Daily Archives: August 24, 2007
…i will be at tonight’s game, wearing my One Team, One Million GMs t-shirt, sitting roughly 10 rows or so behind third base, courtesy of the great wine guys at Franco’s Wine Merchants…so if you happen to be in the neighboorhood please stop and say hello…
This season, the Mets are 33–29 at home.
They were 40–22 at home on this date last season.
Paul Lo Duca, on WFAN, when asked if the fans impact the team’s poor plays at home…
“The Mets fans here are the best. I mean, they cheer like you wouldn’t believe and they boo us when we’re playing terrible, and that’s the way it should be. They’re just the best here. When you win here there’s nothing better. So, there really is
no excuse.”
Pete from Massachusetts sent in an e-mail this morning, writing…
“I know that our fans can be tough, it’s part of what makes New York, New York. But, I wish that the booing would stop…not entirely, because sometimes it’s appropriate, like when a player is dogging it or doesn’t run hard…but it’s getting out of hand. Anything short of perfection is getting booed…
“I wish a few sportswriters would make an issue of it and challenge the fans to be more supportive. I mean, I know the players are professionals and they understand that New York is a tough town and that it comes with the territory when you come to play here…but I also have to believe that it must be more difficult for a player, Carlos Delgado for example, to turn it around when he is being booed mercilessly. It must get into his head, not in a supportive way, but as one more thing going wrong. In other words, the boo-birds are making it HARDER on their hometown players to turn it around…
“That’s not right, is it?”
…i could not have said it any better, pete…
…i mean, i guess i agree with lo duca, but the problem there is that ‘playing terrible’ is quite subjective…
…for instance, last night, Tom Glavine gave up two runs in the fifth, and the crowd actually had the audacity to boo…glavine…who has been more or less flawless in seven of nine starts since the all-star break…like i said last night, i guess he should have been perfect in all nine…
…was glavine specific performance terrible last night, yes, i guess…but, is glavine terrible…hell no…so, where is the line…what is acceptable booing and what isn’t…
…also, theese recent boos are just so damn loud…that’s what gets me…and the fact they’re booing any ounce of failure and disappointment just wreaks of some fans being totally spoiled and unrealistic…the thing is, to be that loud it must be a majority of fans who are taking part…so, maybe i am in the minority…which is shocking to me…i guess i just assumed that we, as Mets fans, were some how better than this…
…here’s the thing, though…i got an e-mail the other day from a Yankees fan who wanted to know about parking at shea because he was going to the Mets game…the Yankees were in LA…and he’s at Shea Stadium…yes, i asked him why he is attending a Mets game if he’s a Yankees fan…he did not respond…my point is that with the team’s recent success, i suspect the stadium is filled with people who are not necessarily hard-core fans…that’s not to say that hard-core fans refuse to boo…i just have to assume that a lot of the boo-birds are somewhat newbie fans who are booing for the fun of booing…i hope…either that, or i’m totally, totally confused…
In today’s Brooklyn Paper, Patrick Hickey Jr. profiles Kyle Peterson, who is the vendor at Keyspan Park and who also entertains fans by juggling during Cyclones games.
Peterson is also the author of Tornadic Activity, which is part of the MetsBlog network of mini-blogs, featured in this site’s left-column.
Peterson, as quoted by Hickey…
“I wish I could take credit for all the Cyclones success this season, but I can’t…I do think that I get the fans energized though. I think they’re the ones that have played a part in how well the team has done this year.”
The Single-A Cyclones lead the New York-Penn League’s McNamara Division by five losses with a 38–18 record.
Also, on September 1, they will be holding a Rick, Paper, Scissors tournament for fans at the game.
…as you know, RPS is the ultimate way to solve any dispute…like my buddy says, ‘flipping a coin is so 1990s’…
Since joining the Mets, Luis Castillo has had 84 at bats, and has an on base percentage of .387. He is also batting .321 since that time.
Over that period, when compared to the Mets normal starting position players, Castillo is second on the team in those categories only to David Wright.
Over Wright’s last 84 at bats, he is batting .405 and has an on base percentage of .532.
…i feel like since he has joined the team, castillo is always finding a way to get on and make things happen on the base paths…it’s nice to feel that way about someone other than Jose Reyes…as for wright, just another example of why april numbers shouldn’t be used to predict a player’s overall season, i guess…
Tagged Regis Courtemanche |During last night’s game, SNY’s Kevin Burkhardt joined Mr. Met and the Pepsi Party Patrol.
On air, SNY’s Ron Darling said…
“Don’t try to take away Mr. Met’s gun, I’ll tell you that, he’s in charge.”
This week on SNY’s Mets Weekly, among other segments, watch a great feature about the 1988 Mets, the NL East, and the YouTube clip showing Mr. Met at the Indian wedding, in which the show actually talks with the Groom’s brother.
Mets Weekly will air at 12:30 pm on Saturday, August 25, and re-run at various times through the following week.
…according to one of the show’s producers, i’m ‘all over the show,’ with three different soundbytes…so, i’ll prepare myself for the, ‘hey, you look like Paul Lo Duca’ comments that inevitably follow…
Last night in St. Lucie, Mets OF Endy Chavez went 2-for-5 with two singles and a run scored.
He’s batting .542 in his six minor-league rehab games.
…there is buzz from shea that suggests he could be back any day, while others suggest the team may actually wait until after September 1, so they do not have to make a corresponding roster move…
…again, like Pedro Martinez, endy will be eligible for post-season play no matter when he is promoted because he is currently on the disabled list…
…all i know is that i miss watching him play…
…last nights game was excruciating and heart wrenching…the wave of emotions left me exhausted by the end of the night…which is exactly how we felt many times last season, and was missing this season…the outcome was not what i wanted, but the effort the mets displayed is something that i feel has been bubbling beneath the surface over the last few weeks…this team seems like they’re finally beginning to sense the urgency, and the timing could not be better…
Marlon Anderson, talking to reporters after last night’s game…
lot as a team, guys came together a little bit
and picked each other up.”
…guys have been picking each other up a lot more often lately than in months past…the team has shown the fire that has been lacking and the role players, the bench, and the wrights and reyes and beltrans of the world are beginning to fire on all cylinders…there are parts still in need of repair…Carlos Delgado is stuck in neutral…Tom Glavine, John Maine and Oliver Perez have hit an oil slick…but i sense that the engine, the team as a whole is beginning to take shape…
…last night the mets lost the game but the team is beginning to find itself and the novelties and revelations as Dana Brand likes to call them, are beginning to reveal themselves…
…it is an exciting time for me as a mets fan, as i sense the best is about to come…
Last night, Tom Glavine walked three batters, allowed 11 hits and six runs to score in five innings.
…as i wrote last night, he struggled with his control, but he was also getting squeezed by the ump, which is a bad combo…he then began leaving balls over the plate, and the Padres started hitting him…
Glavine, as quoted by the New York Post…
“I have no comment on his strike zone tonight, thank you,”
…i was glad to see Willie Randolph jabbing the home-plate ump from the dugout, while swearing under his breath, like he should do when his pitcher is rolling his eyes all night and getting screwed over and over again…
Last night, Billy Wagner allowed two runs in the ninth inning for only his third blown save of the season.
He has allowed three runs in his last two innings pitched.
…funny thing is, from what i can gather, wagner was telling people after the game that he threw the ball as good last night as he had all season…and that’s baseball sometimes…
…odd, because to me, it looked like he had no command of his slider…
Wagner on game…
“Well, it’s like any other blown save…You give up a double, a ball that bounced off the infield, a slow-roller up the middle, and there ain’t much you can do about that. You can only make the pitch, you can’t direct it. It stinks just like the rest of them…
“You wanna do well. We’re out there trying to do well. It’s not like we’re out there trying to walk guys and give up hits…it’s just one of those things. You can’t control that stuff. You go out, you make the pitch…You just have to not overanalyze it, and say I have to be better, it’s just the way it was. I mean, these guys have the lowest batting average in the league, and thats’ for a reason. They’ve got good hitters, but you’re gonna run in to that…They’re feeling lucky, too. I mean, their bullpen and our bullpen, we, it was a tough three-game series, and I don’t think anybody is sitting there bragging about how well they did. So, both sides know it will be a battle if we get in the playoffs.”
