B-PALM ANGRY!

A buddy of mine created his own blog about the Mets as well.

Take a look at it.

The Team The Time The AMAZINS

A few things to note:

• He is a fellow coworker and we talk about baseball all day long so don't be too shocked if our topics are similar, but they might just compliment each other.
• He is from Howard Bitch, so basically, he is just better than you at everything you do. Yeah, EVERYTHING! Even if you are a woman, he menstruates better than you. Sorry, that's just the way it is. You don't know who his uncle is.
• He is the 3rd baseman on our corporate softball team. He plays a good 3rd base but occasionally looks more like a hockey goalie out there than a third baseman.
• He is deaf in one ear so when you post comments to his site, make sure you use all CAPS.
• He IS George Costanza.

Here is an artist's rendering of him...

A Confession

I have a small confession:

I have actually started to like Larry (Chipper) Jones. OK, maybe "like" is a strong word, but I no longer hate him. I cant really pinpoint why but as of late, I have started to like guys that have carried themselves in a particular manner. Maybe it is that I am a bit more mature and can appreciate a professional athlete that carries himself (or herself) in a professional manner. Despite what any Mets fan has to say about him, he does display a clear head on his shoulders. At least to what I have seen, he seems to love and embrace his fans, he plays hard all the time and appears to be a great teammate. Not to mention, he has had nothing but praise and semi-well wishes for our boy Davey.

I am a huge Mets fan but I am also a Baseball fan. And quite frankly, Baseball needs more players like Jones.

Sorry if that hurts a bit fellow Mets fans.

The Atlanta Who?

I just don't feel very excited about this series. Sure a few Braves have given us some bulletin board material, but that is really the only thing that makes this series any more interesting than any other.

I understand (from reading other blogs) that I am in the minority on this issue but really, do the Braves actually pose a threat? Bob Wickman is NOT the answer to their bullpen woes. A step in the right direction? Absolutely. The cure? Not even close. They simply have too many holes. What happens when (not "if") the Mets go on a 2 week tear and even if the Braves go .500 during that same stretch? They would in all likelihood be about 20 games out.

That is all it would really take. We are late enough in the season that any pro-longed winning streak (or even a good stretch) will in fact bury the Braves.

I was looking forward to the Phillies contending so that we could get that great rivalry going again. My dad used to tell me about how he and his buddies would go to the Vet back in the day to see the Mets playing Philly. If the games had meant anything, I would have tried to have gone out to Philly at the end of this year. Oh well, maybe I still might.

Sorry About The Bernie Williams Shirt

I dont know if any of you noticed this but in my pic to the left is a picture of myself licking a friend.

This pic was taken at a local bar (where else do people lick each other?) and a buddy of mine is clearly seen in the background wearing a Williams #51 shirt.

Sorry about that.

I would change it but ehhh.

"Endy Chavez! . . . Endy Chavez!"

This is a bit off topic, but still about the Mets.

I been playing Major League Baseball 2K6 on XBox for some time now and most of the time, I either have the sound low or am watching TV while I play, so I didn't really focus on some of the audio in the game. But, you know what they have in there? If the title of the post is any clue, it is an Endy Chavez chant. For some time now, sports games have been adding player specific heckles and cheers and they are usually reserved for the big names. Logically, you have to have the heckle/cheer planned, recorded, coded, programmed and tested. That requires some time and effort, so it is not hard to see why only the big names get that treatment. Especially when you consider that crowd noise is most often the lowest volume setting of all the sound options.

You have to tip your hat to the guys at 2KSports for doing their homework and really going the extra mile. Pretty cool.

Also of note in the game is the heckle of Eric Byrnes. You can clearly hear a fan yelling "Hey Byrnes, Go back and touch the plate".

For those of you that don't know, Byrnes was in a collision in a big playoff game (2003 ALDS, Game 3) and never touched the plate. He was tagged out one his way to the dugout.

Pretty specific, no?

DAMN YAHOO!

Being in a fantasy baseball league with some co-workers (Davey is the only Met that is on my team) prompted me to purchase Yahoo!'s (is that proper) StatTracker. It has been pretty handy as it allows me to follow what my team (fantasy, not the Mets) is doing on a minute by minute basis since StatTracker is joined up with GameChannel which you can use alwasy.

For some reason, GameChannel wont update. When Floyd just grounded out to short to end the bottom of the ninth, it still had Beltran up in the bottom of the 8th with one out. That was like 45 minutes ago.

What the fuck?

Yahoo! owes me $9.95.

Maine Looking Good

So, after learning that the conference room (where we watch day games at work) was booked for a meeting today, a bunch of co-workers decided to head to a local bar/restaurant to watch the game.
John Maine looked great but my favorite moment was just after he let the second runner on in the 6th (I think) with Aramis Ramirez coming to the plate and Willie came out to talk to him.

You know Willie just asked him how he was doing. Maine appeared to say that he felt good. Willie just patted him on the ribs and had to have said something like "OK kid, go get him then".

Long story short, we are still in a 0-0 tie in the 8th as I write this.

Maine is looking better each start. Some of his pitches today were near-untouchable. I look forward to seeing this kid for some time. Hopefully.


On a side note... Prior, looked good too, except for the HIGH SOCK STIRRUPS!
Chicago needs a gay guy in the locker room to help them dress.

Just Like The Old Days

Last night was a heartbreaker but it made me feel a little good inside. I know it sounds weird but it made me miss the old days of laying on the floor as a kid in the late eighties(after '88)/early nineties and watching the Mets hopelessly fail.

Mel Allen was still hosting TWIB (This Week In Baseball), and the Mets were putting out sub-par performance's on a daily basis.

It was those times when they were a terrible team, that I fell in love with underdogs the world around. To the Mets credit (or lack there of), they always seemed to have a chance to win or at least make it interesting. They rarely succeeded but it was always fun to watch.

I am not saying that I enjoyed last night's loss, just that I felt it pull on the old heartstrings a bit as I thought about being a little kid again.

After reading a fellow Mets Blogger's blog (MetsGrrl) about how this is her first season as a Mets/Baseball fan, I started to think of all that she missed out on from back in the day. She missed all the heartache(Darryl/Doc), the pain (Dallas Green?!) and torture (Anthony Young). But more importantly, the sheer exuberance when we did pull one out. Didn't it seem like we won on Opening Day like every year, and said to ourselves "maybe this year will be different.". Now, I am not taking anything away from here because one can clearly see in her posts that she is a diehard fan, but she lacks a certain feeling that just cant be described. While she may know, and even learn in great detail about those years, she wasn't there. There are tons of fans like that out there. Maybe they didn't follow baseball back then, perhaps they followed a different team and switch at some point, or maybe they simply were not born yet but a whole slew of Mets fans just don't know what it was like.

Like I said, this does not mean anything against these fans, I am merely pointing it out.

Our Mets are doing well and anyone that supports them is fine by me but let us never forget what we been through and NEVER look back at those times in an ill light.

Those years made us who we are today. They are the ones that make us believe that we can still come back in the bottom of the 9th to (at least) make it close.


...I wonder what Anthony Young is up to these days.

METS = Krusty The Clown

While, scanning the great site mentionedin my previous post (Barstool Sports), I came across an interesting read, linking each MLB team to a Simpsons character.Read the Mets' one:

New York Mets - Krusty the Klown - Close ties to Judaism. Ongoing love-hate relationship with their audiences, and they have a tendency to lend their names to bad products (Krusty Brand Non-Narkotik Kough Syrup, Jose Offerman). Have had some substance-abuse problems in the past that they would prefer to keep out of the public eye (chain-smoking, Darryl Strawberry/Doc Gooden).

Haha! Great!

Here is the rest of the article...

The Definitive MLB - Simpsons Analogy List

NON - METS: Candid Photos

This website (Barstool Sports) has a bunch of pics of athletes (mainly from the Boston area) out drinking with college girls. Ahhh to be a baseball player with all these gaping holes (can be interpeted in several ways) running around trying to get you to go back to their dorm with them.

I would be arrested like 2 or 3 times a week. But then again, that might just be my lack of self control. That or the alcohol.

It also has this great pic which, while funny, I disagree with. Lee Corso is not a penis. He is a great announcer/color man. Still a great pic is a great pic.

NON - METS: Arroyo's REAL Wife

OK, so that pic that I posted was not in fact, Arroyo's wife but instead was a girl that he allegedly cheated on his wife with. "Allegedly"? He would have to be retarded not to cheat on his wife with that girl. She looked like she could pout his hair in those cornrows without using her hands. I dont even know what that means.

Anyway, here is the real pic of his wife.

NON - METS : Arroyo's Wife/Tramp

Aside from what the post title says, I dont think Bronson Arroyo's wife is a tramp. I never even heard of her until tonight when I was looking for a pic online, I somehow came across this pic of Arroyo and his wife.

Is it me or does she look like the college tramp that hung around the football (err, baseball) players for her chance at a free ride?



Nice cleave though.

Cliff Would Have Made That Catch

I rarely criticize the Mets for normal mistakes than anyone can make. I hate boo-birds, as they forget that we as a fan base should SUPPORT the team, but I have to question Carlos Beltran on Jaque Jones' HR. I mean, how can anyone critique a player for not robbing a homerun? But still. He could have gotten to the fence quicker and he probably could have made the play.

Cliff would have.

OK, Cliff wouldn't have been on the warning track but you get the idea.

At least it wasnt Juan Pierre and his high sock stirrups trotting around the bases in a most unfasionable way.

Bob Murphy, Where Art Thou?

While I generally like the guys at SNY, especially when Ron Darling, Keith Hernandez and Gary Cohen are all in the booth together, I wont hesitate to comment on errors that are made during the telecast.

After watching a Mets fan throw back the Aramis Ramirez homerun ball, Cohen incorrectly called the Mezzanine "the fourth deck" at Shea. Any fan worth his (or her) salt knows that the Mezz is the 3rd deck.

I really, really miss Bob Murphy, even when he was doing radio, I would routinely listen to the radio as I watched the game.

Down With Stirrups

What is up with the Cubbies' game style?

Greg Maddux takes the mound tonight and immediatly has to sit on the left side of the mound to tighten up his cleats and what do we see on his legs?

Stirrups!













Shit, man. Are we in 1978? Stirrups? Really? Stirrups should go the way of the doubleheader. Extinct. Just look at them. It's bad enough that he is wearing pants that would show his ankles had he not been wearing any socks, but then to have that hideous blue stripe in there as well, is just a bad idea. This has got to be the worst fasion statement in baseball, that is however until I saw his teammate. Juan Pierre got Maddux off the hook as worst dressed player out on the field tonight. Pierre actually has the lack of sense to wear high sock stirrups.


















What is that? It even brought critisism from the booth at SNY. You know you are doing wrong when Keith "Just For Men" Hernandez. Cubbies, do us all a favor and retire the stirrups for good. I, myself like the high socks but am just fine with regular pants as well.

NO STIRRUPS!

I dont consider myself to have any sort of fashion sense (I am a straight male, after all) so I might not know what looks good, but I know what looks retarded.

On a side not, I do like Hernandez in the booth, while rough around the edges, he knows his shit.

Welcome To MetsWit

Welcome Mets fans to MetsWit. A blog that is ideally going to consist of my obvervations/rants/raves/assumptions/expectations of the New York Metropolitans baseball team.

How did this start?

Basically, I started reading several good blogs about the Mets (MetsBlog, ChicksDigThePitchersDuel, MetsGrrl) and found myself commenting more and more on said blogs. I figured that I should do blog about the Mets, having started several blogs but losing interest in them quickly.

So here it is.

I hope you enjoy and add your own piece of this thing here by adding comments.