Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Wow, that’s two newspaper guys in two weeks! Here’s Bill
Madden in the News

The Mets’ rotation of Santana, Jonathan Niese, Dickey, Pelfrey and Dillon Gee has an ERA of 3.48 with 83 hits, 69 strikeouts and 26 walks over 80 innings and 14 starts. The Yanks have a 5.84 ERA with 107 hits allowed, 77 strikeouts and 23 walks over 81 2/3 innings and 15 starts by the quintet of CC Sabathia, Ivan Nova, Phil Hughes, Kuroda and Garcia. And as much as we despise the “quality start” stat (six or more innings, three or fewer runs), it has become a fact of life in baseball and, in this case, further illustrates the Mets’ superiority over the Yankee starters so far. Even without Santana having gone beyond five innings, the Mets’ starters have eight quality starts out of 14 as opposed to the Yankees’ five out of 15.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/ny-mets-yankees-best-starting-picthing-rotation-york-city-surprisingly-article-1.1065897#ixzz1srfFHYDP

I had gotten so used to every article talking about the Mets crappy rotation, their lack of offense, their dollar fifteen payroll and the expected 137 losses that I don’t know what to when someone writes something objective, maybe even positive.

As I said all winter there will be lots of frontrunners if this team starts winning. I’m going to call you all on your bullchips.

We can tell it’s raining and that it’s not going to stop raining. And the only thing that can get us into that rain when we have no other reason to be soaking in it is because the Mets won’t immediately advise us to remain indoors where we belong and assure us our bobbleheads will be waiting for us on another date to be announced shortly.

Because they sold us the tickets. And they really wanted to scan them and have us inside their building for a while and sell us some more stuff while they waited for the weather window that was never, ever going to come. I can’t imagine that wasn’t the plan. Surely it wasn’t because rescheduling both the Mets-Giants game and the bobblehead promotion wasn’t easily solved. It was very easily solved. …

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Nobody likes to leave the gate closed. But sometimes courtesy and convenience is the better part of valor where the surprisingly predictable nature of nature is concerned.

via First 25,000 Raindrops « Faith and Fear in Flushing.

As I said earlier, bad job by the Mets.  Have a meeting and come up with a better Standard Operating Procedure folks.

You guys who disagree with me on twitter will eventually listen to me. Here’s Sandy Alderson. He’s the guy who decides who gets to be on the Mets.

“We’ve said, look, let’s play out at least part of this season and see where we are. But I, honestly, at this point cannot foresee David playing elsewhere.”

Blue cap tip to Adam Rubin.