Showing posts with label new york mets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new york mets. Show all posts

Monday, August 3, 2009

David "Rip Van" Wright or That Just Might Be One Very, Very, Long Beard



After their satisfying five game winning streak, many Mets swore not to shave until they reached the .500 mark. Oops. After a tough weekend against the Arizona Diamondbacks, one of the few teams with a worse record than themselves, this ZZ Top photo of David Wright was required photoshopping.


If the Mets never get to .500 this year, and they are not a bunch of liars, then they will have to grow their beards until opening day 2010 when their official record will 0-0 or .500.

Let's give a big round of applause to your 2010 New York Mets!!!


Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Our Lovable Ragtag Bunch of Scrappy Blue Collar Guys

In my last post, I affectionately called the latest version of the Mets a "motley bunch of scrappy bush leaguers." Baseball salaries are effing unfathomable so I attempted to put a price tag on the players the Mets fielded last night. Data are from Cots' Baseball Contracts, basically it's salary plus prorated bonus. I assigned Santos, Switzer and F. Martinez the league minimum (I know Martinez got a big bonus when he was 16 but I don't know the length of his contract.).

Starting Lineup
$2,000,000 Cora
$401,000 Murphy
$7,750,000 Wright
$1,700,000 Tatis
$2,800,000 Church
$400,000 Santos
$925,000 Reed
$6,250,000 Castillo
$2,250,000 Redding

Subs:
$409,500 Stokes
$400,000 Switzer
$400,000 F. Martinez
$9,166,667 F. Rodriguez

The Mets starting nine have a combined salary of $24,476,000. Add the subs (including don't call me K-Rod) and the total is $34,852,167.

So they can't compare to the Yankees 80 million dollar infield, but that ain't chicken scratch. Those 13 guys make about what the Florida Marlins entire roster will make in 2009.

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The Sheffield Report - 5/28/2009

This is my obligatory Gary Sheffield Report that explains that I was wrong about him being totally washed up. But before I put my tail between my legs...

Why wasn't Gary Sheffield running hard last night when he got thrown out at home? And why did Jerry Manuel give him a pass? If Ryan Church had failed to run hard, Jerry would have thrown Mr. Church under the bus, backed the bus over his body and kicked him in the nuts for good measure.

Could Jerry be scared that Sheffield would go off like a cluster bomb filled with hate, entitlement and 'roid rage? Probably.

Is it just me or should they have made that bobble head's head a little bigger? What with the massive amounts of steroids and human growth hormones it looks as if Gary Sheffield's head was designed to scale.

I'm sorry but I have forgotten the point of this post. Oh wait, steroids and HGH make hitters better.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Joe, Bill Welke and the Sheff

I'm gonna do my Mike Lupica impression:

  • Joe: Doesn't it seem like every player Joe Torre manages takes steroids? And he's always surprised. Joe, stop being surprised.
  • Bill: Remember Bill "Amber Alert" Welke? He blew two calls last night. He singlehandedly is going to ruin the umpires annual bs report. He also has never seen a run down before. Bottom line, Phillies scored 2 extra runs and the Mets were forced to use Frankie "Don't call me K-Rod."
  • The Sheff: Gary Sheffield left 5 runners on base last night. For the season, 38 runners - drove in 3. Pathetic.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Too Many Sean Greens on the Dance Floor - A Greene Update

So, I'm waiting for the games to start last night and Loudmouths is on SNY and their riffing on the Sean Green thing and I'm thinking, "Damn, they stole my bit." But they're comparing Sean Green with Shonn Greene.

Shonn Greene is a running back out of Iowa. At 5'11" and 227 lbs, he's undersized and was slow at the combines. Something tells me that he could stand in the batter's box and waggle his bat just as effectively as Gary Sheffield. Sign him up, Omar.

While we are on the subject of Shawn Green, it was a little bit sad early this season when Kevin Youkilis passed Art Shamsky bumping him off the Top 10 list.

All-Time Jewish Homerun Leaders

Hank Greenberg 331
Shawn Green 328
Sid Gordon 202
Al Rosen 192
Mike Lieberthal 150
Mike Epstein 130
Steve Yeager 102
Brad Ausmus 79
Ryan Braun 76
Kevin Youkilis 72

Tied for 11th place, Art Shamsky/Lou Boudreau 68

That's a pretty good team for a bunch of nice Jewish boys.

The list was compiled by JewishMajorLeaguers.com. I updated it for 2009.



Friday, April 24, 2009

The Sheffield Report - 4/24/09

There will be no lol-ing during the reading of this post. Stats, straight up, no ice, no soda, no frickin' olive.

There have been 17 runners on base when the Sheff has stepped into the batter's box and he has driven in none. Gary Sheffield equals:


For the sake of fairness and for you D-Rod haters, here's the rest of the Mets:

ROB = runners on base
OBI = runners on base that you drive home
OBI% - percentage of the runners on base that you drive home.


So, David Wright has gotten up with 54 runners on base. He has driven 5 of them home. That's 9.3%

Carlos Delgado has driven home 20% of the runners on base when he steps to the plate.

Ryan Church and Sheffield have actually been less clutch than D-Rod.


All data from baseballprospectus.com

Friday, April 17, 2009

Another Revolting Development

Last night's game was hard to watch. Bad pitching (Maine pulled an Ollie), bad hitting (Wright left four runners on base), bad umpiring (homeplate umpire Gary Darling must have had dinner reservations, he punched out Delgado to end the game on a pitch that was so outside it hit a 7 train) and bad audience participation (lots of empty seats and a douche bag that was sitting in the front row).

I'm going to focus on this douche bag. The guy that interfered with Daniel Murphy's double down the line in the fourth inning, costing the Mets a run and perhaps more, because Reyes had to stay at third instead of scoring. Remember him? He looked like an unholy amalgamation of Jorge Posada and the star of Slumdog Millionaire.

He's supposed to be a Mets fan. He was wearing a Mets hat his dad bought him at a new Citi Field kiosk for $35.99. When the ball is in play and the Mets are about to score, DON'T TOUCH it, you big-nosed, mouth-breathing, brace-faced, four-eyed, rich-ass DORK!!!

Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling gave him a pass and so did most of the "fans" in the high rent section he was sitting in. Those are $105 seats. Unless I win the lottery, I will never be sitting in those seats. The dick didn't even understand he did something wrong until someone explained the basic fundamentals of the game he was supposed to be enjoying. At Shea, he would have been doused in beer by real fans. He deserved to be doused in gasoline.

The sheepish, shit-eating grin he was sporting made me want to crush his $900 eyewear into a tangle of wire and broken glass and grind the remains permanently into the braces keeping his mule teeth from protruding past his Posada-esque proboscis.

Yeah, it was one game. But last year in September, it would have been real nice to have another win in April. Fans are supposed to support the home team not skull fuck it to death. It's not just the one game, its the idea that only filthy rich people can afford to go to baseball games and filthy rich people are not necessarily good fans.

When that loathsome, foul-smelling, tallow-skinned, excuse for a Mets fan got home last night, after he picked the foul-smelling smegma from his orthodontics and lured the cheese-like secretions from the endless whiteheads on his pasty face, after he put his new souvenir baseball next to the 10 RBI ball stamped with a facsimile of Alex Rodriguez's autograph, after he put his brand new, official 2009 alternative inaugural Citi Field Mets cap next to his worn only once, official 2008 last year of Yankee Stadium Yankees cap, the sonofabitch probably slept like a baby.



Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Rising to the Occasion - The First Game at Citi Field

When we were kids, me and my brother made up a song, it went something like this:

Beat the Mets! Beat the Mets!
Step right up and beat the Mets!
Beat their kiddies, beat their wives
Guaranteed to have the time of your life
Because the Mets are always dropping the ball
Giving up home runs over the wall...

You thought you and your brother came up with that clever ditty? Wrong. We did it first.

Well, what else is new, the Mets dropped the ball last night, literally (Mr. Church) and figuratively.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Same Old D-Rod but the Mets Win!

The Mets win, the Yanks lose and all is right with the world - for one day.

Here's a scintillating replay of D-Rod's at bat courtesy of MLB's Gameday (powered by Adobe Flash). I was at work but I still got to "see" David Wright strikeout with a runner on third and less than two outs.