I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and enjoyed the extra day off yesterday to recuperate or to return gifts at the mall. I’m still fighting off fatigue this morning, my first day back to work in 3 days, from the holiday and from a huge sports weekend.
It all started for me on Friday night as I attended the Rangers-Flyers game at a jammed packed Madison Square Garden. The Rangers are playing their best hockey in years and with a win last night against the Icelanders have the best record in the NHL Eastern Conference. The Garden rocked like it hasn’t in many years and Rangers fans have fallen in love with this team made up of mainly homegrown players with top notch free agent signings (Marian Gaborik and Brad Richards) that have made the Garden faithful cautiously optimistic for a deep Stanley Cup run.
Then on Saturday, I was in front of my TV totally engrossed in the Giants-Jets battle in the Meadowlands. The Jets got the ball first and tore through the Giants soft as a marshmall...
Via Mets Merized Online
|
December 27, 2011
From the great John Sickels of Minor League Ball, here are your 2012 Top 20 Mets Prospects:
1) Matt Harvey, RHP, Grade B+: He can be a number two starter and someone to build around. Some evaluators see him more as a closer if his changeup remains erratic, but I’m cutting him some slack on that issue and am optimistic.
2) Zack Wheeler, RHP, Grade B+: This is actually...
Via Mets Merized Online
|
December 28, 2011
I guess I’m just like the Mets in a way, just passing the time until spring training. Even for teams with little chances, spring training brings anticipation and hope.
I’m not going to bother you with posts about the Mets not going after guys like Matt Garza and Prince Fielder, because you know as well as I do that’s not going to happen. That’s not news, it is stating the...
Via Mets Merized Online
|
December 26, 2011
Anthony DiComo talks about what the Mets could expect to do n 2012.
I’m not expecting much in 2012 from the Amazins’, especially with a team that must now overcome the losses of Beltran, Reyes and K-Rod from last Opening Day’s roster.
Like last year, they will once again be banking on a healthy return from Johan Santana who now finds himself a year older at 33...
Via Pro Sports Daily
|
December 28, 2011
New York Mets righthander R.A. Dickey intends to ascend Mount Kilimanjaro, despite the team's objections.
The Mets sent a "procedural" letter to agent Bo McKinniss "just to cover themselves legally" after the knuckleballer expressed his desire to make the climb for charity, sources told the New York Daily News.
Dickey, who is slated to receive $4.5 million...
Via Matthew Cerrone's Mets Blog
|
December 28, 2011
In a post to his blog Minor League Ball, prospect guru John Sickels lists his Top 10 Mets prospects (and grades) as:
Matt Harvey, RHP, Grade B+
Zack Wheeler, RHP, Grade B+
Jeurys Familia, RHP, Grade B
Brandon Nimmo, OF, Grade B
Cesar Puello, OF, Grade B-
Kirk Nieuwenhuis, OF, Grade B-
Jenrry Mejia, RHP, Grade B-
Reese Havens, 2B, Grade B-
Wilmer Flores, 3B-SS, Grade B-
Cory Mazzoni...
Via Larry Brown Sports
|
December 28, 2011
R.A. Dickey is aware of the risks involved if he climbs Mount Kilimanjaro, but he plans on doing it anyway. The 37-year-old Mets pitcher has been planning to make the trek for months, joined by former Twins teammate Kevin Slowey. Earlier this week, the Mets sent Dickey a letter urging him to not go through with the climb and reminding him that his $4.5 million salary for 2012...
Via Baseball Prospectus
|
December 28, 2011
The Mets are struggling financially and on thin ice with their fans, so you’d think that when one of their players spends his offseason preparing to do something generous and cool, the front office would praise him and consider opportunities to market it.
There are few major leaguers whose careers and stories are more intriguing than those of R.A. Dickey. He was born without...
Via The Daily Stache
|
December 27, 2011
They say that if you love something, you should let it go. Well, there’s little doubt that many Mets fans loved Jose Reyes, but they aren’t the ones who decided to let him go. It was that cold, calculating, college-educated Mets front office that put all emotion aside and decided that they would not pay Reyes more than they though he was worth. Not even if he was about to jump...
Via Matthew Cerrone's Mets Blog
|
December 28, 2011
In a post to Twitter, SS Omar Vizquel said, if offered a contract, he would not be interested in joining the Mets next season.
Vizquel, who will be 45 in April, hit .251 with eight RBI in 58 games for the White Sox last season. In 23 big league seasons, Vizquel is a .272 career hitter with 2841 hits and 402 stolen bases and an 11-time Gold Glove Award winner at shortstop.
Michael...
Via Faith and Fear
|
December 28, 2011
DVR or just plain old viewing alert: Friday, starting at 1:30, SNY is airing 18 of the 20 cherished Mets Yearbooks for nine consecutive chronological hours, starting with 1963 and running through 1988. The only ones being skipped, for whatever reason, are 1965 (Expressway to the Big Leagues) and 1978 (Turning It Over). Both are classics of the positivity-accentuating genre, but...
Original Story:
http://www.kranepoolsociety.com/2011/...
