Medfordian Slip

If you had a chance to swap out rosters, would you do so? At the beginning of the season I would have said no, because I figure the Mets players would have been hungry to make up for the collapse of 2007. Also, going into the season the Yankees have gotten much younger and are willing to do a bit of rebuilding, which is the opposite of the Mets over the hill gang.

At this point I would be tempted to say yes, let's swap rosters, as much as I despise the Yanks.

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gregjefferies09

No.

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Bay Ridge Dave

The Mets and Yankees are very similar. Both have exciting young players who are not up to par, but old, brittle, and under performing players, which actually hinder the teams.

Both have dolts for managers.

Wildboys

i think the mets have a better base of young players, with the pitching exception, but so far, their young pitching has been suspect this year.

The mets roster may be more competitive once you weed out the aging guys to go after the year. Mets could lose delgado, alou after the year, and still have guys like wright, reyes, church, beltran hitting their prime or in their prime. so there's 4 of 8 starters. On the other side, the yankees could lose abreau, damon, matsui, giambi after the year, and looking at what's left, you have a young cabrera and cano, jeter and arod are probably over the hill of their primes as well. So young position talent, you gotta go with the mets.
Pitching wise, Pedro is probably gone after the year unless he really impresses. you'd have to basically say Maine + Pelfrey + Santana vs. Hughes, wang, Joba, Kennedy. today, its a wash. but in the future, those 4 in the bronx could add up to more than santana and maine, if pelfrey never becomes dominant. then again, hughes, joba, and kennedy may not either.
I would probably do a full roster swap with the Dbacks though.

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freakzilla11

So wait... you're betting that the 4 Yankee pitchers will perform better than 3 Met pitchers? Whowouldathunkit?

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Luscious Johnny D.

Hell no.

FrankStylV7

I'd rather have the Tamp Bay Rays' players.

Say what you want about that organization - they've taken YEARS of crap, went hit or miss on drafts (mostly hit) and made some deft trades. Their best guys might still be in their farm system.

If they keep that nucleus together....

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Bay Ridge Dave

And their timing is as perfect as you can get.

Very nice, exciting young team, with a new stadium on the horizon.

I LOVE their starting rotation, and that is not even factoring in Jeff Neimann and David Price.

graves9

The Yankees if nothing else play hard. It sickens me to praise them, but their veteran players do hustle and do seem to care. I would bet they'll make the playoffs as the Wild Card. The should get on a big run considering who they play the rest of the month(A's, Astros, Padres, Pirates and our Metsies)

nique

No, just cuz they are the Skanks.

But why would you think this team would have been hungry when they weren't after a crushing game seven loss.

Fonzy13

Let's look at it this way. How would the Yankees be playing in the National League right now?

I'd be willing to be they'd be at least 10 games over .500 right now.

I'd take that roster in a second.

There shitty, old players (Giambi), at least look to improve themselves.

I hate this Mets team. Hate it.

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FrankStylV7

ANYBODY who tells me that Jeter HATES losing is an idiot of James Dian proportions....

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Bay Ridge Dave

Speaking of the Yankees...

Jose Guillen made the Yankees his b!tch...at least for this past weekend.

Girardi brings in Rivera in a tie game... Rivera promptly serves up GW HR to who else.. Guillen.

METSSC

skank players. Next question.

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GET THE PIECE OF CRAP McGimpy OFF MY TEAM NOW!!!!!

The McGimpy does most things upside down: eats, sleeps (an average of 23 hours per day), mates, and gives birth. Because of the McGimpy's upside down life, many of the McGimpy's internal organs (liver, stomach, spleen, pancreas) are in different positions from other mammals. McGimpy sometimes lets out a cry or hissing sound.

During the rare times the McGimpy goes down to the ground (such as to change trees for food), it moves very slowly.

Green Must Go

I like very little about this Met team right now. If you combined the best of both teams you might have a team that could make the postseason.

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