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Statistics prove for Mets it’s Bay not uniforms

There’s no need for a baseball team to stress over what they wear..

BAY WATCH: Jason Bay went 0-4 yesterday vs. the Dodgers…Despite yesterday’s loss, the Mets are 10-4 when Bay plays this season and 5-15 when he does not…He missed all four games when Colorado came to Citi Field (April 11-14)…Bay began the year on the Disabled List with a strained left rib cage…He was activatedon April 21…He missed the first two games of the Giants series while on the Paternity Leave List…The Mets are hitting .265 (125-471) and have scored 65 runs (4.6 runs per game) in the 14 games Bay has played…The Mets hit .239 (163-683) and scored 78 runs (3.9 runs per game) in the 20 games he has not played.

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Post on Mets: look ma, no fans

Here’s the Post via @mediagoon

They had 26,312 yesterday.  Nice day.  Mother’s Day.  Tough to kill them.  Lots of moms/wives don’t want to spend their day at a baseball game.

31,464 Saturday for Cap Day.  Looked pretty full.

35,948 on Friday for cups.  Not bad.

If the number settles in the 30’s until the frontrunners come back (and they always do) it’s not so bad.  There have been a few bad seasons, low expectations coming in, and the shininess is off the new park….as much as I like posting crowd shots, and some of the weeknight crowds have been scary, I think the Post is being a tad harsh.

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Stark: Mets discussing moving fences in at Citi Field?

 

A fascinating rumor that’s been rippling through the Mets’ clubhouse lately has the team finally getting ready to move in the fences at Citi Field.

via MLB — Rumblings and Grumblings: Major League Baseball continues to miss the call on instant replay – ESPN.

Stark goes on to add that there doesn’t seem to be much traction to it.

When I was in the park Saturday I was looking at the fence and the 17,000 angles.  Seems silly.  Just have a more or less normal fence.

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Great Mookie article in WSJ: Mookie a trucker?

The read of the day is in the WSJ…great stuff.  Mookie Wilson became a trucker for a while!  Anyone remember when he was a Maitre D (is that how that’s spelled?) in Woodside?

Plus he’s told the 1986 story 7000 times…

It’s so monotonous, it’s so redundant. I know I have to tell the story, and I know people I’m telling it to have already heard me tell the story. It never changes. I’m trapped.”

via Why New York Adores Mookie Wilson – WSJ.com.