Know Your Place Rook

[Boom_70]

Sounds like Lastings Milledge has left a favorable impression on veteran Mets:

Delgado was one Met who insisted yesterday he did not think there was an issue between Lastings Milledge and the elder Mets players.

"I don't think there's any kind of problem," Delgado said.

Friday night, there was a sign hanging over Milledge's locker that read "KNOW YOUR PLACE, ROOK!" and was signed from "your teammates."

 

[Football_Bat]

The rook always starts out in the corner.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

solid work f_b ...

What exactly did Milledge do to be put in his corner?

 

[spnited]

Boom unearths another 3-day old story!
Where's d_b when we need him.

 

[Boom_70]

solid work f_b ...

What exactly did Milledge do to be put in his corner?

Yes - nice work f-b .

Not sure what happened but Willie Randolph actually got involved and took down sign. Rare event when mgr gets involved in clubhouse stuff.

Milledge did not win a lot of fans when he was high fiving fans after that early season HR.

My guess is that he is gone after this season- another of those "great" Met rookies.

 

[Boom_70]

Boom unearths another 3-day old story!
Where's d_b when we need him.

How come you did not post it then dickhead?

Perhaps you did not want to draw attention to another Met failure. Rotation set for Playoffs ?

BTW - How do you like Willie Randolph now? . I know you did not want him as your mgr.

 

[Del_B_Vista]

solid work f_b ...

What exactly did Milledge do to be put in his corner?

Nobody puts babyLastings in the corner!

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Nice, del.
I'm just surprised that Lastings found his way out of the left-field corner of Fenway alive.

 

[ThomsonONE]

The Mets had the chance to trade Milledge and Heilman for Dontrelle Willis, and passed because they view Milledge as untouchable. Now we find out he's a class A immature asshole. Didn't anyone at Norfolk see this? Very rarely does an immature jerk athlete grow up and get his act together. Milledge's trade value just went through the floor, while the Mets lost their #1 starter for most of next year, maybe forever. Shame on Minaya for not dumping him when he could.

 

[Moderator1]

Could Minaya have known?

That they wouldn't get off Milledge is why talks for some combination of Soriano/Hernandez/Vidro fell through.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

One of the reasons the Norfolk Tides switched their affiliation from the Mets to the Orioles beginning next year is because neither Minaya nor his assistants took a trip there at all this year.

 

[markvid]

Wonder if Milledge refused to participate in the tradition of rookies wearing costumes on the team charter once in your rookie season?

 

[Boom_70]

The Mets had the chance to trade Milledge and Heilman for Dontrelle Willis, and passed because they view Milledge as untouchable. Now we find out he's a class A immature asshole. Didn't anyone at Norfolk see this? Very rarely does an immature jerk athlete grow up and get his act together. Milledge's trade value just went through the floor, while the Mets lost their #1 starter for most of next year, maybe forever. Shame on Minaya for not dumping him when he could.

How many times have Met fans seen this scenereo - pump up the rookie as the 2nd coming of Cleon Jones only to find that said rookie has major flaw.

I don't know how Minaya did not know - anyone paying remote attention could see it coming a mile away.

 

[ThomsonONE]

How many times have Met fans seen this scenereo - pump up the rookie as the 2nd coming of Cleon Jones only to find that said rookie has major flaw.

Too many to count, from Mike Vail, Mardie "the Chief" Cornejo and Kelvin Chapman up to Milledge, it's the same old song.

 

[Boom_70]

Billy Beene , Timo Perez , ect ect

 

[Beef03]

So what else has Milledge done besides get high fives from the fans following a home run? I don't exactly follow the Mets so I don't know. To me it sounds like you guys are blowing this out of proportion to some extent, he's still a hell of a young player.

 

[Boom_70]

So what else has Milledge done besides get high fives from the fans following a home run? I don't exactly follow the Mets so I don't know. To me it sounds like you guys are blowing this out of proportion to some extent, he's still a hell of a young player.

We did not put the sign up at his locker - the Met players did so we can only assume he has done a lot to **** them off. Baseball still has a lot of those unwritten rules - one of them being act like you have been there before -

 

[CHETtheJET]

A vet told him to get in line, Milledge responded with a string of profanities shouting the guy down; said message left on locker. Membership application for the alex ochoa/sean peyton/steve henderson/mike vail/club now being processed.

 

[Boom_70]

A vet told him to get in line, Milledge responded with a string of profanities shouting the guy down; said message left on locker. Membership application for the alex ochoa/sean peyton/steve henderson/mike vail/club now being processed.

Assume you mean "jay" Peyton - who has to be Club president.

 

[mpcincal]

A vet told him to get in line, Milledge responded with a string of profanities shouting the guy down; said message left on locker. Membership application for the alex ochoa/sean peyton/steve henderson/mike vail/club now being processed.

Assume you mean "jay" Peyton - who has to be Club president.

Can't let this thread get any farther without mentioning probably the most overhyped rookie of my lifetime -- Gregg Jefferies.