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I am not posting this as approval for this deal. But it was an excuse for me to drag out a photo of Mike Jacobs from last year (when I went down to Baltimore just so I could watch Zack Greinke pitch) and a reason to update the blog two days in a row.
ENJOY THE SNOW
It’s Truck Day! The equipment truck is leaving for Port St. Lucie! Pitchers and catchers report in 9 days!
It’s so exciting, isn’t it? I just LOVE truck day. I love the live video feed on mets.com of Mr. Met helping pack the truck. I love watching the photo ops of the players who haven’t left yet, pretending to help pack the truck. It’s awesome that they let the kids from Harlem RBI and the Girls & Boys Club come and help pack the truck too, it’s a great event for them. I appreciate that WFAN is broadcasting live from Citi Field and that there’s a discount at the team store and free coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts for any fans who want to stop by and watch. I think the giveaways of those promotional Opening Day t-shirts is a fantastic thing. So many teams make a great, fun event around Truck Day, I’m so glad the Mets are one of them. It really breaks up the monotony of the winter and gets people thinking about baseball.
Of course, none of the above is true (before you go running out to Willets Point). I made it all up on the spot without thinking about it too much. I’m not claiming any originality, I’m just mimicking what I see other teams all over MLB do on Truck Day.
Click to continue reading TRUCK DAY!Football over.
The equipment truck leaves tomorrow at 11am.
FINALLY IT IS TIME FOR BASEBALL.
And not a moment too soon.
I know. It’s still going to be a tough year. But it’s still going to be baseball. Baseball!
Honestly, what can I possibly say about more no-account, pointless signings? Nothing, that’s what.
I just want the season to start.
On a positive note, we bought our first set of tickets (BOS @ OAK) for our monster West Coast roadtrip. Giants on-sale later this week (and we’ll be there for Tim Lincecum bobblehead day, which delights us to no end).
Really. I’ll be there with bells on once the season starts. Right now, it’s just waiting and bitching.
“You got a book,” TBF said, pointing at the thin, flat package waiting for me on the kitchen table.
I picked up the bubble mailer and started to open it. I wasn’t expecting anything, thought it might be some random PR mailing. After a few seconds, the item inside felt less like a book and more like… a picture. In a frame.
It was a photo of Opening Day 2009, from the Mets.
“Oh,” said TBF. “It’s our ‘you just bought tickets from us’ gift.”
Except that it wasn’t. There was a little slip of paper - easy to miss - that said “Happy Holidays 2009”.
Click to continue reading HAPPY HOLIDAYS.
Just trying to stay positive. Put up pretty pictures, cross my fingers, close my eyes, and click my heels together. We WILL have a good 2010 season, we WILL have a good 2010 season…
I was effectively offline for most of the evening, and emerged from the subway around 10pm. While waiting for the bus, I idly checked Twitter. And then realized I couldn’t sort through hours and hours of tweeting. (The best take on tonight’s panic is courtesy Wrigleyville 23, oddly enough.)
I called home.
“No seriously, WTF?! Beltran?”
“12 weeks.”
“Not Beltran!”
“Yep.”
“Our All Star, Gold Glove center fielder.”
“Yep.”
“#$@^%” (Imagine the Tasmanian Devil when you read that.)
The hipster girl standing next to me looks annoyed that my whining is interrupting her listening to the new Vampire Weekend. I hang up.
Waiting for the truth to sort itself out, waiting for the Mets to have an accurate grasp of how to handle the media and the public, and not that I had a ton of hope for 2010, this is really putting the icing on the cake.
And I feel guilty about bitching about any of this with what is going on in Haiti. (Please donate now if you haven’t.) How completely insignificant my team’s season is compared to all of that devastation.
9/8/98: I found out that Mark McGwire broke the HR record from Eddie Vedder on the stage of the Brendan Byrne Arena (okay, so it was actually Continental Airlines Arena at that point, but just barely).
It’s the only original thing I have to add to the McGwire media blitz.
