“Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. ” Casey Stengel
Here’s what you missed on Thursday 4/8/10 at TRDMB:
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This Day In Mets Infamy With Rusty The †What ? You expected us to go 162-0 ? Edition!? 04-08-10 by rustyjr
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If You Want to Jump, Jump by prismo
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Real Dirty Mets Morning Open Thread by CaseStreet
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Real Dirty Mets Forecast 04-08-10Â by prismo
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Watch Thole, Davis and Martinez Today On The Bisons WebCast by Mr North Jersey
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Mets Minors Is All A Buzz by Mr North Jersey
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What Does David Wright, The Situation And Craig Carton Have In Common? by Mr North Jersey
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How Will You Welcome Back Jose Reyes? by Mr North Jersey
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Twitter Tweet: Reyes To Play In St Lucie Opener by Mr North Jersey
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Game Thread: Mets vs Marlins Game 3Â by dirtysanchez
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Post Game: Shhh! I’m Hunting Marwins by GravediggerHebner
Answer to yesterday’s trivia question: 82-79
Trivia: Who holds the record for the most consecutive strikeouts?
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81 comments
trs86
4/9/2010-1:00pm at 1:00 pm (UTC -4)
LOL, Thanks Case. Can’t miss that.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-1:05pm at 1:05 pm (UTC -4)
I think it’s perfectly cromulent. A noble typeface embiggens the smallest words.
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-1:11pm at 1:11 pm (UTC -4)
cacophonic to my eyes.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-2:31pm at 2:31 pm (UTC -4)
Cromulent?!?!
Thanks for teaching me a new word today!
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-2:58pm at 2:58 pm (UTC -4)
It’s one of my obscure references, this time to an episode of The Simpsons.
To learn more about “cromulent” and “embiggens” click the link and scroll down to the heading “Embiggen and cromulent”
Lisa The Iconoclast
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-1:19pm at 1:19 pm (UTC -4)
I have to think about our elderly readers, too.
rustyjr
4/9/2010-1:26pm at 1:26 pm (UTC -4)
Anybody know the date for the hall of fane game ?
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-1:30pm at 1:30 pm (UTC -4)
1 August.
rustyjr
4/9/2010-1:40pm at 1:40 pm (UTC -4)
Good I’ll be there
ceetar
4/9/2010-1:42pm at 1:42 pm (UTC -4)
I’m sitting in the Pepsi Porch (foul territory) that day.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-1:44pm at 1:44 pm (UTC -4)
I really want to go to this game. Haven’t decided if we can manage it yet. Hope it’s not sold out yet.
ceetar
4/9/2010-1:59pm at 1:59 pm (UTC -4)
last I checked there were plenty of tickets. I think it’s kind of sad/pathetic considering all the screaming for honoring the history if that game is not sold out.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-1:33pm at 1:33 pm (UTC -4)
Most consecutive strikeouts?
Tom Seaver with a MLB record of 10 – 1970
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-1:36pm at 1:36 pm (UTC -4)
Oh, I thought he meant hitter
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-1:42pm at 1:42 pm (UTC -4)
Well dang, you could be right.
stickguy
4/9/2010-2:06pm at 2:06 pm (UTC -4)
In that case, Mike Jacobs.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-1:37pm at 1:37 pm (UTC -4)
Little known fact on Pelfrey I just read. At least little known fact to me.
‘Pelfrey was one of the victims of the $8 billion dollar fraud perpetrated by wealth manager Allen Stanford. Pelfrey estimated that 99% of his assets were frozen after the fraud was revealed.’
Stanford was arrested last winter so don’t know how long Pelfrey’s assets were frozen for – or if he ever got them back. That would tend to make one just a tad bit distracted…
ceetar
4/9/2010-1:43pm at 1:43 pm (UTC -4)
I remember reading that last year. I think one of the other pitchers on the Mets too.
I think a bunch of guys on the Yankees as well.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-1:46pm at 1:46 pm (UTC -4)
I guess sports guys are easy targets for this type of thing – considering they’ve got a good chunk of $$ to be invested.
Maybe they should start thinking about putting it under the mattress – lol.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-1:44pm at 1:44 pm (UTC -4)
So yesterday was not so hot for us as Mets fans given that the Mets lost, but it brightened me up a little bit when I took a look at the other boxscores from yesterday.
Carlos Monasterios – 1 IP, 2 H, 1 R
Lastings Milledge – 0 for 1, K
Brian Schneider – 0 for 3 at the plate, 0 for 1 in throwing out base stealers
Nelson Figueroa – 2 IP, 1 H, 3 BB, 1 R, Loss
Chipper Jones – leaves game with injury
JJ Putz – 1 2/3 IP, 4 H, 2 R, loss (season ERA 7.71)
Brian Stokes – 1 IP, 3 H, 1 BB, 3 R (season ERA 9.00)
So we’ve got that to warm our cold hearts
Mr North Jersey
4/9/2010-2:12pm at 2:12 pm (UTC -4)
You know I saw the highlights of the Phillie game and not for nothing but that hit Figueroa gave up was a blooper. The walks on the other hand were terrible.
Yet if the Phillies lost better for us.
joed1
4/9/2010-2:23pm at 2:23 pm (UTC -4)
Hey Mr. NJ,
In all my Mets blogging years, I’ve never seen Cerrone post a Mets fan created graphic. Today he did. Did you love it as much as I did?
ceetar
4/9/2010-2:27pm at 2:27 pm (UTC -4)
I thought it was in poor taste myself.
And I think it should been Maine Perez and Pelfrey both above and below, with different expressions.
Mr North Jersey
4/9/2010-3:27pm at 3:27 pm (UTC -4)
Hi Joe yea I saw that Cerrone posted that pic. It was nice it got it’s point across but with all due respect to Bryan Molloy who created the pic and I am sure he worked hard at it but I really like Kelly’s fan art more.
Hopefully this is a sign of things to come from Cerrone and we can see more fan art in the future. I am sure all for it.
joed1
4/9/2010-2:27pm at 2:27 pm (UTC -4)
Incidentally, that double was without a doubt a blooper.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-2:35pm at 2:35 pm (UTC -4)
How about the three walks and 41 pitches in two innings? Bad luck?
joed1
4/9/2010-3:08pm at 3:08 pm (UTC -4)
Oh I agree, I thought he deserved to lose. I was just saying that the bloop was kind of a well placed would-be out.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-2:53pm at 2:53 pm (UTC -4)
I’m glad a couple of you have brought up “the blooper.” Because it’s entirely relevant, but perhaps not in the way that you might prefer.
Yesterday during the Phils-Nats game, before Figgy gave up “the blooper” the Nats announcers were ragging hard on Figgy, specifically in the context of his game against the Nats from a couple years ago in which the Nats bench were “bench jockeying” him, chanting things and basically acting more like an amateur team than a professional team.
The announcers basically were laughing at Figgy for his thin skin, noting that he was upset by the bench jockeying and also referring to the fact that after that game Figgy basically wrote off his lousy performance by referring to the Nats’ hits as “a couple of bloopers.”
Well bloopers count too. Good pitchers make better pitches that don’t get blooped in key situations. Not all the time of course, but certainly more often than Figgy ever has or ever will. He’s just not that good, and he makes it worse with his whining about “bloopers” instead of taking responsibility for having given them up in the first place.
Mr North Jersey
4/9/2010-3:31pm at 3:31 pm (UTC -4)
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-2:08pm at 2:08 pm (UTC -4)
I’m sure you guys mentioned this before, but Cantu has been a serious Mets killer. He just thrives in Flushing…
tkfj
4/9/2010-2:40pm at 2:40 pm (UTC -4)
Chris Davis?
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-2:55pm at 2:55 pm (UTC -4)
MF on WFAN says: ‘we’ll get to the Mets at 3pm. I have some reports – not pleasant.’
Not ‘pleasant’? What could he possibly be talking about? If he’s going to critique their first 3 games, fine. I don’t take anything he says with the Mets seriously as he hardly ever watches them.
But if not a critique – what news could he possible have that we won’t want to hear?
Reyes is back.
Beltran on schedule
Murph ahead of schedule.
Sigh….
tkfj
4/9/2010-2:56pm at 2:56 pm (UTC -4)
Castillo? It’s MF, no one knows what he is talking about.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-3:00pm at 3:00 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed, does he mean “not pleasant” to him, or to Met fans, because those two things are seldom similar.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:04pm at 3:04 pm (UTC -4)
“Murphy is ahead of schedule which is not pleasant, cause the Mets need Ike Davis right this very second and Murphy kicked my puppy.”
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-3:05pm at 3:05 pm (UTC -4)
That’s the ‘not pleasant’ news?
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-3:08pm at 3:08 pm (UTC -4)
LOL.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-3:05pm at 3:05 pm (UTC -4)
You have to be right.
The news at the top of the hour didn’t even mention the Mets, other than their game tonight – so it can’t be anything we don’t already know.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:08pm at 3:08 pm (UTC -4)
90:1 odds he’s talking about Manuel’s whining ‘reports’ about needing pitching and power.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:08pm at 3:08 pm (UTC -4)
err, more like 2:1
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-3:13pm at 3:13 pm (UTC -4)
He’s just whining about the fact that there was no Yankee game for him to watch last night. Is he seriously passing judgments based on a 3 game sample? What an ass.
I heard a great quote from Terry Francona yesterday, which I’ll paraphrase: To the team, it’s a 162 game season. To some fans and media, it’s 162 individual seasons.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:17pm at 3:17 pm (UTC -4)
That what he’s saying? Not sure I should stream audio at work so I haven’t listened excepting for 5:00 car ride home. (and this day I’ll listen from 5:00 until I pull up at Citi.)
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-3:18pm at 3:18 pm (UTC -4)
No, sorry.
My first paragraph is my summary of this segment of Mike’s show.
My second paragraph is my response to Mike.
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-3:15pm at 3:15 pm (UTC -4)
Castillo injured?
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-3:15pm at 3:15 pm (UTC -4)
MF:
Apparently the ‘unpleasant’ news is his opinion.
‘There’s such a lifeless feel at Citi Field. There all just sleepwalking through these games’. I guess he feels they’re all just mailing it in right now?
‘They have to get some life into this franchise’.
And Ceetar called it. He’s going on about Jacobs/Tatis/Murphy at first base.
‘How long can you be the Mets – unexciting, inept and let Davis languish in the minors?’
Yeah, yeah yeah, blah, blah, blah
I guess if you’re not the almighty Yankees, you just don’t measure.
I knew I was wasting my time listening to him…..
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:19pm at 3:19 pm (UTC -4)
He’s such a broken record. He doesn’t watch the games (maybe last night cause no Yankees and golf was over) He’s talked about the stupid NCAA game for a week now. He only comments on small samples of things he sees, and repeats his points over and over again like it’s “new”.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-3:17pm at 3:17 pm (UTC -4)
Hey Mike, Mark Teixeira is 0 for 15. Nick Johnson is 0 for 15. Alex Rodriguez is 2 for 15. CC Sabathia’s ERA is 8.44. Worry about your own team.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-3:19pm at 3:19 pm (UTC -4)
But Grave, it’s the almighty Yankees. They can do no wrong, don’t ya know?
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-3:23pm at 3:23 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, I know. I’m just mad at myself for reading that Mike was going to have unpleasant news and falling for it therefore actually listening to his useless segment which clearly was a combination of his needing a break from taking calls, not having a guest to interview, and his anger like Ceetar noted at not having a Yankee game or golf or college basketball to watch last night. 20 minutes of my life that I can’t get back.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:28pm at 3:28 pm (UTC -4)
It’s almost sad how much he is growing tired of his job. He barely puts in an effort anymore with the exeption of events taht he really gets excited about. He basically ignores Spring Training and whenever he talks about it he makes it sound like a chore.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-3:34pm at 3:34 pm (UTC -4)
Exactly. I’ve been thinking for about 6 months now it’s time for him to move on – or retire.
I was in the car yesterday and had it on. Forget what the topic was but some guy called in and started with: ‘Mike, I’m laughing along with you..’ at which point MF cuts him right off and says about 3 times, ‘can you just hurry it along and get to the point’?
The guy didn’t even get a half a sentence out before MF cut him off.
I really believe he’s lost touch with what made him what he is – which is the listeners/callers.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:50pm at 3:50 pm (UTC -4)
I heard that guy. He did get his sentence out, I believe (his words) he was laughing at Francesa’s statement that Watson can’t win the Masters. Which of course, led to Francesa discussing it in detail, repeating himself, for at least 20-30 minutes.
He’s got a couple young kids, I can’t help but think that he’s trying to build up a bigger nest egg for college tuition and what not. Once he figures he’s set I could see him leaving the show and just doing his weekly football crap or whatever.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-5:12pm at 5:12 pm (UTC -4)
I must respectfully say that I honestly cannot believe that people who are obviously as intelligent and thoughtful as the three of you actually listen to Francesa. It kind of blows my mind.
I think, to a large extent, that he became big because of a right place/ right time thing.
He was the guy–along with the inane Mad Dog–who had the time slot in the early 90s when sports talk radio took off.
Would Francesa, if he was starting today, amidst infinite competition, become successful?
I seriously doubt it.
And again, as the leader of my band used to insist we put on our CDs’ liner notes, “For your safety and comfort, please remember that your stereo is equipped with an off button.”
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-3:32pm at 3:32 pm (UTC -4)
Me too. I should have known better.
It’s a Friday afternoon, I had an hour to kill before I can hang it up for this afternoon, so I was streaming WFAN.
And now, we’ve got idiot Met fans (well, idiots to me), calling in actually wanting the Mets to do bad so they’ll fire Jerry and Omar.
What kind of Met fan wishes for the team to stink? I just don’t get the mindset…..
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-4:05pm at 4:05 pm (UTC -4)
It’s the Mets fault for giving Fatso so much prominence.
What does he have over the Mets that they let him talk all this crap about the team and talk down to Omar and Jeff, yet give him the big scoops and important interviews?
I really wish I could find transcipts of his show and the time to destroy his “analysis”.
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-3:44pm at 3:44 pm (UTC -4)
So, come Monday, are we looking at a 3-3 record? 4-2?
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:51pm at 3:51 pm (UTC -4)
Jacobs batting cleanup again tonight. yo udo the math.
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-3:52pm at 3:52 pm (UTC -4)
adding oh-fer’s isn’t really math, is it?
uff da…
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-3:55pm at 3:55 pm (UTC -4)
Not according to Brian Costa, who tweets:
Jacobs bumped from cleanup spot. Lineup: Pagan 8, Cora 4, Wright 5, Bay 7, Jacobs 3, Francoeur 9, Barajas 2, Tejada 6, Pelfrey 1.
ceetar
4/9/2010-3:56pm at 3:56 pm (UTC -4)
hmm..conflicts with Rubin. Beat writer fight!!
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-4:00pm at 4:00 pm (UTC -4)
Two men enter, one man leaves.
I noticed the difference and hoped that because (when I read them) Rubin’s tweet was 14 minutes old and Costa’s was 9 minutes old and included the phrase “bumped from” that maybe there had been an adjustment to the lineup in that 5 minute window of opportunity.
However it unfolded, I sure as hell hope Costa has it right.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-4:01pm at 4:01 pm (UTC -4)
Here, here.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-4:03pm at 4:03 pm (UTC -4)
Rubin sends “corrected lineup” tweet, Costa was right!
Hip Hip, Hooray!
Hip Hip, Hooray!
Hip Hip, Hooray!
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-5:07pm at 5:07 pm (UTC -4)
Costa is real and honest and accountable.
Always trust him over Rubin.
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-4:03pm at 4:03 pm (UTC -4)
Castillo just getting a rest?
And that lineup is scary. For the Mets.
I do like having Pagan/Cora/Wright/Bay. Would prefer Frenchy in the 5 spot. Potentiall 9 more days to Murph. AND ONLY 1 MORE UNTIL REYES!
ceetar
4/9/2010-4:05pm at 4:05 pm (UTC -4)
but setback for Beltran. “not quite ready” to run yet.
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-4:06pm at 4:06 pm (UTC -4)
Why do you have to bust out the Yang when I’m in Yin mode?
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-4:09pm at 4:09 pm (UTC -4)
Awwww….where did you hear/see that on Beltran?
ceetar
4/9/2010-4:19pm at 4:19 pm (UTC -4)
tweeted by a couple of people.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-4:05pm at 4:05 pm (UTC -4)
Something about a “barking calf” (which elicits nightmares about some sort of dog/cow hybrid) with Castillo, originally hurt it Opening Day, is acting up. Unclear as to whether it’s simply a “day off” thing or if it will require more rest/medical attention.
ceetar
4/9/2010-4:19pm at 4:19 pm (UTC -4)
Considered he played on it fine I imagine it’s probably just a “hey, let me rest this so it actually heals” type thing.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-4:08pm at 4:08 pm (UTC -4)
Castillo has a problem with one of his calves.
GravediggerHebner
4/9/2010-4:10pm at 4:10 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, it broke out of the veal box.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-4:14pm at 4:14 pm (UTC -4)
hahahaha
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-4:10pm at 4:10 pm (UTC -4)
Hope Castillo’s barking calf doesn’t become serious. I like Tejada, but Castillo gets on base.
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-4:59pm at 4:59 pm (UTC -4)
Oh for cryin out loud! Can someone tell Jerry that Jacobs is NOT a cleanup hitter?? Damn it Jerry!
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-5:03pm at 5:03 pm (UTC -4)
Ok so Jacobs is #5 behind Bay, but infront of Frenchy??? Gees…
darknova306
4/9/2010-5:09pm at 5:09 pm (UTC -4)
Gotta love a manager that constructs a lineup based on coin flips. What a dolt.
whataputz
4/9/2010-5:15pm at 5:15 pm (UTC -4)
To be fair, he’s not working with much at the moment. So lets say he swaps jacobs and frenchy, it’s still a pretty weak line-up. He’s missing his 1 and 3/4 hitters. There’s no order of these players that are in today’s line-up that would make me say “good line-up”. And whats with Castillo already getting a night off. I guess it’s so grueling playing 3 games in 4 days.
darknova306
4/9/2010-5:21pm at 5:21 pm (UTC -4)
Castillo’s getting a night off cause of his calf.
In my mind, hitting Jacobs behind Bay means Bay gets pitched around in most cases. Francoeur has at least shown us some ability to not be worthless this season, and I don’t think we can say the same about Jacobs.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-5:53pm at 5:53 pm (UTC -4)
Totally agree Dark.
Francoeur should bat right ahead of or right behind Bay.