'til the Wheelers come off; the Kiner's Kornerless 2014 New York Mets

the grandyman!

"Let me offer you this: If there are concerns, what often ends up happening is we have an opportunity, along with Major League Baseball, to sit down and discuss perhaps what the game plan might be or could be going forward," said Clark, who played for the Mets in 2003. "... Is New York one of the marquee franchises? Yes. Will they always be? Yes. Are we paying attention in general? Yes."

The Post recently reported that a current team loan, due to be refinanced, had payroll constraints written into the terms by lenders.

"No, we are not aware of that," said Clark, who spoke with media in Port St. Lucie after the union had its annual meeting with players.

The Mets also have disputed that reported language.

http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/10550245/tony-clark-union-keeping-eye-new-york-mets-payroll

wheeler looked good (kind of a brutal interview for gary & keith tho)

not sure that a high-80s fastball is gonna cut it for kyle farnsworth

Ike Davis is wearing a walking boot, and has calf strains in both legs.

mr. met is now on twitter

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/3/10/5493224/royals-mascot-sluggerrr-needs-to-step-off-mrs-met

@Jay_HorwitzPR
Could be the first time in Mets history today that 3 players with small d's in their last name see action, d'Arnaud, den Dekker and deGrom.

deezmets

today's mets cap:

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bi7fh1xIQAA272e.jpg

has Sandy solved Citi?

It seems Alderson had a specific plan in mind this offseason. He wanted to upgrade the outfield defense and he wanted fly ball hitters. He wanted players with this profile because—through some combination of a quirky park factor and perhaps poor defense—Citi Field is susceptible to balls hit in the air, and he wants to use this factor against opposing teams. If it works, perhaps Alderson will have solved the riddle of Citi Field.

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/3/21/5526300/solving-the-riddle-of-citi-field

dice-k batting eighth today, ahead of ruben tejada

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/7.2081833.1395683625!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/image-7-2081833.jpg

Klassic

Will Woods at BP:

Say this for the Mets: they’re remarkably dedicated to getting fly ball pitchers to maximize their strong outfield defense and mask their horrendous infield counterparts. But the Mets have so much good young starting pitching—to the point that they’re thinking about converting some to the pen, rather than, you know, trading for some offense—that the prolonged flirtation with Daisuke is bizarre. Jenrry Mejia is ready for his shot. By the way, here’s how you know no one else offered Bartolo Colon a second year: The Mets have so much starting pitching talent coming down the pike that Colon basically signed up to be pitching just about anywhere by the end of July.

Jose Valverde, unavailable to Yahoo fantasy team owners but available to close games for the Mets:

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140326&content_id=70168662¬ebook_id=70168378

It will be a prominent role, to boot. Manager Terry Collins said that he may hold Parnell back from appearing on three consecutive days early in the season; on those nights, Valverde will pitch the ninth.

"You'd like your closer to go three or four in a row before you might think about giving him a day off," Collins said. "[But] we've got to make sure how Bobby feels. After two days in a row, I'll certainly be on top of that.

"Certainly [Valverde] is … going to hopefully be that bridge to Bob. And those nights that Bobby is going to need a night off, it's going to have to be Jose that's going to pick up the slack."

Important comma placement in the first sentence.

Jenrry Mejia makes rotation over Dice-K, hallefuckinlujah

gettin off bus in Soho at 1:30, where shd i watch a couple innings?

eric young jr at 2b for the metsies today

so close i can nearly grab tony tarascos ass

david wrights ab music is nkotb

wright has passed strawberry for the mets lead in career opening day hits

keith is wearing a coat of many stripes

ANDREW BROWN

based off of the espn gamecast thing, the umpire appears to be calling balls that are directly down the middle of the plate

Home listening to the new radio flagship, I am not gonna take hearing WOR Hannity promos all year.

LAGARRRRRRRRRRES

this is abt what i expected

oopsie

the captain with an a-rod homer

eric young jr at 2b for the metsies today

And...led off.

“@Mets: The Mets signed OF Bobby Abreu to a minor league contract. He will report to Las Vegas.”

^^^wow

mets 7-for-35 today with three homers, three walks and 18 strikeouts

bobby parnell diagnosed with an incomplete tear of his (elbow) mcl, will rest for two weeks before deciding whether surgery is required

~enter papa grande~

when I was listening to the game I honestly was surprised that Parnell was "abled".

weird how it takes a guy being unable to break 90mph for the mets to discover something is wrong

Professor Farnsworth, Wilmer Flores called up

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkOnzGSCAAAoJkT.png

weather may be decent Sat afternoon, phaps i'll go.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkO7QbECEAA7xUJ.jpg

mets, germs and steel

I wonder which fan it was

oic

Bartolo makes Sid Fernandez look like Chris Sale, amirite

Chris Young to DL with quad strain

http://i.imgur.com/fEcQrVP.jpg

how bout recker gunning down billy hamilton yesterday? good stuff

THE GRANDYMAN (still) CAN

lol yes reckers ab music is miley cyrus wrecking ball

1 batter too long: the dillon gee story

1 batter too soon: the mets bullpen story

IKE

details!

https://sports.vice.com/article/jeff-wilpon-is-a-piece-of-shit-according-to-lawsuit

also gbye Captain David

@AnthonyDiComo
Matt Harvey was consistently throwing 95 mph in his final bullpen session of the year today, according to Sandy Alderson.

8 Ks to start the game!

between him, Wheeler and Harvey, the Mets have something of a ... generation K.

that was a very deflating game to witness

don't forget Syndergaard

nothing good can happen with camo jerseys

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/9/15/6154737/mr-met-wore-jacob-degroms-hair-and-it-is-unsettling

i watched deGrom's first 6 strikeouts this morning, which KM and I missed whilst WAITING ON A LATECOMER

Two dingers, 6 RBI for Flores

Beelzebud thinks Wilpons are doing just fine

http://nypost.com/2014/09/17/part-of-seligs-legacy-always-will-be-tied-to-wilpons-mets/

2 Dingers!!

Threw that in in case jsarge ever posts about anything but the NBA or Taylor Swift again.

Lagares with elbow sprain, likely done for '14.

alderson extended

deGrom 'shut down' for year, in the clubhouse w/ the RoY i suspect

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/eye-on-baseball/24722311/mrs-mets-rear-end-a-photographic-appreciation

darling says that he and mackey sasser didn't get along 'on or off the field'

burning those bridges

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ByZoirQIAAAT8_Y.png

saw this happen in real time -- gee's balk came less than a minute after the first tweet

Granderson has his OPS up to .719! Murphy's is only .742 fwiw.

six national league teams finished with a positive run differential -- the five playoff teams and the new york mets

maybe if they'd had Jeter they could've put up a -31 and still gone home.

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/hapinessisametswin_zps9483d068.jpg

http://mlb.com/nym/images/fan_forum/y2014/249x260_pumpkin1.jpg

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/10/14/6978209/new-york-mets-tommie-agee-1969-world-series-game-3-october-14

http://i.imgur.com/AwOywQO.jpg

tidewater tides ftw

Kevin Long, new hitting coach! oh no, i can hear Keith (Joe Morgan) Hernandez bemoaning a "non-aggressive approach" again...

I had not seen those Tommie Agee catches in quite a few years. He really covers some ground on both of them. They really were some amazin' catches.

Game 6

http://www.amazinavenue.com/2014/10/25/7070795/watch-game-6-1986-world-series-new-york-mets-boston-red-sox-mookie-wilson-bill-buckner

@SamBorden

Huge @NYTSports exclusive: Inexplicably, the African soccer confed. web site's background photo is of .. Shea Stadium http://www.cafonline.com/en-us/home.aspx

70 today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2wuO3Mdo-w

mets apparently charging players to attend off-season workouts: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/01/15/wait-the-mets-are-charging-players-to-attend-offseason-workouts-really

WTF: Mets owner Fred Wilpon named head of Major League Baseball's finance committee

http://risingapple.com/2015/01/18/fred-wilpon-named-chairman-mlbs-finance-committee/

Is this the baseball equivalent of the POTUS pardoning guys on his way out?

no idea, but i assume it's OK w/ Manfred

That was sort of my point -- maybe Selig is handing out favours in his last few days in office and Manfred doesn't have much of a say in it.

@joe_sheehan
After the #Nationals are done paying Max Scherzer, the #Mets will still owe Bobby Bonilla about $8 million.

@keithlaw · Jan 19
Prediction: 57% of baseball tweets today will combine the keywords "Scherzer" and "Bonilla"

http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n213/Nrangers/US_flag_half_mast_hg_clr.gif 13 years ago today, the mets traded away benny agbayani