Yeah saucy after I posted that yesterday more information about Sheffield came along
He never really asked for a contact extension but did want to know what the Mets plans for him are for 2010. He was understandably upset and confused after learning that the Giants offer had been turned down leaving him basically in limbo. To be claimed and then not traded and then find out the Mets have no plans for him had to have pissed him off. The Mets felt that the Giants offer was not going to be enough and that it would be better for the Mets if Gary would finish out the season especially with so many guys out. Omar felt that losing Gary would have been tough to do unless the offer was well worth the while which apparently it wasn’t. But at the same time this was not fair to Gary, after all, now he has no team and nowhere to go in 2010. I am guessing something will come along for him next year, which is why he needs to act more professionally. The Mets pretty much fucked him over, but people will be watching, as everyone knows Gary can be very difficult in theses types of situations He has a history or that. So the first thing he can do for himself is not act the primadonna. Yesterday Gary said he had thought it through and decided to be a team player and finish the season with the Mets. But I am not believing that, not coming from hm. Look at what he did yesterday, in three at bats he struck out with the bases loaded, hit into a double play and then struck out again. After the last strike out he acted the child slammed down his bat and got ejected. Way to make a good impression there Gary. The Mets will prolly come out the losers here cutting him and ending up with nothing.
File this under, that was quick, Yesterday Billy Wagner was claimed by what appears to be the Boston Red Sox who claimed him off waivers yesterday.
The Mets can either work out a trade with the Sox, allow Wagner to leave without getting anything in return or pull Wagner off waivers. The Mets have until Tuesday afternoon to work out a trade. If they do not, the Mets would either have to let Wagner be claimed without receiving compensation or pull him off waivers, after which they would be unable to trade him.
I am saying “appears to be” cause I have not heard anything official and in fact Wagner said he hadn't heard anything about the waiver claim.
I support moving Billy; the Guy wants to be a closer, he will not return to the Mets in any other slot. K-Rod ain’t goin anywhere and even if Billy where to settle for the 8th spot (and he would not) JJ is coming back in 2010. So this would be good for Billy and depending on the deal good for the Mets as well.
We will all know in the next three days.
Now on to last night’s game
Pelf showed a lot of aggression last night and has finally developed more movement on his sinker was able to move away from the left handed hitters and pounding them. Once again he was able to skillfully mix his pitches and expand the zone; I especially like watching him move batters off the plate. But he also showed that thing he does when ever there is a runner on base, it makes him uneasy and he gets stressed out. He still seems to have trouble throwing from the stretch which with a man on has to do. I don’t get it he does it every time it drives me nutz.
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Ya hadda love how he pitched out of that sixth inning with the bases juiced Pelf beat Francisco and Rollins.
See kids that’s now it’s done.

I liked the glare he gave to Hamels after getting hit by that pitch, but Cole of course did not do anything intentionally, I mean why would he want to give the opposing pitcher a free pass to first base, it just makes no sense, Mike was 0-2 when he got hit. But I liked Pelfs reaction. Although the home plate umpire did come out to the mound at the start of the next inning to kinda give Pelf a “come on now behave talk” but I still would have enjoyed maybe give Cole a little brush s back when he came up to bat.
So it’s back to back wins for Big Pelf, I am encouraged.
Oh, and by the way Cole, who’s the “choke artists” now and how many times have w beat you now punk.
The bullpen was awesome, fortunately Redding did not pitch. Of course Frankie had to give us some drama,

but how about Pedro Felliciano and Brian Stokes who were just magnificent. Feliciano has become an outstanding setup man, that changeup is Nasty with a capital N.
Another ridicules bad call by an umpire last night, Second base umpire called Franciour out on a stolen base attempt; even though the tag was never made (not even close) he got called out. You could see Jeff’s lips saying “He never touched me” I was glad to see manual go out there and give the ump the business I did not even mind that he got ejected, it was the right thing to do, I was proud of him. Jeff was safe, every fan in the stands saw it, as witnessed by the loud boos, every player saw that, only the ump did not see it. What an idiot.
I want to ad to saucys comment about the post made by Rimmer, first of all thanks for that post, Yup, we are die hard fans, when we are in the position we are in with all of our core players out you have to support the irregulars who are playing their hearts out and trying to win games. Theses guys are hungry and trying to prove themselves. We gotta support that, Even if/when it becomes mathematically impossible for us to win anything there will still be a lot of fun baseball to watch. The reason for that is we become the spoilers; our job will be to fuck with every team in the NL East, making em sweat and making the battle even harder. Especially the Marlins, we have to fuck them up good, they have it coming.
Tonight it’s Redding, who will fill in the spot left by Ivan, against Happ.
I worry that Redding will be no match for those Phillies batters, they will eat him alive. I hope I am wrong and pleasantly surprised, I’m just sayin