The Mets Police – Page 4867 – What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.

April 27, 2008

Davey: Mets Screwed Up Gooden

It took 20 years for someone to admit it but here it is!

The Daily News speaks with Davey Johnson

DN: You managed one of the greatest young talents the game has ever seen in Dwight Gooden, who went 24-4 as a 20-year-old. How do you feel when you think about his career, and his life after baseball?

DJ: Unbelievably sad. The biggest shock in my life in baseball was in the spring of 1987, when he came into my office and said, “Skip, I’ve got a problem. I’ve got to go to drug rehab.” I said, “You’ve got to be kidding me.” Doc was like a son to me. He was the first one to the ballpark every day. He was always happy. I just couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

The thing with Dwight is that he meant no harm, but he couldn’t say no – to his guys from his hometown. He didn’t want to feel bigger or better than anybody else.

DN: He was a good pitcher after that 1985 season, but never the same pitcher.

DJ: Never the same. I blame it on the drugs, and I also blame it on the delivery change they had him make. I don’t even know where the orders came from, but they didn’t come from me or Mel Stottlemyre. They wanted him to shorten his delivery, lower that big high leg kick and not turn as much. Sure, he could be run on, but they could run on (Greg) Maddux, too; did they change his delivery? To this day I regret even going along with it.

April 27, 2008

Mets Whiny About Blogs?

I’m not going to kill MetsBlog.com if the reporting is accurate on this. We’d all like to get our words out there. Personally I’m not quitting until the Mets hire me as Director of Franchise Integrity. Anyways here’s Raissman in today’s News:

Is Matt Cerrone‘s entertaining and informative MetsBlog.com (One Team, One Million GM’s) losing some edge – and independence?
Prior to the start of the season, Cerrone joined forces with the Mets and SportsNet New York in a deal to have MetsBlog.com appear on SNY’s Web site. This was followed by a lot of yap-flapping out of Metsville (and MetsBlog) about MetsBlog being able to continue doing its thing.
On Thursday, MetsBlog posted a YouTube video of Joe Smith going mouth-to-mouth (“You ain’t s— … I’m in the big leagues you idiot”) with Cubs fans. Spies say when a Mets official was made aware of the video’s presence, he had it immediately pulled off MetsBlog.
For MetsBlog, and its fans, that’s called livin’ in a corporate world.

April 27, 2008

Non-Mets Good Rip

Mike Mussina Convinced He’s Won A World Series

April 26, 2008

Sins Of The Past Vol. 1

Come on.

Did they really think there were some spanish speaking people who were suddenly going to become Mets fan because they added the word “Los” in three inch letters?

This looks horrible.

Reminds me of when they decided to market to Japan – opening day at 5am, Shinjo and that guy that was “the Japanese Greg Maddux.” (Why sign the real Greg Maddux when you can get the Japanese version.)

If you’re going to do it, go all in like the Brewers did.

April 25, 2008

Dodgers to Move Across Street For No Reason

Oops wrong team, that’s someone else.

Wait..you mean there’s a way to renovate a stadium and make it cool? No way!

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers unveiled a four-year upgrade plan for Dodger Stadium on Thursday that owner Frank McCourt said amounts to a new home for the team built around the nearly 50-year-old core of the old.

The plan includes a tree-lined entrance to a landscaped grand plaza beyond center field that will connect to a promenade of restaurants, shops and a Dodgers museum.

Acres of parking around the stadium will be turned into a perimeter walkway, which the team is calling “the green necklace,” allowing fans to move outdoors around the ballpark while inside the gates.

One plaza will have views encompassing downtown, the Pacific Ocean and mountains.

“We’re creating a new stadium without tearing down the old,” McCourt said in a statement. “That may take more effort and more resources, but we’re talking about Dodger Stadium.”

It’s all planned to be completed by opening day in 2012, with a price tag of about $500 million, according to a news release from Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s office.

The changes require approval from the city council, expected to be a formality.

The announcement should help bring an end to speculation about a new stadium for the Dodgers, which had increased as more of the stadiums of the 1960s are torn down for newer, more neoclassical venues.

“We are very pleased to see the Dodgers commit to remain at a ‘new’ Dodger Stadium,” baseball commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.

The Dodgers summarized the changes for community groups and season ticket holders earlier in the week, and formally announced the facelift Thursday at a news conference.

The stadium, in use since 1962, will be the third oldest in Major League Baseball after the New York Yankees move to their new home next year. Only Boston’s Fenway Park and Chicago’s Wrigley Field will be older.

This is the fifth phase of renovations since McCourt and his wife Jamie purchased the Dodgers in 2004.