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That is right, it's Chan Ho Park day! The Mets get their first crack at their former emergency starter tonight in the opening game of the first Philly series of the season. Mike Pelfrey looks to maintain his adequateness from his last start. At least we have Ollie going this weekend...

Meet the Mets

Not too much on the field news to report. It looks like Omir Santos is going to stick around for a little longer, as Brian Schneider has somehow injured his calf while sitting on his butt for the last two weeks. 

Does Jerry Manuel = Willie RandolphManuel > Randolph in press conferences though. That is something.

Metstradamus comes up with the perfect solution for getting the Mets out of their RISP slump. In an attempt to reduce the stress related to those RISP, the Met management has prohibited any newspapers from the clubhouse. No joke.

Met bard Greg Prince jumps the shark.

Jay Sorgen makes his predictions about what the Mets are going to look like in 100 days. 11-2 record for Pedro. Really?

This really made me laugh. Well done. My personal favorite: Castrated! John Sterling as a Met broadcaster would be fun for about 30 minutes, then I'd spend the rest of my days listening to the Met games on mute or stabbing my ear drums with a screwdriver. 

The Kranepool Society had a different reaction to Adam Rubin's blog post from the other day. 

Not a whole lot of great news in the high minor leagues. Baseball Prospectus doesn't like Fernando Martinez. Buffalo is 2-16.

Around the NL East

The Marlins are not happy with Jerry's decision to bring in Omir Santos. The paper is calling it bush league. It is now unanimous. Even the team that won, in part due to the move, is complaining. Do they want to replay the inning? I'd be perfectly happy with that.

Hanley Ramirez is likely back in the lineup tonight. Meanwhile, the Marlins came up with six runs in the eighth to beat the Cubs.

The Nationals blow another one. With the game tied at 4-4 in the ninth, the National bullpen gave up 5 runs to the Cardinals to lose 9-4. Daniel Cabrera gave a wild, yet not awful start. The Nats are not good, but Joe Beimel will make them less bad. Not having Jim Bowden spilling company secrets will also make them less bad. This one, though, is not that big of a secret.

Derek Lowe works hard to be ready for his starts. Oliver Perez is out of shape.

Jimmy Rollins is obsessed with the Mets. A Philadelphia newspaper is telling us not to worry. John Gonzalez rubs it in. Phillie Nation judges the Ibanez for Burrell switch an upgrade.

Around MLB

The Yanks overcame AJ Burnett's mediocre outing to beat the Angels 7-4. Who really cares what goes on on the field, however, since A-Rod is coming back soon. We can expect more stories like this as the return gets closer. Former high school teammate Doug Mientkiewicz says he never saw A-Rod doing steroids, saying "it would be 99.9% impossible for us not to know." I'm glad that he can say statistically, without a doubt, that Selena Roberts is lying.

Rays pitcher Matt Garza was perfect going into the seventh, as Tampa beat the Red Sox 13-0.

Twins catcher Joe Mauer is ready to return.

Jeff Weaver is back with the Dodgers.

And, finally, Beyond the Box Score gives an excellent primer on understanding pitch f/x.

 

Here we are, the Philly series. The good news is that it's not April anymore. I'm a firm believer in the team changing when the calendar changes...

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I need to stop reading about the Mets

because everything I click on just makes me annoyed.

by JoshNY on May 1, 2009 10:23 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That is to say,

except for the Ted Berg column Catsmeat just posted in a Fanshot, which is excellent.

by JoshNY on May 1, 2009 10:26 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

ted berg:mets columnist::professor murder:fake rappers from mr show

ie educated

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 10:31 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

“did you just call me professor pickles?” -Professor Murder

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thanks, guys

For opening up your hearts and letting the rap shine in. And reminding me how awesome Mr. Show is. The Joke, the musical = my favorite half hour of television ever. These holes three are not for thee.

by TedBerg on May 1, 2009 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

+1

The Joke was awesome, I think my favorite sketch was Titannica though. I laugh so hard I cry almost every time I see that. “He looks like a wet cigar!” One of two David Cross shows that got ripped away from us after just four seasons. Four hilarious seasons.

by Mark Himmelstein on May 1, 2009 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

titannica is classic

and for some reason, it reminds me of Little Donnie sketch from the upright citizens brigrade, another classic.

by englishgrey on May 1, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

UCB

Best UCB sketch, in a landslide, was the ass-pennies bit. The most amazing part was that I’m pretty sure it’s all done in one take. Ian Roberts is a hero.

by TedBerg on May 1, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

i also liked wicked sceptre

’Gettin the daft again! Gettin it in the end!!"

Hello fire island!

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

er, shaft again, not daft

derp

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Titannica

Try Again (Adam’s Song) was pretty great.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

that skit totally blew my tiny little 14ish year old mind

first time i saw it. kids today with thier youtube and dicks in boxes have no idea how great it was seeing mr show when it first came out

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 3:44 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

We used to stay up all hours of the night

because HBO dicked around their timeslot all the time. I was about 15-16

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

but i like to masterbate in closets while pies are waiting to cool!

my friends and i used to yell that all the time in school. boy were we cool. when i got to college, one of my friends had the entire series plus bob and david’s preformances at the aspen comedy awards or something on vhs. this was well before the dvds and we pretty much wore out the tape heads on those puppies.

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 3:50 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Have you ever, taken apart a train piece by piece an eaten it, after you've just derailed it with your penis?

I don’t care what they say though, the movie, Run Ronnie Run, is gold too. Back when no one cared that you could download shit illegally, I remember having the leaked, uncut copy of it (I’m pretty sure Bob and David intentionally leaked it knowing it was about to be distributed despite their objection and removing the “Mr. Show” name from it). The first time I saw that cute little asian kid in the wheelchair open his mouth and David Cross’s voice came out of it, I’m pretty sure I pissed my pants.

by Mark Himmelstein on May 1, 2009 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It was for charity!

I love shoes. (BUZZ!)

Sorry for straying so far off topic. Mr. Show > Omir Santos.

by TedBerg on May 1, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

senetro tankerbell"

“oh well, now, david ah wish ah could be everywhar people was doin awt”

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm the hated milk machine, everybody hates me now

“For doing what I’m told, He was trying to be bold

Why can’t people keep their willies out of holes?"

Brilliant

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I only wish Berg's column were titled

Head Games

A Foreigner reference is always welcome in my household

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

whats the matter fryman

are you experiencing… ‘double vision’?

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

You're 'hot blooded'

go ahead and check it, and see.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Good find

I should pay more attention to SNY.tv.
Here’s the link for those who missed the Fanshot.

by Joe Budd on May 1, 2009 10:32 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Just go to the Mets clubhouse

Apparently that’s the only place you can’t read about the Mets.

by Reg Dunlop on May 1, 2009 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hope they didn't ban the Racing Form

The Kentucky Derby is this weekend.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Willie bet on Eight Belles last year…

by hotspur on May 1, 2009 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

you could read about the Red Sox

Thumbing through the Sons of Sam Horn game thread from last night was priceless: all the posts about sticking a pitch in “Eva’s” ear, how much Beckett sucks, and how much Garza is in the Red Sox heads.

2009 Mets: maybe its the Phillies turn to have a terrible bullpen?

by Greenpoint Ian on May 1, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Maybe it should be

“it looks like Ramon Castro is going to stick around a little longer.”

by Mount17 on May 1, 2009 10:33 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Beat me to it

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

and since they is a dearth of postive mets news right now

check this out this t shirt. i think i saw some scotties wearing it while concocting a fanpost about grit, hustle and sliding into homebase (work warning: there is a small fonted curseword but you should be fine)

HELLO HELLO MR WILPON. WE WANT THE MANSION NOT THE CONDO.

by kendynamo on May 1, 2009 10:34 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

My main problem with Sterling

has never been his HR calls of even his homerism – sure they’re over the top, but I’m not a Yankee fan, so it’s not catered to me. What drives me crazy is that in between those calls he offers zero insight and just repeats the same things over and over. I can’t listen to Yankee games because having to hear him explain for ten minutes how a runner from third can score without a hit (“just a little old fly ball”) every time it happens makes me want to drive off the side of a road.

by Mount17 on May 1, 2009 10:42 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I never listened

but I imagine the old Sterling/Kay team might have driven me to suicide.

by jasondg on May 1, 2009 10:45 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

it's a little like choosing which body part you'd like to have amputated, but...

I think I’d actually prefer Sterling calling games over Wayne Hagin. Neither of them can call a game worth a damn, as you say about Sterling — but at least Sterling has the shtick. Hagin just goes off on tangents about the Cardinals and misses the play.

by anonymous on May 1, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

A-Rod

I find most of it uninteresting, but you have to chuckle at his pickup line of choice:

Players who accompanied A-Rod to clubs said his favorite pickup line was “Who’s hotter, me or Derek Jeter?”

by jasondg on May 1, 2009 10:45 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

+1

Possibly the greatest pick-up line of all time.

'Oh yes, I know all about that duty-of-a-citizen stuff. It doesn't go. There are exceptions to every rule, and this was one of them. When a man risks his liberty to come and root at a ball-game, you've got to hand it to him. He isn't a crook. He's a fan.'

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 1, 2009 11:09 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

F-Mart

Another flaw Omar and his minor-league people have is this incessant need to rush our position players through the system. Would it have killed us to allow him to dominate the lower levels?

by jasondg on May 1, 2009 10:49 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I was about ready

to come here and say that I think I hate the Marlins even more than the Phillies, and then I read that “open letter to Mets fans” and it confirmed that people from Philly fall somewhere just below members of Al Qaeda on the list of people I don’t like. What a hack…I can’t believe that guy actually gets write drivel like that for a newspaper. And people wonder why they’re going out of business.

by cjmulrain on May 1, 2009 10:52 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

although

one of the commenters on that article makes a fantastic point:

“Do you think that the NY media in the year 2030 will talk about how they booed their All-star third basemen, over and over again?”

by cjmulrain on May 1, 2009 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

ugh

I didn’t even see that parallel. makes me sick to my stomach.

by JoshNY on May 1, 2009 11:04 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

That "article"

is effin retarded. What an inferiority complex.

by jasondg on May 1, 2009 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Gonzalez is a turd

Please don’t lump us all in with him.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on May 1, 2009 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I don't

I was mostly using hyperbole. Most of my friends from college are from Philadelphia or the surrounding areas, so I joke about hating you people, but in reality I just hate your teams. Plus I really respect your analysis at the Good Phight – I try not to read it too much b/c it’s too well reasoned and ruins my conception of the typical Philly fan. It’s like a Christian fundamentalist finding out that he really gets along with gay people.

by cjmulrain on May 1, 2009 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

heh

yeah, WholeCamels’s rationality and civility get in the way of my blind hatred too

by JoshNY on May 1, 2009 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

same here

I’m a PA transplant in northern NJ so it’s impossible to blindly objectify the NY fanbase. And my best friend and former roommate from college is a Mets fan, although there wasn’t much give-and-take because the late 1990s was pretty solidly Advantage: Mets. Hell, it was pretty much Advantage: Everybody versus the Phillies back then.

http://www.thegoodphight.com

by WholeCamels on May 1, 2009 2:13 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Selena Roberts messing up a story?

She’s never done that before, has she? I mean, she was 100% correct with the Duke lacrosse stuff, right?

by gogomets on May 1, 2009 11:26 AM EDT reply actions   1 recs

Agreed
“Don’t mess with Duke, though. To shine a light on its integrity has been treated by the irrational mighty as a threat to white privilege.

“Feel free to excoriate the African-American basketball stars and football behemoths for the misdeeds of all athletes, but lay off the lacrosse pipeline to Wall Street, excuse the khaki-pants crowd of SAT wonder kids.

“No one would want an innocent Duke player wronged or ruined by false charges — and that may have occurred on Nifong’s watch — but the alleged crime and the culture are mutually exclusive.”

by Prince on May 1, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Important question relating to Matt Garza

has anyone figure out wtf the twins were thinking yet?

by Gina on May 1, 2009 12:32 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

haha

perfect analogy

by englishgrey on May 1, 2009 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

See I can totally understand them being fooled into thinking he was worth something

But considering they had just broked Liriano, they knew they had to trade Santana…and they had a bunch of outfield prospects on the way… i don’t see how they would think he was worth more than Garza. Now they need to either move young, and who wants him at this point, or move one of the better prospects.

by Gina on May 1, 2009 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I had the pleasure of watching Delmon play a whole season in high A

I’ve never seen someone master a league like he did. It was like a video game in August. He just peppered balls all over the field.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 1, 2009 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nobody knew Delmon was going to flame out.

"And you just don't get it, you keep it copacetic..."

by Blicks on May 2, 2009 10:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

His walk/k numbers were pretty suspect

There’s a reason the Rays were willing to trade him despite having near ml ready pitchers and a hole in rff/@ dh. And regardless the twins had outfielders on the way but were a lot more suspect in the rotation.

by Gina on May 2, 2009 11:17 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

chan ho park

i’m assuming that since he pitched in one game for the mets in 2007, he’ll dominated us tonight like every other pitcher who’s left the team in the last two years

by englishgrey on May 1, 2009 12:47 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Faith and Fear

That Greg Prince post is a joke, right?

Right?

…no, really, you’re serious?

by anonymous on May 1, 2009 5:25 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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