this guy
especially b/c I feel like I know almost every AA meme, but where did the “champtionship” thing come from?
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
by cjmulrain on Oct 28, 2009 2:53 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Some philly ass posted this:
Play well in September…
and then October, and then we can talk!
" World Champions. WORLD PHUCKIN’ CHAMPTIONS"
-Chase Utley, 10/31/08
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
by Evan_S on Oct 28, 2009 3:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Some philly ass posted this:
Play well in September…
and then October, and then we can talk!
" World Champions. WORLD PHUCKIN’ CHAMPTIONS"
-Chase Utley, 10/31/08
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
by Evan_S on Oct 28, 2009 3:55 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
double comment fail
"We're investigating the investigative procedure of the investigation of Tony Bernazard"---Omar Minaya (he really didn't say it but he would"
by firejerrynow on Oct 28, 2009 6:28 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was making a point
sometimes you have to repeat yourself to get it throuh.
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
by Evan_S on Oct 28, 2009 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wow i'm comment failing all over the place
any I was gonna play it off as intentional, but it’s too late now. Sigh.
"We must win and we must know how to win rather than win because we have statistical people."
by Evan_S on Oct 28, 2009 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
That wasn't this year...
It was before 2008, he was to be LoDuca’s replacement. When that fell through, Minaya sent Milledge to the Gnats for Schneider & Church.
by burtweidemeier on Nov 8, 2009 9:07 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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