This Week in Mets Quotes

by Sokojoe on Jul 22, 2011 3:50 PM EDT

Thank-you Bel-Tran

"Thank-you Bel-Tran." Chant from right field stands during the top of the ninth. Beltran raised his glove in acknowledgement.

We all do

"I heard the fans cheering. It was great. Let’s hope I can come back." Beltran via post

Canadian Smack Talk

"Most of the time at the deadline, you never really know what’s going to happen. I think in [Beltran’s] case, everybody has an inclination it’s not a matter of if, but when. You never know, but there are an overwhelming set of factors for him not to stay here." Bay via post

We could’ve been ‘pretty good’ this year

"It’s somewhat disappointing we never got to see the lineup we planned on having, because it was pretty good." Collins via post

So after he’s gone, you stop playing?

"That's our job, to keep playing. The trades and rumors are out of our hands. We all hear about them, but Carlos is here now. If he's gone, we'll play until he's gone." Pagan via post

Dickey with the correct response to the Beltran question

"What's the alternative? To give up? You don't give it a lot of thought. He's a great player, and I surely don't want to face him." Dickey via post

Oh #HatsOffPHI

"I like big, tall, lanky guys." Charlie Manuel via sports.yahoo.com

Bay has been missing ‘it’ for two years now

"I missed it. It’s one of those things where I missed it." Bay via sports.yahoo.com

We’ve been seeing variations of this quote for 3 years now

"Any team in this league that loses guys like that are going to have a tough time getting offense generated. But we still have to plug away and put the ball in play and spread the ball around and run the bases a little bit better and be aggressive on the bases, and we just didn’t do that." Collins via sports.yahoo.com

Veteran closer move by Izzy

"I thank Bobby for getting through Albert for me." Izzy regarding Parnell getting Pujols out the inning before his first save via sports.yahoo.com

The baseball gods work in mysterious ways

"I knew it was going to happen this way. The baseball gods, that’s how they do it." Izzy regarding getting his first save for his former team against his former team via sports.yahoo.com

Get Pagan’s kids season tickets

"I can’t hit a ball any harder than that. You want to be a role model for your kids. It’s great for them to see something like this." Pagan via sports.yahoo.com

I shant believe Beltran is a mere mortal akin to myself

"He’s a human being." Collins on Beltran via sports.yahoo.com

SiteBot FacePalm of the Week

"Can anyone explain to me the deep, deep love for Beltran on this site? The guy’s a good player and all, but he’s had three good years and three bad years for us (plus this year). It’s not like he’s been some insane world beater for his tenure as a Met." Afrosupreme

AA Quote of the Week

"Yeah, you're completely off. He has had three Hall of Fame caliber seasons, one great season cut short by injury (2009), one mediocre season, and one bad half-season affected by injury, and he is currently enjoying another great season. He was the premier player at his position through most of his time with the team, and is one of the top three or four everyday players in the history of the franchise. So excuse us for liking the guy." dcmetsfan

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Just regarding Beltran's excellence for a moment

He currently has 60 WAR. He’ll probably finish the season with like 61 or 62 WAR for his career. He’s still only 34, and has shown he can still hit as well as ever. So I think it’s safe to assume he’ll get to 70 WAR. The list of eligible players with 70 WAR+ not in the Hall of Fame: Bill Dahlen, Pete Rose and Jeff Bagwell.

by Evan_S on Jul 22, 2011 4:11 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs

It's going to be an interesting HoF case for sure

My hope is that the Mjolnir-bat playoff highlight reel will help even the most dunderheaded voters to get the point, but I have a gut feeling he may not make it in on the first ballot. It’s obviously way too soon to worry about this, but a little fun to speculate anyhow.

by anonymous on Jul 22, 2011 4:21 PM EDT up reply actions

if he wins a championship in his last year

like dave winfield, he’ll get in. beltran has some more quality years left to add to his career totals. now that his knee is fine, who knows how many more years he has. by the way, rec’d.

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he's gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OLLIE PEREZ IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by rexthejet on Jul 22, 2011 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Not first ballot

But i could definitely see something like Bert Blylevan (A steadily growing tide of support that eventually sweeps him into the Hall, hopefully before his final year)

"I reject your reality and substitute my own"
-Adam Savage

by blueandorange4life on Jul 22, 2011 5:20 PM EDT up reply actions

HoF

would he go in as a Met? I wa never sure how the hall decided what team the player goes in as or the player picks. Same thing with Piazza too, will he go in as a Met?

by NYMetsJets44 on Jul 23, 2011 3:32 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Met for sure.

he played his best baseball here for 7 years.

The only other team he could go in as would be the Royals…I dont see it.

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Really good kid.A very good player.Not a superstar. #BlameWilponz. Never Forget

by ScottfromPeekskill on Jul 23, 2011 12:00 PM EDT up reply actions

I could see him ending up with a blank cap

Suppose he has 3-4 good years left and spends them in some non-Met/non-Royal uniform, including at least one playoff run. At that point, the Hall might well decide not to put a team on his plaque. I think this is going to be more and more common in the future, as more of the greatest players end up having split their prime years among two, three, or four teams.

by anonymous on Jul 23, 2011 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

I used to like Izzy

Until I found out he was a pagan. Baseball Gods?!? I'll have to confer with my paster on this one, but I may have to become a yankee fan, to avoid eternal damnation. It was hard enough doing pennence for reading those Harry Potter books

by MatthewM11 on Jul 22, 2011 6:12 PM EDT reply actions

The baseball gods are

R.A. Dickey, and Bianca Cruz.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jul 23, 2011 12:28 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

The baseball gods are

R.A. Dickey, and Bianca Cruz.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

AA Gamethread Embiggening Record Holder- 453 posts (10/03/10)
3rd Place- 2011 AAOP Contest

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jul 23, 2011 12:28 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Keith

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

AA Gamethread Embiggening Record Holder- 453 posts (10/03/10)
3rd Place- 2011 AAOP Contest

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jul 23, 2011 12:29 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Bianca Cruz is a Godess

"Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat." -Bob Uecker
"Who is the girl in the dugout, with the long hair? What's going on here? You have got to be kidding me. Only player personnel in the dugout. I won't say that women belong in the kitchen, but they don't belong in the dugout." -Kieth Hernandez

by metman726 on Jul 23, 2011 1:14 AM EDT up reply actions

Keith

RA Dickey is offended, everyone knows that Bianca Cruz is simply a prophet (prophetess?) for his holiness

by MatthewM11 on Jul 23, 2011 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

She is the Goddess of BABIP

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

AA Gamethread Embiggening Record Holder- 453 posts (10/03/10)
3rd Place- 2011 AAOP Contest

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Jul 24, 2011 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions

This just in, Charlie Manuel becomes first openly gay manager in baseball

“I like big, tall, lanky guys.” Charlie Manuel

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Really good kid.A very good player.Not a superstar. #BlameWilponz. Never Forget

by ScottfromPeekskill on Jul 23, 2011 11:59 AM EDT reply actions

I'm just catching up on things

And man, that Beltran thread made me really sad. And kind of sorry Beltran ever left the congenial midwest, because if he’d never gone to New York his career would never have been tortured this way.

But anyway, I wanted to say, no, I do not believe the love for him here is some contrarian ego exercise in appreciating what the hoi polloi cannot. I’m not a stats maven, at all, but when I am an old woman, I think one of my fondest baseball memories will be having been able to watch Beltran play every day. To remember him primarily for that one at-bat, rather than how he’s played all these hundreds and hundreds of games – damn, do these people just follow along on gameday? Carlos Beltran has played some of the most beautiful baseball of his generation. His gracefulness in his prime is almost a cliche at this point, but to watch him in the field, to watch him work when he’s at the plate, his baserunning – it was to see what baseball is at its peak. His numbers reflect the great player he’s been, but watching him actually be that player, watching how he built those numbers — that’s why I love him. The people who missed all that because he missed that curveball — well, they’ve missed a lot.

by SuperT on Jul 25, 2011 3:47 PM EDT reply actions 9 recs