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THE DISH: Meeting of the Mets in Stamford – GreenwichTime

Wait…really?  Why would Bobby AND Wally AND Omar be there?   Did I miss the massive reports of this?   “Greenwich Time” has this and nobody else??

Discuss!

Scene … Stamford resident and ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine was seen having dinner with New York Mets owner and Greenwich resident Jeff Wilpon, Mets General Manager Omar Minaya and Mets minor league manager and former Met Wally Backman at Quattro Pazzi in Stamford on Sept. 23.

via THE DISH: Meeting of the Mets in Stamford – GreenwichTime.

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Hey you know that soapbox I was on this morning?

I published this at 9:52.   Now I’m no Mike Wallace all I did was type “Mets” into google and this showed up.  Maybe everyone else did too right around then.  But man a lot of people were doing the same thing shortly afterr I posted it, and the post fed my twitter.   It’s very easy to mention where you see things Metsosphere.   This story is everywhere now.  I guess everyone is working on their blog over bagels today…and I look forward to the exclusives in the papers tomorrow.

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Another update:  MetsBlog is reporting that team reps say this meeting never happened.

See fellow bloggers how easy it was for me to say where I read something?

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Mets, Bills brothers in indifference – NYPOST.com

I am a big fan of Mike Vaccaro’s work (actually if I recall he too acknowledges blogs exist, maybe it’s just Lupica) who has a nice piece today from which I excerpt.

A team should never be upset when their fans are angry. Anger insinuates that people care. Anger hints at fans who still go to bed at night knowing sleep won’t come because they are drowning in the angst of a difficult loss. Anger is a good thing.

via Mets, Bills brothers in indifference – NYPOST.com.

Mike is right when he talks about how long ago it has been since 2010 Mets fans care.  I’m one of those who checked out on August 20-somethingth.   There’s just been nothing to hold my interest.

I was debating doing the podcast tonight and as I type this I decided on no – I can’t talk about the GM/manager thing again.   Unless Jerry takes out a knife and goes gangsta there’s no new angle.

The new-new begins tomorrow.  At least then we being the road to being interesting again.   Today, game 162 of what feels like a 212 game season.

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Soapbox on being “first”

Good morning Mets fans.   A reading from the book of Lupica:

Here is the opening paragraph of Andy Martinos Mets story in Fridays Daily News, before all the “exclusives” to follow later in the day:”Shortly after the season ends on Sunday, the Mets will likely inform Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya about plans to employ a new manager and head of baseball operations in 2011 – but the team does not appear close to naming those replacements, according to people familiar with the Mets thinking.”

via Mets must replace Omar Minaya with the right general manager if they want to change teams culture.

All well and good, and Andy does a good job.   However, here is 7 Train to Shea from September 29th which was Wednesday (and then further circulated on Mets Blog Wednesday) and before Martino’s column and all the “exclusives” to follow later in the week.

According to sources, Omar Minaya will be fired next week likely on Monday. Minaya will not be re-assigned within the organization.

Also, Jerry Manuel’s contract will not be renewed for next season, ending his Mets managerial tenure, making this his final week managing the Mets.

Just saying.

I know from personal experience the Times will pay attention to bloggers and give credit when they learn about a story from a blog.  I haven’t noticed one way or another with the News.

Maybe nobody at the News knows about 7 Train (but I damn well bet they peek at MetsBlog), or Andy had the story on Monday but for some reason it didn’t make the paper….

..but as Mike is sticking up for one of his guys, I’m gonna stick up for one of “ours.”

Not all blogs are written by fat guys in sweatpants in their mom’s basement.  (Usually I don’t wear sweatpants, and it’s my own basement.  Today I do have sweatpants but I’m at the kitchen table.)

Good job out of Matt Pignataro.  Throw the man some page views.

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Getting back to yesterday’s soapbox about how silly this is….sure enough, the sidebar to Lupica’s column has the “who could be the next manager” stuff.   All so so predictable.  As predictable as me publishing oddball jerseys and alternate caps later this week.

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Jerry’s Penultimate Mets lineup

We were talking on twitter (@metspolice) that perhaps it is unnecessary/redundant for me to post lineups. May be so. However stopping after game 160 seems an odd time to start.

Besides I like using words like penultimate and October.

Saturday, October 2nd
Mets vs. Nationals
at Citi Field (Queens, NY)

16 Angel Pagan CF
27 Jesus Feliciano RF
5 David Wright 3B
29 Ike Davis 1B
21 Lucas Duda LF
12 Joaquin Arias 2B
30 Josh Thole C
11 Ruben Tejada SS
22 Raul Valdes LHP