2009 New York Mets thread

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

built union

Maybe it'll come down before Old Yankee Stadium.

Beltran due back tom'w.

Elmer Dessens w/ a defensive gem.

^shit i did not expect to read upon opening this bookmark.

Angel Pagan may be the worst baserunner I've ever seen

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/The-Mets-Messy-Season.html

Mets won today 10-9 w/out drawing a walk or striking out. That can't happen often.

Angel Pagan may be the worst baserunner I've ever seen

― A Patch on Blazing Saddles (Dr Morbius), Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:32 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

Many current Royals are close, possibly worse.

in a nutshell:

http://www.seanengelhardt.com/index.php?/infodesign/mets-2009/

who says you can't hit homers at citifield?

that graph has been poo-pooed by my graphic design friends as too dense.

I was at tonight's drubbing with our dear I4n, who sings a hearty Take Me Out to the Ballgame.

Mets have dumped "Meet the Mets" singalong, fuck em.

was fun!

also in attendance, 8'1" Sultan Kosen:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_m4FI1xplsaE/SrhwjY4eaPI/AAAAAAAAD6E/jDoXJ5WqGwQ/s1600-h/Sultan+Kosen.jpg

oh well:

http://metstradamus.blogspot.com/2009/09/record-holders.html

(check out the countdown clock in upp left)

pitched last night, just for IJ:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?playerId=30138

was hoping that was a manuel firing countdown clock

“Of course, we’re going to try to win the division. Of course, we’re going to be the front-runner. Of course, we’re going to be the team to beat."

Francisco "K-Rod" Rodriguez
Sunday, December 14, 2008

Ok, I have been wrong before but third worst team in the NL is kinda cray-zay. How much $$$ spent per win?

how many injuries did you predict, Trolly?

ha ha - how did i know this was gonna be a shasta and morbs one two?!

http://metsmerizedonline.com/2009/09/mets-to-offer-jeff-francoeur-3-year-deal.html

The Mets believe Francoeur will look sharp in their 2010 uni, so much so that they are inclined to approach him about signing him to a three-year contract that would allow him to become a big league Beau Brummel, if he so chose. They like what they have seen of him in and out of uniform — from his spirited demeanor to his nuclear arm to the two doubles he produced Saturday afternoon in their victory against the Nationals.

Jerry Manuel said something I’ve been saying since the day he first became a Met. He talked about Francoeur’s intangibles – you know, those things that don’t show up in the box scores.

“If you were to talk intangibles,” Jerry Manuel said, “he’d rate way off the charts.”

utterly fucking predictable

hahah what if you were to not talk intangibles?

Then he's a rightfielder with a career .311 OBP.

Braves before trade: 41-44
Braves after trade: 44-26

Mets before trade: 40-44
Mets after trade: 27-46

yeah, Church for MVP

such lols I am having

i mean honestly, guys:

The Mets believe Francoeur will look sharp in their 2010 uni, so much so that they are inclined to approach him about signing him to a three-year contract that would allow him to become a big league Beau Brummel, if he so chose. They like what they have seen of him in and out of uniform — from his spirited demeanor to his nuclear arm to the two doubles he produced Saturday afternoon in their victory against the Nationals.

Jerry Manuel said something I’ve been saying since the day he first became a Met. He talked about Francoeur’s intangibles – you know, those things that don’t show up in the box scores.

“If you were to talk intangibles,” Jerry Manuel said, “he’d rate way off the charts.”

TWO DOUBLES

DAYUMMMM

thats, like, four whole bases

thats basically like hitting a home run

no--a grand slam

Q: Most doubles in one game baseball game by a single player?
In: Baseball History [Edit categories]

The MLB record for doubles in a game by a player is 2 and has been done once: Jeff Francoeur in 2009 with the Mets, a feat as astounding they offered him a three year contract.

Frank Wren must be HIGH LIKE KITE to let him go!

no Mets thread next year

no Mets next year

beats the alternative

Mets '10 thread will start during winter meetings, natch.

church was kinda a stiff since brain salad surgery

have fun

Reyes won't be back til 2011 I bet