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So you know how it sucks when MLB and ESPN (not the Mets) move a Sunday game to 8:05?

Some cute little kids, the same kids that are your future fan base were all excited about their trip to Citi Field on Sunday.

Little league mother Carolyn Pravda told us she was annoyed about the whole situation—ESPN has the option to pick a game of the week for national broadcast, and they chose the Mets/Braves matchup. So MLB moved the start from the original time of 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., “far past bedtime on a school night for most Little Leaguers,” as she put it. The parents in the two participating little leagues, Prospect Park and Bayside, bought around 1500 tickets, at $25 each for Upper Deck seats, for the event.

Via Gothamist

Dave Howard, you Dave – looking at you – let me help you.

You and I both know you’ve got 1500 Upper Deck seats for some Sunday game this summer.

Call the Little League now, play nice, fall on your sword even though it’s not your fault, and then let guys like me and Cerrone and Rubin get it out there what a nice thing the Mets did.

Good PR is fun too! For the want of 1500 unused tickets this is an easy one.

(The article does suggest the Mets are trying to work something out for later in the summer.)

Here’s General Lukas and General LI Phil from the War To Ditch The Black sporting their sdrawkcab jerseys at Citi Field on Wednesday.  More about the creation on Uni Watch

Phil and I were talking about meeting up and I said it would be like a date to me in that I;m thinking, “What do I wear? What if I accidentally bought a cheesy jersey?  How high do I wear my socks?”

Lots of pressure on that one.

Oh, no it’s not a backwards photo.  You should know us by now, we’re not that lame.

I like that backwards jerseys come in cream and white.  No dropshadow.

 

Tedquarters took a look at the Meatball Hero (pictured), The Double Shack and the Mama’s Special.

On July 17th, The Ike Davis Foundation will continue its support of Solving Kids’ Cancer* and The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative** with in an auction dinner at Michael’s of Brooklyn. To support the event, City Winery, in partnership with Ike Davis and The Baseball Project, have created a special Ike Davis wine. $10 will be donated to the Ike Davis Foundation to for any purchase of the special blend.

More info here.

 

 

I was tweaking the site last night and when I do that I click on old posts to see if the changes are working.

I stumbled across Terry’s letter to fans.  I thought it would be interesting to see how things are going. My goal is not to mock, just to see how things are going.

April 1, 2011

Dear Mets Fans:

With our 2011 opener tonight in Florida, I want to make this pledge to Mets fans — our team will play the game the right way.

We will always hustle on the bases, run balls down in the outfield and never take anything for granted, no matter the score of the game.

(Good to see that he echoed the importance of this stuff again after Wednesday’s loss.)

We had a great Spring Training. From day one my message has been look ahead, not backward, and not to worry about what the people outside the clubhouse are saying. If we pitch and play defense like I know we can, we will surprise a lot of people, a lot of people.

I stack our lineup against anyone else’s in the league. Getting Carlos Beltran back and hitting cleanup is really big. The way Carlos handled his move to right field was one of the classiest things I have ever seen. Angel Pagan is coming off a great season. While we had a little setback this week with Jason Bay — who was swinging the bat well — going on the Disabled List, he shouldn’t be out too long. We believe with the three of them on the field, we have one of the top outfields in baseball.

(Oh yeah, I forgot about that.  We all forgot Bay was having a good spring.  Carlos has handled the move well.  You don’t hear about that.)

Our infield is anchored by the two All-Stars on the left side: David Wright at third and Jose Reyes at short. I think David will add on to his numbers from last year and Jose is ready to have a tremendous season. He is one of the most dynamic players in the game. Ike Davis will continue to develop at first base and Josh Thole is one of the fine young catchers in the game. Brad Emaus, a Rule Five pick, got better and better as the spring went on and won the second base job.

(The Emaus line seems like faint praise.  Reyes is having a tremendous season.  You can’t predict injuries.)

On the mound, sure we are going to miss Johan Santana until he comes back, hopefully in mid-year. But this spring, I think we established a solid rotation with Mike Pelfrey, followed by R.A. Dickey and Jonathon Niese. Chris Young and Chris Capuano proved that they are healthy and they really strengthen us on the back end.

We remade our bullpen and we think we have quality arms who throw strikes to get to closer Francisco Rodriguez. K-Rod has just had a fantastic spring and I never have seen him throwing better. People like Bobby Parnell, D.J. Carrasco, Taylor Buchholz, Blaine Boyer, Tim Byrdak and Pedro Beato, another Rule V selection who is from Queens, will give us a solid pen.

I believe we have fortified our bench with the additions of Scott Hairston, Willie Harris, Ronny Paulino (who will begin the year on the Disabled List), and Chin-lung Hu along with Daniel Murphy.

(Well, this hasn’t worked out so well.  Murphy plays every day out of necessity, Paulino whatever, and the rest…hooboy.)

It’s been 12 years since I have started a season as a major league manager. I can’t tell you how proud I am to be leading the New York Mets and am very excited about the season ahead.

Thanks for your support and see you at Citi Field.
Sincerely,
Terry Collins

I’m not sure what the takeaway is.  I guess its that Terry wasn’t delusional.  The letter doesn’t seem crazy two months later and you can’t kill the guy for being optimistic in a letter to fans.

I’m still watching.