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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Syracuse students miss class. Rumored to be out late in NYC

Several Syracuse University students have chosen to skip class for a
few days and hang out in Manhattan. They were last seen near the
Garden at a quarter to two this morning.

I hope the school plans to discipline the students to remind all that
the purpose of school is to learn, not to pretend you're on the Knicks.

I laugh when people wonder how a 19 year old Dwight Gooden or a young
naive A-Rod make mistakes. What do we teach our teenage athletes? As
long as you win anything is cool.

Colleges everywhere send teens to tournaments all month long. When I
went to Fordham we'd see the basketball and football teams on the
first day and last day of class and not once in-between.

I have the same issue with the little league world series. Why do we
need national champions at every level? Isn't winning the local
league enough. Can't they play on weekends only?

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This Is Your Bullpen. This Is Your Bullpen With 4 Inning Pedro Starting.

So you say you want Pedro Martinez to start every 5th day for the Mets.

You must hate the bullpen.

Let’s take a look at 2008.

April 1.  Pedro goes 3.1 innings in a road loss.  BULLPEN gets to get 18 outs.


June 3rd:  9 outs for the bullpen


June 8th:  9 outs


June 15th:  9 outs.

I get it.  I see your Pedro fantasy.  Now the reality sets in.

June 21:   hey bullpen we need 18 outs (so we can lose anyway) thanks! 


June 27:  10 outs


July 2:  9 outs in a road loss (8 defensive innings)


July 7:  11 outs


July 12:  15 outs from the pen!!!  Pedro didn’t give up a run, and the Mets won – but he was Four Inning Pedro.

I’m tired of typing.  The Mets went 4 and 7 in Pedro starts the rest of the way.   Pedro’s IP were 5, 6.1, 6, 7, 7 (that’s more like it), 5, 6, 4, and 6, 6, 6.   The 6-6-6 is ironic, not because Pedro is the devil but because since June 6, 2006 (6/6/06) Pedro was pretty much useless  as I discussed here.

Let Pedro head off to LA, and he can enjoy Old Timers Day in Boston where he belongs.   I don’t know who the future is, but it’s not this guy.   The Mets would be better off with a 5th starter who went 3 and 21 but averaged 7 innings than someone who only totaled 109 innings in twenty starts.  I’ll try my luck with Niese.

Shout out to Mike’s Mets  on doing the hard-work of stats compiling.

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Mets Jab Yankees With "Cap Trade" Promotion?

I noticed this last night…

• Cap Trade presented by Chevrolet – Any fan who brings an old cap to the June 27-29 Subway Series games at Shea can exchange that cap for a brand new Mets cap.

I find it very interesting that they are doing this promotion during the Yankees series rather than on a Tuesday against the Nationals.   I checked with Diane The Big Mets Fan and she says they’ve done this the last few years.   Do they encourage Yankee fans to trade in?

Picking on the Yankees gets the Mets nowhere…pick fights with the Phillies.  That will be good for baseball and both cities.   Get a little rivalry going on the Turnpike.  I mean really going.

It’s only the first 5,000 fans so you might want to get there 17 hours early.   Or just go to Wal-Mart and spend $5 on a cheap cap.

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Comments From Mets Police on Twitter

So I’ve been a bad twitter’er and didn’t realize there had been some comments to the Mets Police sitting there – so I thought I’d catch up on some outstading ones.

On Santana Panic ending:
jonnew@metspolice Now we have the Redding, Garcia and insert the name for fifth starter panic. Never mind the Pelfrey and Maine panics.


On Stubhub making a mint:
TanRu@metspolice Don’t forget StubHub gets 15% from the seller, AND 10% tacked on from the buyer!



On Jerry messing with the lineup:
csball2000@metspolice After the last two seasons, I don’t blame him for trying SOMETHING different



On the obvious:
gjhaze@metspolice ugh, can’t the Wilpons just take a $20M/year hit and call it Field.


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Santana Panic Officially Ends

The great Santana Panic of 2009 has ended.   On a televised game we all got to see Johan pitch a typical (for anyone) spring outing, and not grab his arm in pain.

As I write this at 9pm there are no tales of him being injured hitting the internet so it looks like we can all sleep well and obsess over the fifth starter.

47 pitches, 32 strikes in 2 and 2/3 – lifted for pitch count.

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