Category: mets

As usual, I’m doing a quick cut and paste from a PDF thus any poor formatting is my fault not that of the Mets.  Every day (unless I get super-busy like yesterday) I pick a few things of interest…

WHO’S HOT: DANIEL MURPHY has two RBI, two runs scored and two doubles in his last two games…FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ has retired eight of the last nine batters he’s faced…SCOTT HAIRSTON is hitting .412 (7-17) with three doubles…After collecting three hits yesterday, JOSH THOLE is batting350 (7-20) with one double, one home run.and two RBI

SPRING TRAINING RECORDS: The Mets are 5-7-1 during Spring Training this year…The Mets are 653-668-11 (.494) all-time during Spring Training.

I love the Mets. They are the greatest topic ever to blog about.

Not only do you get at least 162 new topics every year, they are always willing to provide a soap opera.

So far this morning, CharlieSamuelsGate is back – and you know that’s going to end well with everyone’s hands being clean – and the Times brings up that maybe perhaps the Wilpons had some financial problems even before the lawsuit:

For instance, revenue from about 10,600 club seats and suites and from advertising and concessions dedicated to paying off the Mets’ new $800 million home, Citi Field, fell tens of millions of dollars short of forecasts made just two months before the season began in 2009. That was followed by a nearly 20 percent decline in attendance in 2010 and a resulting slide in revenue that was compounded by an increase in stadium bond payments.

Well that’s unlucky isn’t it?

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On twitter last night there was an interesting premise: would the Mets be in better financial shape had they stayed at Shea? I imagine (unresearched) they would be drawing around two million, but maybe without the stadium financing they wouldn’t be hamstrung?

Then again picture the mood of the fan base with two collapses and two disasters without Shea Goodbye and obstructed views at Citi Field to distract.

Remember Charlie-Gate? No, not Sheen, Samuels.

Seems the NYPD had a chat with K-Rod and Piazza.

From the Daily News

“These were guys Samuels hung with and were in a position to know what he was up to,” they said

Neither player is a target in the investigation.

I want to see DW’s bowling shirt!

As the King of Fairness, the blue jersey doesn’t look half bad.

One thing about David Wright…he would never charge you to print out tickets at home, that’s for sure.