angel pagan is having a great spring. i don't know if he could be an everyday player, but he could be the starting LFer on opening day.

i'm not sure about nady. his bat has some pop, but he's a butcher on the OF.



i have no tickets for opening day. i'll probably try stubhub.

i'll miss that dump stadium.

I'll miss Shea also. I have some great memories of that place.

Angel Pagan is having a great spring. If not an everyday player, he can definitely be the other alternate outfielder with Endy. Is he right-handed? If so, then he can be the right-handed hitter we need, and use Marlon Anderson to back up Carlos Delgado if he gets hurt again? It could work, as a last resort...

he's a switch-hitter and throws right.

i'd rather see what pagan can do than make a panic trade.

mr. adorable

Santana apparently looking really good today.

Pagan and the TeenageHittingMachine(thank you Matt Cerrone and Metsblog for that one) are tearing it up in ST.

And damn is D.W. a stud!

That right there is the epitome of man.

Apparently the Giants are shopping Randy Winn. I had the following conversation with a friend of mine who has the unfortunate fate of being a Giants fan:

What is this mess about trading Angel Pagan for Coco Crisp? Not sure I'd enjoy that. Rumor debunked.

And just because:

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/met...0,5278792.story

finally! That would be awesome!

Pedro finally pitched in a real Grapefruit League game today. 4 shutout innings and only 57 pitches. The second inning was rough, but overall an excellent effort.

who the hell can afford anything connected with the All-Star Game?

The Mets' lack of depth beyond the 8 non-pitcher regulars is worrying...

A lot of people in Washington, players and fans alike, have the same feelings towards RFK - a dump with no charm whatsoever. I agree with MetsfanChi, too, about cringing over the corporate naming of parks. I like how Baltimore has Orioles Park at Camden Yards. Maybe Washington can have Nationals Park at (Corporate) Fields, or Nationals Field at (Corporate) Park, and the same for Shea? Personally, I love the name Nationals Park and hope that they can somehow retain that. But you're right, it truly is a double-edged sword.

Can't one argue, too, that Wrigley Field was the first truly corporate field?

I mentioned that a while back in a blog item.. It was renamed Wrigley Field for William Wrigley Jr., who owned the team at the time. Sure, the family had the gum company but I don't think they ever used the gum logos or images in the park and I don't think the company paid to have the park renamed Wrigley Field. All the parks now with corporate names have the logos all over the place.

citi field essentially pays johan santana's salary.

i hate the new name, but mets had to do it.

i hate wagner, but i love his bulge.

whoa! How have I missed that? NEVER saw it before! I just became a HUGE Wagner fan (pardon the expression...)

Going to the Civil Rights game today! I'm hella excited(especially because I'm with two White Sox fans).

opening day win!

and santana looked real sharp and of course every Mets fans boyfriend DW got the key hit that broke open the game!!!

josh

Every Mets fan's boyfriend? So essentially he's...Paris Hilton?

Oh don't be jealous.

I went to the Metsblog party to watch the game and I swear that entire bar would have gone gay for Davey boy after that double.

Johan gave me like ten boners tonight.

you can read this exact quote on a straight mets message board.

As it should be.

I'm hella jealous you went to the Metsblog party.

Cerrone is such a nice guy and I'm happy for his success. That place was crowded though; easily 100 people there, if not more.

I was actually surprised by how many good-looking men were there, however. Mets fans: easy on the eyes!

of course.

shea stadium is filled with hot guys.

Speaking of hot guys, I'll( ) be home for a wedding next weekend, and I'm taking in a game before Shea goes down.

Anyone wanna go/meet up there? They're playing the Brewers Friday night.

first game, and pedro's already hurt.

could be hammy.

ouch.

I'd be down (for the relatively cheap seats! That damn stadium has already taken too much of my money this year). Though I may go to the Saturday game (Johan's first at Shea).

In worse news, Pedro's just left the game. Please God I hope he's okay.

preliminary report: strained left hamstring.

Well this night sucked.

for sure this game sucked..

for one..i wish MLB would switch Baltimore and Washington into the NL and AL respectively. Believe it or not, Washington and Florida always have young scrappy teams with decent pitching, but a lot of inexperience. Baltimore and Tampa Bay and for the most part Toronto just suck ass. Why should the skanks get the easier division year in and year out so they can claim the fraudulent greatness by beating the loser teams all the time..

also, tonight's game is a classic example of things that annoy me...
please tell me why Wagner wasn't pitching the 10th? Because we didn't have a lead? BFD. I mean the important stat is the Mets getting a W. We needed out best pitcher out there to start the extra frames, in the hope that the offense put one on the board. Stupid to save wagner....cause we never got to use him...

josh

who's surprised about Pedro? not me. They should've won the East with very little from him last year. Let's face it, in retrospect the signing was mostly a PR move, the Red Sox were smart to let him walk.

josh, if any manager breaks decisively with the idiotic can't-use-closer-in-a-tie crap it sure ain't gonna be Randolph. (Notice that managers DO break with it in postseason, cuz it's OBVIOUSLY the thing to do.)

Good Ol' Pedro, he's got his bullshit fake injury out of the way even earlier this year...that was actually a bit surprising.

One of Theo Epstein's smartest moves was to not re-sign him.

pedro out 4-6 weeks at least for left hamstring strain.

DW hit an absolute bomb tonight and Beltran got his taken away, way to go blue.

I hate that damn stadium. That's like eighty home runs this series that didn't happen.

/hyperbole

So I'm not bitching too much about a 13-0 win...but...

Randolph won't use Wagner in the bottom of the 10th inning of a tie game that we fought hard back to tie up, and instead uses the shittiest reliever in the bullpen...BUT..

he DOES use Wagner in the bottom of the 9th of a 13-0 blowout?? Did he really think that anyone else in that pen was going to give up 13 runs to the Marlins?

I really really wish I could ask him that question...it completely and totally defies logic

josh

obv he felt the need to "get Wagner work" with the day off today. He wouldn't have had to if he had used him when the game was on the line Tuesday.

Bill, Josh relax! It was one game, can we just chill and not be overanalyzing willie's moves right now?

Except for not using Wags in the second game, Willie has looked pretty good in managing the pen so far, in my opinion. Although only using Schoeneweis for one lefty batter and then immediately yanking him should be obvious to everyone with eyes.

It's hard not to. when you lost the division to a second rate team by only one game you feel compelled to think about all those games you could have won..
that one game in april that we should have won (game #2) by using wagner more appropriately might loom large come sept.

josh

20/20 hindsight, he should've used wagner in a tie game.

BUT, i don't really trust wagner in tie games. same reason wagner didn't pitch in game 7 of NLCS.

Technically, you should only use your closer when you have the lead in Away games.

that's willie's forte.

he rarely makes adjustments.

That "second rate team" beat your asses silly in August and September.

obviously, that wasn't enough.

mets needed to choke.

If the Phils didn't win their games then the Mets would've still won the division. It takes two to choke.

yeah, i wish the mets didn't choke and phillies won it.

but i can't change history.

phillies '07 weren't an elite team. they were in fact the lucky winners courtesy of a mets collapse.

I'll repeat this again so maybe you can comprehend: if the Phillies didn't win their games it wouldn't have mattered how many games the Mets lost. Finishing the season winning 13 of 17 isn't being lucky.

And if the Mets would've won just one of those last 7 games against the Phillies, the Mets still would've won the division anyway.

oh please, phillies needed the mets to collapse.

13 of 17 won't mean squat if the mets didn't choke.

but honestly, who cares. the division title is all that matters.