Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Mets Caravan

The Mets were front and center on WFAN today, Mike and the Mad Dog had on several Mets guests. I only heard Paul LoDuca and Omar Minaya and here is what I learned:

Paul LoDuca on becoming a Met: "I couldn't be more happier." (I hate double superlatives.)
Paul LoDuca on Duaner Sanchez: "He has big huevos."
Omar Minaya on trading Kris Benson to get rid of Anna: "We made a baseball trade."
Omar Minaya on Mrs. Benson as Mrs. Claus: "My wife wanted a Range Rover, I wanted to get her that dress."




Basically, Omar says they made the two trades to get better in the bullpen and it sure seemed like Benson was a salary/Anna dump. We all know Jorge Julio sucks. He says the Japanese pitcher and maybe Brian Bannister could be ready to jump into the rotation if one of our five (Pedro, Glavine, Trachsel, Zambrano or Heilman) goes down. Bullpen will be Bradford, Schmoll, Sanchez, Julio and Wagner. Kaz Matsui will get another chance at second base but Bret Boone and Anderson Hernandez will be given the chance to compete.
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2 comments:

  1. Mike8:47 AM

    I listened to some of the show yesterday. Mad Dog's interview with Minaya on having so many spanish players was horrible. He did a poor job in discussing the subject.

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  2. Paul2:46 PM

    Totally agree with Mike. Omar backed Mad Dog down, he backpedaled because he didn't want to look like a racist and spent more time apologizing for asking the question than he did asking it.
    He should have said "Omar, you are the only Hispanic GM in baseball, your team has the most Hispanic players in baseball. Why is that?"
    If he said it's just a coincidence ask him why Delgado said he was using his Hispanic roots as a recruitment tool. Did he do that with Pedro, Beltran, Julio Franco, etc.?
    Mad Dog tried too hard to be liked.

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