Author: Shannon Shark @metspolice

Shannon Shark is the founder of MetsPolice.com, tweets as @metspolice, is an avid fan of Lee Mazzilli and Daniel Murphy, hates black uniforms and is the author of "Send The Beer Guy" available at Amazon.com. #imwith28
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Where Are They Now: Craig Swan (Daily News)

OK enough negativity for today….let’s remember our old friend Craig Swan.

You remember Swannie?  He was the guy that shared a baseball card with Ron Guidry (ERA leaders) that have you half a leg to stand on with your Yankee friends when you were in grammar school.   Sure, the Yankees were winning the World Series, but we had the “best” pitcher in the NL, right?

Swan pitched for all or parts of 12 seasons in the majors from his debut for the Mets in 1973 to his final outing with the Angels in 1984. All but two of his 231 games in the big leagues were with the Mets and he was known as one of the few bright spots on the awful Met teams of the late ’70s. He won the National League ERA title in 1978 (2.43) and was 14-13 with a 3.29 ERA, 10 complete games and three shutouts for a team that finished 35 games out in 1979. Overall, he finished 59-72 with a 3.74 ERA.



If you’d like to know where he is now…click the link!

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Scenarios For Rainouts for Mets & Yankees HOME Openers

Hey Daily News, welcome to the party.  Where were you a week ago when I was trying to Get Citi Field’s Opening Night Game Changed To A Day Game? with the help of some other bloggers.

Well. better late than never…

The Mets do have an off-day on Tuesday, April 14, the day after their home opener with San Diego. Still, some fans are griping because the lid-lifter at Citi, which they say never sleeps, is a night affair beginning at 7:10 rather than a traditional Opening Day.
Those looking to assign blame for this can point fingers at the players’ union and MLB. On Sunday, April 12, the Padres entertain San Francisco in a 1:05 p.m. start. MLB’s basic agreement stipulates that when a team must travel from the Pacific time zone to the East Coast, the next day (in this case Monday, April 13) must be an off-day.
“But we are allowed seven exceptions to that rule, no more than one per club, but it has to be a day game in the Pacific time zone followed by a night game in the Eastern time zone,” Feeney said. “That’s what is happening here.”
In the Bronx, people are already sweating.
Well, if the game is postponed, those hoping to be a part of history won’t be. This is Cleveland’s only trip to the Stadium in 2009. So, it looks like if the opener is bagged, it would be rescheduled for Friday evening as part of a split-admission doubleheader.
Two reasons for that possible scenario: (1) Saturday’s game, nationally televised by Fox, is a 4 p.m. start and (2) the “opener” could not be made up on Sunday (after the scheduled 1:05 game) because it’s a getaway day.
Katy Feeney, MLB’s senior VP of scheduling and club relations, prefers that Yankee fans with tickets to the home opener remain optimistic. “It’s going to be a gorgeous day,” she said. “Don’t worry, it’s going to be a gorgeous day.”

So the Yankees were willing to play Weather Poker but the Mets weren’t.  I still think the Mets should have scheduled the opener for 1:10, on Tuesday if need be.  There’s still time…
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Did You Jerks Really Boo Oliver Perez?

Whoa..I’m catching up on yesterday (was at Yankee Stadium) and I just read in the Post that …

Perez gave a putrid performance in his final spring training start yesterday. The $36 million left-hander failed to get out of the first inning against the Red Sox at Citi Field, walking four batters and giving up a grand slam before getting booed off the mound by most of the 38,695 fans in a 9-3 Mets loss.

Are you kidding me???!!


Are you crazy?  It’s an exhibition game.   Maybe he was working on something.  Maybe he just sucked.  We know he’s fragile, sometimes awesome and sometimes terrible – why would you pile on during an exhibition game?  How is he supposed to feel about Mets fans this morning?

I’m never accused of being Mr. Met or positive…and I complain more than anyone…but booing this guy in the final spring training tuneup (after everyone defended the WBC to me for a month)?   Any of you that did that yesterday is an idiot.   Stay home.

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