Jose Reyes Applesauce - Igarashi Signs, Talking Met Fans Off The Ledge, Best Defenders Of The Decade

by James Kannengieser on Dec 17, 2009 1:01 PM EST in Applesauce

It was great hanging out with some Mets bloggers and Amazin' Avenue members at last night's Hot Stove Huddle. A thank you goes out to Will Davidian at BlueAndOrange for organizing the event, and to those who took part in the panel discussions: Joe Janish of MetsToday, Kerel Cooper of OnTheBlack, Ted Berg of Tedquarters, Chris Wilcox of BlueAndOrange, Sagiv Edelman of FireJerryManuel, Bryan Horowitz of SportsAngle, our own Sam Page and Mark Himmelstein, and last but not least, Ken Davidoff of Newsday.

Meet the Mets

Jose Reyes sat down with Mike Francesa yesterday and the interview went swimmingly. The hat he wore is on my Christmas list.

Relief pitcher Ryota Igarashi signed with the Mets. If you can read Japanese, here is a post confirming the signing (via NPB Tracker). Metstradamus weighs in with some video footage of Igarashi.

Matt Cerrone echoes some of Eric's sentiments in a thoughtful post, advising Met fans to remain calm.

Patrick Flood wonders if there is any hope for Oliver Perez.

SILive looks at the top 10 low points for the Mets this decade.

Ex-Met news: the Blue Jays signed Lance Broadway.

Around the NL East

The Good Phight has some reservations about the cost to acquire Roy Halladay but is ultimately happy to have the ace join the team.

Halladay attended last night's Sixers game.

Federal Baseball recaps the buzz that the Nationals are interested in Jason Marquis, Joel Pineiro and Jon Garland.

Around MLB

MGL lists the best defensive players of the decade, according to UZR.

The Orioles signed reliever Mike Gonzalez for two years, $12 million.

Fonzie Forever continues its retrospective of this decade in baseball, this time looking at the year 2002.

Gaslamp Ball provides a recap of Padres Season Ticket Holder Night. Some good stuff in there, including news that Padres lead owner Jeff Moorad reads Gaslamp Ball.

This Royals Review post made me laugh out loud: "Who Was Your Least Favorite Royal Of 2009?"

Tweet Comment 35 comments | 0 recs |

Do you like this story?

Comments

Jose is a knit cap stylist.

by Pack Bringley on Dec 17, 2009 1:09 PM EST reply actions 2 recs

Pujols looks like the opposite of amused

Great pic

by James Kannengieser on Dec 17, 2009 1:17 PM EST up reply actions

You mean bmused?

by ams258 on Dec 17, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions

he fell asleep

it was an hours long process.

by Pack Bringley on Dec 17, 2009 1:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

Sorry to have missed that gathering last night.

Did anyone happen to give Davidoff shit about his employer’s new paywall?

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Dec 17, 2009 1:16 PM EST reply actions

for those who went

did you find yourself more embarrassed by your online identity or your real one?

jk, i love you all.

by Pack Bringley on Dec 17, 2009 1:29 PM EST up reply actions

Pics please! Or yesterday's meeting didn't happen and was just a media fabrication.

by Michkin on Dec 17, 2009 1:37 PM EST up reply actions

Here's a picture of Sam pointing at me, from when I started telling Bengie Molina jokes

by James Kannengieser on Dec 17, 2009 1:54 PM EST up reply actions

holy shit he's hot

by Pack Bringley on Dec 17, 2009 2:11 PM EST up reply actions

;)

by Sam Page on Dec 17, 2009 3:08 PM EST up reply actions

I expect he hates it as much as anyone

It takes him out of the national discussion, to an extent. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him move before too long.

by SuperT on Dec 17, 2009 2:12 PM EST up reply actions

Oops, that was meant to be a reply about Davidoff

by SuperT on Dec 17, 2009 2:12 PM EST up reply actions

Ditto

Sorry I wasn’t able to make it out, got stuck late at work and by the time I finished what I was doing it was just time to go home.

by JoshNY on Dec 17, 2009 2:30 PM EST up reply actions

I thought it was tonight...Whoops.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Dec 17, 2009 6:42 PM EST up reply actions

It was a good time last night

Hopefully we can get another one goin after the holidays.

Also, you know you’ve been following the baseball season too long when you want to spell holidays with a capital “H” and double-L.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 17, 2009 2:22 PM EST reply actions

any chance we could..

refer to Christmas as hday25 and Chanukah as hday8?

by Bieser's Balk on Dec 17, 2009 2:37 PM EST up reply actions 7 recs

I found this hilarious

"I see the job in bigger terms. Paperwork, that’s false hustle... Know what I’m sayin’?"

by Evan_S on Dec 17, 2009 2:40 PM EST up reply actions

Rec'd.

That certainly would clear things up.

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Dec 17, 2009 2:43 PM EST up reply actions

ahahahahaha

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf"
-Tug McGraw

by squid92 on Dec 17, 2009 5:25 PM EST up reply actions

that's excellent

but then, I’ve been drinking

by JoshNY on Dec 17, 2009 7:04 PM EST up reply actions

yup, totally spelled it wrong in an email yesterday.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Dec 17, 2009 4:16 PM EST up reply actions

Please set up another one

I caught a bad case of the 5:00 work avalanche. Did not leave the office until 11:00. I was cursing Jeff Francouer all the way home.

by Coolpapabell on Dec 17, 2009 4:42 PM EST up reply actions

You work for Jeff Francoeur?

by Pack Bringley on Dec 17, 2009 4:53 PM EST via mobile up reply actions

I think there's probably gonna be another one fairly soon

Will set this one up (All Shook Down), we were talking yesterday about getting another one going.

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 18, 2009 1:44 PM EST up reply actions

Yup

Definitely very cool to put some faces to names. And I felt totally dwarfed standing next to you and James, ha.

by mnbv on Dec 17, 2009 8:43 PM EST up reply actions

Haha yeah I had no idea that guy was so giagantic

"All energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet

What a fool I was to defy him"

-HST

by Mark Himmelstein on Dec 18, 2009 1:42 PM EST up reply actions

by meigs1414 on Dec 17, 2009 7:26 PM EST up reply actions

yeah

i change my mind, trade them both.

"We have a plan, and our plan, I like our plan'

it's Omar's world, we're just livin in it.

by Gina on Dec 17, 2009 3:40 PM EST up reply actions

by Steve @ MLB Fantasy Prospects on Dec 17, 2009 9:29 PM EST reply actions

Comments For This Post Are Closed

FanPosts

Community blog posts and discussion.

Recommended FanPosts

Recent FanPosts

2012 AA Prospects List #6

by Ogre39666 about 17 hours ago

14 comments | 1 recs

2012 AA Prospects List #5

by Ogre39666 3 days ago

17 comments

BrooksBaseball Player Cards: An Amazing Resource For Mets Fans Who Are Curious About How Pitchers Pitch In The Major Leagues

by garik16 4 days ago

1 comments | 1 recs

+ New FanPost All FanPosts >

FanShots

Quick hits of video, photos, quotes, chats, links and lists that you find around the web.

Recommended FanShots

Judging by the comments to Matt Callan’s ode to 1986 Mets: A Year To Remember from a few weeks back, the video has a devoted Mets fan following. Despite being too young to remember anything about that season, it has a special place in my fandom as well. It was part of a two video rotation (Ghostbusters being the other) which ran almost daily on my television for a few years in the early 90s. And it remained a once-in-awhile watch through high school and college.

Unsurprisingly, the physical tape deteriorated over time, and the screen jumps and sound skips made for a less than optimal viewing experience. With sale of the video discontinued, my brother converted it to DVD and gave it to me for Christmas in 2010. See the picture above for the box and DVD. He even created a scene selection function which can be accessed from the main menu. "Get Metsmerized!" plays on loop on the menu screen. It is my favorite Christmas gift ever and is still nice to throw on for a viewing.

"How'd we do it? Mirrors!"

by James Kannengieser 5 days ago 5 comments | 3 recs

I was flipping through some of my parents' photo albums this afternoon in search of one particular shot of the sign my older sister made for Mets Banner Day back in the late eighties. Though I didn't find that one — I'll post it when I eventually track it down, and I can assure you that it's Keith-themed — but I did stumble upon this wonderful photo of my younger sister's stuffed animal menagerie spread out in front of a glorious rainbow-festooned Mets pennant, also from the late eighties.

She works for the HRC now and was particularly delighted to be reminded of this photo.

(click to embiggen)

by Eric Simon 10 days ago 7 comments | 4 recs

Now that banner day is back, hopefully this years will look a little like this. I know it's not great, but i don't pretend to be a professional. embiggen!

by rexthejet 13 days ago 11 comments | 6 recs