David Amsden of New York Magazine pens a terrific profile of Mets 3B David Wright.
Amsden caught up with Wright while bowling with John Maine and catching propsect Joe Hietpas at a bowling complex in Port St. Lucie.
…just in case you were wondering…according to amsden, maine bowl left handed to protect his pitching arm…
Among the various [...]

…this is pretty good…
 

Eddie Boison, affectionately known as “The Cowbell Man,” as quoted by Debbie Cohen in Sunday’s New York Post:
“I squat, I fall, I jump, I ring, and possibly this season I’ll even sing, but it might just call the cows home, and [Manager] Willie Randolph couldn’t handle that. How would the stadium hold a herd of cows?”
…why [...]

Tony La Russa commented after the game regarding Carlos Beltran’s perfect strike of a throw to nail David Eckstien at the plate.

“kind of a foolish throw.”
“I don’t think you make that throw too often, and he pulled it off,” the manager added. “That’s the kind of night they had.”
…as sheaguevara pointed out in the [...]

Here are some quotes from from the Mets following last night’s Opening Night win over the St. Louis Cardinals, from an article by Mark Hale in The New York Post…
Paul Lo Duca…

“Unbelievable,” “We played great defense, [a] textbook game. We didn’t make any mistakes, and if that happens, we’re going to win a lot of ballgames [...]

Marty Noble of MLB.com uncovered some interesting history in the Mets lineup last night.
Among them:
- The 1-5 spots in the batting order (Reyes, Lo Duca, Beltran, Delgado, Wright) were exactly the same as the starting lineup that opened the 2006 season. Never in the Mets 45 year history has this happened. The closest the [...]

According to Adam Rubin of the Daily News, Mets LHP Oliver Perez struck out six and walked one while pitching four innings in a extended spring training game yesterday.
Rubin also provides notes on former Met Braden Looper’s excitement to face his ex-mates on Wednesday and Darryl Strawberry’s appearance at batting practice yesterday.

If you would like to see the blue and orange attire that Keith Hernandez sported yesterday, go here and click on “Cardinals Greats are Introduced on Opening Day”.
There is also an interview with Keith here.
Lastly, to help us taunt the Cards in June when they visit Shea, there is a mask of Tony LaRussa that [...]

Andrew Beaton interviews ESPN’s Jayson Stark on Shea Faithful, asking him, among other questions, his opinion on the Mets corner outfielders as well as his projections for Mike Pelfrey and Phil Humber.

…last night, for the first time in a long time, there was a sense of stability within the mets ballclub that i haven’t felt since childhood…the mets essentially picked up from where they left off last season…and i gotta be honest, as mets fans, we aren’t used to this type of stability…we have long been [...]

…well, the Mets certainly answered the bell…if i never knew what
happened last year and i had to take a guess i would have thought the
reigning world champs were sitting in the visitors dugout last night…

…i know it was only one game and it doesn’t change the outcome of
last october, but it did feel good to [...]

On Ben Shpigel’s blog for the New York Times, he did his best ‘fly-on-the-wall’ in the Mets clubhouse as game time approached last night. Among his observations were:
Jose Reyes and Lastings Milledge sitting reading copies of Baseball America.
Jose Valentin working on a SuDoku puzzle.
Aaron Sele, with feet on locker, reading a copy of “Crossroads of Twilight.”
Endy Chavez [...]

In a column for Yahoo! Sports, Jeff Passan has a well-written piece on Tom Glavine and why he remains to be so effective at 41.
Passan writes:
“A lot of guys know what’s coming,” Glavine said. “I know they know it’s coming.”

“Even so, they still can’t hit his changeup. Glavine could stand
on the mound, shout that he’s [...]

Mike Bauman on Mets.com relays these quotes regarding Tom Glavine’s performance last night in the Mets 6-1 Opening Day win.
Willie Randolph on Glavine…
“I thought he threw the ball well,” Mets manager Willie Randolph said.
“I don’t think it was his ‘A’ game, but it was obviously good enough.”

Glavine on his own performance…
“I’m not totally thrilled with [...]

Ben Shpigel in The New York Times quotes Lastings Milledge on his role as bench player for the Mets.
“You’ve got to take what you can get,” said Milledge, who went 1 for 7
as a pinch-hitter last season. “And right now I’m a bench guy, so I’ve
got to learn how to play that role, come off [...]