What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Bob Murphy’s account of Nolan Ryan’s first strikeout in his debut with the Mets in 1966 is among more than 6,000 radio and television broadcast recordings of memorable games and colorful calls that the Library of Congress has acquired and plans to make public.
via Sports Audio Archive Finds New Home With Library of Congress – NYTimes.com.
Sweet.
I missed an email earlier (I was being a good person and mentoring some students)…a statement from Mr. Beltran
I felt a little discomfort in my left knee last week. I spoke to the doctors today. They advised me to just give it a rest for a couple of days. I can hit and do everything, but back off the running part of it. I feel fine. I think I just overcompensated from all the work I did on the other knee and I just need to give it a little break.
Say what you want about Carlos, I bet he wouldn’t charge you a fee to print out Mets tickets at home.
I’m not freaking about this. I think it’s part of my new counter-culture stance where I think the Mets will win 90. Ya gotta believe. You really do.
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@mediagoon has been bringing up certain topics all day on twitter. I’m not biting.
Oh, I have a very crazy day tomorrow – that increases the likelihood of “major Mets news” to 90%
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How come nobody has been making Moneyball Wilpon jokes? We all missed it. Start now. We kid because we love.
Via the super-awesome Mets By The Numbers…drop everything and watch…
..can we hear this song at Citi all summer? It’s awesome! Flushing, whatcha think?
Holy cow…
PROMENADE RESERVED INFIELD $51.00
PROMENADE RESERVED $42.00
and $4 to mail them to you plus the infamous $5 “order charge”
Wow…way to jack it. $42 to not see the left fielder? Really?
Today’s notes…as I mention daily I just cut and paste from a PDF so if there are some missing space-marks that’s on my end not the Mets.
TODAY’S METS STARTER LHP OLIVER PEREZ will make his second start and third appearance of the springtoday…In his last start, Perez tossed 2.0shutout innings to pick up the win vs. St.Louis…In his first spring appearance, he allowed four runs on four hits in 2.0 innings vs. Atlanta…Perez went 0-5 with a 6.80ERA in 2010…He began the season in the starting rotation before being moved to thebullpen after his start on May 14 atFlorida…Limited lefthanders to a .214 (9-42)batting average, while righthanders hit .317(45-142) against him…Placed on the 15-Day Disabled List with patella tendinitisof his right knee on June 5…Appeared insix of the team’s final 69 games.
RHP CHRIS CAPUANO will make his second spring start today…Capuano pitched 3.0 innings on March 2 vs. St. Louis yielding three hits and one run with four strikeouts…Capuano, 32, went 4-4 with a3.95 ERA in 24 appearances last year withthe Milwaukee Brewers…He was 3-3 with a4.14 ERA in nine starts and 1-1 with a 3.54ERA (eight earned runs/20.1 innings) in 15relief outings…Capuano, a former All-Star,is 46-52 with a 4.35 ERA in 148 careermajor league games, 125 starts…He wasnamed to the 2006 National League All-Starteam, going 11-12 with a 4.03 ERA (99earned runs/221.1 innings)…He was tied forthe NL lead with 25 quality starts that year…His best season came in 2005 whenhe won 18 games and struck out 176.
SPRING TRAINING RECORDS: The Mets are 4-5-1 duringSpring Training this year…The Mets are 652-668-11 (.494) all-timeduring Spring Training
