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Amazin’ Agony (link)

If you’re a big fan of Tom Glavine, the 2008 Mets, the 2000 World Series or the 1988 NLCS you sure will love this article on ESPN New York.

Author Mike Simon got reactions from several of the Mets bloggers as they debate which was the most painful moment in Mets history.    Maybe I’m an oddball but I would have gone with 9/11/87.  I was at Shea last night, and the Mets had clawed through injuries all summer to hunt down the Cardinals.  They had a lead and Dwight Gooden was pitching the next day.   And then…

Anyway, if you’re a Mets fan you probably like misery.  Check it out.

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Top of the 9th as I type this.   Getting worried about the season.   5 days until Santana again.

In better selfish news I see my blog was drunk and didn’t publish two of the posts that were scheduled for the morning, which means I now have less work to do this week.

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Why Ike Davis isn’t on the Mets

Read this from MLB Trade rumors and it will explain to you why Omar will wait until April 20th to call Ike up. It actually makes long-term sense.

I just heard someone call WFAN and suggest Lee Mazzilli as manager.  Man, even I haven’t floated that one yet this year.  I don’t see Lee being the man to bring this team in to play .625 ball.  He seems more of a June 16, 1977 manager – once they say screw it and play Thole, Ike, F-Mart and Tejada and let Jose Reyes meet his destiny winning an MVP with Boston.

I also heard someone blasting the hit song by Santana out their car window.  Maybe it’s a sign today will be a good day.

I’m considering buying a black Mets jersey to throw Day Job Boss off the trail.

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Bizarro World Mets Uni-Tweak

As I mentioned earlier, it’s Saturday when I like to sleep in, eat donuts and spend some family time.  I’ve also taken to making Saturday a less-serious day around here.  So with that, I’m heading to Dunkin’ and here’s Walt:

I decided to basically throw all of the Mets uniform colors into a blender, and see what comes out. Both Home & Road uniforms retain a small touch of traditional coloring for flavor (and whimsy). Piping on both uniforms is is coordinated with the color-way of each jerseys word-marks/lettering/numbers.

My Home uniform is more based off of the Mets primary “ball and city-scape” logo than the traditional & current home uni-sets.

The Road uniform retains the traditional “NEW YORK” word-mark, while going with a seriously old school dark road-uni look.

Of course, this will probably cause a number of Mets fans heads to explode.


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Santana Day

Good morning.  As I have been doing the past few weeks, I think today will be lighter fare and I’ll actually spend time with the wife and kids..at least until 4pm.

Today is a huge day.  It’s Santana Day.  Last week the Mets lost on Santana Day and look at how the week went.

Some math for you…gto get to 90 wins the Mets need to go 87-65 which is .572 baseball.  That’s 90 wins.

95 wins gets you to .625 baseball.

I’ll leave you with Omar Minaya’s thoughts on the weekend: “If we win one, I’ll take it.”   Way to lead Omar, way to lead.

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Another fan-mockup of a possible 2011 Mets jersey change

Laurence checked in regarding the rumor that the Mets are considering removing the piping from the 2011 jerseys (and provided this mockup.  Is everyone better at photoshop than I am?)  Laurence says:

One way to avoid the inevitable Dodgers comparison is to look around the league and see what other kinds of piping are out there. The Angels, DBacks, Giants, Nats, Padres, and Pirates all do a subtler two-tone piping that I think is really snazzy. (Come to think of it, the Mets’ giant-NY throwbacks had it too.) Anyway, I did a photoshop hack job to see what it might look like, and I have to say, I’m hoping they look like this.