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March 17, 2009

A-Rod Loves Himself In Details Magazine Article

See that on the left? That’s the photo that makes the lead in Details magazine. I knew A-Rod would do his best to take Brodeur’s day away from him.

Coupla things I like in the article:

On being the youngest player in the league: “I’m like, What am I doing here?” he recalls. “They’re going to barsâ€”I couldn’t get in to half the places.” I ask him if he had a fake ID. “Yeah, I probably had one of those at some point,” Rodriguez says cautiously, as if the Seattle PD might cuff him.

I’m not sure what this means:

Rodriguez doesn’t mind looking a bit human. “At one point I did nothing wrong,” he says, almost with pride. “And now, over the last three or four years, I caught up, you know?”

and he said this before the steroids:

“New York is one of a kind,” Rodriguez says. “It’s made me ask all the tough questions. It’s brought out the best in me. There are some things I have to work on. And that part is fun.” He pauses, and then, perhaps alluding to coming events, says, “Revealing the truth about yourself is always good.”

Oops.

Enjoy the article

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March 17, 2009

WBC Let Ollie Perez Throw 85 Pitches???

So, as snarky as I can be, I hate piling on the truly negative stuff. I chose to completely ignore Shamsky, and I’m on the fence about the Dykstra thing. You can click the link if you’d like to read about some bad racist terms attrubuted to Lenny. http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2009/03/16/2009-03-16_lenny_dykstra_formerly_of_the_mets_is_na.html

Also they say there were only 9 people on line for tickets at C-Field (once again I almost typed Shea). Not a big deal, everyone just jumps online these days.

The story that should be bugging everyone this morning is that Oliver Perez threw 85 pitches the other night in the WBC. I feel bad that i missed this yesterday, but I don’t wacth fake international tournaments. So when I read this article in the Post this morning I wanted to punch someone.(http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009/sports/mets/world_of_worry_surrounds_mets_159913.htm)

85 pitches on March 15th? Before you tell me to calm down, how about this one?

USA Today reported last week that its own study showed nearly four of every five pitchers in the 2006 WBC recorded a higher ERA that season than the previous year. Even more ominously: More than one in three WBC pitching veterans spent time on the disabled list in ’06, including 14 who landed on it in April and May

I also didn’t freak out about K-Rod’s four inning save….but now there has been a second four out save.

Omar should get on the phone, bring his players home (Ollie is on his way, eliminated), and let Selig bitch all he wants. Let ESPN call the Mets names. Let bloggers complain. I’d rather all that than have a Met on the DL for no reason.

March 17, 2009

Brodeur: The Greatest Unappreciated Goalie Of All Time

Tonight, the greatest goaltender of them all goes for number 552.

It’s amazing what a difference eight miles makes. I’ve said this many times before, but if Marty and his three championships had played in the Garden, there would be a statue of him in front of Penn Station much like the Rocky statue.

Marty would be Derek Jeter on skates. Mark Messier summer of 1994, before he decided he wanted to be a Canuck.

Instead, the good Lord made him a Devil, so he toils in relative obscurity. Not as obscure as he’d be if he were a Blue Jacket, but at least if he were Mr. Blue Jacket he’d own the town.

Instead Marty has his parades in the parking lot.

As amazing as #552 will be, with years left in his career, it’s easy to forget that his numbers are diminished in the same way that World War Two cost Ted Williams and Joe D some big numbers.

Mike Battaglino broke it down in the Post the other day. What if there had been a full season in 1994-95? What if there would been a season in 2003-04 at all? Mike makes a good case that Brodeur would have 611 wins by now.

Hopefully A-Rod won’t fall down a flight of stairs, or Jeter won’t catch a cold so that Marty can have the back page to himself tomorrow.

Congratulations Marty! Some day #30 will hang in the rafters. Hopefully the rafters will still be in New Jersey.

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March 16, 2009

All-Irish Mets Team

Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Shea Stadium – lets welcome Bob Murphy to the microphone (Tim McCarver is up in the TV booth) to introduce the Irish Mets – a list of Mets who have at-least Irish-sounding names. Feel free to hit comments to add suggestions, nitpick heritage, or bitch. Bob, take it away…(no I’m not going to attempt to write in Murph-cadence)

First let’s meet the pitchers:

Our starters: Nolan Ryan, Tim Leary, Terry Leach and Jim McAndrew

The bullpen: Tug McGraw & Roger McDowell

Behind the plate: Mike Fitzgerald

Third base: He played 38 games there in 1990, please welcome back our old friend Tom O’Malley

Shortstop: Roy McMillan

Second base: Doug Flynn

First base: Joe McEwing who can play anywhere is going to have to play here. (I wanted to nominate the big redhead Rusty Staub but was overruled by the Mets Police Emerald Society).

In left: Daniel Murphy

In Center: Kevin McReynolds (33 games there in 1991)

The Right Fielder: Dave Gallagher

Pete Flynn will take care of the grounds, and to manage this not-so-impressive lineup, we considered having a player-manager at SS, but we decided to go un-Wilpon and not forget the New York Giants so John McGraw will be our choice.

So the idea for this post was better than the names. Open to suggestions…

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March 16, 2009

Yankee Game Recreations 1959

Check this out (zoom it): http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/files/1959_0314_brundige.jpg

An article about Yankee games being re-created for Los angeles radio in 1959. They had the Dodgers, why would people want Yankee games out there?

Maybe we could hire someone to re-create the games on the radio now (in real time) without someone yelling It Is High…. on very fly ball?