Cubs @ Atlanta 4/19/07 7:35 EDT TBS

[Lord Commander]

Gonzalez not pitching could be big if the game is close but if our three starters pitch the way they have since the beginning of the season I can't see how Gonzalez will be missed.

So you think that your starting rotation for this series will make the bullpen unnecessary - three complete game shutouts? Even though the Met offense isn't clicking on all cylinders, it still leads the majors in most offensive categories. Thats great considering that Wright and Delgado haven't even hit their strides yet and are just starting to wake up. Reyes continues to be hot, Beltran is on fire, Alou is hot - hell, even our 7th and 8th place hitters are heating up. Your pitchers are going to have to be on their "A" games - no room for error. I think we're going to put everything together in this series. It should be verrrrry entertaining for an April series.

[Mardy2Curry]

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So you think that your starting rotation for this series will make the bullpen unnecessary - three complete game shutouts? Even though the Met offense isn't clicking on all cylinders, it still leads the majors in most offensive categories. Thats great considering that Wright and Delgado haven't even hit their strides yet and are just starting to wake up. Reyes continues to be hot, Beltran is on fire, Alou is hot - hell, even our 7th and 8th place hitters are heating up. Your pitchers are going to have to be on their "A" games - no room for error. I think we're going to put everything together in this series. It should be verrrrry entertaining for an April series.

Never said that, what I do think is that our starters will keep us in the game. I have the utmost confidence in Soriano and Wickman and trust that our starters will last 7. If one does not it will probably be James, but I think Hudson and Smoltz are experienced enought hat they can go 7 with limited damage.

[Mardy2Curry]

Good thing for us is that Johnson is starting to heat and this would be the perfect series for Andruw to wakeup as he has not hit his stride just yet. Everyone else is pretty much in stride with the exception of Renteria also. But your right it will be an interesting April series, when it comes to this division all the series within will count. I jsut hate when people out there put the Mets on such a high pedestal just cuz they won the division last season, like we haven't done anything in the last 15 years. One subpar season and all of the sudden we're trash. If your a true baseball fan and look at numbers you know that if we would have had Wickman at the start of the season this division would have come down to the last week. Blowing 29 saves really hurt us early in the season.

[Lord Commander]

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Never said that, what I do think is that our starters will keep us in the game. I have the utmost confidence in Soriano and Wickman and trust that our starters will last 7. If one does not it will probably be James, but I think Hudson and Smoltz are experienced enought hat they can go 7 with limited damage.

Care to quantify? How many runs do you see Hudson, James and Smoltz each giving up?

[Mardy2Curry]

I can see them allowing anywhere from 2-5 runs, which won't be alot for us to score either seeing as we're not facing a real #1. But I could be mistaken, but I like our chances. Smoltz and Hudson need to pitch in warm weather to get good grips on their splits and sliders respectively. Again, it will be a very good series that could go either way.

[Lord Commander]

I can see them allowing anywhere from 2-5 runs, which won't be alot for us to score either seeing as we're not facing a real #1. But I could be mistaken, but I like our chances. Smoltz and Hudson need to pitch in warm weather to get good grips on their splits and sliders respectively. Again, it will be a very good series that could go either way.

Well, we shall see. All I know is your team is averaging only 4.5 runs per game and is going up against the top pitching staff in the majors (.240 team ERA/.198 BAA). In addition, you've played 10 of your first 15 games at home and Hudson's ERA won't be .087 the rest of the year. As they say, something's gotta give.

[lpsevier]

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Well, we shall see. All I know is your team is averaging only 4.5 runs per game and is going up against the top pitching staff in the majors (.240 team ERA/.198 BAA). In addition, you've played 10 of your first 15 games at home and Hudson's ERA won't be .087 the rest of the year. As they say, something's gotta give.

I would say its more likely that your pitching staff starts to give up a ton more runs and we start scoring more than the opposite.

[Lord Commander]

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I would say its more likely that your pitching staff starts to give up a ton more runs and we start scoring more than the opposite.

Love your objectivity.....

[Mardy2Curry]

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Well, we shall see. All I know is your team is averaging only 4.5 runs per game and is going up against the top pitching staff in the majors (.240 team ERA/.198 BAA). In addition, you've played 10 of your first 15 games at home and Hudson's ERA won't be .087 the rest of the year. As they say, something's gotta give.

We have played 10 games at home but are playing better on the road (4-1) than home (6-4). But again we shall see.

[lpsevier]

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Love your objectivity.....

Don't get upset, your staff just isn't that good, and certainly isn't built to be solid for 162 games.

[Lord Commander]

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Don't get upset, your staff just isn't that good, and certainly isn't built to be solid for 162 games.

Eh, that's what they said last year....

[Mardy2Curry]

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So you think that your starting rotation for this series will make the bullpen unnecessary - three complete game shutouts? Even though the Met offense isn't clicking on all cylinders, it still leads the majors in most offensive categories. Thats great considering that Wright and Delgado haven't even hit their strides yet and are just starting to wake up. Reyes continues to be hot, Beltran is on fire, Alou is hot - hell, even our 7th and 8th place hitters are heating up. Your pitchers are going to have to be on their "A" games - no room for error. I think we're going to put everything together in this series. It should be verrrrry entertaining for an April series.

Had Hudson stayed in their tonight could have been a shutout... Funniest things happen I didn't expect that perfromance from him atleast shutout wise for 8 innings.

[lpsevier]

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Don't get upset, your staff just isn't that good, and certainly isn't built to be solid for 162 games.

What did I say?