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Mets pregame notes for Sunday 3/13

It’s a quiet day in the pregame notes.

If you missed it, there was some Santana flurry through the overnight (scroll down the site).  Also in Santana news, Johan is on twitter @johansantana – wish him a happy birthday (3/13/79).

Also worth scrolling down is that the Mets have created Mr. Met’s landing.

I’ll do a recap post after soccer, jumping a car, shopping, soccer and “cleaning my pile” (she says).

TODAY’S METS STARTER: LHP PAT MISCH is making his first start of the spring after three relief appearances…He is 1-0 with a 2.25 ERA, allowing two earned runsover 8.0 spring innings…Misch was 0-4 with a 3.82 ERA in 12 games, six starts for the Mets in 2010…He racked up 23 strikeouts in 37.2 innings…Misch began the season inthe starting rotation for Buffalo (AAA) of the International League before the Mets selected his contract on August 14…Misch struck out a career-best 10 batters in 8.0 innings on October 1 vs. the Nationals…The lefthander split his time with the Mets between the rotation and the bullpen, making six starts and six relief appearances.  Did not allow a run as a reliever throwing…4.0 innings…Went 0-4 as a starter, pitchingto a 4.28 ERA (16 earned runs/33.2 innings)

NEXT AMERICAN IDOL: The New York Mets announced they will hold their annualAnthem Search tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. at Citi Field for the opportunity to sing the National Anthem prior to a 2011 Mets homegame…The first 100 to arrive are guaranteed an audition and an opportunityto perform a song of their choice – excluding the National Anthem – a cappella 2008 Mets Anthem Search winner Pia Toscano is currently competing on Season10 of American Idol.

MONDAY, MARCH 14 – OFF DAY

TUESDAY, MARCH 15 VS. WASHINGTON 7:10 P.M. AT PORT ST. LUCIE

NATIONALS: TBA

METS: Chris Young (RHP), Oliver Perez(LHP), Pedro Beato (RHP), Francisco Rodriguez (RHP), Jason Isringhausen (RHP),Taylor Tankersley (LHP), Blaine Boyer (RHP)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16 VS. MINNESOTA1:10 P.M. AT FORT MYERS

METS: Mike Pelfrey (RHP), Manny Acosta(RHP), Boof Bonser (RHP), Dillon Gee (RHP),Mike O’Connor (LHP), Bobby Parnell (RHP)

TWINS: TBA

THURSDAY, MARCH 17 VS. BOSTON1:05 P.M. AT FORT MYERS

METS: Jonathon Niese (LHP), Mike O’Connor(LHP), Taylor Tankersley (LHP), Bobby Parnell(RHP), Pedro Beato (RHP), Taylor Buchholz(RHP)

RED SOX: TBA

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Charliegate: Cops found a bunch of 86 Mets uniforms

Not sure where this one is going, but I have a bad feeling about this.

..cops seized hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of autographed player jerseys and other memorabilia from the ’86 team that Samuels had placed in a Port St. Lucie storage facility.

“It was mainly uniforms,” one source close to the probe told The News Saturday. “They’re all signed and worth a fortune.”

via Cops seize treasure trove of ’86 Mets memorabilia allegedly stashed away by former clubhouse manager.

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Mets Say Santana is Doing Fine

I went to bed last night in a so so mood after reading that Johan Santana might miss the whole season. Fine, I will admit it, it bummed me a out. I just woke up ten minutes ago and I started sifting through my twitter feed and found a Santana is fine post by Adam Rubin.

The progress “has been great,” Warthen said. “We’ve been actually sneaking him back a couple of extra feet each time without him really knowing it, but I think he does know it. The arm is working in great position — he’s getting it up. He’s missed a day here and there, but he’s gone back-to-back because he missed [on] his wife’s birthday. We gave him an extra day there. So everything is going right on target, maybe a little bit ahead.

That quote is from Dan Warthen.

But this right here fits more in line with the post I wrote from last night.

Privately, people close to Santana accept he might be a shell of himself in the second half, assuming he returns.

I am crossing my fingers that this isn’t true. I just hope even if he is rusty when he come back this year that he will be fine next year.

Check out Adam Rubin’s full story here.

Update: I know i just posted this thirty seconds ago but Adam Rubin just did another piece where he actually talked to number 57.

I don’t know who’s saying that I’m not ready or whatever,” said Santana, who turned 32 Sunday, “because according to everything, the way it has been done, we’re right on the right track and where we’re supposed to be. Whoever is saying that I’m not ready I think is lying. We are all on the same page here. And I’ve been doing my job and doing my rehab and everything the way it’s supposed to be done. … How can you have a setback at this point, where I’m just beginning to throw? I haven’t even got on the mound. I haven’t even forced my body to try to throw hard. It’s just a slow process and I’m just doing it with caution.

Adam also asked Santana, How could he know if its just regular soreness?

I’ve had pain before. I know the difference between pain and soreness. As of right now, you go through a process where you have to build everything up and your arm, your shoulder is weak. You know you have to overcome that. But it takes tim

You can see the rest of this story here.