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Oh Happier Day Applesauce - Mets win again, force Phillie team meeting, Strawberry's new restaurant

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Meet the Mets

The Mets continued stealing the Phillie signs at home and managed their second consecutive victory last night. Once again, I am a happy man this morning as Charlie Manuel and Shane Victorino have resorted to a team meeting to fire the club up.

Jessep at Metsmerized believes that it is obvious that Mejia MUST become a closer.

Patrick Flood talks physics, knuckleballs, and machismo.

Sabometrics.com says that Jon Niese needs to work a little bit more on his "promising" curveball.

Matt Cerrone keeps talking with these late 90s Mets. This time it's Edgardo Alfonzo.

Darryl is looking for a GM to help him open a restaurant in Douglaston.

Eddie Kunz is starting to get a hang of this whole starting rotation thing.

All-star voting is upon us, time to get worked up over the terrible decisions by fans.

Around MLB

Brian McNamee has a mullet and ad space on his tie. Awesome.

The extremely limited edition Stephen Strasburg baseball card has reached $16,000 on EBay.

Ubaldo Jimenez's ERA is now at 0.88.

Jason Heyward is being legitimately compared to some pretty incredible players at FanGraphs.

Gregg Zaun has a torn labrum and may retire from baseball

Ozzie Guillen was on fire last night. First, he signed an autograph for a Cleveland fan saying "Bye, Bye Lebron!". Then, he went out and got ejected and talked smack about umpire Joe West.

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wow .88 era

lol i cant even do that in a videogame

by eric10 on May 27, 2010 8:37 AM EDT reply actions  

FTFY

Brendan Jason Heyward is being legitimately compared to some pretty incredible players at FanGraphs.

by JayWise on May 27, 2010 9:14 AM EDT reply actions  

Wow

That’s bad. Thanks.

by Joe Budd on May 27, 2010 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions  

I think you mean

Brendan Jason God Heyward is being legitimately compared to some pretty incredible players at FanGraphs.

by Evan_S on May 27, 2010 10:07 AM EDT up reply actions  

He's no Clu Haywood

He leads the league in most offensive categories, including nose hair!

by JoshNY on May 27, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

Its been going on for a while on other blogs that will remain nameless.

And they use such horrible reasoning. Such as his time at Bingo last season.

by SFloridaMetsFan on May 27, 2010 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

Man that blogpost really degenearted

The comments have turned into a nasty personal fight between the blogger and some poster.

by Blame-everyone-else on May 27, 2010 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions  

They are a bunch of girls over there.

The moment someone uses logic and actual facts to debunk an argement, that stuff happens. It turns into a mud slinging event.

by SFloridaMetsFan on May 27, 2010 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions  

Darryl was involved

As a guy who actually wants “18” retired (which will never happen, because then 8 and 17 would have to go up, and Wilpon still needs space for Dodgers and managers who played for the Dodgers) I was not pleased.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

I was 50/50 on whethter it would start with Fatcessa or Metsmerized

Either way, I assumed it would be a poorly thought out proposal.

Reyes, Thole, Wright, Beltran, Bay, Davis, Martinez, Tejada...

by Stephen Schmidt on May 27, 2010 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions  

Tell me about it

It’s not like anything of note has happened there since the Middle Ages.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

Do you live in DC?

Otherwise you know nothing of the hype. Heck, even I’m succumbing to it because I’m going to be making a mad dash to buy tickets as soon as they announce when he will be making the first start.

by dcmetsfan on May 27, 2010 10:13 AM EDT up reply actions  

I did live in DC

until a couple weeks ago. I didn’t think it was ridiculous, but it’s been a bit sterile as a sports town of late, with only the Caps doing anything (prior to their usual meltdown,) and I’m guessing the “anticipation” has grown exponentially since people think the team doesn’t suck as horrribly as they have. Maybe John Wall can keep them occupied.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

They're all giddy over here

Strasberg, Wall, Ovechkin and McNabb. It’s their Mount Rushmore of sports figures, and three of the four haven’t even put on their uniform in competition yet (and one’s not even yet in the organization). It’s gonna make the eventual flameout – especially with the Skins – even more delightful.

by dcmetsfan on May 27, 2010 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions  

lol the skins are really that excited?

do they realize at this point McNabb is kind of like an older injury prone version of Campbell?

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions  

well I don't think either suck

but I mean more that Campbells problem seemed to be he had no balls and refused to throw more than 10 yards down the field unless his guy was wide open, and the last few years McNabb has been turning into a similar player. Except less mobile and more injury prone. I think Campbell was actually an above average qb, he just seemed like a sissy or something idk.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:38 AM EDT up reply actions  

McNabb is/was excellent, actually

although he was in a system that simultaneously inflated his numbers and stifled his creativity.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions  

I agree he was excellent

I just don’t think he is anymore. I still think he’s above average but I really don’t think he’s all that much of an upgrade over Campbell, especially when you consider his injury issues.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

Nabb

is still pretty awesome. He gets injured a little, but 12 games of his awesome-ness is worth it i think. Skins overpaid though

by MetsKnicksRutgers on May 27, 2010 12:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

They really are that excited

I’d grant that McNabb is an upgrade over Campbell, but they seem to think they’ve gone from Ryan Leaf to Peyton Manning. Campbell was an adequate quarterback, and it’s not like they’ve acquired a guy who is a top five qb (probably top 10). That, combined with the hires of Allen and Shanahan has people giddy, though they’re not all necessarily thinking Super Bowl. Of course no one wants to address the fact that Shanahan hasn’t exactly lit the world on fire since Elway retired, but Shanalahan (as they call the combo) is definitely superior to Cerrato and Zorn – then again so would just about any two bums off the street.

by dcmetsfan on May 27, 2010 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions  

Shanahan's still an AWESOME offensive coach

the problem in Denver was he completely refused to cede power over the defense despite years and years of his defensive personnel failing. With even a passable defense they would have been a superbowl team.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions  

My take was

that they’ve had so many makeovers and so many savior coaches and so many aging stars brought in at high prices that the fans are taking a “show me first” approach.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions  

They seem to be naively optimistic

I think fans were so battered by the Cerrato years that they view anything as an automatic upgrade, and many have taken the opposite approach to the one you suggested. In other words, they are all on the trust them until something bad happens kick. That’s why the eventual flameout will be high-sterical.

by dcmetsfan on May 27, 2010 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions  

Well

i’m a DC winter sports fan dating back to when I was a kid. So, I can tolerate Wall and Ovechkin. And it’s not like I escaped just in time. McNabb and I just switched places. I’m now in Philly. It’s like escaping a lions’ den only to sprint between a mother Grizzly and her cub. Hooboy. You don’t want to mess with Bryant Reeves and her babies.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:36 AM EDT up reply actions  

Biiiiiigggg

country. I have not heard that name thrown around in a long time. That was an awesome fional four in 85 when Corliss shit all over a Rasheed Wallace that was about 6 inches taller than him. Unfortunately, the Hawgs couldn’t get anything going against the damn Bruins in the championship.

by MetsKnicksRutgers on May 27, 2010 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think others should join me

in not giving a shit about All Star Voting. It sucks that all star appearances count when the hall of fame voting rolls around, but so does a whole bunch of other meaningless shit: were you nice to the media? number of RINGZ you won while playing for a team with a $200 million payroll. Were you ever suspected of using PEDs? Did you “bat .300”? Gold gloves. WINZ. is your name bill mazeroski?

Every year we get worked up about who gets in and who doesn’t. what the fuck ever. By July I’ll be praying for David and Jose to get a few days off.

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 27, 2010 9:44 AM EDT reply actions  

I don't care from the sense that the players I want don't get it

its that the NL fans seem blindly carpet bomb the votes with whichever team has the largest market that can be mobilized much more than the AL fans who for the most part make decent selections, meaning we’ll never see home field advantage in the WS again.

by KeithsMoustache on May 27, 2010 10:05 AM EDT up reply actions  

Maybe it's just because I have no experience with AL fans

outside of Yankees and Red Sox fans, but I’ve always felt like there’s more blind obnoxious NL homers than in the AL. Maybe it’s because AL teams fans have been beaten down by years of Yankee/Red Sox dominance where as the NL has been a clusterfuck.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions  

not sure myself

most of my AL following friends are Sox or Yankees. Don’t really know any other demographics so its hard to gauge the more general populous, but it does seem from all star voting theres a much better distribution of votes to players who deserve it, at least this year.

by KeithsMoustache on May 27, 2010 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions  

Yeah a few years ago cubs fans did the same thing didn't they?

stuffing ballot boxes.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

yup

and a few other teams (Mets included) have done it over the years. You don’t see it in the AL much anymore though.

by KeithsMoustache on May 27, 2010 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

Even with the Yankees

they may be slightly over-represented, but they tend to only vote players who are legitimately all star caliber players to the ASG. They may not always be THE best choice out there, but they’re usually at least top 2-3. I don’t remember seeing too many guys in the AL as offensively bad as Rollins at SS, or Ramirez at 3rd when the cubbies overloaded the ballots. Maybe its just selective memory, but it seems like they’re much smarter about who they vote for in general.

by KeithsMoustache on May 27, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

too bad

MacGehee has played well enough for consideration this year

by KeithsMoustache on May 27, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

I voice my displeasure by making a mockery of the voting

I vote based on looks for all star games in every sport.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:39 AM EDT up reply actions  

is it safe to assume

Corey Hart doesn’t get penciled in on your ballot?

by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on May 27, 2010 10:49 AM EDT up reply actions  

I'm guessing she wrote in Nick Evans 9 times.

He’s dreamy.

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 27, 2010 10:51 AM EDT up reply actions  

lol i was planning on writing in frenchy

but I just couldn’t bring myself to do that to the poor mets. So instead I voted for Carlos Gomez a bunch of times.

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 10:59 AM EDT up reply actions  

watch he makes it

and immediately gets a 3 year extension

I wonder if Carl Everett believes Jamie Moyer exists.

by Gina on May 27, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

oh christ

I wouldn’t be able to live with myself

by SuperT on May 27, 2010 12:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

I thought she was dating

Daniel Murphy? If I recall correctly.

by theflicker on May 27, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions  

I saw her referred to as Schmidt's girlfriend in that beast of a fanpost.

So much besmirching of Gina’s good name.

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 27, 2010 11:55 AM EDT up reply actions  

Nobody deserves that

They really don’t

Reyes, Thole, Wright, Beltran, Bay, Davis, Martinez, Tejada...

by Stephen Schmidt on May 27, 2010 11:57 AM EDT up reply actions  

If you were 35 years old

I am guessing you would have voted for Otis Nixon and Willie McGee. Check out their google images if you don’t remember what they looked like. The beauty is epic.

by MetsKnicksRutgers on May 27, 2010 12:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Too bad Clint Howard isn't a baseball player

Is there a more beautiful person on this earth?

by Evan_S on May 27, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

oh good god

i didnt know who that was until i saw some pictures. what movies are he from again?

by MetsKnicksRutgers on May 27, 2010 12:26 PM EDT up reply actions  

That's Ron Howard's brother

The first time I remember being graced with his beauty was on Seinfeld when he was the Smog Strangler. He was in an episode of Arrested Development and had a small part in the Austin Powers movies. He’s had small parts in a ton of things.

by Evan_S on May 27, 2010 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions  

so im gonna download

the corner pretty soon man. i will let you know how it is

by MetsKnicksRutgers on May 27, 2010 12:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

woah

goin back a while there Joe. So long ago that my memory can’t remember that episode.

by ol Pete on May 27, 2010 5:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

You can bet that Phillies team meeting

really focused on Dickey. I’m sure he came up many times. He’ll definitely be pumped for his next start.

OK, fine, I’ll finally stop.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 10:57 AM EDT reply actions  

I think the problem they had with Dickey

is that everyone tried too pull him too hard. They would have been better off going up the middle or even the other way.

by blains2000 on May 27, 2010 12:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

Man oh man

Everyone knows that you can’t just try to pull Dickey and hope for the best.

by JoshNY on May 27, 2010 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

I'm starting to get worried...

If the Mets win a few more games, Omar and the Wilpons are going to start to believe they’re actually a contending team and make a stupid trade.

by JoshNY on May 27, 2010 11:19 AM EDT reply actions  

The Mets haven't made a significant trade inseason in three years

I don’t expect that to change, especially with the Wilpon’s frugality this year.

There is no hope.... there is no future....there is only GRISSIONZ

The 2010 Mets- Hey, we may suck, but what did you expect?

by Syler on May 27, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions  

that's a fair point

thank you for helping talk me down from the ledge a little

by JoshNY on May 27, 2010 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions  

my new favorite number

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." A. Bartlett Giamatti

by sddbaker on May 27, 2010 11:36 AM EDT up reply actions  

Oh, and I hate to say I predicted this before it was even possible, but:

Uno:

I love Mejia, I’ve talked about him forever. I’m really worried the Mets are going to put him in the bullpen to start the season. I hope that doesn’t happen. I hope they put him back in Binghamton next year. His peripherals in Binghamton were really solid last year. I hope he continues to prosper there and move up the ranks. I don’t want to see him get thrown in. He has that look of a set-up guy or closer that people can think “Oh, this is one of those late-inning guys, a K-Rod because of that electric arm.” And they can forget that he can actually be a very good starter if they leave him in the minors for long enough.

Dos:

To think of how silly it would be to try and gain a marginal advantage by using Mejia in the bullpen this season and risk his potential blossoming as a starter. But here it is. The Mets have something really exciting on their hands. Let’s hope they do the right thing and think long-term.

by Pat Andriola on May 27, 2010 12:21 PM EDT reply actions  

I'd say that the absence of Rush is even more awesome.

I’m still waiting for your apology, Canada.

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 27, 2010 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

I sure hope this is tongue-in-cheek

Rush beats the oozing tar of whatever jam band crap you kidsandyourmusic are listening to these days as our national test scores nosedive.

by tmu on May 27, 2010 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

Nope.

Rush is terrible. Totally unlistenable for me.

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

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on May 27, 2010 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Many complain about the vocals

but they miss the overriding awesomeness of mega-chops and hobbit lyrics

It’s an acquired taste. Old-school funk/ crate-digger types tend to hate them. You?

by tmu on May 27, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions  

I support this comment.

Over-processed guitars and somewhat painful vocals does not make for a good combination. I don’t like jam bands much either, for what it’s worth.

by yellomellojello on May 27, 2010 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Jam bands makes me think of old folks… like me. What are some jam bands nowadays?

by ol Pete on May 27, 2010 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

There really aren't many

the jam band doesn’t get much attention these days because the music industry can’t package it into some neat easy to market concept, so they don’t bother with creativity or individuality anymore. Laziness is killing good music.

by KeithsMoustache on May 27, 2010 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions  

Don't listen to them too much

but Explosions in the Sky are pretty good.

Save Jenrry Mejia!

by Ogre39666 on May 27, 2010 10:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

SBN

needs more options for their actions button. That made me laugh, but a ‘rec’ doesn’t seem right. How about a thumbs up or made me laugh option. Regardless, thanks for the laugh.

by ol Pete on May 27, 2010 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Gregg "Zorro" Zaun

my god….its craptastic

I hate Philadelphia so much.

by the caveman on May 27, 2010 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

It's definitely awesome

Too bad Zaun might be done for his career. Solid player.

by James Kannengieser on May 27, 2010 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Jerryball has officially converted to Citi-ball

Well according espnny.com it is. i chuckled. BUT HEY..BACK TO BACK SHUT OUTS!!!!!

OF THE PHILLIES. First time in ..oh god…12 years..

i called for it in a game thread. The mets are answering my wish to fight

I hate Philadelphia so much.

by the caveman on May 27, 2010 2:45 PM EDT reply actions  

The Dickey Trap

Francessa fell into the trap, earlier saying “the Mets need to ride Dickey for as long as they can”. I guess if the Dickey is hot you gotta ride it, er him?

by Rigsay on May 27, 2010 4:08 PM EDT reply actions  

Mejia

Needs time to develop his secondary stuff as most of the regulars here suggest on a nearly daily basis. For any one to argue otherwise is just utterly ridiculous IMHO. If the people in the Mets FO just had some brains this experiment would have ended long ago.

by metsfanforlife on May 27, 2010 5:43 PM EDT reply actions  

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