Thursday, February 07, 2008

MEET THE PRESS.

I realize this has been analyzed twelve ways to Sunday already, but here’s some thoughts:

• Johan was exceedingly well-spoken and composed. He was not rattled. This bodes well.
• If you listen closely, he has a little bit of a Midwestern accent - just like Delgado has the slightest trace of a New York accent. (I mean, Delgado’s English is almost perfect, but he’s definitely got those Bensonhurst “R’s” sometimes.)
• Not too many cliches. It didn’t feel rehearsed, it just felt like he thought about what he might want to say before he said it.
• He may give the other snappy dressers on the team a run for their money.
• Willie looks very bald without a hat, which is how we see him 99.9% of the time.
• David Wright, you couldn’t shave? I know it’s the off season, but still.
• However, the big shit-eating grin on DW’s face said it all, and was only matched by the big smile on TBF’s the entire press conference.
• To the moron with the $5 digital camera that was in front of the SNY camera, I hope someone beat the crap out of you later.
• Alan Schwartz: Can we just have him ask all the questions?
• Our Spanish comprehension was pretty good as a group.
• TBF was pleased, nay, delighted that the jersey was “the proper jersey” and “the proper hat.”
• This was a big event so I was pleased to see the Mets actually ACT like it was a big event.

You know what? We got Johan Santana.

I just can’t say that enough.