In a post to Newsday, Mike Rose gives a quick recap of today’s intrasquad game in St. Lucie, during which Team Alomar won 7–5.
At Gotham Baseball Magazine, Mike Silva tells the 
Mets, “Don’t Tell Me, Show Me,’ with regards to the team’s spring-time confidence.
…i tend to agree with mike…i mean, wasn’t it over confidence that sort of got these guys in to trouble last summer…how about we table the confidence, and earn it with a nice long summer of winning…
Lastly, according to the Church of the Fonz, former-Mets 2B Edgardo Alfonzo has reported to Texas Rangers camp in hopes of returning to the major leagues for the first time since 2006.
In a post to Hot Foot, Matt Matros explains why tomorrow is the most anticipated spring training game in Mets history.
…thanks to Peter Wade for the link, and who wonders if the Mets could bring fonzi back if he is unable to make the Rangers…
…i doubt it, peter…first, this organization has so many second basemen, i’m starting to lose count…second, the Mets have had ample opportunities to bring back fonzi, even on a minor-league deal, knowing full well that he’d love to be here, and yet they have not brought him in…so, i have to believe the same would be the case again should the opportunity arise…
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Wow, talk about players who try to hang on too long … that’s Fonzie. He should just hang it up and become a coach or minor league manager somewhere. I’m sure the Mets would love to have him back in that capacity. His quest to play in the majors again is admirable but doesn’t seem realistic at all.
As for confidence, sure they have to do it on the field and get results, but I love the confident attitude that Beltran is showing. I want to see more of that form him and others in the future.
good luck Fonzie! Probably not going to happen but i would love to see him put together 1 more season before retirement
Put it this way: I’m not signing him to my fantasy team.
Fonzie did take a minor league with the Mets in 2006. Obviously it didn’t amount to much.
I love Fonzie, but I too think his energies are better served getting a coaching job, which I’m sure he’d be great at.
I think Fonzie was on steroids. His career took that type of trajectory.
no question about it…
Then why wouldn’t he have continued to take them after 2000? They didn’t test until 2004.
I think it was simply age/injury.
Even his injuries seemed steroid-induced. Those weird, soft-tissue stuff.
AFAIK, he had back issues. And he had had them since the mid-90s. Nothing unusual about that.
the one thing I would say in favor of bringing back the most likely lead-off hitter ever, aside from the love-fest: back-up to our good friend David Wright at the ol’ hot corner
day off here or there wouldn’t be bad
if we are gonna bring someone back just for the sake of nostalgia, give HoJo a bat and let him play 3rd. He at least looks to be in good shape.
And can we get him back in #20? It was a shame to make him wear 52 because the great Shawn Green was wearing his number.
i wonder how old he really is. he had to have lied about his age when he first came up at 20 (is that what he said?)
Mets.com lists HoJo’s uniform number as 20, so all is right on that front.
As for Fonzie, I’m not saying I disagree that his trajectory is highly suspicious, but it’s really a shame that you can’t have improved as a player between 1995 and 2002 at any point and not raise a few eyebrows. The legacy of steroids I guess.
The Mets have proven to be nothing if not completely resistant to nostalgic impulses….they did have Fonzie in Norfolk in AAA in 2006 but did not add him to the 40 in September while they were adding the likes of Kelly Stinnett (and they will always have to answer to adding Mike Glavine in 2003 to appease Tommy Boy). Meanwhile they’ve unceremoniously canned coaches like Mookie and Stearns and alienated guys like Ojeda who were in their system, and there were of course the 40 letters Doc Gooden wrote to Steve Phillips hoping to come back to the Mets (making Doc’s triumph over the Mets in 2000 the only Mets loss in history I didn’t universally hate).
Anyway, the Mets don’t do alot out of sentimentality, unless it’s Brooklyn Dodgers sentimentality.
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