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1.  Who are you and what’s the name of your blog?
I am Ceetar, of Optimistic Mets Fan

2.  What kind of things can we find on your site?
I try to focus on my observations and the positive things I see, or why, despite certain negatives, i think the Mets can succeed.  I decided this to counter what seems to be a pervasive attitude to think the Mets are cursed, doomed, or just bad.  There are too many Joe Beningo Mets fans that can only see impending doom.  A baseball season is a long season where plenty of things go right, and plenty of things go wrong. I’d rather look for the things that can go right rather than look for the things that could go wrong.  I believe there is a set of ‘best case’ outcomes that will enable almost any team to reach, and win, the World Series.  I think it’s a lot more fun to go to a baseball game thinking Daniel Murphy’s going to hit a home run than it is expecting Oliver Perez to walk 18 batters.  I like to write about odd occurances and off-beat events I notice about the game or team in general.  I also take a ton of pictures.

3.  Expectations for 2010?
I honestly think the Mets have a legitimate chance in 2010.  I’ve thought the Phillies have been overrated, and beneficiaries of a lot of luck.  Obviously they’ve got more talent that I’ve thought, but I do see plenty of cracks in their game where if things don’t go right they could have a bad year.  The Mets should be in the playoffs this year, and from their they have a real shot of winning it all.

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Ceetar posted the below as a comment yesterday.  I think he’s on to something, but I didn’t want it to get lost in Beltrangate which seems quiet at the moment.

  Here’s Ceetar followed by my take:

‘m attached to the ’99-’00 team. I’m slighly older than 25, but not old enough that I remember ’86 and ’88 as anything more than my parents being really excited and me missing my cartoons when the Astro game went into extras. The thing is, they shouldn’t be feeling forced to welcome these guys back, and they should take any excuse to trump up past success and get people excited. Who cares how silly it is. Wright ties Strawberry for Home Runs as a Met, invite 5 (for Wright) Mets power hitters to Citi and celebrate it. Have them each throw a BP pitch to Wright to swing at. Honestly, I think the biggest issues the Mets front office has is they are woefully boring and uncreative. 

So that gave me an idea.  Home Run Derby Day.  Chicks and kids dig the longball right?

12pm on a Sunday, have a home run derby.  I kind of like the old classic version that you sometimes see on ESPN Classic but I’m up for the modern version.

Imagine the fun of seeing if David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Jason Bay, Howard Johnson or Darryl Strawberry would win.   Could be fun and a nice variant on the Old Timer’s Day type thing.

Just trying to help the Mets.  Now it’s not a logistical nightmare.  4 of the 5 guys I names should be in the building.  On behalf of all fans I promise you we won’t start in with “the home run derby screwed up his swing” is Wright goes 0 for his next 8.

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Carlos Beltran mustn’t want me to watch Community tonight (taped it).   The latest is that Carlos has released a statement which includes:

I have done nothing but follow the directions of my doctors. Any accusations that I ignored or defied the team’s wishes are simply false

So here’s the recap.  The all-star CF is out, the CF is in a war of words with the team, the fans think the team is run by subpar management top to bottom, and John Ricco is not the chosen one of smooth speakers.

Over here, I’m back at Mets Police HQ.  It was tough to be out of town today with “other stuff to do” and right now I’m looking for a pillow.   Some quick catch-up and blog related stuff:

– to the guy who said “Japanese J.J. Putz” is a tired joke.  You are right.  I’ll retire that one.

– Peter (king of Mets Police picture hookups) has sent over some shots from the fan gatherings at Citi Field this week.  Right now I think I will hold them to Monday until Beltrangate settles in.  Osh41 says he took some too, but as of 9pm he hasn’t sent them.

–  John sent me a note about Jay Horwitz.  Jay’s an interesting subject that I’ve been meaning to discuss for quite some time.  The media loves him.  Jay is VP of Media Relations which you should not confuse with Public Relations. I’d be curious to know what your opinion, as civilian non-media, of the state of the Mets relations with the media.  I’m not looking to bury the guy, you don’t last this long in this town without being good…but that’s a subject to look at.   From John’s letter, “No one in the media (rightly so) would dare say anything about Jay Horowitz and his staff, but someone really has to question their ability to handle the Mets image in the media.”   I think it’s worth looking at, and I do want to hear your take.  Keep in mind that his job is Media Relations and it seems the media likes him.   As always, let’s do this without name calling and try to have adult discussions.   I’ll collect some reader opinions and post them when the current storyline ends, and I have to recap “5 greatest Mets” too.  


– spelling and pronunciation section.  Horwitz not Horowitz.   WFAN says they have confirmed Ricco is “Rick-o” not “Reek-o” or anything else we can make up.

–  in one of the comments Ceetar had a neat idea that I built upon.  I had the idea scheduled for leadoff tomorrow, but right now it’s parked for sometime when it won’t get swallowed by Beltrangate but as a teaser:  what about a Mets home run derby?  I think I have a winner for fans and it would not be time consuming for Mr. Howard to put together.  Let’s talk about that when the dust settles. Right not I have nothing  (gasp!) scheduled for the morning.  I suspect I will wake up to news.

I’m sitting on a bunch of other things too, all fun stuff.  Seems like Beltran is the topic, so at least for the night we’ll go there.  This time yesterday I was thinking “well, I guess I’ll share those cool pictures of the commissioner’s office.”   Amazin’ how the news cycle changes.

If you missed it this morning, I thought I was halfway decent on Mets’ bigger problem: fans don’t believe.

Thanks for the support and submissions.  

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As get ready for Beltrangate, we’re touring the suite level with Peter, who took pictures of the cool Mets history that ownership has chosen to share with the rich.

I would assume that the mainstream media has access to this stuff which may explain why they haven’t beat the drum as loudly as maniacs like me…

..if you walk past this every day you assume Shannon from Promenade Left is a loony I guess.

More tomorrow, including Seaver.

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Some various Mets related lawsuits being reported:

The Post says:

SpongeTech Delivery Systems, a New York firm that makes soap-filled sponges, is the target of a nasty lawsuit from the Mets’ Citi Field that alleges the company stiffed the ballpark out of $300,000 owed for stadium-related advertising by sending them a bum check and then promising a wire transfer that never came.

Read more in the Post which by the way is doing a great job on Mets stuff today.


and if you missed it, the Mets are in disagreements with several folks over Ya Gotta Believe.


By the way, I’d really like to be writing about the ticker-tape parade (or probably complaining that it started late and that I didn’t like the music) than any of the things we are talking about.

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