'til the Wheelers come off; the Kiner's Kornerless 2014 New York Mets

Klassic

Will Woods at BP:

Say this for the Mets: they’re remarkably dedicated to getting fly ball pitchers to maximize their strong outfield defense and mask their horrendous infield counterparts. But the Mets have so much good young starting pitching—to the point that they’re thinking about converting some to the pen, rather than, you know, trading for some offense—that the prolonged flirtation with Daisuke is bizarre. Jenrry Mejia is ready for his shot. By the way, here’s how you know no one else offered Bartolo Colon a second year: The Mets have so much starting pitching talent coming down the pike that Colon basically signed up to be pitching just about anywhere by the end of July.

Jose Valverde, unavailable to Yahoo fantasy team owners but available to close games for the Mets:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140326&content_id=70168662¬ebook_id=70168378

It will be a prominent role, to boot. Manager Terry Collins said that he may hold Parnell back from appearing on three consecutive days early in the season; on those nights, Valverde will pitch the ninth.

"You'd like your closer to go three or four in a row before you might think about giving him a day off," Collins said. "[But] we've got to make sure how Bobby feels. After two days in a row, I'll certainly be on top of that.

"Certainly [Valverde] is … going to hopefully be that bridge to Bob. And those nights that Bobby is going to need a night off, it's going to have to be Jose that's going to pick up the slack."

Important comma placement in the first sentence.

Jenrry Mejia makes rotation over Dice-K, hallefuckinlujah

gettin off bus in Soho at 1:30, where shd i watch a couple innings?

eric young jr at 2b for the metsies today

so close i can nearly grab tony tarascos ass

david wrights ab music is nkotb

wright has passed strawberry for the mets lead in career opening day hits

keith is wearing a coat of many stripes

ANDREW BROWN

based off of the espn gamecast thing, the umpire appears to be calling balls that are directly down the middle of the plate

Home listening to the new radio flagship, I am not gonna take hearing WOR Hannity promos all year.

LAGARRRRRRRRRRES

this is abt what i expected

oopsie

the captain with an a-rod homer

eric young jr at 2b for the metsies today

And...led off.

“@Mets: The Mets signed OF Bobby Abreu to a minor league contract. He will report to Las Vegas.”

^^^wow

mets 7-for-35 today with three homers, three walks and 18 strikeouts

bobby parnell diagnosed with an incomplete tear of his (elbow) mcl, will rest for two weeks before deciding whether surgery is required

~enter papa grande~

when I was listening to the game I honestly was surprised that Parnell was "abled".

weird how it takes a guy being unable to break 90mph for the mets to discover something is wrong

Professor Farnsworth, Wilmer Flores called up

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkOnzGSCAAAoJkT.png

weather may be decent Sat afternoon, phaps i'll go.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkO7QbECEAA7xUJ.jpg

mets, germs and steel

I wonder which fan it was

oic

Bartolo makes Sid Fernandez look like Chris Sale, amirite

Chris Young to DL with quad strain

http://i.imgur.com/fEcQrVP.jpg

how bout recker gunning down billy hamilton yesterday? good stuff

THE GRANDYMAN (still) CAN

lol yes reckers ab music is miley cyrus wrecking ball

1 batter too long: the dillon gee story

1 batter too soon: the mets bullpen story

IKE

Went today! Brisk weather. Video challenges rule.

The inner moral goodness of the Mets doesn’t always come through in live action, but it’s darn near unassailable upon further review.

http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2014/04/05/play-it-again-ike/

from 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/nyregion/doris-from-rego-park-mourned-on-late-night-sports-talk-radio.html

hey, d'arnaud got a hit

even up 4-0, valverde really pushed that to the limit

https://i.imgur.com/2iKk2wt.gif

That's all the Braves' lunches that he ate.

Uh...gotta say Valverde is looking pretty good.

Reach out and touch the visiting right fielder.

angels celebrated that like a world series win

Man, that Shuck swing on the HR was ugly.

colon is pitching to all parts of the field

M Trout homered to center.
A Pujols homered to left.
R Ibanez homered to right.

alderson extended

deGrom 'shut down' for year, in the clubhouse w/ the RoY i suspect

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24722311/mrs-mets-rear-end-a-photographic-appreciation

darling says that he and mackey sasser didn't get along 'on or off the field'

burning those bridges

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByZoirQIAAAT8_Y.png

saw this happen in real time -- gee's balk came less than a minute after the first tweet

Granderson has his OPS up to .719! Murphy's is only .742 fwiw.

six national league teams finished with a positive run differential -- the five playoff teams and the new york mets

maybe if they'd had Jeter they could've put up a -31 and still gone home.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/hapinessisametswin_zps9483d068.jpg

http://mlb.com/nym/images/fan_forum/y2014/249x260_pumpkin1.jpg

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/10/14/6978209/new-york-mets-tommie-agee-1969-world-series-game-3-october-14

http://i.imgur.com/AwOywQO.jpg

tidewater tides ftw

Kevin Long, new hitting coach! oh no, i can hear Keith (Joe Morgan) Hernandez bemoaning a "non-aggressive approach" again...

I had not seen those Tommie Agee catches in quite a few years. He really covers some ground on both of them. They really were some amazin' catches.

Game 6

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/10/25/7070795/watch-game-6-1986-world-series-new-york-mets-boston-red-sox-mookie-wilson-bill-buckner

@SamBorden

Huge @NYTSports exclusive: Inexplicably, the African soccer confed. web site's background photo is of .. Shea Stadium http://www.cafonline.com/en-us/home.aspx

70 today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wuO3Mdo-w

mets apparently charging players to attend off-season workouts: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/15/wait-the-mets-are-charging-players-to-attend-offseason-workouts-really

WTF: Mets owner Fred Wilpon named head of Major League Baseball's finance committee

http://risingapple.com/2015/01/18/fred-wilpon-named-chairman-mlbs-finance-committee/

Is this the baseball equivalent of the POTUS pardoning guys on his way out?

no idea, but i assume it's OK w/ Manfred

That was sort of my point -- maybe Selig is handing out favours in his last few days in office and Manfred doesn't have much of a say in it.

@joe_sheehan
After the #Nationals are done paying Max Scherzer, the #Mets will still owe Bobby Bonilla about $8 million.

@keithlaw · Jan 19
Prediction: 57% of baseball tweets today will combine the keywords "Scherzer" and "Bonilla"

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n213/Nrangers/US_flag_half_mast_hg_clr.gif 13 years ago today, the mets traded away benny agbayani