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The times the Mets had awesome starting pitching and didn’t win (Cliff Lee)

Hey remember 1987? Doc, Darling, Ojeda, and Sid? How could that team lose?

How about 1989? The Mets didn’t even need ton have Doc be the ace! Frank Viola came to town! Viola, Doc, Ojeda, David Cone and Sid! Darling couldn’t even start for that team! That team was so great that they coukd trade away Mookie AND Dykstra (and McDowell).

Does that sound like a team about to enter one of the darkest times in franchise history? Hell no, the 1986 dynasty was just chugging along!

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Yes the Phillies are stocked. The good news is the Mets still get to play 162 games. Do I have high hopes? Nope. However, I wait until April 20th or so before I start calculating “the math” (if the Phillies play .500 the rest of the way…)

What’s interesting to me is how the Philies have made themselves an elite team. New ballpark, always filled, thy win and they re-load. Like Boston. And who would have thought that in the 21st century that Boston would be a model franchise (who were smart enough not to build Fakeway Park across the street)?

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Big thanks to Media Goon for covering the site yesterday. It wa unexpectedly very busy in the Metsiverse.

Today’s big story will be the holiday party at Citi. The Mets were kind enough to invite me but I need to be in four places today and Day Job Boss won the tiebreakers.

My guess, and it’s just a guess, on yesterday’s flurry of Mets press release activity is that they wanted to clear out all business so that they can go silent after the party. My theory on that is that whoever has final say on a press release going out is heading off for holiday break. I’ve seen such behavior at other companies. Nobody to approve = no news. Just a theory as an aside.

Goonie is in command again today. If you see anything cool hit him up at [email protected] and copy me at [email protected]

Thanks Mets fans!

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Mets Try to Brighten Up The Holidays

On Dec.15th (this Wednesday), The New York Mets are going to visit The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Children’s Medical Center of New York in New Hyde Park, Long Island.

Mr Met, Jason Bay, Ike Davis and Terry Collins are going to be there at 12:30pm to spend time and bring some holiday cheer to the children who are patients there.

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Mets Sign Impact Player

The New York Mets signed a new player today..ME. And they’ll sign you up too.The Mets have a really cool little marketing video going on right now. And, yes I know its just trying to get us to buy season tickets but I really laughed when I saw it.

If you follow this link here, You put in your name and phone number and this video becomes personalized to fit their “new” signing. Yes, I realize there will be a lot of comments on how the Mets really need to sign people this offseason. Lets just have fun with this for now.

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Carlos Beltran and City Harvest

Hey Shannon! So much for news being slow till January. It figures the one day he is really busy, the METSVERSE comes alive.

The New York Mets, Goya Foods and City Harvest team up to deliver 20,000 pounds of food to New York City food pantries during the holiday season, beginning with a distribution at The Community League of the Heights in Manhattan.

Goya Foods pledged to donate 20,000 pounds to City Harvest in celebration of Goya’s Hispanic Heritage Night at Citi Field in September.

Carlos Beltran ,Olga Luz Tirado of Goya, and Shannon Barbuto of City Harvest will be at The Community League of the Heights donating the food.

The Community League of the Heights is dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life for residents of the Southern Washington Heights area. Its pantry helps feed more than 400 families a week by distributing food packages twice a week to senior citizens and adults ranging from 18-45.

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Mets Annual Coat Drive

I don’t remember when the last time I posted this much for Shannon in one day. The Mets are holding their annual coat drive at Citi Field on Wednesday this week.

FLUSHING, N.Y., December 13, 2010 – The New York Mets today announced they are hosting their annual Coat Drive in support of New York Cares on Wednesday, December 15 at Citi Field.  The Mets and New York Cares will collect gently-used men’s, women’s and children’s coats at Hodges VIP, on the first base side of the ballpark, from 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.  Fans donating coats will have the opportunity to meet Terry Collins, Jason Bay, Ike Davis and David Wright between 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
In addition, fans who are generous enough to donate coats will also receive a voucher redeemable for one pair of tickets to a select Mets game in April 2011.  In addition, fans can show their voucher at the Mets Team Store at Citi Field to receive a 15% off regularly priced merchandise.  Season Ticket Holders who donate coats can show their voucher and ID card to get 20% off regularly priced items.  The discount will only be honored Wednesday, December 15.

Fans dropping off coats may park in Lot G on 126th Street between the Right Field Gate and Roosevelt Avenue.

Coats will be donated to the New York Cares Coat Drive, the city’s largest annual coat drive which has a goal of collecting 70,000 coats during December.  For information about the New York Cares Coat Drive, please visit newyorkcares.org.

@Anthony Dicomo Tweeted about this earlier and you can find his Mets Cetera Blog here for other interesting posts.