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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Obligatory Santana & Reyes Are Back Post

I have a Mets blog and the rules of blogging mean that I have to have the obligatory “Santana pitches today” post that every other blog has.

This is my woo-hoo Santana pitches today and Jose Reyes rejoins the team post.  Obviously those are good things.

Now if someone could knock out Puerto Rico and the USA (yeah I’m a communist I guess) we could get back to having the Real Mets back in camp.

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Games In April Actually Count: The Importance Of A Good Start For The Mets (or anyone)

One of the reasons I hated Bobby Valentine is that his teams always got off to a bad start.
 
It seemed like every year the Mets would be way back and then have to kill themselves to get back into the race.  They
 
Going back to the V years, the Mets have had a standings lead on May 1st only once.  Care to guess which year it was?
 
Mets Standings On may 1st:
 
The V Years (not a single first place finish, some wild-card ass-saving and even a play-in game):
 
1996    5 back
1997    8.5 back
1998    4.5 back
1999    1.back
2000    4 back
2001    4.5 back
2002    ironically tied for first.  This team lost 10 games in the standings in June and wound up over 20 back.
 
The Rest:
 
2003    7 back
2004    6 back
2005    3 back
2006    Up 6.   Funny how much easier seasons go when everyone else is chasing YOU.
2007    .5 back   – just about right.  A near miss.  Except they were trailing the Braves.
2008    .5 back  of the Phillies.
 
So the next time someone tells you that it’s cool that the Mets are 10 and 13, and “only” 4 back – it’s time to start worrying and time to start winning games.
 
 

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A-Rod Disappoints Again

I now realize how spoiled we've been.

A-Rod helped sportsblogs coast through February.

Yesterday A-Rod let me down.

With a pseudo-Mets team missing 16 players there's not much to say. Sure I could make some crap up along the lines of:

"'Kielty Should Platoon"

Or the ever popular "Santana Elbow OK!" posts that you see everywhere.

Maybe some random Mike Pelfrey speculation would float your boat?

Nope, I'm hoping the real Mets come back soon, and that brings me back to A-Rod.

Alex you let me down. I needed to wake up to headlines like "A-Rod blows off surgery to go surfing with Madonna" or "Alex: Jeter doesn't have it as hard as I do" or "Doctor: A-Rod cried like a baby."

Nope. All I have is "A-OK" type stuff. The surgery went well. Good for you A-Rod but what about the poor blogger with nothing to write about? Can't you steal some ice cream from a little girl or something?

Jerry said something non-commital about Pedro (that everyone is spinning as 'no way', read it again folks.)

"You have to be fair to the people we have here."

That's not no.

I have a suspicion there's a tremendous upside to Livan Hernandez.

Anyway, A-Rod, Santana and Pelfrey are fine. Enjoy the WBC. I don't.

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Shea for Sale

There’s tumbleweeds blowing by in Hypothetical Flushing today.  There’s really nothing happening in Metsville.
 
Uniwatch mentioned this article: http://www.northjersey.com/sports/Shea_for_sale.html updating all the stuff you didn’t buy the first time.
 

Want to turn your basement bar into the Roosevelt Avenue Pub? Buy the sign for $500. Yearn to have the wizened face of Casey Stengel or Yogi Berra hanging on your wall? Take home a mounted photograph for the right price. While many of the items have a fixed bar code — it’ll cost you $50 for a brick — others are on the auction block. A catalog of available items, all of which have been authenticated by Major League Baseball, can be found on mets.com/shea. More information and personal appointments can be made directly through MeiGray at 888-463-4472.

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Amazin’ Avenues Mets Announcer Tournament

 
An NCAA type tournament of Mets announcers.  
 
I think there’s some McCarver bias here – he was probably the Mets best TV guy ever (don’t judge him by his tired Fox work, back in the 80s this was all fresh) – TMac faces The Franchise in the first round.
 
Also they gave Ron Darling a bye – who the hell would vote for Fran Healy?
 
Where’s Lorn Brown?
 
Fun stuff.
 
 
My picks for round one:
 
Murph over Ted Robinson
Rusty over Rose (because Howie lies about attendance)
Kiner over O’Brien
Keith over Zabriskie
 
Cohen over Jiggs
McCarver over 41
Gary Thorne (the good 1986 Mets version not the bad ESPN version) over Lindsey.  I never dug Lindsey.
Ron Darling over Fran Healy.
Silence over Fran Healy.
Nails on a chalkboard over Healy (and I don’t mean Dykstra)
A cat screeching at 3am over Healy.

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