Just wanted to remind everyone that in the unlikely event Pedro feels like pitching, he is 7-5 since June 2006.
He threw 55 pitches yesterday. That’s about 10 fewer than he’ll throw when he goes 4 innings on Jue 1st.
Uniform Numbers – Real and Rented Part 3
Continuing our series of what players are (or should be) associated with each number. (Inspired by the Shea game countdown on the outfield fence). So far we’ve covered numbers 1 through 10. With thanks again to Mets By The Numbers, here now are 11 through 15:
11
Rightful Owner(s): Wayne Garret & Tim Tuefel
Rent-A-Met: None
Comment: Yes Tuefel was a Twin first, but he became a Met and has managed and coached in the system for several years now.
12
Rightful Owner(s): John Stearns & Ron Darling
Rent-A-Met: Willie Randolph
Comment: Randolph was and always will be a Yankee. Stearns was robbed of an opportunity to manage this team.
13
Rightful Owner(s): Edgardo Alfonzo
Rent-A-Met: Billy Wagner
Comment: Fonzie was perhaps the one true Met on the 1999-2000 playoff teams.
14
Rightful Owner(s): Gil Hodges
Rent-A-Met: None
Comment: Gil was a Dodger first, but will always be remembered as a Met as well. You know the Mets will trot out his widow Joan to take down the Game #14 sign.
15
Rightful Owner(s): Jerry Grote
Rent-A-Met: Carlos Beltran
Comment: When he’s not rustling cattle, Grote was a helluva defensive catcher. Beltran on the other hand has many years to go before being considered a Met.
Rays Day
Wow. As part of Rays Day I totally forgot about Scott Kazmir.
If you have read anything on this blog you don’t have to guess what I think about the Kazmir trade, it’s the same as everyone else.
More on the Rays here…
The Apple isn’t coming to Citi Field
More Apple distraction. They are getting us mentally ready for a new Apple. We want this Apple. Note the wag-the-dog in this article from mlb.com. Like the Apple is going to dissolve if someone sticks it on a flat-bed truck. Can someone come up with a picture of the Apple being used at Ebbett’s field? Maybe that will work. Also interesting is that’s it’s OK if someone buries a Yankees jersey.
NEW YORK — Citi Field may have a something-less-than-new component.
The Mets’ new home next season may have a piece of their current home — the Apple. No matter what, a home run apple will be installed just beyond the outfield wall — as it is at Shea Stadium — but this one will be left of center. And according to Mets COO Jeff Wilpon, it hasn’t yet been determined whether the old one can handle the move or whether a replacement will be necessary.
Ah, apple turnover.
Wilpon said the Mets haven’t guarded against some unscrupulous soul placing a piece of opponents’ paraphernalia at Citi Field as someone supposedly did with the new Yankee Stadium.
The Yankees, knowing precisely where to dig, removed a David Ortiz T-shirt from under a block of cement at their construction site in April.
“And as soon as they did, what happened?” Wilpon said. “Ortiz started hitting, right? He’d been in a slump, and then boom, as soon as they dug it up.
“We’ll just let it stay there.”
Citi Field
More pics and comments at the link below.
Things like this make me mad:
Chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon said the outfield of the US$800-million ballpark, scheduled to open next year, was “somewhat evocative of the Polo Grounds.”
No Jeff, it’s not. If it is then Camden Yards is. Your dad thinks you’re the Dodgers.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/mets/2008/05/surfing-the-mets-tours-citi-fi.html