Hey all! We’re going old school for the next couple days as I’m out of town and forgot to transfer my template onto my laptop! Apologies for the not-so-slick version.
April 9 (Friday) – Mets vs Nationals -7:10 Citi Field – 55F, Partly Cloudy and windy! Gusts could get into the upper 20s.
April 10 (Saturday) – Mets vs Nationals – 1:10 Citi Field – 57F, Sunny and dry
April 11 (Sunday) – Mets vs Nationals – 1:10 Citi Field – 63F, Mostly Cloudy with a chance of light rain showers
Hopefully the Mets can redeem themselves against my lowly hometown Nationals. You have to feel good about Niese’s performance last night though!
50 comments
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-7:33am at 7:33 am (UTC -4)
Uh, oh – windy tonight? Looking at game 1, it appears some of our OF seem to have a bit of a problem with the wind tunnel out there when it’s a bit windy. Here’s hoping the Nats have even more trouble….
And I’m with you on Niese. Even though I of course would have liked to see a win last night – I was far less annoyed at that loss than the night before. Difference to me was I liked what I saw from Niese and not so much from Maine…..
rustyjr
4/9/2010-7:39am at 7:39 am (UTC -4)
To quote wrestlings own Jim ross – this is sure to be a sloberknocker !
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-7:52am at 7:52 am (UTC -4)
LOL.
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-9:12am at 9:12 am (UTC -4)
This is terrible Prismo. I want the cool template back!
j/k..
Last night’s loss was disappointing since the pitching staff pitched well enough to keep them in the game.
It’s good that Frenchy hit well last night and Bay continues to show that he’s a very good player. I liked what I saw in Tejada defensively. He didn’t seem fazed by anything and was cool and calm. I think he can use little more experience at offense and can become Castillo’s replacement.
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-9:13am at 9:13 am (UTC -4)
Agreed on Tejada. Those pooka shells have to go though.
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-9:19am at 9:19 am (UTC -4)
LOL
ceetar
4/9/2010-9:18am at 9:18 am (UTC -4)
I’ll be at the game tonight. Hopefully I can make it from Jersey in time to hit McFadden’s early, but I could see it taking me 90 minutes to get there.
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-9:30am at 9:30 am (UTC -4)
Yum… McFadden’s..
ceetar
4/9/2010-9:33am at 9:33 am (UTC -4)
Actually, if I go into the McFaddens entrance I may not get my magnetic calendar..
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-9:49am at 9:49 am (UTC -4)
can’t you go to the regular entrance and then go to McFadden’s?
yum… McFadden’s…
ceetar
4/9/2010-9:50am at 9:50 am (UTC -4)
no. I don’t think they’ve figured out bracelet technology for readmittance yet.
DNDJohan aka kistics
4/9/2010-9:54am at 9:54 am (UTC -4)
Oh.. there’s no entrance to McFadden’s from inside the stadium?
ceetar
4/9/2010-10:01am at 10:01 am (UTC -4)
There is, but you can’t get back in to the park. Not really sure that they’ve worked out all the kinks yet. There’s a stairway next to blue smoke that goes down towards it.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-9:25am at 9:25 am (UTC -4)
Hats off to Grave for being one of the Post game links to check out over on metsblog.
trs86
4/9/2010-9:30am at 9:30 am (UTC -4)
Saw that. Good job Grave.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-10:02am at 10:02 am (UTC -4)
Thanks for the headsup MF4D, and welcome back TRS!
Way to go Grave!
njstuckintx
4/9/2010-9:46am at 9:46 am (UTC -4)
Jorge de la Rosa is a free agent next year… interesting.
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-10:09am at 10:09 am (UTC -4)
Anyone read Mike Silva’s article on Wright’s Vitamin Water ad?
BFD
I had to leave Mike a little comment.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-10:17am at 10:17 am (UTC -4)
Haha, nice comment; I agree!
BFD is right.
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-10:41am at 10:41 am (UTC -4)
yeah, Mrs. CaseStreet thought it was funny and that “David is so f’in hot!”
More importantly, is there room on the bridge?
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-10:45am at 10:45 am (UTC -4)
LOL – well, that’s what’s great about this country – everyone can voice their opinion on just about anything.
I’m thinking maybe it was just a slow sports news day and he had to come up with something to post about. I can’t really believe anyone would be that incensed about Wright doing that commercial. Then again, I read an article posted on the Christian Monitor (I believe) last year from a woman who attended a Philly post season game with her husband. She proceeded to equate all that’s wrong with this society with that ball game. From kids skipping school to attend, to adults spending the money to attend (instead of putting it to ‘better’ use), to the drinking and the booing and the language, blah, blah, blah. She actually lumped the entire stadium worth of attendees into one stereotype, exempting herself and her husband in that stereotype. Then she proceeded to say she’d pray for all. Needless to say, I believe it’s the highest number of comments she had ever received on one of her articles, or will likely receive again.
Takes all kinds…
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-10:53am at 10:53 am (UTC -4)
LOL. Well, at least she didn’t damn them to hell.
ceetar
4/9/2010-10:47am at 10:47 am (UTC -4)
i find I disagree with him a lot. but BFD pretty much sums up that one.
Mr North Jersey
4/9/2010-11:05am at 11:05 am (UTC -4)
Just read Mike’s article. I think Mike needs to come down to earth and join the real world. The ad in a time where we have SouthPark, MadTV, RobotChicken and Saturday Night Live is clearly just having fun with the concept of Situational training which Mike acknowledges so mission accomplished.
It is about having some fun while using what people in the 13 thru 30 bracket find popular plain and simple.
I find way more offensive the Tiger Woods ad using his dead father’s voice to sell Nike.
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:07am at 11:07 am (UTC -4)
I’ve watched/heard neither ads yet.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-11:31am at 11:31 am (UTC -4)
Totally agreed Mr N, and that Nike ad is disgusting.
But pretty much everything about the way Nike does business is revolting; years back they had a very nice ad giving all sorts of stats about how girls were more likely to succeed in life, not be in bad marriages, etc if they played sports….wonderful and true I am sure…the only problem is that Nike’s products are made by teenage girls in countries where they get no opportunity to play sports and make a couple of dollars a day in rotten oppressive conditions making Nike products.
A rotten company with a rotten leader.
udontmesswthejohan
4/9/2010-10:30am at 10:30 am (UTC -4)
File this question under the burning Real Dirty Blog questions that need answers.
Is that before and after picture of the chick on the right real?
Discuss.
rustyjr
4/9/2010-10:37am at 10:37 am (UTC -4)
Nothing is real & reality is just a strange illusion
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-10:51am at 10:51 am (UTC -4)
HAHA! I must admit, I have wondered that myself….it could be before and after Photo Shop….
udontmesswthejohan
4/9/2010-11:05am at 11:05 am (UTC -4)
Yeah probably right, but still I always enjoy her ad. I’m happy for her.
trs86
4/9/2010-10:54am at 10:54 am (UTC -4)
It’s all about the $.
Mr North Jersey
4/9/2010-10:55am at 10:55 am (UTC -4)
Prismo one word DropBox.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-11:02am at 11:02 am (UTC -4)
Ed Coleman on WFAN right now. He voiced a disturbing stat I noticed myself at ST….Last two weeks of ST, the Mets had something like a .200 BA with runners in scoring position.
I noticed all those runs we seemed to be getting in earlier on were coming from guys not expected to be on the 25 man roster – Davis, FMart, Carter, etc. Here’s hoping it’s the loss of Reyes and Beltran in ST which contributed to that.
Also, Joe and Evan really going on about Wright’s poor throwing ability making those throws to first. Hinted at when they start thinking about moving him off third. I agree his one problem in the field are some of those throws he makes. When it starts costing games, I’ll start worrying about it.
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:09am at 11:09 am (UTC -4)
That’s too negative to me. Wright’s a very good third baseman, and I don’t know what’s up with the throws sometimes, and it’s not like it’s arm strength. More like it’s mental. He needs to relax sometimes, as evidenced by him usually making the hard play but struggling on the more routine throws. Once Murphy gets back and Davis (I’m going to look this up, but please tell me Davis is a lefty? this might even be worth a whole post. David needs a lefty..) takes over eventually I think we’ll see less errors from Wright.
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:10am at 11:10 am (UTC -4)
YES! He’s a lefty! woo!
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-11:32am at 11:32 am (UTC -4)
Yes! Because according to Keith, the only ‘natural’ first baseman are lefties. Said you can play a competent first base as a righty but it’s always going to be a bit harder.
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:39am at 11:39 am (UTC -4)
As a natural lefty, I agree!
Does anyone know if Delgado or Murphy are natural lefties that chose to field/throw righty? (which doesn’t seem to make sense) or righties that learned to hit lefty?
trs86
4/9/2010-11:43am at 11:43 am (UTC -4)
Lots of guys end up starting as SH but throw RH. I am not sure what their dominant hand is. I see quite frequently where kids are all confused. Write with one hand, throw with another and swing different than they throw.
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:50am at 11:50 am (UTC -4)
It’s interesting. Also, Delgado and Murphy didn’t come up through the system as 1B where they might have been more inclined to throw/field lefty.
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-12:16pm at 12:16 pm (UTC -4)
no, Delgado’s dad had him swing lefty, though he’s a natural righty.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-11:34am at 11:34 am (UTC -4)
Yeah, every time Wright charges a ball, and makes an off-balance throw, it is right on the money.
Seems as though his bad throws always come when he has time and is in throwing position. Has to be mental/mechanics.
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-11:08am at 11:08 am (UTC -4)
Hey, anyone notice Castillo’s range yesterday?
Made two nice plays on balls hit behind 2nd.
Support your Second Baseman!
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:10am at 11:10 am (UTC -4)
Castillo is fine (and this is while he was hurting!).
trs86
4/9/2010-11:18am at 11:18 am (UTC -4)
Hey Case, no morning thread today?
CaseStreet
4/9/2010-12:18pm at 12:18 pm (UTC -4)
Didn’t have time, but I’ve got something coming up in a few.
metsfan4decades
4/9/2010-11:38am at 11:38 am (UTC -4)
LOL – well that leaping play to grab a ball going over his head must have cost him. Castillo will be out of the line up tonight with a ‘barking’ calf.
ceetar
4/9/2010-11:42am at 11:42 am (UTC -4)
the calf happened Opening Day supposedly.
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-11:42am at 11:42 am (UTC -4)
Support Your Junior Core In Buffalo!
And the one member in the Mets pen who SHOULD be in Buffalo!
trs86
4/9/2010-11:46am at 11:46 am (UTC -4)
Green?
Kingman 26
4/9/2010-12:05pm at 12:05 pm (UTC -4)
Green should be in Philly with Figgy.
Of course I meant Mejia.
Looked jittery and in need of another pitch in his one inning the other day.
But sure throws hard.