What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.
Over at NBC Craig Calcaterra wrote an interesting piece about how the Mets could hire Wally Backman without seeming hypocritical.
I still think there is a road to forgiving K-Rod, but please don’t take that to mean that I don’t take domestic violence seriously.
Got an email from Mitchell & Ness about the new Cutter Jacket.
I’m not digging it. I especially don’t like the fat NY.
Jeff Francoeur via Daily News:
“I always wanted to know what it was like to play meaningful baseball in New York and I’m going to have the opportunity.”
Good morning Mets fans!
Since I started blogging on Ron Hodges Day 2008, this is the biggest dearth of Mets news. Cant Bobby Bonilla punch a clown or something?
My favorite read of the day is this one from Faith and Fear. As usual Greg has crawled inside my brain, found something I could write one sentence about, and turned in an essay. That’s why he gets fancy book deals and I have to beg Randy from The Apple to handle Photoshop on my best jokes.
Here’s a screenshot of the Mets Twitter timeline. It caught my eye when “they” tweeted about Sandy coming in today (the GM candidate, not the Cyclones mascot).
As you can see, it appears that “they” took a Twitter break for a few days. My guess is that the cool dude who handles the feed took a few well earned days off once the offseason hit. Anyway, since nothing is going on let’s wildly speculate…
Some folks have asked me about Sports Police. Yes it is a spinoff. I’m doing some of the writing with a few helpers (could use some more help on NFL NBA and Yankees) and it is in the first week of public Beta.
The goal is to see if we can build out this style of blog, but MetsPolice remains my baby and nothing will change over here, as evidenced by the 5 or so posts I had yesterday.
Now as far as what today’s next posts will be….um, I’m kinda hoping Bonilla punches a clown. (Randy, get cracking on that)
People are telling me I am nutty (in sense of “how do you have the time?”) starting another blog over at Sports Police, but so far it’s been fun and traffic is good!
One of the unexpected challenges for me is that I have a hard time keeping up on the Mets over there, since I don’t want to double publish content.
As I have mentioned, I’m looking for passionate sports fans who want to write about any of the local teams (email me [email protected]) – and Kevin is one of those who stepped up – he has posted a few about the Devils and this one that I liked about the Mets..
Think of this though: When fans of the team have had it — for this writer, it was about the first week in August when I started turning off SNY [SportsNet New York] — there are other things to do and other things to be entertained by. Imagine being Gary, Keith and Ron … or Howie, Wayne and Ed … who have no other choice than to be at CitiField and the road games, who have no other choice to watch every inning of those games and who have no other choice but to have to give the few still tuning in a reason not to turn the tube or radio off.
via Sports Police « Following the New York teams off the field.
