Category: mets

The Mets will open Citi Field against the Red Sox April 3 and 4.   That’s fun….and the Mets will get some extra money out of us, and it makes it less hideous that the home opener is a Monday night (awful Mets, awful awful awful).

So we can look forward to……oh wait….as always the Mets don’t get it right.   Guess who else opens a stadium on….yes you guessed it, April 3 & 4.   That’s right, the Yankees will play the Cubs those same days.

Why show off your new stadium when you can be swallowed by all the attention on the New New Yankee Stadium.

I think the Mets may actually have the better ballpark this time, but Yankee will get the attention just off the name.

Hopefully one of the teams will blink, or at least the teams hopefully won’t both play at the same time.  I’m sure there are lots of us who’d like to go to both.

If you’re here you are a Mets fan….anyone out there tempted to be at the opening of Yankee and wait on Citi Field until day two?  

Anyone remember how much Franco was despised…(don’t believe the revisionist history)….yeah he’d save the game after walking two guys and getting a double play.   Well, I’m trying to write ahead this week so I can travel – and I saw this in the Sunday Post.

K-Rod did set the season record with 62 saves in 2008. But one Mets official had this insight: “When it comes to statistics, we are not basing this decision on save totals; at least not save totals alone.” The Mets will honor, among other items, strikeout-to-walk ratio and on-base percentage against.

And I came across this stat just out of curiosity: Rodriguez registered 1-2-3 frames in a career-low 29.2 percent of his innings (all figures courtesy of Elias). That ranked 151st out of 253 pitchers who worked at least 60 innings in 2008. Fuentes (41.3) was 13th, Wood (38.1) was 28th, Street (38.0), even with diminished stuff, was 29th, and another free agent, Brandon Lyon (37.7) was 31st.

Can you imagine K-Rod getting “all that money” (and I don’t care about money this year, the Mets have it) and then putting someone on base 70% of the time.  He’d be the new Doug Sisk.  Bummer, I was hoping they got him but then again I’m just a pop-off blogger and not a full-time GM.

Donovan McNabb said he had no idea that a regular season game could end in a tie. How is that possible? Has he never looked at the standings? Isn't that a pretty basic rule of the game?

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Happy Birthday to Tom Seaver.   I’m done being mad at you because you were cool at the finale.   Enjoy some GTS wine and your World Series ring.