Recently Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reported what many of us already knew, that Orlando Hudson dreamed of playing with our beloved New York Mets. Here is an excerpt from Rosenthal’s blog:
O Dog
O-Dog living the dream
Second baseman Orlando Hudson said it during the offseason and again over the weekend: He wanted to be a Met.
Well, not anymore.
Hudson says his first choice now is to remain with the Dodgers, though he certainly would consider the Mets and other clubs if he again becomes a free agent.
“It wasn’t in God’s plan for me to be in New York,” Hudson says. “They’ve got a great second baseman. I like (Luis) Castillo a lot. He’s gotten MVP votes. He has been an All-Star, won Gold Gloves.
“I grew up a big Mets fan. We tried, but things didn’t work out. New York, it’s a big stage. But L.A. is the same way — big market, big stage. The fans enjoy the game. There is a lot of passion inside the stands. It’s fun. I want to stay in this Dodger blue.”
Hudson’s knowledge of baseball is astonishing; Castillo indeed received MVP votes once, finishing 21st in the NL vote in 2003. Hudson also says that his new manager, Joe Torre, “easily” could have been a Hall of Fame player, something few players would grasp. The O- Dog even states the obvious with great conviction, saying that as an African-American, he is honored to play second base for Jackie Robinson’s team.
Hudson also has kind words for Bob Melvin, his former manager who was dismissed by the Diamondbacks last month.
“To me, Bo Mel is a young version of Mr. Torre, a manager you dream of playing for,” he says.
A Dog
79 comments
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:09pm at 6:09 pm (UTC -4)
you can take that headline more than one way lol
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:25pm at 6:25 pm (UTC -4)
What ever do you mean?
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:26pm at 6:26 pm (UTC -4)
OK good, I just made this post as a test because in the last thread we lost the ability to reply, wanted to make sure it was still working.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:28pm at 6:28 pm (UTC -4)
ok .. btw jeff thanks for the help in getting my account going – did u like my question for matt c?
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:29pm at 6:29 pm (UTC -4)
My pleasure. I must say your question was quite provocative. I will be interested to see if it makes it into the Q & A session.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:33pm at 6:33 pm (UTC -4)
well i was irate when the entire thread was pulled – there was nothing obscene or distasteful about it imho but i hope it makes it – i just hope matt gives straight answers
gland
6/2/2009-6:34pm at 6:34 pm (UTC -4)
ooh, what did you ask Rusty?
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:40pm at 6:40 pm (UTC -4)
i dont want to go into specifics but i asked why a particular thread on a post was deleted even though the content was’nt obscene – it was mets related and it dissapered the next day
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:38pm at 6:38 pm (UTC -4)
as per mlbtr
As David Murphy of the Philadelphia Daily News points out, the Phillies already have $94.5MM committed to next year’s roster, so adding Jake Peavy would require good accounting or, perhaps more available money.
this might be good news for us
trs86
6/2/2009-6:39pm at 6:39 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, I don’t think they have the cash or prospects really or the desire to give both.
gland
6/2/2009-6:43pm at 6:43 pm (UTC -4)
Thanks Rusty…I didn’t mean to put you on the spot!
I read a few comments there the other day and there was one by someone whose name I didn’t recognized. It was a bit critical in pointing out spelling errors and calling for some proof reading. It was gone within the hour.
trs86
6/2/2009-6:44pm at 6:44 pm (UTC -4)
And now the poor kid will have to play America’s favorite game show again to get back on.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:46pm at 6:46 pm (UTC -4)
i thought you werent bitter trs lol
damn its so liberating being here!! ass – yayyy i said it lol
trs86
6/2/2009-6:48pm at 6:48 pm (UTC -4)
Not bitter, I actually feel sorry for those guys who have not found our site. It’s clear that commenting is not something that Matt feels is needed on his site and because of that we have 8,000 comments in 2 weeks.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:49pm at 6:49 pm (UTC -4)
yeah i know – big smile on my face when i saw we went over 100 comments the first time – i also like the fact that we still respond and post on the site – something that matt and the guys rarely did
metsfan4decades
6/2/2009-6:58pm at 6:58 pm (UTC -4)
wow – 8,000 in 2 weeks? Now that’s something to be proud of. Great job by all!
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:04pm at 7:04 pm (UTC -4)
greetings first lady of real dirty mets blog
trs86
6/2/2009-6:38pm at 6:38 pm (UTC -4)
Damn, leave for 5 minutes and……
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:40pm at 6:40 pm (UTC -4)
“What?” he asked innocently
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:40pm at 6:40 pm (UTC -4)
lol what happened trs?
trs86
6/2/2009-6:42pm at 6:42 pm (UTC -4)
Laughing at the last thread that got Gestapoed before I could get back home.
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:46pm at 6:46 pm (UTC -4)
Yes, as it turns out some of the html code for certain smiley faces is obscene, so there was some deleting done. Someone did it really fast too, I posted in the thread “I’m going to have to delete that” and then went straight to do it, but it had already been done in the interval.
trs86
6/2/2009-6:47pm at 6:47 pm (UTC -4)
Must have been the Mrose Gestapo. LOL.
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:49pm at 6:49 pm (UTC -4)
Kudos to him, Orwell would’ve been proud at that moment.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:50pm at 6:50 pm (UTC -4)
1984? oh jeez big brother (jeff wilpon) is watching us
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:46pm at 6:46 pm (UTC -4)
on mattsblog?
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:48pm at 6:48 pm (UTC -4)
ahh i see – damn i wish i knew some of them lol
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:48pm at 6:48 pm (UTC -4)
hey heb i got your email has there been any others sent?
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:49pm at 6:49 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t think so, I haven’t got anything since that exchange with you. In my limited experience their seems to be a flurry in the morning.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:51pm at 6:51 pm (UTC -4)
ok no prob – hopefully i get a responce from my possible interview
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:47pm at 6:47 pm (UTC -4)
hey guys are we gonna have any real dirty staff get togethers??? like to meet ya’s in person
trs86
6/2/2009-6:49pm at 6:49 pm (UTC -4)
LOL, tough for me. I am in NC.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:51pm at 6:51 pm (UTC -4)
theres always greyhound lol – u meet the most interesting people on those busses lol
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-6:55pm at 6:55 pm (UTC -4)
apparently in NY you can meet felons on the bus, too
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:58pm at 6:58 pm (UTC -4)
lol case i work at a methodone clinic – i see felons every 2 minutes lol
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-7:01pm at 7:01 pm (UTC -4)
work, is that what they call it now.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:04pm at 7:04 pm (UTC -4)
lol yeah i be takin care of buisness – lol my nite im a musician so its the double whammy lol
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-6:52pm at 6:52 pm (UTC -4)
meet up @ Spring Training
We can cover the Mets Spring Training next year
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:05pm at 7:05 pm (UTC -4)
thats a novel idea – do we sabotage matt?? lol j/k
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:05pm at 7:05 pm (UTC -4)
That may seriously be one of the best travel ideas not involving Las Vegas that I have ever heard.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-6:54pm at 6:54 pm (UTC -4)
Damn that would be cool! I think that you, me, and Mrose are in the area…I think TRS is in VA and Dirty is in FLA….not sure where Case and Grave are though….I think Prismo is up by me in the Albany area, and QnsNative, well, I have no idea where he lives….
Still think we should show up at a Metsblog gathering and smile and be polite as hell and hand out handbills promoting this site!
Just sent you an email Rusty….
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-6:56pm at 6:56 pm (UTC -4)
Oops, NC for TRS…I lived in Charlotte as a kid in the 70s….
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:58pm at 6:58 pm (UTC -4)
I’m between Albany and The City, closer to The City.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:03pm at 7:03 pm (UTC -4)
I am in Saratoga!
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-7:06pm at 7:06 pm (UTC -4)
I saw ASIA at SPAC in 1983! A juggler opened for them, I kid you not.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:09pm at 7:09 pm (UTC -4)
was it the heat of the moment lol
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:11pm at 7:11 pm (UTC -4)
I saw the Grateful Dead there when I was in college about 1985….must have been 40,000+, but I cannot remember any jugglers. or much of anything else, now that I think about it.
But SPAC is still incredibly beautiful. They have everything from ballet to rap to Phish to a great Jazz Festival.
stickguy
6/2/2009-7:06pm at 7:06 pm (UTC -4)
I’ll be in ‘Toga in August. BLog day at the track!
was just in Amsterdam and Schenectady this past weekend.
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-6:58pm at 6:58 pm (UTC -4)
I’m in Flushing, I stop by Citi every morning to do my morning prayers to the baseball gods
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:00pm at 7:00 pm (UTC -4)
staten island by way of brooklyn here – i grew up in lee mazzilli’s old stomping grounds of sheepshead bay – my wife went to h.s with gil’s daughter
fongy2
6/2/2009-7:09pm at 7:09 pm (UTC -4)
Rusty,
I think I can one up your LeeMaz
connection.My late wife was
Maz’s
longtime
hairdresser.Through that
connection I still have 2 autographed game
balls including one from that glory filled 1986 season.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:10pm at 7:10 pm (UTC -4)
wow i remember lees mom at the her hairdressing job – all the girls hung there cuz they felt maz would show lol
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:04pm at 7:04 pm (UTC -4)
Ah, cool! Please throw an extra prayer for my man JJ if you can….
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-7:06pm at 7:06 pm (UTC -4)
I’m not a miracle worker kingman
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:13pm at 7:13 pm (UTC -4)
HAHA!
And I know you are not a miracle worker, otherwise Tex would be playing first in Pittsburgh tonight!
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-6:48pm at 6:48 pm (UTC -4)
hey, it’a Johan Santana Day!
rustyjr
6/2/2009-6:52pm at 6:52 pm (UTC -4)
every fith day should be renamed johan santana day !!!
trs86
6/2/2009-6:52pm at 6:52 pm (UTC -4)
It may just be my computer setting but has anyone noticed today that comments after about the 6th level are getting very skinny? It did not used to be that way.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-6:55pm at 6:55 pm (UTC -4)
They have always done that for me, at work and at home, and on Explorer and Firefox….not sure after exactly how many, but it does happen….and it is NO biggie for me, as being able to reply and keep conversations going is so cool.
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-6:57pm at 6:57 pm (UTC -4)
If I narrow my browser window it gets rather tight, but if I open it most or all of the width of my screen, it’s no problem.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-6:59pm at 6:59 pm (UTC -4)
TRS–Just sent you an email about a site issue which you may or may not be aware of and may or may not be of importance; emailed Dirty earlier….
stickguy
6/2/2009-6:57pm at 6:57 pm (UTC -4)
the comments once you get down a few levels have always been very skinny (like 2-3 characters wide) for me on this site. Also was like that at the other place when the comments were nesting in that one format. Very hard to read, especially when it runs into the colored side banners.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:00pm at 7:00 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, same for me.
But again, the many great things here outweigh it for sure.
metsfan4decades
6/2/2009-7:02pm at 7:02 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t have this problem at all. Even if it’s nested comments several replies long, it just keeps indenting a couple of characters but nothing drastic for me.
I’m using Firefox – BTW.
I had that problem on the other blog all the time, but only if I used I.E. I haven’t really used I.E. at all yet on this one as I like Firefox better.
trs86
6/2/2009-7:11pm at 7:11 pm (UTC -4)
I am on Firefox too but an old computer. Maybe it needs updating.
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-7:00pm at 7:00 pm (UTC -4)
everybody wants to be a Met, it’s the cool thing to do.
BTW, is it wrong that I root for the Dodgers? And no, I’m not a Wilpon.
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-7:02pm at 7:02 pm (UTC -4)
Zach Duke, cool, I haven’t seen this guy yet.
Hope the replacement’s replacement players get to him early.
GravediggerHebner
6/2/2009-7:04pm at 7:04 pm (UTC -4)
Keanu Reeves is in the lineup?
metsfan4decades
6/2/2009-7:05pm at 7:05 pm (UTC -4)
Oh yeah? Now THAT would be worth the price of admission.
O.K. – sorry……lol.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:06pm at 7:06 pm (UTC -4)
LOL!!!!!!
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:03pm at 7:03 pm (UTC -4)
ok guys gametime for me- cyas later
and remember hows this for t-shirt motto ” THE REAL DIRTY METSBLOG …. WHERE METS FANS CAN BE METS FANS AND PHILLIES FANS TREMBLE”
you guys like?
CaseStreet
6/2/2009-7:07pm at 7:07 pm (UTC -4)
†THE REAL DIRTY METSBLOG …. WHERE METS FANS CAN BE METS FANS AND ALL OTHER FANS TREMBLEâ€
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:10pm at 7:10 pm (UTC -4)
even better
fongy2
6/2/2009-7:12pm at 7:12 pm (UTC -4)
The Real Dirty Mets
Blog,where men are men
and sheep are scared!
stickguy
6/2/2009-7:09pm at 7:09 pm (UTC -4)
Nice and tasteful. Maybe you can get Dykstra to endorse it. He swung both ways (get it?), and probably needs some money right about now! $20/year sounds about right.
rustyjr
6/2/2009-7:10pm at 7:10 pm (UTC -4)
i got 25 cents!!
fongy2
6/2/2009-7:14pm at 7:14 pm (UTC -4)
I’m in for a dime.Sorry,times are tough right now.
Kingman 26
6/2/2009-7:15pm at 7:15 pm (UTC -4)
To paraphrase Elaine Benes:
“The Real Dirty Mets Blog–Where Mets Fans Wish Each Other Well, and Other Fans Can Go To Hell!!”
fongy2
6/2/2009-7:19pm at 7:19 pm (UTC -4)
Some call it hell,
I call it hades.