Wallace Matthews says Mets should look to 2011

I really, really, really hate Wallace Matthews

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In the words of Ray Finkel's mom

Wallace Matthews should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell!

Beer is good! And stuff!

by R_Adragna on Nov 19, 2009 11:59 PM EST reply actions

Meh I can only see the first 3 paragraphs, or sentences really

But I can’t say I disagree with anything I saw there.

by Gina on Nov 19, 2009 11:59 PM EST reply actions

It's not what he says because some of the things are definitely true

It’s just that when he says it, he makes himself like a completely pompous, all knowing a-hole with an agenda

by Syler on Nov 20, 2009 12:09 AM EST up reply actions

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot. :-)

by Mex_17 on Nov 20, 2009 10:33 PM EST up reply actions

On some level I feel for Wally

His medium is dying, his schtick (newspaper trolling) is dying and he doesn’t have much else to put out there. I don’t think he actually believes most of the stuff he writes and if he does, God help him. He also called me a c**ks*c*er in a direct Twitter message after I re-Tweeted one of his inanities about A-Rod not being clutch so I dunno. I’m just amused that the Newsday baseball desk employs both he and Ken Davidoff. It’d be like a film studio paying both Uwe Boll and Werner Herzog (apologies in advance if that’s too snooty a reference).

by James Kannengieser on Nov 20, 2009 12:32 AM EST reply actions

only if one of them

wrote exclusively about video games and killed them in the process

"[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 Nov 20, 2009 12:48 AM EST up reply actions

wow, did he really?

what a dick

by JoshNY on Nov 20, 2009 11:41 AM EST up reply actions

That's pretty nutty.

I can understand someone defending themselves, but a professional writer calling you a cocksucker for goofing on him is a little off.

by Mex_17 on Nov 20, 2009 10:32 PM EST up reply actions

Wallace Matthews profile picture looks like

a prison mugshot

"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 Nov 20, 2009 6:46 AM EST reply actions

It's chic to bash Mets fans, and the organization. That all I see from reading the article.

What credible journalists who cover sports actually believe that the team is going to fail, and hard, next year based on what happened this season? It’s one thing to say that we won’t win the division. It’s one thing to say that we might not necessarily compete with the Phillies and the Braves (which I don’t personally believe, so long as we sign the right guy or two). But, to say that next season will be an unmitigated zoo disaster, like last season? The odds of 20+ players going on the DL, many at the same time, for two years in a row is quite slim.

The guy says that Danny Murphy is our left-fielder, anyway, so he obviously doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and is writing some yellow sports journalism. Anyone who thinks that the organization saying, ""We apologize for our atrocious 2009 and ask our loyal fans to bear with us for a year, because even though we promise to play like hell, we’re probably not going to be very good in 2010. And rather than waste money – your money – on a subpar free-agent crop and be held hostage once again by bad, immovable contracts, we’re going to sit this winter out and come back stronger in 2011", and actually doing that doesn’t know what they are talking about, anyway, so…

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 20, 2009 10:33 AM EST reply actions

Like I said I don't have access to most of the story so I can't comment much on what he says

but it seems to me it’s not that he’s saying they should say that to fans. He’s saying rather than properly accessing the team and realizing there’s too many holes to fix in one off-season and trying to find long-term solutions they’ll go after quick-fixes, like overpaying for guys like Wolf/Marquis, which will hurt more in the long-run than they help.

by Gina on Nov 20, 2009 10:52 AM EST up reply actions

I also haven't read the article

but I think you’re giving Wallace waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much credit. He’s a complete hack – probably the worst sports “journalist” in New York – and that’s saying something.

by cjmulrain on Nov 20, 2009 11:03 AM EST up reply actions

WTF?

Before, when I clicked on it, I was able to view the entire thing, and now I can’t.

Well, I was going to quote from it, but now I’ll just go by memory. Wallace said that instead of going full force into the FA market this year, the front office should write up and release that above statement directed at the fans, and basically lay down dead, and field the team we have now, holes and problematic positions included, so that we can do more in 2011. That, in and of itself, is a joke. For a bunch of the holes that the team has, next year’s free agent list isn’t all that much more compelling, nor are a lot of our holes in the next season or two going to be solved via FA (Thole at catcher, Davis at first, Havens/Tejada at second, possibly). The front office saying/doing something that that effect, and informing everyone,I think, is probably a worse PR nightmare than doing what the theoretical statement claims but not actually saying it, which plenty of teams do each year.

Interdispersed in the article were claims that border on statistical impossibilities (the Mets are going to have another record like in 2009, which doesn’t make sense when you factor in the fact that a massive rash of injuries on the 2009 par would be so slim, it’s not even funny), or things that just aren’t true (Daniel Murphy is our left fielder- he said something along the lines of ‘No one in the FA market is really going to make much of a difference than Daniel Murphy & crew in Left Field’- or that Citi Field is an anathema to home runs, which is statistically has been proven not to particularly do).

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 20, 2009 11:28 AM EST up reply actions

Oh okay I agree that's a joke

by Gina on Nov 20, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions

Viewing the article

If I’m not mistaken, now that Newsday has made their online content subscription-only, you’re allowed to view one full article per day without being a subscriber.

by JoshNY on Nov 20, 2009 11:43 AM EST up reply actions

Ah, okay. Makes sense.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 20, 2009 12:09 PM EST up reply actions

But if you have Optimum Online...

…you can still get free access: Newsday is yet another tentacle of Dolanvision.

Oh, the butcher and the baker and the people on the street: wheredotheygo?!?!?

by CharlieH on Nov 20, 2009 3:41 PM EST up reply actions

I try to do as little to support the Dolans as Humanly possible.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 20, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions

Matthews is a halfwit on two counts.

The first being, if he’d bother to read some of our AAOPs—since he obviously doesn’t have the smarts to think anything useful up on his own—it’s not at all difficult to come up with a solid plan within a reasonable budget that won’t involve long-term contracts to players unlikely to earn them. Second, Citi’s a fairly neutral park, though I guess figuring that out would take a few minutes of research.

What a twerp.

by SeanSchirmer on Nov 20, 2009 3:44 PM EST reply actions