From: gajarsky@pilot.njin.net (Bob Gajarsky - Hobokenite)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Jason Abner Miller and the Mets - a Nude Revue!
Date: 23 Dec 92 03:08:31 GMT
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Organization: Somewhere in Hoboken

ez027993@dale.ucdavis.edu (Gary L. Huckabay) writes:

>Jason "I sentence you to watch Jean-Claude Van Damme Films" Abner Miller inks:

>>	When Jeff Torborg arrived from Chicago late one night in 1991, 
>>the popular sentiment was that the Mets were going to run away with

>What?!?!  Popular sentiment here was that the Mets wouldn't score any runs,

well, gary, i admit it.  i picked the mets second, and the expos third.
 but the popular sentiment, from my viewpoint (hoboken and fair lawn, nj)
 is that the new york papers, on the whole, generally picked the mets to
 blow everyone out of the water.  so that might bne the "popular 
 sentiment".

>>work; the media rode Bonilla mercilessly.

yeah - this really irked me.  i mean, after the first couple weeks, 
 everyone was bitching and moaning cuz bonilla wasn't hitting 300 with
 a ton of homers.  then, when he DID start to hit, and his overall average
 and homers was relatively comparable to past stats, you know what the
 new york media started doing????  they started breaking it down into
 home and away stats, as if hitting at home mattered more than hitting
 on the road.  mike and the mad dog, who usually make moronic statements
 like all other radio types, hit this one right on the head BEFORE it
 happened.  namely, that the mets "shouldn't sign bonilla because he is
 NOT a franchise player (a la barry bonds), and met fans shouldn't
 expect him to hit 30 home runs simply because he signed a large contract".

>Anyone who thought the 1992 Mets were going to contend was deluding
>themselves.
well, gar, i kinda thought they had a chance.  but then again, i thought
 bret would be healthy, and dwight would be average.  if so, dwight's
 not a bad 4th starter...and i thought with the weakness of their division,
 83-85 wins wasn't unreasonable.  within 5-6 games, to me, is contending...

oh, and about coleman?  most mets fans now want to either release him,
 and eat his contract, or claim that once vince and everyone else
 is healthy, the mets will win.

>>2B:  Kent - unproven
>Best non-HoJo infielder they have.  Leave him alone.  He'll be OK.
what huck said.  he'll hit 260, with 15 homers, and power to increase.
 if the ny media leaves him alone, which i *think* they will.

>>LF:  Coleman (yuck!)
>Capital Y.
you know, i don't like coleman, but since coming to new york, he's at
 least learned to take a walk sometimes.  on base average of 350 during
 his two years (combined) in new york.  not good, but not like his 315 years
 in st. louis.

>>CF:  Thompson (yuck!)
>Don't really know anything about him.  Some help, please?
huck -let's put it this way.  he's born in 1967.  first year of minor
 league ball was 1987.  first year at AAA was LAST year.  he had slugging
 averages that were below 350 almost universlaly throughout the minors and
 he didn't play in overwhleming pitcherins parks.  on base that were
 below 300.  before last year.  then, he had a year that if he were 22, 
 would show that he could be a solid contributor; 282/351/459 at
 syracuse.  he still has a god-awful strikeout to walk ratio.  
 toronto writers bamboozled the mets press into thinking that he
 "has all 5 major tools - hitting for average, power, speed, arm"
 and the other thing branch rickey mentioned.  

>>SP:  Fernandez, Gooden, Saberdude, Schourek, *gasp* Frank "I Suck Mightily"
>>     Tanana
>Looks slightly better than average.
frank tanana will win 13 games this year, and have an era below 4. 
 i think i'm crazy for saying this.  ah well.

>I hate the Mets.
>And Giants.  It's gonna be a great year.

gary, i used to root for the giants.  they suck.  go marlins!

- bob gaj