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What Do the Late Night Mess and the Yankees Have in Common?
Truth to power? I've never been a regular late night comedy viewer. I've been to a live taping of Letterman once, but I've never played favorites with the late night hosts. I appreciate, say, that Jay Leno and David Letterman have wildly different senses of humor, but for me, both are funny for what they are. I've also enjoyed Conan O'Brien through the years,...
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January 14, 2010
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Welcome to Mets Extra
Exciting day for us around here. As we announced yesterday, today we begin our new life as Mets Extra. As you can see, there is not a whole lot that's different around here, but beneath the surface there was a tremendous amount of work that went in to making this site a reality. For me, the real beauty of this site is that it preserves our history as Yankees 2000 as it eschews...
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January 12, 2010
Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
Dear readers,After 1,053 posts and 4 years, 3 months operating as Yankees 2000: Promote the Curse, I'm excited to announce that, effective tomorrow, this website will relaunch as Mets Extra (http://www.metsextra.com/). The change itself was hastened by the Yankees breaking the titular curse that this website chronicled and celebrated, but in truth, it was conceived of long...
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January 11, 2010
Unholy Alliance, Part Deux
For the second time in under three months, the Glass Man was faced with an agonizing playoff decision. Eagles or Cowboys? So much to hate. Only one team to choose. Now, deciding between the Eagles and Cowboys was nowhere near as agonizing as choosing between the contenders of the "Bad Meets Evil" World Series we had in October. But still, it wasn't an easy call. I deeply...
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January 10, 2010
44: Jerry Grote
(This is the latest installment in an ongoing series at Y2K focusing on topics raised in Matthew Silverman's "100 Things Mets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die". Today's installment? Number 44: Jerry Grote.)Why 44? In honor of the newest Met, Jason Bay.On a scale of 1-to-10, necessity of knowing or doing before you die? 5.Jerry Grote... not a Met I knew...
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January 05, 2010
Don Mr. Met
What better way to begin a new decade (otherwise a time of renewal, hope, and possibility) than with yet another story about the effed up backstory behind Citi Field?That, evidently, was the thought at the New York Post, which produced the latest cringe-inducing headline in yesterday's edition: "Met 'mob' contracts: Shady firms got $52m to build Citi Field"...
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January 04, 2010
Thoughts on Jets-Bengals
Hey everyone, happy new year.For Jets fans tonight, the new year and the new decade is off to a very happy start. With their season on the line, the Jets defeated the Bengals 37-0 to earn a Wild Card playoff berth.Actually, saying the Jets "defeated" the Bengals understates it. The Jets annihilated the Bengals tonight, played them completely off the field. They sent a message...
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January 03, 2010
Decade in Review: Five Lessons Learned
As the decade gasps out a few final breaths, presented here are five lessons learned these past 10 years.Some thoughts on the aughts, if you will, in no particular order...1. You can't buy a winnerAt least if you're not the Yankees, who can buy anything.But if Mets fans learned one thing this decade it's that dollars don't equal titles.I don't have the figures...
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December 28, 2009
One Question for Christmas Eve (and Beyond)
It's been 13 days since the Mets extended their 4-year ~$65mm offer to Jason Bay, and the prize remains unsigned. The tabloids are restless, and they're going for the throat. Look around, they implore, the Yankees are making moves, ditto the Red Sox, Phillies, and the Mariners, and my GOD, the Nationals!What is wrong with Omar Minaya and company, they demand to know...
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December 24, 2009
The Out of Town Scoreboard
Group think -- not a good thing. It's as true in baseball as it is in anything else. One minute somebody's suggesting a crazy trade idea, the next someone else is seconding, around and around it goes and before you know it, you've just traded Scott Kazmir for Victor Zambrano. (Whether this process accurately recounts the discussion leading to the Kazmir-Zambrano swap...
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December 17, 2009
The Wisdom of Big Tom Callahan
To paraphrase Big Tom Callahan, in business you're either growing or you're dying, there isn't any third direction. As their primary competitor grows and other big market teams make splashes left and right, right now the Mets appear to be looking desperately for that third direction. In swapping Cliff Lee for Roy Halladay, the Phillies are a better team, but not a markedly...
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December 15, 2009
The 'Anything Is Possible!!!' Mindset
I think the man Kevin Garnett said it best in his courtside interview after his Boston Celtics won the NBA championship a couple of years ago. "Man, I'm so, I'm so hyped right now... anything is possible," he said, before shouting at the top of his lungs, "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!!!" It was a triumphant, euphoric moment, the beauty of which was that, unlike...
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December 10, 2009
The Top Chef Finale Drinking Game
There's a lot to be excited about this time of year. There's the holidays and the promise of time away from the office or school. Without the nightly time commitment of baseball there's time to catch up on your Netflix list, post to your website more often, or devote more time to your personal passions / extracurricular activities. Some would contend that there&...
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December 09, 2009
Darren Oliver and the Mets Dynasty That Wasn't
If the last four seasons of Mets baseball have proven anything, it's that winning takes 25 guys, a number that jumps to 35-40 over the course of a regular season. To me, the single biggest difference between the 2006 team and the '07-'09 varieties was depth. Remember all the injuries to the pitching staff in 2006? Remember all the games Chad Bradford held for us in relief...
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December 04, 2009
Hope and Doubt in New Orleans
What I love about this time of year is the tradition, and it all begins with the Thanksgiving holiday.My family's got a whole host of traditions for Thanksgiving Day itself and then, later, Christmas. But these past two years I've added two new traditions that really dress up the Thanksgiving weekend.First is a big group outing with my high school friends the night before...
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December 03, 2009
Fifth Annual Y2K Thanksgiving Day Extravaganza
Two items of note before we kick this thing off.First, is it really possible that we have fifth annual anythings around here? Have we really been doing this thing that long? We won't reach the official half-decade mark until next October, but since we had our fourth anniversary on October 12, I suppose we're in for a year of fifth annuals... pretty crazy.Second, sorry for...
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November 26, 2009
But What I Really Am... Is a Starter!: A Brief History of Aaron Heilman
Poor Aaron Heilman.The former Notre Dame phenom just can't catch a break, can he? First he comes to the Mets a highly-touted right hander, a first-round draft pick and the future of the Mets' rotation.In spite of his college success, the Mets, ever wise when it comes to developing young talent, decide to alter his delivery, eliminating his sidearm style in favor of an over...
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November 20, 2009
But What I Really Am... Is a Starter!: A Brief History of Aaron Heilman
Poor Aaron Heilman.The former Notre Dame phenom just can't catch a break, can he? First he comes to the Mets a highly-touted right hander, a first-round draft pick and the future of the Mets' rotation.In spite of his college success, the Mets, ever wise when it comes to developing young talent, decide to alter his delivery, eliminating his sidearm style in favor of an over...
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November 20, 2009
Sick Six Drummer the Sickest Dude Alive?
As regular readers are aware, we're pretty big fans of The Strokes around here.It's been a quiet three (soon to be four) years for the group as a collective, but individually the guys have been banging out solo albums left and right.On November 3, lead singer Julian Casablancas became the fourth Stroke to release a solo disc, an 8-song epic called Phrazes for the Young (that...
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November 16, 2009
Long Term Greedy
As I read John Harper's piece about the Mets in today's Daily News (alternate title: "Spend, Baby, Spend"), it struck me that articles like this are exactly why New York teams feel they cannot stand pat during the offseason.Actual title: "After dismal 2009, New York Mets must make splash with free agents Matt Holiday and John Lackey."Certainly, there are...
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November 11, 2009
Bringing Home the Championship New York So Richly Deserves
We all know this decade (the Ohs? The aughts? Just two more months of this damned uncertainty!) hasn't been kind to the New York sports fan.Sure, the Giants won a Super Bowl for the ages a couple years back, but aside from that it's been pretty slim pickins. The Mets brought home a pennant in 2000 and looked like aces in 2006, but they fell short of the ultimate prize both...
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November 09, 2009
The Curse Is Dead, Long Live The Curse
From the point the Yankees took a 7-1 lead it wasn't worth it to watch last night.Today I won't be able to look at the papers.When the ticker tape parade comes I'll bury my head in work.As regular readers are aware, I was "pulling" for Philly in this Bad Meets Evil World Series. In the end, Evil prevailed, and in so doing, they broke the 9-year Yankees 2000...
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November 05, 2009
Anyone's Series
I'll never understand the sports media's obsession with premature postmortems. A team falls behind 3-1 in a series and all of a sudden they're dead and buried.Now, I appreciate that very few teams have ever overcome a 3-1 deficit in a World Series (or League Championship Series for that matter). And I understand that the majority of World Series teams are very difficult...
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November 04, 2009
'Red Sox in 7. Mets in 7 Years'
It's funny how the mind works.On Saturday a moment from my past came careening into the present, offering insight on a much-lamented past and a glimpse of a hoped-for future.It was October 2004, and I was working with on a group presentation in an international relations class. I was randomly assigned with a few other dudes, jocks mostly, each of them a Yankee fan.Back in those...
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November 02, 2009
Winning on the Road, A Crucial 'Bad Meets Evil' Caveat
An important thought occurred to me yesterday as I took in the end of Game 2.The other day I endorsed the Phillies for 2009 World Series Champion. No backpedaling on that one, but I do want to specify an important caveat/rider/addendum to that endorsement.It is my great, great hope that the Phillies not only beat the Yankees, but also that they win the final, clinching game at Yankee...
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October 30, 2009
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