Wiphan
 

Congrats...26 loooooong years

congrats wiphan!
were you even walking last time the brewers made the playoffs?:p

Two very PAINFUL years here. :(

I guess it's partially mitigated for me this year knowing that the gruesome bullpen we were working with had no shot of winning the World Series.

Look at the bright side, Minaya (who should have been fired first thing this morning) will end up signing K-Rod for astronomical dollars.

Krod will be a Met next year? That may not be a great thing. They should trade Reyes and some fillers to the Reds for Cordero and Brandon Phillips. Sign Texiera, let Delgado go, Let Fernando martinez have a shot at left or sign a stopgap one year vet to keep the seat warm. Get a good defensive SS like McDonald from Toronto and find some solid bullpen arms. I know this may be impossible but they need to do something.

Not A-(K)Rod
Frankie (k) Rodriguez The other K Rod

Or maybe sign CC and let him play 1st the days he doesnt pitch.

Or call LA and see if they are dumb enough to trade kemp or ethier (they probably are)

Exactly, just end the pain now. That bullpen made it embarassing to be out cheering for the team. And the rotation wouldn't have been setup to be able to ride Johan through the playoffs which was their only chance. I'm just glad we didn't foolishly trade away Niese or Fernando Martinez to get some journeymen that might have got us to the playoffs where there was no way they would have won them.

Or simply acquire Velez from the Giants and let him play 2nd and pitch middle relief (scuds says he has a hell of an arm too)

Sorry Luis Castillo will be occupying that spot for 3 more years. :eek:

Unfortunately true. I wonder if there is any big contract OF that still has some value but is vastly overpaid. They might be able to dump Castillo on someone by taking on a big contract like that. Perhaps Eric Byrnes getting $11 million in each of 2009 and 2010. Maybe Jose Guillen getting $12 million each of the next two years.

For the greatness of Velez the Mets should just eat his contract. just ask Scuds...

They may be better off with Castillo...

Impossible. Unfortunately those guys are what it would take to be able to dump Castillo. And they at least seem a slight improvement over flushing $18 million down the toilet.

everyone goes crazy when a guy like Arod or Texiera asks for huge money but the contracts that really kill teams are the ones like castillo or Juan Pierre or the guys Sniper listed. At least the other guys produce. Obviously the jones deal in LA hasnt worked out so well but the key was it was only a 2 year deal and they only have to deal with him one more year.

Guillen is terrible and Byrnes had one fluky season and has been hurt. At least Castillo can bunt. Not to mention there is zero chance KC takes a contract on and AZ has no needs at 2nd, especially an expensive, bad one.

The worst part of the Castillo deal was that it seemed that there was really no market for him. Minaya was bidding against himself and gave him 4 years to boot.
I also heard this morning that whatever money that is coming off the books (Alou, Hernandez, Perez) will go right back on it with raises for Wright,Reyes and Santana.

OK. I just saw this thread today. It has been an insane weekend! YES the Brewers made it finally. I actually lived in Philly the last time the crew was in the playoffs and I was at the 1983 World Series Phillies vs. Baltimore and had to watch my grandfather gloat as the Orioles won the World Series. I moved to WI in 1989 and have been a fan of the crew ever since. I watched Nolan Ryan win his 300th career game at the old county stadium and have had great memories and a lot of dissapointments being a brewer fan. Today is a great day in WI and hopefully somebody besides CC will show up to pitch in the playoffs.

The other part of my weekend was insane. My wife (shelly) won this contest thru the AQHA (american quarter horse association) and they sent two World Champion trainers to our farm to train her horse for 2 days and take her to an AQHA show. They filmed all of this for a TV show (on RFD TV, mostly on Satelitte). She also won one of her classes so it started Sunday out right and then I got home to watch the Crew win the game and waited in anticipation for the collapse of the METS! It was Awesome. Can't think of a better weekend! I don't even care that the packers lost.

GO CREW!

The scary thing about the Mets is that the thing they need the most, bullpen help, is the hardest thing to find.