Haha. Mets pulled fast one by destroying Feliciano

The Queenies are cackling today over how they used up Pedro Feliciano's arm over the last two years, by pitching him every 15 minutes, (which saved them 15 percent on car insurance.) Brian Cashman yesterday said the Welcome Mats went Scott Proctor on the poor guy. Tee-hee, say the Mats.

"I feel badly that someone feels that way," he told New York-area reporters before Saturday night's game at Florida. "That was part of the reason we decided to not re-sign him," [Mets pitching coach Dan Warthen said.] Because we knew we had used him 270-some times in the last three years."


"They didn't know that when they signed him?" 

In another interview, Warthen used the rape defense: Why... if he did't want to pitch on a given night, all he had to do was say, no.
 
Baseball players are like pet dogs. Throw the stick, and they fetch it. But you're not supposed to throw it into an icy river. Yeah, the Yankees should have done diligence on the guy. As Alphonso has noted, we have a blind spot about bullpen lefties. (Graeham Lloyd, where are you?) But the Mats, rationalizing the abuse of their former pitcher, sound like Bernie Madoff saying his investors should have known better.