What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
I applaud them correcting any mistakes, but this one makes me giggle.
An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
Back in my day we had nice uniforms. We had real stats like average. If a guy went 1 for 3 you knew he was hitting .333 and that was good enough.
Damn kids and your advanced stats and black uniforms…get off my lawn!
I decided to give in and bring advanced stats to Mets Police. So I went to the @FormerDirtDart Sports Bureau and they were able to hook me up with some numbers.
The Mets have an impressive 1.000 HATE (Hybrids As opposed to Tradition Everyday) win percentage at home. However, road HATE is a paltry .375. Their combined HATE is .444
WABU (Wins after Black Uniforms) are currently being crunched. I will share those when I get them.
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Speaking of uniforms, Paul from Uni Watch emailed me, “I wanted to let you know that my ESPN column this week will be very Mets-centric, and it’s about a subject near and dear to your (and my) heart. Trust me, you’ll dig this one. It’ll run on Thursday.”
Hmmm. Sounds fun!
If your name is Fred check out this great piece about Brooklyn Dodgers caps that ran over the weekend.
There’s no need for a baseball team to stress over what they wear..
BAY WATCH: Jason Bay went 0-4 yesterday vs. the Dodgers…Despite yesterday’s loss, the Mets are 10-4 when Bay plays this season and 5-15 when he does not…He missed all four games when Colorado came to Citi Field (April 11-14)…Bay began the year on the Disabled List with a strained left rib cage…He was activatedon April 21…He missed the first two games of the Giants series while on the Paternity Leave List…The Mets are hitting .265 (125-471) and have scored 65 runs (4.6 runs per game) in the 14 games Bay has played…The Mets hit .239 (163-683) and scored 78 runs (3.9 runs per game) in the 20 games he has not played.
From @newyorkmets Friday night
Here’s the Post via @mediagoon
They had 26,312 yesterday. Nice day. Mother’s Day. Tough to kill them. Lots of moms/wives don’t want to spend their day at a baseball game.
31,464 Saturday for Cap Day. Looked pretty full.
35,948 on Friday for cups. Not bad.
If the number settles in the 30’s until the frontrunners come back (and they always do) it’s not so bad. There have been a few bad seasons, low expectations coming in, and the shininess is off the new park….as much as I like posting crowd shots, and some of the weeknight crowds have been scary, I think the Post is being a tad harsh.
