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March 3, 2009

Strawberry Honest: Would Have Done Steroids

Strawberry must read the Mets Police. I was just saying yesterday how I’d like to go back in time and give him steroids. Now he goes and says:

“Hell yeah I would have used them. Are you kidding me? I mean, c’mon. Some things are part of what athletes go through and they happen …We’re competitive creatures, and we have tremendous drive, a high tolerance, all these things. I’m not saying that it was the right thing to do. But if that was going on in the 80s, that probably would have been in my system too.”

And he would have hit the ball 600 feet….and still left us for LA (sniff).

Single Season Tickets (And Red Sox Tix) Will Go On Sale…

Some ticket infro from the Mets. Those St. John’s tickets sold in a flushing flash so my guess is that the Sox games will go quickly too.

I was kind of into the Red Sox games until the St. John’s games made them much less special. I may try to hit the Bronx that weekend since I don’t think I have $300 to go to Opening Day at New New Yankee. I have my opening night tickets for C-Field (opening “night” makes me mad. Idiots.)

it’s interesting that April and May tickets go on sale and not the entire season.

The New York Mets today announced that tickets for two exhibition games against the Boston Red Sox at Citi Field will go on sale this Friday, March 6 at 10:00 a.m. Single game tickets for April and May Regular Season home games will go on sale Sunday, March 15 at 10:00 a.m.

Both sales will be exclusively online at Mets.com, LosMets.com, and by phone at (718) 507-TIXX; there will be no in- person sale at Citi Field on either date. The Mets in the weeks ahead will announce the on sale date for single game tickets for the balance of the season.

Single game ticket prices start at $6 for the April 3-4 exhibition games, and $11 for Regular Season games.

METS vs. Red Sox Exhibition Games

Friday, April 3 at 6:10 p.m.

Saturday, April 4 at 1:10 p.m.

* Ticket prices range from $6 to $50
* Online/Phone Sale begins Friday, March 6 at 10:00 a.m.

 at Mets.com and LosMets.com

 by calling the Mets Ticket Office at (718) 507-TIXX

 TDD at (718) 672-9163

2009 April and May REGULAR SEASON Home Games

* Ticket prices start at $11
* Online/Phone Sale begins Sunday, March 15 at 10:00 a.m.

March 3, 2009

Francesca vs the Mets

I’m not all that interested in the Mets vs. Mike Francesca beef (Mike is accused of being un-Mets friendly), but it does interest me that it has made the Washington Post.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/baseball-insider/2009/03/wfans_francessa_under_fire_fro.html

It reminds me of when Howie Rose was banished from the Mets pre and post games. You’ll remember that the Mets thought it was a good idea to have Todd Kalas buffer between the WFAN programming and Howie’s Mets Extra rants.

It’s a good thing to accept criticism. It keeps you honest. If the Mets win a World Series they’ll find they are far less criticized. Attempting to silence the critics doesn’t help.

March 3, 2009

Willie Montanez & Jon Matlack

The other day the Orioles trotted out a player named Montanez and it made me nostalgic for good ol’ Willie Montanez.

Willie was another of the non-stars of The Torre Years (Flushing version).

At age 29 Willie was an all-star for Atlanta, so the Mets traded away John Milner and Jon Matlack in a multi-team deal to get him.

Now Mets fans, what happens when the Mets bring in someone else’s All-Star?

That’s right, they would come to Shea and suck.

Montanez handed in .256 with 17 homers and 96 RBI in 1978 – not bad, add some steroids and 17 is 30 modern day homers….but in 79 the suckiness crept in and he hit .234 before being shipped off to Texas for Ed Lynch and Mike Jorgensen.

I’m a little young to know why the Mets gave up on Matlack who won 15, 14, 13, 16, 17 and 7 games before being sent off as a 28 year old lefthander. He seems to me like the kind of guy you’d want around. Maybe some old-timer out there can hit comments and educate me. (And don’t tell me that uniform doesn’t look 100 times better than what they wear now

Willie Montanez, wherever you are, I lift my Rheingold to you.

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March 2, 2009

What’s Wrong With This MLB 09 Screenshot (trick question)

Here’s a screenshot from videogame MLB ’09. It’s clearly unrealistic, can you guess why?

The answer: The Mets are wearing blue hats and white uniforms with pinstripes. That’s very unrealistic although nice to think about. It will be weird not playing at Shea in videogameland. I wonder if Shea is unlockable.

You can check out more unrealistic uniform choices here but I’m not sure I like this one below, it looks like K-Rod just gave up a three run homer on opening night. K-Rod looks cold with his long sleeves.