"May Citi Field hold as many great memories as Shea!" - BSG

Other than that, I vote for "BSG WFC"

"Shea minus the Beatles"

One path to heaven

CrashburnAlley wrote:Yeah, you sit in your castles eating caviar while people are sleeping under park benches and eating dinner out of trash cans! How do you people sleep at night?

Answer: Very well.

"On a big pile of money, with many beautiful ladies."
--McBain

Grotewold wrote:One path to heaven

Grote FTW. Seriously, that's subtle and so apt on so many levels. Has to be that one. That's just fucking brilliant.

Metsblog Gold:

Agees Catch says:
January 30, 2009 at 9:09 am

How many guys are we going to sign to a minor league deal? Is there still room for our real prospects? I hope Val Pascucci doen’t get squeezed out.

Manny-Mania hits New York City

I have a bad feeling about this

Warszawa wrote:Manny-Mania hits New York City

I have a bad feeling about this

Metsblog is really big on posting about that rally feature close to thirty people (really? thirty people? New York City?). They still need starting pitching.

ek wrote:he's not going to the Mets. if they make an offer, the Dodgers are waiting on someone else to make an offer and then they'll top it and he'll stay in LA

Yeah, this sounds right to me.

Monkeyboy wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:

BigEd76 wrote:This is obviously a drawing and not the final design, but this is rumored to be the patch for the inaugural season of CitiField:



(since MLB prohibits corporate names from appearing on uniforms)

Coincidence?

Colbert Report just skewered the Mets for this logo, saying it's all part of the Mets' plan to get eliminated from the playoffs in 30 games or less.

Just walked by a guy wearing a hat with that logo and he seriously did look like a Domino's delivery guy.

What happened to MetsRefugees?

VFB wrote:

I just noticed that VFB is from Tittitown. That makes me smile.

jerseyhoya wrote:What happened to MetsRefugees?

Seems alive and well to me:

(Talking about Happ, Carrasco, Park and Kendrick competing for the fifth starter's slot)

beltranearmole wrote:
Would it surprise anyone here if one of them is lightning in the bottle for the Phils and they have a big year?

It would surprise me, since every player on the Phils had a career year last season and nobody on the roster got hurt

Jimmy Rollins and Tom Gordon are confused. Especially Jimmy Rollins since he got hurt while playing against the Mets.

The career year thing gets me. Actually who had a career year? Werth I guess. but he is good enough to do the same thing this season. Rollins was well off his best. Utley was outstanding but that is his norm and he had that hip. Howard certainbly struggled most of the year. Ruiz was bad almost all year. Feliz was below even his norm.

Victorino wasn't over his head, The only player who really had a career year was Lidge and probably Durbin. If you want to see a team with lots of career years, look at the '93 Phils.

The Phils were pretty good avoiding injuries. At least the ones that put players out of action. The starting rotation stayed intact. Gordon got hurt but that was tro be expected. The pen guys stayed remarkably healthy. Rollins got hurt early but the rest of the team pretty much stayed on the field all year.

smitty wrote:The career year thing gets me. Actually who had a career year? Werth I guess. but he is good enough to do the same thing this season. Rollins was well off his best. Utley was outstanding but that is his norm and he had that hip. Howard certainbly struggled most of the year. Ruiz was bad almost all year. Feliz was below even his norm.

Victorino wasn't over his head, The only player who really had a career year was Lidge and probably Durbin. If you want to see a team with lots of career years, look at the '93 Phils.

The Phils were pretty good avoiding injuries. At least the ones that put players out of action. The starting rotation stayed intact. Gordon got hurt but that was tro be expected. The pen guys stayed remarkably healthy. Rollins got hurt early but the rest of the team pretty much stayed on the field all year.

Once Eaton was jettisoned, the starting rotation was better than expected. Certainly Moyer had close to a career year, and Myers was very good upon his return from the Myers. Cole was of course, as good as you'd expect. Blanton was better than most people expected. Yes, it's true that Blanton and Myers had career half years, but none the less.

smitty wrote:The career year thing gets me. Actually who had a career year? Werth I guess. but he is good enough to do the same thing this season. Rollins was well off his best. Utley was outstanding but that is his norm and he had that hip. Howard certainbly struggled most of the year. Ruiz was bad almost all year. Feliz was below even his norm.

Victorino wasn't over his head, The only player who really had a career year was Lidge and probably Durbin. If you want to see a team with lots of career years, look at the '93 Phils.

The Phils were pretty good avoiding injuries. At least the ones that put players out of action. The starting rotation stayed intact. Gordon got hurt but that was tro be expected. The pen guys stayed remarkably healthy. Rollins got hurt early but the rest of the team pretty much stayed on the field all year.

i agree in general, but not on the specifics. werth was pretty close to his 2005 and 2007 numbers, so only a career year in the playing time sense.
victorino surprising close to career numbers. feliz almost exactly at his career norm. utley, rollins, howard, ruiz all well off their best. and don't forget jenkins. coste slumped badly. pitching-wise myers averaged out to being well worse than his usual. blanton improved with the phils, but not yet to his early career levels. hamels had his best year yet. anyone, even met fans, think he's already peaked?

the rollins injury was big. losing a month of effectiveness from the reigning mvp? and utley was playing hurt.

so really, the only freakishly good years were moyer, durbin, and lidge, and there were a bunch of key players who performed at less than there best. the met fan stupidity is even worse than you suggested.

ek wrote:they just re-signed Perez

http://blogs.nypost.com/sports/st/archi ... _term.html

good