If You Miss the Tender, You’re Off the Cruise
Remember when we counted down the minutes to more exciting things like Johan Santana’s contract extension deadline? Yeah, those were the days, weren’t they? Now we’re reduced to counting down the...
View ArticleThe One Trade Tutorial
I hope everyone at Met headquarters was taking notice. No, not because I expected them to trade for Adrian Gonzalez. Ha! The five million they supposedly have left couldn’t buy Adrienne Barbeau much...
View ArticleWarped Perspective
While I applaud Sandy Alderson for not being afraid to mock a division rival, I’m not exactly sure that picking a fight with the Washington Nationals makes the Mets look like they’re shooting for the...
View ArticleProof That You Need 180 Proof To Get Through 2011
Things caught my eye today. Like this: “Regardless of the outcome of these discussions, we want to emphasize that the New York Mets will have all the necessary financial and operational resources to...
View ArticleThere Ain’t No Key, You Gotta Boof Your Way Out
You knew that once Boof Bonser signed, the rest of the dominoes would fall. Think about it, Boof signs a deal with the Mets, and then all of a sudden Paul Konerko and Carl Crawford sign, and the Cliff...
View ArticlePins and Needles, Needles and Pins
I need to make something clear right off the bat here: I’m still down with Sandy Alderson’s current plan, which is to lie low and concentrate on the minors and the draft and build from within after...
View ArticleThe Multiverse is On Shuffle
There is increasing proof that we live in a dimension with alternate universe. In April of 2011, when Pedro Feliciano puts on a Yankee uniform, we as a species will enter one of those universes. If...
View ArticleChristmas Creativity
Well … it’s creative. It’s not the kind of creative I had in mind, but D.J. Carrasco, signed to provide relief (and for a reliever’s salary), could very well fill a starter’s rolewith the Mets. Sounds...
View ArticleAqua-lung
Here’s why I suck (yeah, again): I was all excited with this great idea with the Mets acquiring Chin-lung Hu from the Dodgers that I was going to do a whole post called “Chin-lung Hu: A Photo Essay”....
View ArticleMeet The New Year, Same As The Old Year
I can’t think of a better way to leave 2010 than this: http://youtube.com/watch?v= maSShFAyvig[/youtube] No matter what I think of, whether it’s David Wright’s opening day home run, Ike Davis...
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