So Jim Rich at the Daily News wasn't able to dig up anything new. Instead, he reprints the old allegation about a bookie confronting LoDuca from the stands at Shea. Rather than obtaining actual evidence supporting this alleged incident, he just repeats it. Then he tells the long tale of some random dude with a gambling problem that got his pinky broken by his bookie. The moral of the story: since someone has a problem with gambling, LoDuca probably does too. And it's easier than to smear someone with guilt by (very, very loose) association than it is to actually prove the charge. What a scumbag.
Mike Lupica, aka "D-bag", also writes a full column saying "I know LoDuca's guilty but can't tell about my 'multiple sources', so you'll just have to trust me. While you wait, I'll wax on about all the trouble LoDuca should be in..."
2) Long term plans
Joel Sherman wrote this (scroll down) intriguing bit about Omar's future plans:
DOWN THE LINE3) More on Carlos Gomez
Omar Minaya's vision is to assemble five highly skilled, prime-aged, everyday players to build around. He believes that will all but assure long-term success for the Mets and make it easier to be judicious and non-pressured to make decisions on the trade and free-agent markets. Minaya said he thinks three pieces already are in place with Carlos Beltran, Jose Reyes and David Wright, all of whom are now signed through, at least, 2010.
Minaya believes the next two pieces very well could be Lastings Milledge and Carlos Gomez to flank Beltran and give the Mets the majors' most athletic outfield. Gomez has gone from overmatched before July 1 at Double-A (.221 BA) to hitting .370 since despite being just 20 years old and jumping from low Single-A ball. Minaya said Gomez "is faster than Reyes."
Kevin Kernan on the budding phenom.
4) John Maine
Continues to show excellent stuff. Had the guts to challenge Soriano and paid the price last night, but that'll happen against one of the league's best. As long as he's willing to get back on the horse. And, as always, the kid displays the right attitude. From Mark Hale at the Post:
Maine, who tossed 25 scoreless as a starter and one scoreless before that as a reliever, has the record for Mets rookie starters - topping Dwight Gooden's mark of 23 in 1984, according to Elias.5) ...And speaking of Soriano:
The latter didn't impress Maine.
"I don't really care about it too much," he said. "I just want to be here to help the team win."
Dave Lennon has some more idle speculation about the Mets chasing him. Randolph blows some smoke about Soriano's defense to butter him up for Omar's offer, I guess.
6) The Mets magic number is 34
1 comment:
On your Kevin Kernan column, Gomez sounds awesome. But I have one question. I noticed this line: "Juan Samuel, manager of the Binghamton Mets..." That's not THE juan samuel, the POS converted outfielder who replaced dykstra is it?
Maine looks awesome. I'm more impressed that he had a no-hitter going into 5th. I think he is clearly doing what Pelfrey has not quite done yet - gaining confidence in his pitches to get outs.
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