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WILD THING, YOU MAKE ME SICK!
If I’m ESPN and a producer of their BASEBALL TONIGHT show I’d be sweating a bit that after just five days MLBN’ Hot Stove Shove has become must see TV for all baseball fans. I really like Harold Reynolds and ESPN made a big mistake letting him go. What’s the problem with a little grab ass in Bristo...
Sunday, Jan 4
OMAR NEEDS TO GO GLENGARY ON LOWE/BORAS
According to Boras, the Phillies and Braves are in the running for Lowe’ services. If the Mets played in the AL East Boras would tell us the Highlanders and Red Sox were serious bidders. If the Mets played in the Middle East Baseball League, Borras would tell us the Israeli’s and the Palestin...
Monday, Dec 29
HOW LOWE DO WE GO?
Omar Minaya would like Johan Santana to sit out the World Baseball Championships and hopefully Santana will abide by this request. Is there a bigger waste of time and work hours that the WBC? Who gives a shit? I understand that the Latin players have tremendous pride in playing for their cou...
Friday, Dec 19
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PITCHING
If you missed last night’s edition of Pro Baseball Central you missed a spirited discussion by Joe McDonald and I over the issued of re-signing Oliver Perez (Joe’s guy) over signing Derek Lowe (my guy) after going back and forth on the issued Joe played the Tom Glavine card that had me reass...
Friday, Dec 5
I’M SLOWLY TURNING INTO YOU
The more I see of $iti Field the more I’m coming around to the fact that this will be at least from a structural point, a baseball palace. From looking at the pictures that Joe McDonald took while on a tour of the new ballpark the first thing that strikes me is the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. It is ma...
Monday, Dec 1
CAREFULL I’M PACKIN’
From NY Baseball Digest by way of Baseball Prospectus it looks like Manny Ramirez could be on Omar Minaya’ mind come the Winter Meetings next week in Las Vegas. With over 4million fans packing the late Shea Stadium last year, there own state run television network and a brand new pleasure pa...
Tuesday, Nov 4
WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY OMAR?
I’m sure this is just a smoke screen, Minaya at his sandbagging best as Jeffey Skill Sets told us in his message to the fan base, that there will be “addition by subtraction” but now his Brain trust tells us different. Here’s an idea for Omar, Tony B, and John Rico, stop with the fucking mind gam...
Monday, Nov 3
RANDOM ACT OF BLOGGING THE MONDAY AFTERNOON EDTION
1. Tom Seaver-He is the reason why we care about the Mets 9. Dwight Gooden-Every home start was an event must see baseball 10. Pele-If you weren’t around during the days of the New York Cosmos this choice may not make sense to you but think of Pele like you would of Babe Ruth.
Saturday, Nov 1
MAYBE WATCHING THAT PARADE WILL STOKE SOME PASSION IN OUR TEAM
So Philadelphia enjoy your parade and I’ll continue my tough love of the Mets and I’ll slap them around until they show me they will slap and when they do your ass is ours. In a way I understand the obsession the Philadelphia Phillies have with the Mets. As much as the can celebrate being the best...
Monday, Oct 27
WELL I CAN TELL BY YOUR GAME, YOU’RE GONNA START A FLAME, LOVE BABY LOVE I’M NOT GONNA CHOKE FROM THE SMOKE GOT ME TIGHTENIN’ UP MY STOKE DO YOU FEEL IT GIRL YEAH
Check out this video I found via the outstanding Uni Watch site, it’s a 1965 Mets highlight film and I use the word “highlight” very loosely as that 65 Mets added to the franchise start of futility by posting a 50-112 record, the fourth straight 100+ losing season. Also that season saw the end...
Thursday, Oct 23
BAD GUYS GO UP 1-0
With the economic climate in this country and newspapers facing extinction why in the world did the NY Daily News waste money by sending Bill Madden to the World Series to write about how all the team in the NL East hate the Mets. Not exactly ground breaking there Billy Pinstripes. You almost n...
Tuesday, Oct 21
RANDOM ACT OF POSTING
With the World Series a day away from starting MLB invokes its gag order on the other 28 teams so as the spotlight can be shown on baseball’s showcase event. If your FOX this match up is a nightmare as neither team has a national following and most of the local yokels who claim to be long sufferin...
Thursday, Oct 9
LCS, LIFE ON MARS, HOCKEY AND CAROL ALT NAKED, HAPPY THURSDAY “YOUES GUYS”!
I’m hoping the Dodgers take the NLCS and I’m also hoping that Omar Minaya is hiding outside the Dodgers hotel with a big bowl of rice and beans from one of the fine Dominican eating establishment in The Heights to lure Manny back home, but this series is sooooooo close that the only thing I’ll...
Sunday, Sep 28
TODAY WAS LIKE AN OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCE
I’m emotionally and physically tired so I’ll be brief here as tomorrow when I’m thinking a little straighter and maybe a little calmer I might be able to put some thoughts down in a posting but I will say today was painful on a few fronts. First the fans were very pumped up and Mike Francesa can s...
Friday, Sep 26
WOW I’M SPEECHLESS
The Mets are in a pennant race right? Did anyone tell that to the Mets? Gary, Keith and Ron couldn’t believe that (a) Shea was not filled even though over 50,000 tickets were sold for the game and (b) it seemed like, as Kevin Burkhardt said ” A Tuesday night in May against the Pirates”. It just sh...
Thursday, Sep 18
HEY, GET ME MY MR. MET PUKE BUCKET
I’m speechless. Really what can you say about when your team wins and you still feel like it was a loss. Eight pitchers to win a nine inning game? That’s almost impossible. And why is Al Reyes warming up in the bullpen and you don’t use him? In fact what is the deal-ieo with “I can call you Jose or A...
Sunday, Sep 14
JONATHON AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR CURVEBALL
Last night the Mets put a year of bad luck into the hands of a soon to be 22 year old Jonathon Neise who had the unenviable task of making sure the Mets did not get swept by the pathetic Atlanta Braves, a team that looks as broken down as it’s 104 year old manager. Niese was brilliant last night as hi...
Saturday, Jul 26
JUST A SONG BEFORE I GO
Two of the biggest players of this turnaround have been Carlos Delgado and Mike Pelfrey and not surprisingly both players have been helped by the change in manager and pitching coach. Delgado seemed to hate being at the ball park when Willie Randolph was in charge as it seems Randolph’s rei...
Monday, Jul 21
HOT STUFF CAN’T GET ENOUGH!!!
Howard Megdal has a fine column today in the New York Observer on the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Mets top three draft picks RHP Brad Holt, 1B Ike Davis and INF Reese Havens. Megdal goes in to detail on Holt’s performance and I agree 100 % that Holt will be on a fast track through the organizations...
Tuesday, Jul 15
JUST WHEN YOU THINK WE’RE OUT, THE METS DRAG US BACK IN
Looking back on the Mets first half it’s hard to believe that on June 24th this team was ready to have 25 toe tags attached to thier feet. That was the night the Seattle Mariners, used Oliver Perez and Claudio Vargas as batting practice pitchers to the tune of an 11-0 win. That series deflated al...
Thursday, Jul 10
WOW, NICE MUFFIN TOP BABY
I wonder if the Giants can hang around a while longer as they seem to have become to Mets the Mets what the Washington Generals have become to the Globe Trotters. Santana went just 77 pitches with the rain delay and from reading the game story wanted to stay in but Old School Dean Warthen felt it...
Tuesday, Jul 8
THERE’SA FEELING I GET WHEN I LOOK TO THE WEST
The NL players did the Mets and their fans a favor by not naming D-Wright and Jose Reyes to the All Star team as both players have taken this disrecpet and are taking it out on the baseball. Wright has 21 HR and 70 RBI but no berth in ...
Monday, Apr 7
JUST CALL ME THE NEW CAPTAIN RED ASS
I hate when I get like this. It’s only two games in the beginning of the season but I’m so fucking mad about the Mets losing to the Braves. It doesn’t matter who is in those uniforms, the Braves could bring up the whole Richmond Braves team put BRAVES on their chest and the Mets would drop 2 of 3 to th...
