Great Article From the NY Times!

In today’s New York Times, there was a great article about the Mets’ bobblehead tradition/curse. Every time the Mets give out a bobblehead, the player is cursed. For example, this year’s bobblehead is Ike Davis, who is currently on the DL. Read the article here. This is just so Mets. That is why I love it.

The Mets' Kaz Matsui Bobblehead

Mets-Nets Comparisons: Infield

David Wright and Brook Lopez.

This was a pretty easy comparison. Both guys are players that grew up in the teams’ farm system and they are fan favorites. They are among the best players on their respective teams. They are also both a little goofy and have been brought up in some trade rumors recently. One difference between them is that Lopez has never missed an NBA game while Wright has missed games with all sorts of injuries. They are both whiners; Lopez on the court and Wright off the field with stupid injuries.

David Wright and Brook Lopez

Josh Thole and Kris Humphries.

The Hump had his breakout season last year and Thole hopes to do the same this year. However, this is pretty unlikely seeing his start. Both players are still pretty young and have a lot to prove. Off the field, as we all know, The Hump is recently engaged to Kim Kardashian. Thole doesn’t seem to have a celebrity girlfriend as far as I know, but he should change that. Who wouldn’t want to date the Mets’ catcher? I think that if The Hump played baseball, he would be a catcher. He has the body type for that position. He isn’t very fast and I can imagine he would like playing that position. They are both unlikely to be traded anytime soon, though The Hump could choose to leave as a free agent.

Josh Thole and Kris Humphries

Ike David and Derrick Favors.

Both of these guys are young players with infinite potential (Favors probably more than Davis). So far in their careers, they have yet to be spectacular, but their futures are bright. Favors was traded to the Jazz in part of the DWill trade and will continue to grow in Utah. Ike will most likely not be traded because he is one of the few Mets that Fred Wilpon did not harshly criticize. Both of these players seem like pretty nice and relatable guys. I think that Ike Davis might be Jewish and Favors is only 2 years older than us. He is also apparently a Mets fan, so we can relate to him even more. Oh hi Jerry Manuel.

Ike Davis and Derrick Favors

Justin Turner and Anthony Morrow.

The only reason that Justin Turner gets to be compared to Morrow is because of the very nice start to his season. He has led the Mets most of the way this season which speaks to how poorly the rest of the team is playing. For much of the year, Morrow was also a leader for the Nets. He showed up and competed every night and he is a special shooter. I think that Turner’s specialty is hitting doubles, though I am probably wrong because he still does suck. Also, Morrow is an avid twitter user. I feel like Justin Turner should have a twitter account just by looking at him. I’m sure he does. Any conformation on that Raphi?

Justin Turner and Anthony Morrow

Ronny Paulino and Johan Petro.

This might be my favorite comparison. Both of these guys are fat, lazy losers. Both players were acquired this season by their respective teams and are journeymen. Both of them speak another language (Paulino: Spanish, Petro: French). If Petro played baseball, he would be a catcher. Actually, he would be too lazy and probably just play 1st base, which is I’m sure what Paulino wants to do. Both of these players are also very random. Who cares about Ronny Paulino or Johan Petro? Nobody (except kids in hospitals).

Ronny Paulino and Johan Petro

Nick Evans and Ben Uzoh.

The last men at the end of the bench! Ben Uzoh was the 12th man for the Nets all season, playing very limited minutes and whenever he did play, trying as hard as he possibly could. Nick Evans has been going back and forth between the Mets and AAA for a couple of years now and he is currently the last man on the roster (unless Brad Emaus replaces him). I don’t think that we have seen Evans play yet this year, but when we do it will be the garbagiest of times for the Mets, just like whenever Big Ben Uzoh got his minutes with the Nets.

Ben Uzoh and Nick Evans

Daniel Murphy and Troy Murphy.

This was one of my favorite and easiest comparisons. First of all, both of their names are Murphy and they are both Irish (Troy went to Notre Dame). Second of all, they both suck. Surprisingly, we have seen Daniel hit a few home runs this year, including a game winner against the Yankees, but he still sucks. He is rarely clutch and he is a classic disappointing Met. Troy played in a few games for the Nets this season before they got sick of him and told him to stop showing up and eventually traded him. He finished up his season in Boston, which is where I’m sure Daniel wants to be also. I’m sure they are cousins in some way.

Daniel Murphy and Troy Murphy

Ruben Tejada and Mario West.

Both of these players are random, young guys with pretty low expectations. The Nets picked up Mario West after they dropped Q (thank god) and he played a few games for them before he got injured and missed the rest of the season. This didn’t surprise me at all when it happened. He had a few games when he scored 10 points and tried to sit the rest of the games out so that he would be able to stay in the NBA next year. I could see Ruben Tejada trying to do a similar thing with the Mets. He knows he sucks and he just wants to be able to play major league baseball and get paid a lot of money. Neither of these players care about how their team does.

Mario West and Ruben Tejada

Fred Wilpon is Disgusted

On Monday, some comments by Fred Wilpon were released in a New Yorker article. MetsBlog.com summed it up:

• Jose Reyes thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money. He’s had everything wrong with him. He won’t get it.”
• “We had some schmuck in New York who paid Carlos Beltran based on that one series. He’s sixty-five to seventy percent of what he was.”
• David Wright is a really good kid. A very good player. Not a superstar.
• Ike Davis is a good hitter. Shitty team; good hitter.”
• “We’re snakebitten, baby”

This is unfortunate. This year’s Mets had little to be proud of before Mr. Wilpon made these comments. Now that Wilpon has spoken, the Mets are a complete joke. The stars – David Wright, Jose Reyes, and Carlos Beltran – have even less incentive to play well now. They were dissed by their boss and they are probably going to be traded.

The Mets lost 11-1 tonight to the Cubs. That’s worse than normal, especially when you consider that the Cubs have the worst pitching in the league.

The good news: Lower level seats to the upcoming Mets – Pirates series should be very affordable.

Mets-Nationals Preview

As of now, the Mets game tonight has not been rained out and we are still planning on being in attendance. There are some changes to the teams that I wish to inform you of before the game. The biggest change is that because of the rainout yesterday, Dillon Gee has been bumped out of the rotation and replaced by the man who was supposed to start yesterday, Jon Niese. This will be our first Niese game. Luckily, Gorzy will still start for Washington. In other news, the Mets’ disabled list is growing. Here are the players now on the DL: Pedro Beato, Ike Davis, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Johan Santana, David Wright, Chris Young. The Mets’ lineup tonight is sure to be interesting. On Monday, Willie Harris started at third base. Oh boy. Because of all the injury problems, the Mets have recently called up Mike O’Connor. He is a former Montreal Expo draft pick and a former National. He played for the Nationals for 2 years before coming to the Mets this year. Those two years were 2006 and 2008. That means that he randomly took 2007 off, then skipped 3 more years, and then came to the Mets. He’s pitched for the Mets so far in 5 games this year, shockingly giving up 0 earned runs. However, his career ERA is 5.23. Hopefully we will see him tonight.

Mike O'Connor. Ew.

Yankees Royals Game 1 Recap

This game featured no surprises at all. The Yankees won easily 3-1 and the game never seemed to be in question. Even though the pitching turned out to be better than I thought it would be, Chris Getz and the Royals offense just was not good enough to compete with the Yankees. First of all, the only run that the Royals scored in the game was a solo homer by former Yankee Melky Cabrera. And he’s barely a Royal. In fact, I consider him more to be a Yankee than a Royal, so the Yankees actually won 4-0. And this was against Freddy Garcia. Imagine how terribly the Royals would do against a real pitcher, like C.C. Sabathia. On the bright side for the Royals, Kyle Davies was better than I thought he would be. He only gave up 3 runs. Tim Collins (I was hoping for Tim Redding) was also solid for Kansas City in relief and the Yankees only had 7 hits in the game. But that was all they needed in an easy victory, with Mariano Rivera picking up the save.

Now on to the jokes from the game:

• In one of the earlier innings of the game, two Royals got caught stealing. The sequence was hit, caught stealing, hit, caught stealing. Pretty terrible, but not surprising from Kansas City.
• The Yankee Stadium peanuts were thousands of times better than the Shea peanuts. We got a total of 2 in the whole bag and they did not all taste like salt in a shell. And we did not get sick of them after having two or three. I actually enjoyed almost the whole bag. There was another peanut disaster under our seats.

Before

After

• In the 7th inning, with David Robertson on the mound and the bases loaded and two outs, Chris Getz refused to strike out. With everyone in the stadium standing because it was an important batter in the game, Chris Getz fouled off 4 David Robertson pitches before finally striking out. Everyone groaned after every foul because everyone hates Chris Getz.

Chris Getz

• The Budweiser Fan of the Game was a hilarious guy with a mustache. He was on the screen earlier during the French’s Mustard Smile Cam. Unfortunately, the Yankees do not have a 1800flowers.com Kiss Cam. I was disappointed about that, but happy that the guy with the mustache won.
• Justin Tuck of the New York Giants was at the game tonight. We have also seen him multiple times this year at Nets games. He actually goes a lot. And it’s kind of creepy. My guess is that he is really cheap and doesn’t want to pay for Knicks tickets so he just goes courtside at Nets games for 10 bucks. But then why would he go to a Yankee game instead of a Mets game? Maybe he is following us around? If we see him again, we will keep you updated.

Justin Tuck sitting courtside at a Nets game

• On the train ride home, Raphi convinced me to take the C train. What a disaster it was. It looked like it was made in 1940 (ok, maybe 1989), but still. It was so old and creepy. And it took me like 15 or 20 minutes to walk home from the Museum of Natural History train station. I am definitely never doing that again.

The 1940's C Train. Yes, it actually looked like this.

• By going to one Yankee game, we have seen as many wins by the home team as we have by going to 6 Mets games. That is pretty sad. The Mets are awful. And Ike Davis crashed into David Wright on an infield popup tonight. The video will be posted here on KHH as soon as someone puts it on youtube.
• Some other pictures from the game:

Our Moved-Up Seats

A Rod

Jeter and Cano

Rivera

Preview of Mets – Astros

Jonah and I will be in attendance at tonight’s Mets – Astros game. Thus, a preview is in order.

To begin, here are some depressing Mets interviews after the Mets – Astros game: (It’s so easy to laugh at (not with) Terry Collins.)

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Next, 2 articles of sad news:

• Pat Misch was waived, cleared waivers, and demoted to Triple A Buffalo. (Metsblog.com)
• Bobby Parnell was placed on the 15 day DL for numbness in his right, middle finger. The Mets training staff believes it has to do with poor blood circulation. (NBCSports.com)

R.A. Dickey

And, tonight’s Mets starting lineup (according to Metsblog.com):

1. Jose Reyes (.299)
2. Josh Thole (.260)
3. David Wright (.254)
4. Carlos Beltran (.250)
5. Ike Davis (.291)
6. Angel Pagan (.169)
7. Willie Harris (.273)
8. Daniel Murphy (.226)
9. R.A. Dickey (.200)

Other notes:

• According to Mets.com, tonight’s pitching matchup is: Bud Norris (1-1, 5.06 ERA) vs. R.A. Dickey (1-2, 3.93 ERA).
• Scott Hairston will come off the bench for the Mets.
• Jason Isringhausen will serve as the 8th inning set up man tonight.
• R.A. stands for Robert Allen, according to Wikipedia.org.

We’ll post some sort of recap after the game, unless the game is so awful that it must be immediately forgotten.

Mets – Braves Game 1 of Double Header

5:40 PM. It’s a rainy day in New York. I am joining the Mets midway through their first game against the Braves, at Turner Field. Their game started 1.5 hours ago, so if I watch both games of their double header – I’ll be watching the Mets for the same amount of time as I watched them with Jonah on Thursday. Six and a half hours.

Here we go.

Before I begin with live updates, here is some important info about this afternoon’s game.

Mets Lineup: (We will likely have nicknames for all these players within a few weeks.)

1. Jose Reyes
2. Angel Pagan
3. David Wright
4. Carlos Beltran
5. Ike Davis
6. Willie Harris
7. Brad Emaus
8. Josh Thole
9. D.J. Carrasco

Pitching Matchup:

• D.J. Carrasco (4.05 ERA, 1.50 WHIP, 4 Ks, 3 BBs)

vs.

• Derek Lowe (1.45 ERA, 1.07 WHIP, 15 Ks, 5 BBs)

Other notes:

• Beltran is slated to start both games of the double header. Pleasant surprise.
• According to Mike Puma of The NY Post, Brad Emaus is running on thin ice. He may be cut soon.
• Dillon Gee will start for the Mets tomorrow. That will be hard to watch. Michael Baron of SNY.tv’s Mets Blog thinks that Ryota Igorashi will be demoted to make room. That would be a shame.
• Remember, the Mets are entering this game after being swept in a four game series by the Rockies. They have lost 5 in a row.
• It is Jackie Robinson Day in the MLB. Every player is wearing #42 and no one has names on their uniforms. It just makes it more difficult for people like me to follow the game.

Live Updates

To start the bottom of the 5th, the Mets are down 3-1 to the Braves and D.J. Carrasco has just left the game. He surrendered two solo home runs to Alex Gonzalez. Gonzalez is a Carrasco killer. Pat Misch takes the mound to relieve D.J.

5th Inning

• Misch walks Chipper Jones, but survives the 5th inning unscathed.

6th Inning

• With 2 outs, Willie Harris hits an RBI double to bring in Beltran, who was on first base after a Derek Lowe walk. 3-2 Braves. Emaus promptly pops out to end the inning.

Freddie Freeman (who??) absolutely demolishes a Misch offering. Wow. Solo home run. 4-2 Braves. Classic. Misch finishes his 2nd inning of work and only gives up one run. As a Mets fan, I’ll take that any day.

On a side note, backup catcher David Ross is mic’d up for this game. He said something hilarious and the FOX announcers started cracking up. I wasn’t listening. Sorry, Mr. Ross.

7th Inning

• Eric O’Flaherty (2.08 ERA, 0 Ks, 2 BBs) is now on the mound for the Braves. We’ve already come across some extremely random names. He ousts Josh Thole on his first pitch on a soft dribbler right to Mr. O’Flaherty. Chin-Lung Hu follows and strikes out looking. 2 walks later, O’Flaherty is sent to the dugout. Scott Linebrink (4.76 ERA, 7 Ks, 4 BBs) replaces and gets Wright to pop out to right.
• Bobby Parnell steps to the mound for the Mets. Somehow survives the middle of the Braves’ lineup.

8th Inning

• Jonny Venters (1.29 ERA, 5 Ks, 1 BB) marches in from the bullpen to pitch. He walks Willie Harris, but strikes out Beltran and Emaus to safely glide through the inning.
• Bobby Parnell keeps the Mets deficit at 2 in the bottom of the 8th. The Mets are at bat in the top of the 9th, down 4-2. It’s crunch time for the Mets. Let’s see if they can pull it off.

9th Inning

• Craig Kimbrell (0.00 ERA, 9 Ks, 1 Walk, 3 Saves) comes in to close for the Braves.
  
  Kimbrell strikes Josh Thole out swinging. One out. Daniel Murphy nubs it to the pitcher. Easy play. Two outs. Reyes is at bat and is trying to keep the game alive for the Mets. Full count now. He…singles!! Ground ball barely gets past the Braves’ Second Baseman. The tying run is at the plate. It’s Angel Pagan. David Wright is on deck. Pagan…pops out to center. Game over. Braves win, 4-2

A recap of the game is forthcoming. I don’t plan on live blogging for the 2nd half of the double header.

Sources:

• http://www.metsblog.com
• http://www.yahoo.com
• http://www.nypost.com
• http://www.mets.com

Mets-Rockies Doubleheader Recap

I am exhausted. What a day. After leaving seminar at lunch, Raphi and I embarked on a 7 train journey to Queens to see the Mets take on the Rockies. Twice. Our first baseball game(s) of the season tested our patience and stamina. We saw home runs, errors, and everything in between. I will start at the beginning. (Note: All pictures and videos were taken by us; they are not from the internet).

We arrive at the game and I have already cheated the Mets out of their money before I have stepped inside Citi Field (from now on, we will refer to Citi field as either Shea or Shitty Field. I prefer Shea because it is what I am used to, but Raphi may decide otherwise). Like I do to Nets games, I brought fake tickets, payed for 10 buck upper deck seats, and sat in the third row behind the Rockies dugout. First I will talk about the plot of each game.

We arrived in the 4th inning of the first game and the score was 2-0 Mets. I assume that they got a few lucky runs and the game was probably boring until this point. In the 5th inning, Colorado finally got on the board by scoring 1 run and in the 6th inning, Jose Morales (ew) had a 2 RBI double to give the Rockies the lead. The Giambino also made his presence felt, scoring a run.

The Giambino

In the 7th, CarGo and Tulo hit back to back home runs and it looked like the game was over. Fans were bored and nobody thought that the Mets would come back against Huston Street. But everyone was wrong. Before Street came in, in the 8th, Jose Reyes hit a home run over the right field fence. In the 9th, Scott Hairston, who is the Stephen Graham of the Mets (however, I think there is more than one Stephen Graham on the Mets) hit a 2-run shot over the left field fence to make it a 1 run game.

Mets Home Run Apple

After some questionable pinch running decisions by Terry Collins, the Mets still have a chance in the game. With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 9th and 2 outs on a 3-2 pitch down by 1 run, David Wright was up at the plate. See what happened next below:

It was a heartbreaking loss for the Mets and Mets fans, but people soon forgot about it as the second game was starting. After both teams went back into their locker rooms and changed their uniforms (the Mets went from cream and pinstripes to white and the Rockies went from purple to gray), the teams were ready to return to the field for a second game. The Mets started off the game nicely with a 2nd inning 2-run double by Mike Nickeas (who??) but Colorado soon answered by scoring 2 quick runs in the 3rd. The Mets added 2 more in the 4th and had a lead, but things were about to go horribly wrong. The 6th inning started off for the Rockies with a homer by Tulo and finished with a 3 run homer by Jonathan Herrera (really Mets?). Colorado scored 6 runs total in the inning. Of note, Brad Emaus made a terrible play on a double play ball hit by the Rockies’ pitcher that would have ended the inning, but instead let it continue. The Rockies added 1 more run in the 9th and won easily 9-4. By the end of the game, everyone was sick of baseball and desperately wanted to go home. Not that the games were so heavily attended anyway, but by the end of the second game there were probably not more that 1,000 people at Shea. The Mets are now 4-9.

Brad Emaus

Next, I will talk the pitching in the games. The matchup in the first game was between R.A. Dickey and Greg Reynolds. A pretty disgusting pitching matchup. When we arrived at Shea, R.A. had not given up a run, but by the end of his day he had given up 5. A pretty disgusting performance to say the least. He blew the lead for the Mets and they suffered because of it. Greg Reynolds on the other hand pitched the minimum 5 innings to get the win. He was not very good, but I guess he was good enough. The bullpen for the Mets featured surprise scoreless innings by Ryota Igarashi (from now on will be referred to as either Iggy or Toyota) and Tim Byrdak (who?). Huston Street was close to blowing the save for Colorado, but Matt Lindstrom, former Marlins great, was able to save Street as well as the game.

The Dick

In the second game, the pitching matchup pitted Chris Capuano (Cappuccino or just Coffee, if you like) against Jorge de la Rosa (hip hip Jorge). Neither pitcher was very special. De la Rosa gave up 4 runs and Cappuccino gave up 7. Special shoutout to Iggy who pitched in both games, giving up 0 total runs. The Rockies bullpen was good as it did not give up a run.

Hip Hip Jorge

For Met fans, this was a terrible day. Just think about it. You had to either skip school or work to see your horrible team get swept in a doubleheader. If you came at the beginning and stayed until the end, you were at Shitty Field for over 7 1/2 hours. It became unbearable and I’m not sure it is something that I would ever want to experience again. Luckily for me, I was rooting for the Rockies to win both games; however, if we go to more Met games I plan on eventually rooting for the Mets.

Now on to some of the more hilarious jokes from the game, in order of occurrence:

• The Rockies have two Morales’s on their team, Franklin and Jose. We saw both of them today and they are both pretty disgusting. I don’t know which one is worse. They also have two Reynolds’s. Greg started the first game and Matt was a reliever in the second.
• The play of the day goes to a combo of Jason Giambi, Franklin Morales, and Willie Harris. Harris hit a hard ball to Giambi who clumsily bobbled it. The pitcher, Morales, went over to cover the base and Giambi threw the ball to him. As he was catching the ball and stepping on the base, his shoe fell off and the runner was called safe, even though it looked like he should have been out. Rockies manager Jim Tracy went out to argue the call, but failed. Tracy then took out Morales who left the game with an apparent injury because his shoe fell off. During the next batter’s at bat, Willie Harris was promptly caught stealing. This was a play for the ages.
• R.A. Dickey was terrible. We brought bad luck to The Dick and he gave up 5 runs in only 2 and a third innings while we were in attendance.
• A noteworthy moment came in the first game when CarGo and Tulo hit back-to-back bombs. This 3-4 combo is why the Rockies should be a powerful team for years to come.
• Also in the first game, I caught a Mets T-Shirt launch shirt (even though Raphi may say that he caught it, it was definitely mostly me). The shirt was nicer than I thought it would be knowing the Mets and the Wilpons. It is orange with Mets script on the front and seems to be made from fairly nice material. I had my hopes up after I saw this, but of course there is an advertisement for Pepsi Max (which is disgusting, by the way) on the back. You just can’t expect the Mets to give you an ad free t-shirt. The funniest part about this shirt was that it was tied with a balloon. Though it is debatable that a balloon may be nicer than Johan Petro’s wrapping tape, a balloon is still a ridiculous way to tie a shirt. Why not just use normal tape??? The balloon was surprisingly hard to take off and it took us a few minutes to get it.
• One of the almost-disaster plays of the first game was a hesitation by one of the Mets relievers (I can’t remember which one) to throw Hip Hip Jorge out at first on a sacrifice bunt. The pitcher thought about throwing down to third base to get a runner going there and it nearly cost him. However, de la Rosa was called out and a disaster was avoided.
• I had a surprising 3 psychic moments in this game (they are all true, you can ask Raphi). The first came in the 8th inning of the first game. At the beginning of the game, I told Raphi that whenever I go to Mets games, Jose Reyes always hits home runs, which are usually pretty rare for him. I did not call a home run from him until the 8th inning when the Mets were doing nothing offensively. I called a Jose Reyes homer to right, and it happened. Psychic. My second psychic moment came in the 6th inning of the second game. Before the inning started, the Rockies were down by 2. I called that it would be a (and I quote) “big inning” for the Rockies. Tulo started off the inning hitting a home run and the Rockies scored 6 runs total in the inning. Psychic. Later in the inning with 2 outs, 2 runners on, and Jonathan Herrera at the plate, Herrera hit a ball just foul down the first base line that would have been caught by Ike Davis and ended the inning. I predicted a homer on the next pitch and it happened. Psychic. All of this is true. Ask Raphi.

Psychic

• The last hilarious moment from the first game was when I bought a Shea Stadium pretzel. It costed $6.50 so I thought that it would be good. I will now describe it. It came wrapped in tin foil and not shaped like a normal pretzel. It was more shaped like a challah (for all you Jews out there). The tin foil was covered in mustard and it was difficult to open without getting mustard on your hands. The pretzel itself was damp and slimy and felt as if it had been in the tin foil for days. When I picked it up out of the tin foil, there was still some tin foil left on the bottom of it that I again had to pick off. I did not want to touch the pretzel, so I had to hold it with a napkin. The napkin then attached itself to the pretzel and the pretzel became fuzzy and disgusting. I don’t think you want to hear any more descriptions.
• Now, on to the second game. In the second inning, Scott Hairston hit a shot off the wall in left field that needed to be reviewed as to whether or not it was a home run. One of the umpires of the game was Jim Joyce, the umpire who blew the famous Armando Gallaraga perfect game call, and all the fans booed him when he decided that it was not a home run.
• A noteworthy moment from the second game happened when Mike Nickeas and Brad Emaus were on base at the same time. I do not need to say any more.
• Emaus is a shithead. This is from Raphi and I do not need to say any more.
• One of the funnier plays of the games came when Scott Hairston hit a pop-up in the infield that fell and Hairston ended up at second base. Did you learn anything at Spring Training guys? Call for the ball!
• Matt Reynolds, a leftly specialist for Colorado, had his first career at-bat in the game according to yahoo, and promptly struck out. The Rockies were ahead by too many runs that they didn’t think they needed to pinch hit for him and they were right.
• Toward the end of the game, only Jews were left in the crowd. Really. Probably about 80% Jews. And they were so annoying as most religious Jews are. And they were all kids. They don’t have any parents. And they were calling each other Jewish names like Chaim and Shmuel. And they were sitting in the first row and annoying the security guard. Yes, I appreciate your concern (and I don’t care) and I know that I am an anti-semite. Go talk about it in seminar.
• I have discovered that we were at Shitty Field from 1:15 until 7:30. That is 6 hours and 15 minutes. That is a whole lot of shitiness. This is not an experience that I would want to repeat.

To cap off the day, at the end of the game, I was standing behind the Rockies dugout as players were leaving. One of the players gave me a ball. It is not my first ball at a baseball game, but I will still cherish it forever (awww).

Feliciano’s New York War

The first confrontation this year between the Yankees and Mets has come off the field. Pedro Feliciano, the newly signed Yankees lefty, has been put on the DL because he was supposedly overworked the last couple of years while with the Mets. Yankees GM Brian Cashman has blamed the Mets for “abusing” Feliciano and the Mets have said that the reason they did not resign him this year is because he was damaged goods. Feliciano fired back at the Mets by saying, “I will show him in the Subway Series when I strike out Ike Davis, and when I jump up and down on the mound I’ll be like, ‘That’s for you.'”

Pedro Feliciano

After this incident, I cannot wait for the Subway Series this year. I love cross-town rivalries, whether it be the Nets and Knicks or the Yankees and Mets, and this Feliciano incident is sure to add some spice to the Subway series this year. Also, I don’t want to see Feliciano strike out Ike Davis; I want to see him hit Ike Davis and see a brawl. Baseball brawls are always the best because everyone on the team gets involved. People from the bullpens come out onto the field even though they probably couldn’t care less and every once in a while, a random old coach gets knocked down (for those who remember Don Zimmer).

In other Yankees news, the bullpen looked great tonight against the Twins. 1 scoreless inning each from Joba, Rafael Soriano, and Rivera is all you need with the Yankees offense. And if the bullpen can pitch this well every night, they’re not going to need Feliciano. On another note, the Yankees are on national TV 4 times this week, on Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday, while the Nets cannot even be on regional TV. What a shame.