No grass at Formerly Yankee Stadium.
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Bud’s WBC Legacy: Who Else Is Psyched For Japan vs. South Korea?
Tonight’s the big night!
This is what all the sacrifice was for! Sending 16 Mets to the World Baseball Classic was worth it.
Japan vs. South Korea for the right to declare themselves the true World Champions of Baseball.
This is what everyone wanted!
Wright risking injury, Perez throwing 85 pitches, K-Rod’s 4 inning saves – it all led to tonight….
Japan vs. South Korea!
I plan to take tomorrow off so I can stay up late (game time is 9pm Eastern / 10am Tokyo) and soak this in.
This time it counts! Bud Selig is talking about how this will be his legacy. I guess when your choices are Wild Cards, a lost World Series and steroids…sure the WBC is a good choice.
The players want this thing moved to November. So do I. The argument that the fall is all about the NFL doesn’t hold water – play the games Tuesday thru Saturday and you’ll be fine.
Finally spring training begins. The Captain returns to Tampa, and The Future Captain returns to Port St. Luice. Enjoy your silly exhibition game at 9pm Bud, I won’t be watching.
Raise Up A Rheingold
I was feeling nostalgic, so I thought I’d invite everyone to join in and raise a Rheingold to some old friends:
To Keith Hernandez for threating to punch Jesse Orosco if he threw another fastball.
To Mike Scott for scaring the bejesus out of us.
To John Stearns, seemingly always injured and seemingly coming back in June.
To Johan Santana for the greatest pitching performance in mets history last September.
To Doug Sisk who prepared me for the ways of the 2008 bullpen.
To Lee Mazzilli for walking in the all star game and making a little boy proud.
For Tom Seaver and the stroll down the right field line opening day 83.
To Rusty Staub, shuttling between left and right.
For third baseman Gary Carter one long night in Cincy.
To Buddy Harrelson who deserves better despite his fear of coming out to the mound.
To Mad Dog Russo for killing the Mets for most of the 90s.
One for the cute ballgirl that was in the commercials with Mookie Wilson circa 1983.
To Jerry Manuel for threatening to stab Jose Reyes two minutes into his managerial regime.
For Nino Espinosa for giving up opening day home runs that let me know the Mets weren’t going to win that year either.
To the 81 strike for letting me fool myself into enjoying a “pennant race” in august for a change
To the Cubsbusters and all the kids who filled the deck on that Midget Mets day doubleheader in ’84.
To my dad, in my mind’s eye still sitting in the box seat behind me chugging a few beers.
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Most Popular Mets Police Articles This Week
Our weekly roundup of what people clicked on The Mets Police.
Tom O’Malley made the All-Irish Mets Team. The Mets celebrated with really hideous green, blue, black and orange caps.
Here’s Tons of Pics of Citi Field and 150 Pics of New Yankee Stadium but doesn’t New Yankee Stadium look drab?
NY1 posted this really good video of Citi Field but I’m still overly concerned about the dividerless urinals.
It has nothing to do with the Mets, and it went underreported in my opinion but The Rock said he did steroids.
Also underreported in Metsland was that Ollie Perez threw 85 pitches in a WBC game!
If you plan on trying to get Yankees tickets this week you may want to read the Tales of Buying Yankees Tickets at the pre-sale.
My man Lee Mazzilli made the Teas Rangers Worst 10 list. From the Arlington perspective I can’t say I disagree. As much as I loved Lee, that was a major fleecing.
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A-Rod and Hookers? Maine Panic? $5 Yankee Tickets?
I find it really interesting that this may finally be the year that sports fans finally tell the pro leagues to go MOSFU (again that’s Mets Police code for a big f.u.)
Selig is worried about the recession.
The Yankees are taking out full page ads to get people to buy tickets.
Now Mushnick is warning that Jets fans are moving upstairs to avoid PSLs, which may force those who used to have tickets upstairs all the way out of the stadium.
I try to stay away from the truly negative, so if you want to read about A-Rod and hookers , go for it.
Rule of Mets blogging mean I have to be the 10,000th blog to link to Daniel Murphy will bat second and to weigh in about Maine:
Calm down about Maine. It’s the spring, just get your work in. End of “Generic Maine had a bad start” article.
Should the Yankees let Jeter go? Even if he’s at 2600+ hits? Here’s a well thought out article.
New Stadium Insider tells you how to get $5 tickets for Yankee games.
Bondy can’e figure out why NYers don’t care about the WBC. The answer Flip is that unless Wright and Jeter are wearing hats with NY on them we don’t care. I’m watching the Mets now and feel like there’s a big hole at third.
Damn spring training game just played that awful Everybody Clap Your Hands clapclapclapclap crap. The announcers clearly hate it. I hate it. You hate it. Leave this one with the ruins of Shea and hire an organ player (which was one of my suggestions for New Traditions at C-Field. )
Santana looked good!
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