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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Murphy's Law: The trials and tribulations of Daniel Murphy

If there is one person who can represent how this season has gone for the Mets it has been Daniel Murphy. He started the season in left but has been playing first base since around midseason. However, we tend to forget that he's been one of the players that we've been relying on to contribute due to all the injuries that have occurred throughout this season. We also fail to realize that he is in his first full year in the major leagues.

Last year in his 2 month stint in the major leagues Murphy had a batting average of .313, a slugging percentage of .473, and an on base percentage of .397. This season up to this point he has had an average of .262, a slugging percentage of .412 and an on base percentage of .311. Now this is a pretty big drop in just one season. But people don't seem to realize that he's only in his first full year in the major leagues. Something like this is to be expected but not necessarily to this extent. Murphy also now leads the team with 11 home runs this at this point in the season. If that doesn't say lost season then I don't know what does.

Why are we so quick to judge on someone who deserves his time to grow? I certainly believe that he can contribute to this team when we are back at full strength. Now just recently on WFAN Mike Francessa has said that he can see him going along the path of a Don Mattingly or a Mark Grace. I actually agree with this. From what I've been told Murphy has a very similar player to Mattingly early on in his career at the plate. A hitter who mostly hits the ball the opposite way. But Francesca also said that he can see him become the next Matt Franco. For those who don't recall Matt Franco, he was a bench player who did nothing flashy his entire career. Unfortunately I can see this coming true also.

Only time will tell what the future holds for Murphy. I hope that he is successful in his tenure for this team, and that he will contribute for us for a long time to come.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Wilpons: The enemy you know, better than the unknown

A lot of people in the Global Facebook Group (including myself) have been clammering for the Wilpons to sell the team for years. And those people may soon get their wish. According to a person who works for Fox Business (not the most reliable source), the Wilpons may be forced to sell the team as early as next year due to the money lost in the Bernie Madoff ponzi scheme.

Now if indeed that happens there will be people jumping up and down for days to come. While listening to WFAN on my way home from an appointment, I heard Evan Roberts bring up an excellent point. We don't know what the new ownership will be like. They might treat the team as if it is strictly a business operation and forget that there is a product on the field as well. If this is true, the person I would want to run the team would be Mark Cuban, because he does know how to successfully operate a sports franchise on both ends.

We can all speculate if this is true but we all must be careful what we wish for because it might just come true, but not in the way people may have hoped. For all we know they may want to cut payroll, thus getting rid of big payroll people such as Beltran Ollie, Santana, and K-Rod. Possibly even Wright, and Reyes.

People do forget that when the Wilpons first bought the team that it wasn't just them. There was another owner, Nelson Doubleday who also bought controlling interest in 1980. The two of them owned it together up until 2002 when Doubleday was bought out. So this team has won a championship under their ownership.

If indeed this happens fans certainly won't be happy. It might even make the Wilpons look like the Steinbrenners. So all I ask is that if there is a new ownership do some reasearch before hand.

Friday, August 31, 2007

Joe Benigno Calls out the Mets on WFAN

Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts filled in for Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN today, and Joe Benigno is not happy with the Mets, check out his opening monologue from today's show (8/31). listen to the entire clip, as it only gets better as it goes on.

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