beast of the east
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The Mets are extremely generous to my son's little league.
Didn't your son's team sweep them over the weekend?
Meanwhile, the Yankees would love one arm like Harvey, Syndergaard, DeGrom, or Wheeler. Enjoy it while you can.
We have one. His name is Pineda. Other then Harvey, he's equally as good as any of those other guys. What we need is two or three more of them. Hopefully, Evoldi is one (he doesn't get enough swings and misses for my liking). What we need is two or three more of them, but other then the Cardinals, you really have to be bad for the better part of a decade before you can ensure yourself of that. Thankfully, most of the pitching staffs in the AL leave something to be desired.
P.S. Yankees also need a 2B, a SS, an "in-his-prime" slugger (preferably one who can play RF), a 2B, some relief help in back of the big two, and a 2B.
Pineda does have nasty stuff. I like him a lot.
This isn't the Puslipher-Isringhausen-Wilson group. It's actually more talented, but you know how that goes. A couple of injuries and flameouts and you are back to square one. Harvey is the best home grown Mets pitcher since Gooden, and reminds everyone of Seaver.
There is room for 2 good teams in New York. I never much bought into the love the Mets hte the Yankees thing, which was mostly long standing from the time we were 8 or 9.
Beast, that's because you are too young to have been a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. The hated Yankees dominated the Dodgers repeatedly in several frustrating World Series match- ups till 1955. And, we all know what happened after the Bums finally won. This is the crucible that made me a loyal Redman and Mets fan! (let's hope the pendulum is finally headed back in our direction!
Good point. I am pretty certain I'd have been a Dodgers fan, and I guess from about 47 on, the Yanks had an incredible run of pennants and World Series wins until they sputtered out after 64. Good point man, and the psyche of a Met's fan is much more Dodger than NY Giant, even if Mets colors take the orange from the Giants and blue from the Dodgers.