Leadoff: links, rain, and a cool Mets uniform variant

Quiet morning in Flushing, I have to slap on my green Mets cap and stand at a parade in the rain, so seems like a good morning for links.   Thanks for the comments on “Why are you a Mets fan?” and I’ll catch up on those when I get back.  That piece was written by Dan – I’ll tell ya, when you can get Dan to actually write something he’s pretty good.  In an hour or so I will post his crazy re-alignment plan which is much crazier than my re-alignment plan

I’m still hopeful about the 2010 season, but it if does tank can we please tank with folks like Ike Davis and Josh Thole in the lineup as opposed to Fernando Tatis types?   I’d rather see the mets go 0-81 in the second half with kids than 30 and 50 with Tatis.  It seems like the Metsosphere agrees.

Fox decided to write a scary headline: Mets biggest question: Is Wright all right? Yes he’ll be fine.  No that’s not the biggest question.

James has a new blog Citi2Shea and he asked if I’d link to some stories.  My blog has benefited from the bigger blogs linking, so I’m happy to pass along the love.   Check out The Ghost of Shea strikes again and a look back to 2006 and What Could’ve Been.  I will be doing some more episodes of Meet the Mets bloggers when I get some free time this weekend.

Centerfield Maz reminds us about Terry Leach.  I bet many of you have never heard of Terry – he was a nice serviceable pitcher who helped the Mets hang around in 1987.  ’87 was like ’09 except imagine if the scrubs somehow chased the Phillies until the last week.  Maz also had this pic of Strawberry.  What’s that jersey design?

I’ll have a new post about rain-outs (waaah the Mets had to waste several hours yesterday, they never do that to us!) in a few minutes.