The Mets Police

This was a fun experiment from yesterday. Would you trade Syndergaard and D’Arnaud to Toronto for R.A. Dickey?

“@metspolice: Would you package Syndergaard and D’Arnaud to get Dickey from Toronto?” NO WAY

— SMills (@Susanmills158) February 18, 2014

“@metspolice: Would you package Syndergaard and D’Arnaud to get Dickey from Toronto?” never in a million years

— Mike Trapani (@MikeTrapani36) February 18, 2014

Funny how things change over time.  Everyone go check Twitter from December 2012.

“@metspolice: Would you package Syndergaard and D’Arnaud to get Dickey from Toronto?” Lmao what? I’d do it for Reyes.

— D (@Hey_its_Don) February 18, 2014

@metspolice NO. Dickey, as good as he is, is 38. D’Arnaud and Syndegaard can be controlled for a longer term and for cheaper

— Sean Banner (@AstoriaSean) February 18, 2014

This will definitely make an appearance at the 2015 Queens Baseball Convention

One Met and one similarly named President.  One wins.  Jessie submitted the following (although some of the words are mine)

 

James Buchanan vs. Brian Buchanan

Edge: James.  While being Lincoln’s predecessor is vaguely interesting, Brian Buchanan was 0 for 3 as a Met.

 

 

 

 
 

Zachary Taylor (again??) vs Ron Taylor

Edge: Ron.  Poor Zach, he’ll probably lose to Zack Wheeler too.

Meanwhile, Ron won with the 64 Cardinals and the 69 Mets. That’s manly.

 

 

 Martin Van Buren vs. J.C. Martin 

Edge: J.C.  69 Mets beat everyone.

 

 

Millard Fillmore vs Ralph Milliard

Edge: Millard was the last Whig President, so neither Republican nor Democrat!

(clearly he must have been glorious to doom the Whig party)

Ralph struck out in an at bat in 1998.

I really like this format.  What else can we compare Mets to?

An old friend once told me that people will tell you everything about themselves in the first ten minutes.  The problem is that most of us aren’t paying attention to what is being said.

On Friday, Terry Collins did a press conference which aired on SNY and he threw out a bunch of notions that I will think will all come to pass.

1.  Your starting first baseman is Ike Davis.

At least once he threw in there “..and Lucas too” or something like that.  He clearly wasn’t thinking about Lucas Duda.

 

2.  Your starting first baseman is not Lucas Duda.  Lucas Duda is not your anything.

Terry did mention that Lucas is a big guy and that losing ten pounds wouldn’t be noticeable.  He mentioned that lucas mitt have to get some ABs playing the OF this spring.  Lucas won’t be playing much in 2014 because…

 

3.  Eric Young Jr. is going to play a lot.

He clearly likes EY.  EY’s name was talked about a lot.  There was even a “scenario” where Murphy plays first.  I wouldn’t stock up on Lagares jerseys just yet.

 

4.   Jon Niese is the Opening Day starter

Terry discussed Wheeler’s desire to pitch the opener and then went into Manager-Speak about how Opening Day matters only once blah blah and then said the word Niese.

 

5.  Murph is going to get messed with as usual

Did you know Murph can play third if Wright gets hurt?  Did you know Murph plays first?  Terry sure does.  The upside is it seems like Murph will be in the lineup someplace.