2009 New York Mets thread

Keith and Gary wound up discussing Larry Storch voicing Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo, and Keith pretty much recited the credits of Vincente Minnelli's Gigi.

(during tonight's nailbiter, that is)

All yr Wagner has been claimed on waivers. Lets see how Minaya screws this up...

for those keeping score, Livan was released.

Not that it matters much in this filthy ambulance of a season, but Hamels has been the Mets' little bitch this season. Very tasty.

geez, the '69 Mets got old, including Nolan Ryan

Ryan threw a pitch to Yogi Berra and didn't kill him!

i'm going to make a post so it doesn't look like you're talking to yourself.

That's mighty white o' you.

Castillo is 9th in the league with a .406 OBP. His only season over .400 was 2000.

morbs you went today right? at least you got to see something in person most never will.

Unbelievable...only this team

yes, I was there. The Mets are not allowed to engage in heart-stomping, gizzard-shredding, Oedipal-gouging sadism unless Dr. M is in the house.

There was a guy asking for ppl's tickets outside one of the Citi Field exits, some savvy eBay dealer?

Bruntlett's fielding pct for the ninth inning should've been .600, cuz that "infield hit" by Murphy was bullshit, clearly a second E4.

johan scratched tomorrow due to sore elbow
THE SAGA CONTINUES

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if this guy got a handful of those he could make a few hundred

is this real anymore

i never want it to end

yeah, I love you too, schmuck.

re eBay, saw a guy outside Citi right after the game asking for tickets. (they're not stubs, they don't tear em)

Castillo and Murphy are the only players on the opening day lineup to not hit the DL this year.

To: bluehattickets
Subject: Message from eBay Member

Dear bluehattickets
Enter your question here

are these obstructed view tickets? if i win the auction can you set them up for pick up at will call?

Santana out for the season, Ollie Perez getting his knee examined. Mets Trail of Tears 2009 continues unabated.

just.....damn

it stopped mattering awhile ago.

there really is no way the training staff has zero culpability here, is there?

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injuryexpert Putz done for season after reinjuring elbow. May need TJ if it doesn't heal up with rest.

OK -- it's been at least two weeks since Nieve tore his quad, right? Let's have him do a few windsprints and three sets of leg extensions at, ohhhh, 140 pounds -- see how he's feeling then.

good news at last: Ollie Perez done for the year w/ patellar tendinitis

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/rare_centuple_play_ends

ahaaha ...Marlins second baseman Dan Uggla tagged everyone in the Mets dugout before heading into the clubhouse and tagging both equipment manager Charlie Samuels and physical therapist John Zajac.

lol there is some serious ghost demon shit buried under citi field

8/23

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DJ AM found dead

home run chef now a pinch hitter due to back spasms

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^^^amazin

Wright's post-concussion debut to come in the thin air of Denver? just like Church?

http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/08/those_who_cannot_remember_the.html

morbs let's buy the mets

I'd have to dig into my IRA

we'll have to get rid of beltran, though, because he's not a winner

wow Cubs, should pack it in after 10 Ks vs Nelson Figueroa.

Manuel really positive about keeping Parnell in the rotation: "We'll start him, obviously we don't have any other choices..."

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hahahhaaa

David Wright is going to use the bubble helmut:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/090831&sportCat=mlb

Valuable content:

"• The S100 has a raised ridge in the back that seems to lend itself to a two-tone color design. So will we see more teams dabbling with color combinations, like the Rangers' failed experiment from last winter? "Our primary focus is on making the helmet available to players in the original design," says Bourne, the MLB spokesman. "If the club wants to ask for a change, they can." Translation: The Mets will do something embarrassing, like they always do, but most of the other teams will play it straight."

He looks like pretty sexy casting of Kazoo from The Flintstones

fwiw i dont thimk the helmut looks retarded

but Gary Cohen brought up Kazoo a couple hours after I did.

Sheffield may be restricted to pinch-hitting the rest of the way, YAY! Why the fuck would you play him?

Beltran to play in Coney Island tonight!

Gazoo was brought up in basically every article and review of the fucking helmut. use other cultural touchstones pls.

O SHIT RLY? I'ma try to go to that game

I was thinking about that too, but assume there will be a run on bleacher seats (resulting in deep bone bruises)

http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2009/09/david_wright_ditches_ridiculou.html

Two weeks ago, Jerry Koosman was cheered in Queens with other legendary members of the 1969 "Miracle Mets" lineup.

Thursday, he went to prison.

Forty years after he helped boost a laughingstock team to World Series glory, the retired pitcher was slapped with a six-month sentence for failing to pay taxes. Koosman, 66, a two-time All-Star lefty, apologized as he was read his fate, saying he got suckered by the anti-tax fringe movement.

"Like most people in their sixties, I've made some bad decisions in my life," he said.

"I tend to trust people more than I should," he said.

"I shouldn't have listened to those people about the tax returns, but I did, and I take full responsibility."

Koosman failed to file federal tax returns between 2002 and 2004, defrauding the government out of as much as $80,000.

The IRS testified he made $754,950 over those years, including $130,000 from his Major League Baseball pension.

In 2002, he made $25,000 from autographs and personal appearances and sold $551,881 worth of stock.

Koosman pleaded guilty to tax evasion in May, saying his research led him to conclude that only federal workers and District of Columbia residents had to pay federal taxes.

IRS agents who confronted him in 2006 said he showed them three binders of documents challenging the government's right to levy taxes.

Koosman's lawyer, Robert Bernhoft, described the former pitcher as an honest, reliable - but naive - farm boy.

"He has a reputation for being too trusting and naive," Bernhoft said, arguing for probation.

U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Crabb called his crime "a serious blemish on an otherwise outstanding life."

She could have sentenced him to a full year in prison but cut the penalty in half, adding a year of supervised release.

She said he would have to work out his debts with the IRS.

Prosecutors say he still owes the government about $65,000.

Koosman, who lives in Wisconsin, played 19 seasons in the majors, including his first 12 with the Mets.

Along with pitchers Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan, he made the Mets Amazin' - and even landed on the cover of Life magazine in 1969.

He had 222 wins and 209 losses and a 3.36 earned run average during his career, which spanned from 1967 to 1985.

Koosman is also known for giving up Pete Rose's landmark 4,000th career hit in 1984, and retiring the following year.

Sometime in the 1990s, he sold the series-winning ball caught for the final out of Game5 of the 1969 World Series.

He said he can't remember who bought it, or how much they paid.

;_;

JEEZ

it'd be nice to nail the Cubs' coffin shut.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/regional/mets_in_foul_territory_Kv3ab9itte145lFGr1vyhL

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