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March 12, 2009

See The Mets On The Road And Get Bobblehead Dolls!

For those of you who like road trips….

…Casey Blake Bobblehead Night is May 20th in Los Angeles (vs. the Mets)

….Adam Jones Bobblehead Night June 17th in Baltimore (also vs. the Mets)

Sadly although there is Manny Ramirez Bobblehead Night as well, it in no way includes the Mets.

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March 12, 2009

Chi-Chi Says Mets are Doomed Unless….

Fun…Chi-Chi Rodriguez says the Mets should sign Pudge:

I hope Ivan has a big game because I would like to see the New York Mets sign him. I don’t think the New York Mets can win without him.

Chi-Chi is part of the Delgado-led campaign to get Ivan “Don’t Call Me Chi-Chi” Rodriguez on the team.

I forget who made this point (newspaper/blog) and I admit it’s not my own but it sure is interesting that when Delgado campaigns for a player to take the spot of teammates that it’s cool, but if A-Rod says something nice about Reyes then A-Rod is dissing half the Yankees. Poor A-Rod….

….and speaking of A-Rod, if the Mets do get Pudge can we get cousin Yuri’s phone number? You know…look at the stats.

Thanks Newsday!

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March 11, 2009

Mike Schmidt Thinks David Wright Is HOF

I’m a little sleepy, but I thought this was neat. Mike Schmidt, the best baseball player I ever saw (note I didn’t qualify position) thinks David Wright is a Hall of Famer.

The Daily News has the whole thing here.

Schmidt says:

“I think you’ve got yourself a future Hall of Famer there on the Mets.”

“From a baseball standpoint, he seems way beyond his years,” Schmidt said. “Hitting-wise, he’s your prototypical good modern generation hitter in that he stays inside the ball. In my day, we hit around the ball – pulled the ball more. It’s impressive to me he creates the production he does as a righthanded hitter, seeing a lot of righthanded pitchers, the tough relievers, the matchups he gets.

“Back in our day, you’d compare him to a (Steve) Garvey or heck, even a Roberto Clemente-type hitter where he uses the whole field, hits around .300, can hit you some home runs, break up a game. He’s a good solid RBI guy – what did he have last year, 128 (actually 124). I think my best year was in the low 120s (121 in 1980), so even last year he had more than I ever had.”

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March 11, 2009

Batting Third For The Mets, Rob Mackowiak

A cool column… on ESPN by Jayson Stark, observing that Spring Training sucks this year.

Jayson writes:

So I made a list of some of the hitters who have been spotted occupying the middle of the order just this week:

CLEANUP HITTERS — Jake Fox (Cubs), Jesus Guzman (Giants), Geoff Blum (Astros),Ramon Castro (Mets), Mike Hessman (Tigers) and Nick Evans (Mets).

NO. 3 HITTERS — Rob Mackowiak (Mets), Micah Hoffpauir (Cubs), Jose Valentin (Mets),Shane Costa (Royals) and Wes Helms (Marlins).

No disrespect to any of those fellows, obviously. But they’re not going to be confused with David Wright or Miguel Cabrera, either.

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March 11, 2009

7 Train To "Mets/Willets Point"

The formerly Shea Stadium stop on the 7 train is going to be re-christened “Mets/Willets Point.”

The Mets didn’t want to give the MTA any cash, so the MTA gave the Mets the big MOSFU (trust me the mos-f-u is a bad thing).

I think the MTA should go whole-hog and call the station “Baseball Stadium” and charge the Mets for the right to emblazon their corporate name on a subway station. I understand you can get big bucks for corporate sponsorship these days.

Meanwhile in the Bronx, the subway stations keep their “Yankee Stadium” names, but the new Metro-North stop will be called “Yankees/153rd.”

For those who want to read more I must admit I was inspired by this. Watch the closing doors.