Theory: A-Rod Trying To Prove He Is Stupid

I was chatting in the hallway about A-Rod being picked up by his cousin.   A theory was floated:

A-Rod IS trying to be stupid.

As he made clear during his steroid defense, he was young and stupid.  And naive.  And stupid.

Now, in an effort to prove that he is stupid, he does stupid things like having his cousin pick him up.

It’s brilliant!  Now when he says he was young and stupid, we will see that he’s middle aged and stupid, so it makes sense.

Well played Alex, well played.

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I Heart Jerry: No DH!

Wow, finally a Met manager (or manager period) who gets it!

He won’t use the DH this spring.

Someone understands the importance of pitchers seeing live pitches!

This from Adam Rubin in the News just makes me smile:

As for why Oliver Perez is hitting second, I still presume that’s because he wants to ensure Perez a plate appearance before he departs, and likely a bunting situation. But Manuel said with a smile about his reasoning: “I wanted Reyes to bat third.”

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More Reasons To Hate The Mets

I like these Phillies fans.  They are obsessed with our second place team and they bring the funny.

First they throw this at us:
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…which is actually funny (including)


Last year, Mets star third baseman David Wright — public face of the MLB ’07: The Show video game, Vitamin Water sports drinks and Fathead posters — made several public statements about how he’d be cutting back on “endorsement deals and promotional activities,” to focus on the game. Two weeks later, he made his second visit to theLate Show with David Letterman. To this day, athletepromotions.com informs me I can book Wright for “Corporate Appearances, Endorsements, Speaking & Autograph Signings

This fair point…


Mets prospects enjoy an absurd amount of hype. Remember Paul Wilson? Alex Escobar? Rey Ordoñez? Bill Pulpisher? Ed Yarnall? Lastings Milledge? You wouldn’t if they played anywhere but New York, which treats every one of its new prospects like the second coming of Howard Johnson. 

That’s kind of true.  As is this…

The Mets’ last championship team was basically an advertisement for wasted talent. As a sports fan I feel deprived that Darryl Strawberry and Doc Gooden — two sure-fire Hall of Famers whose careers were derailed by excess — never got their day in the sun. Would they have flamed out as quickly playing for the Royals? Maybe, but they didn’t have a chance on the Mets.

Don’t get mad at me.  I didn’t write it and the dude is right.

Then because that column was enough he added this one: More Reasons To Hate The Mets

Last year the Mets, a professional franchise worth well over $800 million dollars, allowed themselves to be Rickrolled. For those who are still unfamiliar with this phenomenon, Rickrolling essentially boils down to this: sometime in 2007 the entire Internet seemed to band together and attempt to ensure that Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up” gets played as many times as humanly possible. Well, last year the Mets were conducting an online poll as to what song the fans wanted to hear this year during the 8th inning. Naturally they weren’t savvy enough to counter the prank, and ended up having to change the rules to avoid playing the song at each and every homegame. Which brings me to our next topic ..

They can’t even win at picking songs without cheating.

And finally…

You know that guy sitting in the cheap seats who wastes an entire inning trying to get everyone in his section to start the wave, then angrily curses the crowd when everyone tunes him out? That guy is every guy at the old Shea. 

Well done dude.  Now I want the Mets to go out and beat you effers every game this season.  Bring it on!

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Silly Yankees Realize "Invoice Error" On Obstructed Seats

Lonn Trost on WFAN yesterday:

 “Those seats are being sold at $5, not $12.   I think some seats may have gone out improperly invoiced. Those are going to be corrected, but those 600 seats are going to be $5.”

Oops.  Silly billing error.  Silly Yankees.

It’s good that they caught this after message boards, then New Stadium Insider, then every sport blog, then the newspapers, then WFAN brought it to their attention, otherwise sarcastic bloggers might observe that on Monday Trost said:

“We had a choice of selling it to somebody or not. … For $12, it’s a choice of taking it or not.”

Or someone might check out the seating chart and see that the chart accidentally says the seats cost $12.

Neil Best (who rocks and has the best column going these days) has plenty more.

Good stuff here too on Insider.

I think the new stadiums may have changed the karma.  This seems very Flushing-like.   Maybe the bad PR genie moved to the north side of 161st when Shea came down.

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A-Rod can’t possibly be that stupid?

You are A-Rod. It’s the first game of the spring. You need a ride.

Who would be the worst person to have pick you up? Hitler? Jose
Canseco? 

Nope your cousin who injected you with steroids.

Really. That’s who he chose.

I betcha Alex has enough money for a car service. Maybe even a limo.

Maybe Girardi would have hooked him up with a ride.

Is this man just self-destructive? Stupid? Clueless?

So much for putting this behind you.