The Mets Police

March 12, 2009

The Curse Of Colonel Sanders???

I’ll guess you don’t normally visit the Fox Toldeo site:

http://www.foxtoledo.com/dpp/news/offbeat/offbeat_dpgo_Fans_Hope_Curse_of_Col_Sanders_Ends_mb_031120092251924

LOS ANGELES – Divers checking for unexploded bombs in Osaka, Japan’s Dotonbori River found something else that is raising the hopes of a local baseball team’s fans — a statue of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders.

The statue was thrown into the river 24 years ago by rowdy fans of the Hanshin Tigers who were celebrating the team’s first Central League title in 21 years, according to The Mainichi Daily News (see pictures of the statue) .

Tigers fans apparently thought the statue looked a lot like the team’s slugger Randy Bass and ripped it out of the ground intending to give it a victory toss, but they threw it too far into the air and it went into the river.

The Tigers have not won the Japan World Series since 1985 and many believe it is because of the “Curse of Colonel Sanders.”

March 12, 2009

See The Mets On The Road And Get Bobblehead Dolls!

For those of you who like road trips….

…Casey Blake Bobblehead Night is May 20th in Los Angeles (vs. the Mets)

….Adam Jones Bobblehead Night June 17th in Baltimore (also vs. the Mets)

Sadly although there is Manny Ramirez Bobblehead Night as well, it in no way includes the Mets.

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March 12, 2009

Chi-Chi Says Mets are Doomed Unless….

Fun…Chi-Chi Rodriguez says the Mets should sign Pudge:

I hope Ivan has a big game because I would like to see the New York Mets sign him. I don’t think the New York Mets can win without him.

Chi-Chi is part of the Delgado-led campaign to get Ivan “Don’t Call Me Chi-Chi” Rodriguez on the team.

I forget who made this point (newspaper/blog) and I admit it’s not my own but it sure is interesting that when Delgado campaigns for a player to take the spot of teammates that it’s cool, but if A-Rod says something nice about Reyes then A-Rod is dissing half the Yankees. Poor A-Rod….

….and speaking of A-Rod, if the Mets do get Pudge can we get cousin Yuri’s phone number? You know…look at the stats.

Thanks Newsday!

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March 11, 2009

Mike Schmidt Thinks David Wright Is HOF

I’m a little sleepy, but I thought this was neat. Mike Schmidt, the best baseball player I ever saw (note I didn’t qualify position) thinks David Wright is a Hall of Famer.

The Daily News has the whole thing here.

Schmidt says:

“I think you’ve got yourself a future Hall of Famer there on the Mets.”

“From a baseball standpoint, he seems way beyond his years,” Schmidt said. “Hitting-wise, he’s your prototypical good modern generation hitter in that he stays inside the ball. In my day, we hit around the ball – pulled the ball more. It’s impressive to me he creates the production he does as a righthanded hitter, seeing a lot of righthanded pitchers, the tough relievers, the matchups he gets.

“Back in our day, you’d compare him to a (Steve) Garvey or heck, even a Roberto Clemente-type hitter where he uses the whole field, hits around .300, can hit you some home runs, break up a game. He’s a good solid RBI guy – what did he have last year, 128 (actually 124). I think my best year was in the low 120s (121 in 1980), so even last year he had more than I ever had.”

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March 11, 2009

Batting Third For The Mets, Rob Mackowiak

A cool column… on ESPN by Jayson Stark, observing that Spring Training sucks this year.

Jayson writes:

So I made a list of some of the hitters who have been spotted occupying the middle of the order just this week:

CLEANUP HITTERS — Jake Fox (Cubs), Jesus Guzman (Giants), Geoff Blum (Astros),Ramon Castro (Mets), Mike Hessman (Tigers) and Nick Evans (Mets).

NO. 3 HITTERS — Rob Mackowiak (Mets), Micah Hoffpauir (Cubs), Jose Valentin (Mets),Shane Costa (Royals) and Wes Helms (Marlins).

No disrespect to any of those fellows, obviously. But they’re not going to be confused with David Wright or Miguel Cabrera, either.