What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
The ESPN Sunday Night Baseball schedule (now with less Joe Morgan!) is still an ESPN telecast and is still a Sunday night game so I won’t like it nor will Howie.
May 1, Mets at Phillies. Another reason for me NOT to renew my Phils tickets (I make ka-ching on Stubhub but am getting bored with Stubhub.)
July 10 Mets at the Formerly New York Giants of San Francisco.
At least they are both road games so Sunday Plus Games You Don’t Want planholders don’t get hosed.
Oh my goodness. I may just pack up the blog right now and call it a career.
Mike from Bayside just sent me the coolest thing ever, and I’m not even messing with Osh41 with this one.
Behold…Tom Seaver, August 1977. Think about that that means. Watch, then let’s discuss.
It just looks so wrong. The red. The Reds. It looks unholy. I can deal with pictures of Tom in other ballparks, but there he is, pitching in my youth wearing the wrong color.
What the hell is happening when the ladies are dancing on the dugout?
I am going to watch this video so many times now. I kinda wanna reference a certain video by Lonely Island, that’s how excited I am.
(Anyone else humming Doors tunes?)
Borbay passed along his cool painting of Citi Field at night…but what’s even cooler is the process which you can check out on his site. Pretty interesting process.
Keep the cool stuff coming folks! [email protected]
The Mets were kind enough to send a press release while I was on lunch break so I thought I’d share. By the way Mr Tankersley wore #57 for the Marlins. That ain’t happening Taylor.
METS SIGN LHP TAYLOR TANKERSLEY
FLUSHING, N.Y., January 12, 2011 The New York Mets today announced that they have signed lefthanded pitcher Taylor Tankersley, who appeared in 27 games last year with the Florida Marlins, to a minor league contract and invited him to major league Spring Training.
Tankersley, 27, didnt have a decision and earned six holds and a 7.50 ERA (10 earned runs/12.0 innings) with the Marlins last year. The 6-0, 215-pounder held lefthanded hitters to a .200 (6-30) batting average in 2010. He also went 4-2 with one save and a 3.42 ERA (10 earned runs/26.1 innings) in 27 games with New Orleans (AAA) of the Pacific Coast League last season.
He missed the 2009 campaign after undergoing surgery to repair a stress fracture in his left elbow. The Vicksburg, Miss. native led the Marlins with 22 holds in 2006 and won six games while appearing in 67 games the following year.
Tankersley is 8-3 with four saves and a 4.58 ERA (60 earned runs/118.0 innings) with 70 walks and 115 strikeouts in 168 major league games. During Tankersleys career, hes held lefthanded batters to a .233 (42-188) mark.
If you follow @metspolice or @readtheapple you may have noticed our “blogger war.” Two interesting and creative items have hit my inbox out of it.
First, this little ditty which if anyone out there has a good singing voice I’d love to hear. From Sparks, to the tune of Meet the Mets:
Mets Police
Mets Police
Log right on to Mets PoliceNo box scores here,
No deep stats.
We’re too busy fighting ugly black hats.
You’ll find The Mets Police always on patrol
Taking on topics, heavy and droll
Clear views, crisp blues
Why Lee Mazzilli was the bomb
In broken paragraph format
Mets Police dot comThe neglected and the faithful
and jersey geeks everywhere
Where do they go?
To Mets Police!
The nostalgic and the cheated
Looking for a place that cares
Where do they go?
To Mets Police!The Mets Police always brighten your day
With so much more than just the game
So bring yourself on down to Mets Police
(The Apple is so lame)Set a bookmark!
It’s always there!
You can feed your Mets fix any time or where!Log on to…
Mets Police
Mets Police
Log right on to Mets PoliceNo box scores here,
No deep stats.
We’re too busy fighting ugly black hats.You’ll find The Mets Police always on patrol
Taking on topics, heavy and droll
Clear views, crisp blues
Why Lee Mazilli was the bomb
In broken paragraph format
Mets Police dot com
Mets Police dot com
What also has come out of the blogger war was discussion of various Mets blogs merging. So far Fear of A Black Apple Mets Police has some traction (although I think we need to make it Matt Cerrone’s Fear Of A Black Apple Mets Police if we are going to get real traffic numbers) and @metstwerp has made us a logo.
The Super Blog would combine great writing, great humor and graphics skills, video technology and whatever the heck it is that I bring to the table.
Finally, since it is Randy from The Apple’s birthday this week I think we should end this blogger war once and for all (until the next time we want to cross-promote our sites). Thus we will need a replacement line for the mean horrible dig at The Apple in Sparks’ song. Sparks you touched my heart, thank you. You complete me.
Sing along: Meet_the_Mets (Police)_Instrumental
Coming up…less “The Apple” wanna-be articles and more “UniWatch” wanna be articles, plus some cool Shea photos. The inbox is great this morning, but I have this whole Day Job that pays my mortgage and stops me from playing in the outfield.
