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February 16, 2009

Joel Youngblood (Link)

I’m sure I’m a day behind the other 10,000 Mets blogs (I was down at the Daytona 500) but I’m not going to pass up a chance to link to a Joel Youngblood article from the great “Where are they now?” series in the News.

If you’re old enough you remember the day Joel played for the Mets and the Phillies. If you’re one of these 20-somethings who aren’t old enough to remember the Mets winning a World Series, then you have no idea who Joel is. Youngblood was an OK outfielder – really a 4th OFer type although he rang up some starts on some awful Mets teams – and even was the Mets All-Star one year.

You think the Yankees are annoying now? Try being 12ish years old and every year the AL All Stars are half the Yankees and your team just has one guy (usually Mazzilli of course) and even the one guy doesn’t start, maybe he gets in in the 8th inning, and you are 12 and half asleep.

Joel’s the kind of player the 2007 and 2008 Mets could have used. Scrappy and serviceable.

Here’s the article: Youngblood link

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February 16, 2009

Mets fan at Daytona 500

I was Clark Kent at Daytona all weekend but had my eyes open looking for Mets fans.

In a sea of sponsor logos so far this was the only Mets fan I have spotted (look closely at the yellow bag).

You have to understand Nascar – you don’t wear the “jersey” of your favorite driver, you wear something related to his car. Since his car is sponsored, you wear a sponsor logo.

It’s very common to see someone wearing a Cheerios jacket or an M&M’s jacket.

One of the most popular drivers is Dale Earnhardt Junior. Junior used to drive the #8 Budweiser car – so you saw a ton of (actually nice looking) red Bud jackets. Now that Junior drives fro Amp’d, you see a ton of ugly green jackets.

So in a sea of sports attire, where nobody is afraid to walk around in an Aflac jacket, I only found one Mets logo. Not a single Met hat. I guess nobody from Flushing likes NASCAR, except of course for me.

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February 16, 2009

Corporate Field Opening Day Lottery

Passing along this information.

Mets launch Online Ticket Registration for Opening Day at Citi Field Tomorrow, February 17 at 10 A.M on Mets.Com and Losmets.Com

FLUSHING, N.Y., February 16, 2009 – The New York Mets today announced the launch of an online registration for the opportunity to purchase tickets for the inaugural Opening Day at Citi Field, starting tomorrow, February 17 at 10 a.m. at Mets.com and LosMets.com. The registration for the online random drawing will run through Tuesday, February 24. The Mets open their 2009 home season Monday, April 13 against the San Diego Padres at 7:10 p.m. at Citi Field.

April 13th – where the average low in Central Park is 44 degrees.

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February 16, 2009

A-Rod to Speak To Media Tomorrow at 1:30

Oh A-Rod why won’t you ever listen to me? You should have reported to camp early. You should have shown up Friday so the steroid stuff could have been at least halfway buried in the Saturday paper.

Nope, you are showing up tomorrow to address the media at 1:30.

Great, that way you have a bored sports media with no NBA highlights to eat up time (All-Star break). This way Sportscenter can be 22 minutes of A-Rod, some college hoops and three hockey games.

A-Rod, couldn’t you have at least laid low over the weekend. Did you need to be spotted with yet another girlfriend?

Joe Girardi sounds exhausted already, “I’m really looking forward to getting beyond Tuesday.”

A-Rod tries to do the right thing but just doesn’t know how (a point brought out really well in Joe Torre’s The Yankee Years book.) He called Selena Roberts to apologize. That seems nice, but I hope he read her book that is coming out in April because he may choose to back off that apology.

You can just tell that the mainstream media can’t wait to pile on. You can tell from the pictures they use of him in articles. They never make him look good, like this one in this Newsday article.

I’m sure Jeter will be thrilled with this conference. It has been a week now, and I am still troubled by Jeter’s quote:

“Why would I worry about me being on that list?”

I don’t think Jeter was on steroids, but nowadays everyone is on the suspect list. We didn’t think Pettitte was either. I compare Jeter’s statement to Posada’s:

“Let me make myself clear. I will never be positive. I don’t take anything. I’ve never tested positive in anything and I never will.”

That’s pretty clear, but then again so was Palmeiro. Maybe I’m being unfair to The Captain and I’m asking him to defend the proverbial “When did you stop beating your wife?” question but I can’t help but wonder, why didn’t he just say “I’ve never done steroids.”

The Bronx Zoo is back in full force. It’s pretty amazing Torre kept a lid on it for most of his tenure.

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February 16, 2009

Last Week of Shea – Part 5

No activity at the site on Sunday, but still walked around and took a few pictures.

This week I’ve been seeing a lot of people coming out to say good-bye to Shea. I’ve had some great conversations with a variety of people and their memories of Shea – not just Mets games but concerts, Jets, and the Pope.

Enjoy the pictures.

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