Author: Media Goon @mediagoon

According to MetsBlog, tickets to Mets Spring Training games in Port St. Lucie go on sale at 10:00 am ET..

(Shannon – I think I read the opening game time changed to 12-something. Will update the post later but check that one before buying plane tickets)

Here’s the schedule.

Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sat, Feb 23	Washington Nationals	12:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sun, Feb 24	University of Michigan Wolverines	12:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Mon, Feb 25	Washington Nationals	6:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Wed, Feb 27	St. Louis Cardinals	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Fri, Mar 1	Detroit Tigers	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sat, Mar 2	Miami Marlins	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Mon, Mar 4	Atlanta Braves	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Wed, Mar 6	Venezuela	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Thu, Mar 7	Miami Marlins	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sat, Mar 9	Houston Astros	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Thu, Mar 14	Detroit Tigers	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sat, Mar 16	Miami Marlins	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sun, Mar 17	Atlanta Braves	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Thu, Mar 21	St. Louis Cardinals	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sat, Mar 23	Washington Nationals	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Sun, Mar 24	Detroit Tigers	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Tue, Mar 26	St. Louis Cardinals	1:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Wed, Mar 27	Houston Astros	6:10 pm
Sports GameMets StadiumNY Mets	Fri, Mar 29	St. Louis Cardinals	12:10 pm

For full details, click here.

On Wednesday, January 16, Daniel Murphy will assist Far Rockaway residents affected by Hurricane Sandy joining New York Cares volunteers helping with the distribution of food and supplies.

The Community Church of the Nazarene in Far Rockaway opened its doors as a shelter to church and community members who had nowhere else to go after Hurricane Sandy. The church is developing partnerships with donors, support groups, and volunteers to deliver relief and restoration to the entire community and is currently serving as a full-service hub for residents needing not only immediate support but long term assistance rebuilding and restoring their lives.

It seems like other people #Imwith28 also. This pleases Shannon and I.We kept telling you he was a lot better then some of you guys thought.

This is from MetsBlog.(you can read their take on this over there.)

Tonight at 10:00 pm ET, Daniel Murphy will be featured on MLB Network’s ‘Top 10 Right Now: Second Basemen.’

“Take a look at the best batting averages over the last three years at this position, only Robbie Cano is higher than Murphy’s .302,” MLB Network’s Brian Kenny says of Murphy. “OPS+ over the last two seasons, now that takes into account park effects, and Murphy is there behind Cano, Pedroia, Kenrick and that’s it.”

The network’s editorial staff and on-air talent – including John Hart and Harold Reynolds – determined the rankings of the top ten second basemen using a number of factors, including offense, defense, upside and leadership.

In addition, renowned author Bill James gives his personal list of the top ten second basemen in the game.

 

This was just posted on NBCSports.com HardballTalk by a Michael J. Piazza (wink). If you click the link it takes you to Craig Calcaterra‘s author page.

Starts off with this title-
Did I do something wrong? Because I really don’t understand this at all

Hi, I’m Mike Piazza.

 

(this is the picture used from the site)

Do you remember me? Normally I wouldn’t ask that because I seem to remember being quite famous a few years ago, but it seems like several hundred people whose business it was to follow my career have forgotten me, and I just don’t know how to deal with that. I mean, I know there were better players than me, but I hit .308/.377/.545 for my career with 427 homers in 16 seasons. My career OPS+ was 143. The next three catchers on that list whose careers have already ended are Mickey Cochrane, Bill Dickey and Johnny Bench, and they’re way behind. I played in the World Series. Everyone said when I played that I was heading to the Hall of Fame.

But today I got just 57.8% of the vote, and at the risk of sounding arrogant, I think that’s kinda light, don’t you?

It’s almost as if someone is holding something against me and my Hall of Fame candidacy apart from what I did on the field. I know that’s possible! It happens to a lot of players these days. But (again, sorry for being narcissistic) I Googled myself and I couldn’t find a single article written which presents any facts which would reasonably lead someone to withhold their vote. I wasn’t named on any lists or outed in anyone’s book. There’s just … nothing.

It’s almost as if 42.8% of the Hall of Fame electorate has been talking about me behind my back, too cowardly to come out and accuse me of something, yet holding that something against me all the same. I’m just a simple man from Pennsylvania and I don’t necessarily understand how everything in the world works, but that strikes me as kinda wrong.

Sorry if that’s rude, but it beats the other explanation I have in mind: that 42.8% of the BBWAA are blithering idiots and wouldn’t know a Hall of Fame catcher if Carlton Fisk fell out of the sky, landed on their face and started to wiggle.

Thanks for your time.

 

Click here, if you want to go to the page and read it’s comments.

 

A complete shut out in the Hall of Fame nominees for this year. The top three that got votes were Biggio(68.2 %), Morris(67.7%), and Bagwell with(59.6%). Piazza had 57.7% of the vote. Clemens and Bonds had under 38%.

Here are the top 10 in votes

Craig Biggio 388 (68.2%)
Jack Morris 385 (67.7%)
Jeff Bagwell 339 (59.6%)
Mike Piazza 329 (57.8%)
Tim Raines 297 (52.2%)
Lee Smith 272 (47.8%)
Curt Schilling 221 (38.8%)
Roger Clemens 214 (37.6%)
Barry Bonds 206 (36.2%)
Edgar Martinez 204 (35.9%)

From the @mets twitter feed-

Mets Mike Piazza received 329 votes (57.8 percent) falling short in his first-year of HOF eligibility. #Bummer 1/9/13 2:03 PM Mets #Mets COO Jeff Wilpon on Piazza: We hope in the not too distant future that Mike Piazza will take his rightful place in the @BaseballHall… 1/9/13 2:05 PM Mets Wilpon on Piazza: The statistics he compiled during his career as a catcher were unmatched by anyone in the history of the game… 1/9/13 2:06 PM Mets Wilpon on Piazza: We are optimistic one day soon Mike‘s plaque, with a Mets cap, will be hanging in Cooperstown where it truly belongs. 1/9/13 2:06 PM