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Steaks, Shakes and Citi Field crowd shot

Lousy night here at MP HQ.  Here’s a quicky post – @thereadlsoxy with the wide angle crowd shot pre-game, and @mediagoon with the rest (from the 4th).

Goon had a steak and a beer.  I got in after 9 and then a late arriving and late staying houseguest asked “is that a real snake?”  Yes it was.  I just wanna go to bed – so here’s a quick post for y’all.

Yeah I mislabeled them June 2.  I’m beat.  And it still says #debug.  The Mets stunk tonight.  Worry about that instead.

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The Mets visit the Empire State Building


Does Mr. Met travel with the Secret Service? Who’s the man on the left?!

Photos Via the Empire State Building Facebook feed

NY Mets Honors U.S. Armed Forces At The Empire State Building

New York Mets players and representatives of the U.S. Armed Forces “Flip the switch” to light the Empire State Building to honor the U.S. Military. The Empire State Building lighting is part of the Mets and Citi’s “Teammates in the Community Week,” a weeklong series of programs that tribute to active military personnel and veterans.


Looks like fun. Also looks like the Mets are following the Star Trek theory of uniforms. TC and Mr. Met are obviously in charge, the rest work in the science division.

Someone at the ESB takes good photos!

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#imwith28: June has arrived, who loves Daniel Murphy?

Hello.

I continue to stick to my guns.

All winter long I said y’all would love Dan Murphy come June.  It’s June.  He’s hitting.  This is the month you will come around.

Since I have been with 28 all along I enjoyed this from Howard Megdal yesterday (even though it uses those fancy advanced stats you kids like)

Daniel Murphy has settled in as a major league hitter right between his 2008 and 2009 numbers. For the year, he’s at .278/.337/.418, good for an OPS+ of 111. Unlike Turner, he’s done it with a sustainable BABIP of .299, right in line with his .302 career BABIP mark.

And while the conventional wisdom is that Turner has starred at second base while Murphy has erred, the defensive metrics actually like Murphy’s performance at the position a good bit more than Turner’s. This is not to say it is predictive, given the small sample. But it certainly doesn’t provide any evidence that Murphy can’t play second base, and it seems he’d be likelier to improve than regress as he becomes more familiar with the position.