The Apple: Gooden to start for Mets on Sunday

The Apple, your source for fake Mets news is reporting that Dwight Gooden is starting Sunday.

I wonder if Pagan will give up the #16…and if the choice were Gooden or Ollie I’d take the 45 year old.

Speaking of Gooden, before the week gets way from me – this was a good article in the WSJ about Doc. I didn’t realize they had signed him to a 1 day’er.

He is 45 now, and he will be at Citi Field on Saturday. The Mets this year are inducting Mr. Gooden, Darryl Strawberry, former manager Davey Johnson and former general manager Frank Cashen into their Hall of Fame, and they are holding a luncheon for the inductees Saturday before a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. More, because Mr. Gooden ended his playing career with the Yankees in 2000—he went 194-112 in pitching for five teams over his 16-year career—he agreed to sign a one-day contract with the Mets this week so that he could again retire, this time as a member of the team with which he is most identified.

“To me,” he said in a phone interview, “this brings it full circle.”

Lineup for Thursday’s Mets game

As you goof off in the office today enjoy this lineup:

Thursday, July 29

vs. St. Louis

7          Jose Reyes                 SS

16        Angel Pagan              LF

15        Carlos Beltran           CF

29        Ike Davis                   1B

19        Mike Hessman          3B

30       Josh Thole                 C

12        Jeff Francoeur          RF

13        Alex Cora                   2B

43        R.A. Dickey                RHP

The 13 McFarlane Mets figures

Angel who has been sharing his yearbook collection with us, also has this in his collection:

Hi, Shannon.

Attached are photos of the twelve Mets who have been immortalized as McFarlane Sports Picks.

Before you start getting bombarded with e-mails-I know that some players such as Piazza, Martinez, and Reyes have been graced with multiple figures. I just thought I’d show one each of the twelve different players.

I originally was just going to photograph them off of my shelves. But thought they might look better in a baseball setting, so I shot them at my local Little League field .

FYI. There is a Nolan Ryan figure in the works with a Mets uniform. For anyone who might not know who the players are, in no particular order, they are as follows:

– Tom Seaver
– Mike Piazza
– Willie Mays
– David Wright
– Jose Reyes
– Roberto Alomar
– Carlos Beltran
– Johan Santana
– Pedro Martinez
– Tom Glavine
– Carlos Delgado
– Billy Wagner

Weather for Thursday’s Mets game

The Mets Police meteorological department is showing a 10-20% chance of rain in early afternoon.   The game will be played and you’ll be fine.

Besides, it’s Umbrella Day.

Upcoming Mets Promotions
Get to Citi Field this week for some great promotion giveaways. Today the first 25,000 fans in attendance at the 12:10pm game will receive a Mets Umbrella courtesy of Toyota. Tomorrow, the first 25,000 fans in attendance at the 7:10pm game will receive a Mets Tshirt presented by EmblemHealth and Sunday the first 25,000 fans in attendance at the afternoon game will receive a Mets Hall of Fame Cap.
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Oh yeah, not sure if you heard about this.

This Sunday Cashen, Gooden, Johnson and Strawberry will be inducted into the Mets Hall of Fame during a special pre-game ceremony on the field beginning at 12:30 p.m. prior to the afternoon game against the Diamondbacks.