What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Well Spring was fun while it lasted. No not the snow, the WBC.
15 Mets out of camp. Fifteen.
No small names. OverReyes (always good to put him in a show-off environment), Wright, Delgado, and Beltran.
Wondering if Alex Cora can push Castillo? You’ll have to wait. Cora’s out of camp.
Wondering if Jerry can craft a bullpen? So is Jerry, but he’ll have to do it without K-Rod, Putz, Feliciano and Figueroa.
I don’t get it. Nobody cares about this thing, why have it?
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Yesterday I mentioned how I’d like to time travel to 1983 and give Darryl Strawberry some steroids.
A quick google search turns up this gem:
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Plenty of folks enjoyed my Speculation About The Opening Day First Pitch – I mean it’s fairly obvious who it should be, right?
Also popular were the suggestions for New Traditions For The New Mets Stadium – I want to add one to that list. I want them to take the field to Meet The Mets every day, none of this techno music and C&C Music Factory nonsense.
Still popular is the question of What Does $632 Million Get You – and the answer is obstructed seats!
Between A-Rod and Ticketgate this is turning into Yankees Police some days. Click here to see the new Yankee caps for 2009. Here for pics of the new place. Here for the warning the NYY’s sent ticket holders.
By now you know that the First Game At C-Field is not a Mets game.
Nobody is buying into The Curse Of Bob Murphy but some enjoy The Curse of Lee Mazzilli.
Finally some shoutouts:
Fellow Mets Policeman “Cyclones Fan” got married, and played Meet the Mets at the reception. My table debated if there was a second verse or not, apparently there is and it’s exactly the same as the first. No Curly Shuffle though, I will need to get on him about that when he returns.
Shoutout to Amazin Avenue who sent us lots of traffic this week.
Shoutout to New Stadium Insider who hustles his butt and um inspired several posts this week.
Shoutout to Mets By The Numbers who saves me tons of research.
Shoutout to Mets Geek who included us in a Guide To Mets Blogs this week.
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My google tracker caught this post about Doug Flynn.
Take a look at Doug. He looks like he weighs 145 pounds. That’s what everyone used to look like.
He looks like a 12 year old kid. He was 30 about to hit .222 for that horrible 1981 team I told you about.
Ever meet Bud Harrelson? Tiny man.
I’d still like to go back to 1983 and give Strawberry some ‘roids. He might have hit a ball 700 feet (and I think he did that one opening day in Montreal – let’s save that topic for tomorrow).
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I try to teach my young coworkers about the Mets and they know so little. One 24 year old talked about “Davey Anderson” the manager. That’s how long it has been since we’ve had a trophy in Flushing. Full fledged adults with no recollection of Doc and Friends.
I was trying to explain just how bad the 1981 Mets were, so I looked up the numbers on Baseball Reference.
81 was a weird year with two half-seasons, and a long strike in the middle. For the numbers you’ll need to add about a third to compare them to anything, but the averages speak for themselves.
1B. Dave Kingman. .221 and 22 Home Runs. That’s like 44 if you take steroids. 60 if you take steroids and play 162 games. 22 HRs got him a whopping 59 RBI. He would hit them high up the scoreboard. We called him Kong. He wanted us to call him Sky King. He might as well have asked us to call him the Home Run Fairy, it would have sounded less corny. 105 strike outs when 105 Ks was like 200 is now. One dimensional player, and grumpy too.
2B. Doug Flynn. Awesome…he came over in the Seaver deal….he must be good….oh wait he hit .222 never mind.
SS Frank Tavares. He hit .230 We’re three starters deep and the best guy hit .230 Think about that
3B Hubie Brooks. It was always “Hubie and Mookie” in those days. Hubie was a star in Montreal, not so much with the Mets but he did hit .307 with four count them four home runs so don’t blame Hubie.
LF Lee Mazzilli. Mets Police readers know I love my Lee. Lee hit the second most homers on the team with six. That wasn’t a type. Six. Sky King hit 22 and Lee hit 6. He also hit .228! That the Mets were able to turn Lee into Ron Darling and (eventually) Howard Johnson shows that Frank Cashen was a little smarter than Steve Phillips.
CF Mookie Wilson. Mookie Hit .271. Don’t blame him.
RF. Pick Someone. Right Field was a toss-up, but for sake of argument let’s call it Joel Youngblood who was the All-Star that year hitting .350 in 43 games.
You know those years where they have to pick someone to be on the team? That was Youngblood.
C The always hurt John Stearns got in 80 games and batted .271.
Pitchers: Mike Scott (before he learned how to cheat – this Mike Scott was 5 and 10). Pat Zachry, for whom you lost Seaver, 7 an 14. Randy Jones who had a good career elsewhere, 1 and 8. Ed Lynch turned a 2.71 era into 4 wins. Neil Allen saved 18 and would soon get you Keith Hernandez (again proving Cashen was the clever man Omar thinks Omar is.)
The leader of this Mess – Joe Torre. Joe’s less of a genius when people hit .230 or less for him.
These kids with their September collapses don’t know how good they have it.
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