IGT, 5/24/2011, Homecoming

[Edgy MD]

The Mets last two homestands were four games and three games, so it kind of feels like they've been on the road forever. they now come home for 11 games --- their longest homestand of the year.

Facing the Pads will be Jeremy Hefner, who I've been advocating for for about five weeks, so no pressure, but he better not make me look stupid. Hef was twice drafted by the Mets, in 2004 (46th round) and 2005 (48), before finally signing with these very same Padres after they picked him in the sixth round in 2007. Considering the personnel the Mets have who I imagine had scouted him for both teams, they probably didn't have to pore over the paperwork before grabbing him, but he had an eventful little winter, getting put on waivers and grabbed by Pittsburgh in November, and then waived by the Bucs and grabbd by the Mets in December. Had he debuted earlier this week, he could have faced both his waiverers and made them both pay.

As long as somebody pays, I'm happy. Show 'em what you're made of Jeremy!



Terry Collins has dropped hints that Andres Torres will perhaps sit a third straight day in observance of Operation Get Your Shit Together. Hopefully his shit is assembling itself.



Ike Davis will be the centerpiece of Elephant in the Living Room Night at the ballpark Thursday. The first 20,000 people entering will get one free opinion about what the Hell to do about Ike Freakin' Davis.



The Mets guarantee that all 20,000 of those opinions will retain their resale value longer than Mike Francesa's notion that maybe Ike is suffering from Jungle Fever but nobody knows.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

OK, it's Rusty Staub bobblehead game.

Why is Rusty wearing the snow white uniform on the bobblehead? (At least he is in the photo on Metsblog.)

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Fing FMFYs tonite had their TV broadcast do a viewer poll of "which first baseman most deserves to be demoted" and made the choices Ike, Smoak and Hosmer (Ike ran away with it). If this wasn't the most transparent attempt to deflect attention away from Texiera's shitty start (and the fact he makes more in a month than the 3 others in a year combined) I don't know what was. Why else the fuck?

[Edgy MD]

Push polling --- could you get any more desperate?

Here's hoping Gary is up to mentioning it on the broadcast tomorrow.

[batmagadanleadoff]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: OK, it's Rusty Staub bobblehead game. Why is Rusty wearing the snow white uniform on the bobblehead? (At least he is in the photo on Metsblog.)

"No corporate logo on me".


Road grays from Rusty's last two seasons under Yogi?

[batmagadanleadoff]

If you separated Rusty's bobble head from his bobble body, and then removed the baseball helmet from Rusty's bobble head, would you recognize Rusty's bobble head as that of Rusty? If you answered "yes", you're full of shit.

[Edgy MD]

I was thinking something similar last night --- that didn't involve dismemberment. The Expos Rusty seems to capture him a lot better. By better, I mean to say that at least they seem to have tried.

[Ceetar]

Rusty Staub bobblehead day is actually Saturday not today.

I've never thought bobbleheads looked particularly good. Seems odd they'd nail the dirt on Seaver's knee but miss on Rusty. Or are you guys just hard judgers?

http://metspolice.com/2012/05/23/even-more-video-of-rusty-staub-in-1975-to-compare-to-your-mets-bobblehead/

[Frayed Knot]

The next bobble-head I see that actually resembles the person it's supposed to will be the first.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: The next bobble-head I see that actually resembles the person it's supposed to will be the first.

well, my Mr. Met bobble head looks like Mr. Met..

[HahnSolo]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: If you separated Rusty's bobble head from his bobble body, and then removed the baseball helmet from Rusty's bobble head, would you recognize Rusty's bobble head as that of Rusty? If you answered "yes", you're full of shit.

If I do that and pretend there's no red hair, it looks like Jin from Lost.

[Ceetar]

HahnSolo wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: If you separated Rusty's bobble head from his bobble body, and then removed the baseball helmet from Rusty's bobble head, would you recognize Rusty's bobble head as that of Rusty? If you answered "yes", you're full of shit. If I do that and pretend there's no red hair, it looks like Jin from Lost.

yeah, i see that.

[Edgy MD]

HahnSolo wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: If you separated Rusty's bobble head from his bobble body, and then removed the baseball helmet from Rusty's bobble head, would you recognize Rusty's bobble head as that of Rusty? If you answered "yes", you're full of shit. If I do that and pretend there's no red hair, it looks like Jin from Lost.

I kind of see a redheaded Martin Scorscese.

[Ceetar]

I've now accidentally gotten the first two of these bobbleheads. (My Aunt got an extra Seaver that she's holding for me until I see her (probably Sunday) and someone offered me free tickets for Saturday so..)

so now I'm sorta committed to getting all 5.

[Edgy MD]

The bloggers interview Rusty.

[bmfc1]

Another bad bobblehead:
http://www.zoowithroy.com/2012/05/worst-bobble-head-in-history-concerns.html

[Ceetar]

Another bad bobblehead: http://www.zoowithroy.com/2012/05/worst-bobble-head-in-history-concerns.html

beat me to it.

[Edgy MD]

Metsbeat takes a good look at today's pitchers. Good stuff.

About scheduled Padres starter Eric Stolts:

• Sucked in Japan, was banished back to the decadent and decaying West.

Coincidentally, Eric Stoltz sucked in early Back to the Future shooting and was banished back to the decadent and decaying Quentin Tarantino movies.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Bad Mets Bobble giveaways

[Edgy MD]

Looks more like Bob Ojeda and Mike Hampton have spent too much time in the tanning booth.

[Ceetar]

also from shop.mlb where the Halladay one is, some Mets ones.



Tell me what it says about Jason Bay that he's throwing instead of swinging.





also, lego figures. i want.

The website has a Frank Francisco one, but it links to the David Wright one when you click it:

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Lego is a better likeness of David Wright than the bobblehead is of Jason Bay.

[MFS62]

Bay looks like he's reaching back to see how close he is to the wall, something Mariano Rivera should have done.

Later

[G-Fafif]

If Disney was making a baseball movie in which they paid David Wright to appear with a bunch of fictional players, this is what the scorecard would look like:

Cedeno-6
Murphy-4
Wright-5
Hairston-7
Duda-9
Rottino-3
Torres-8
Johnson-2
Hefner-1

Coincidentally, the manager will be played by Terry Collins and it will be filmed tonight at Citi Field starting at 7:10.

[nymr83]

Terry Collins has dropped hints that Andres Torres will perhaps sit a third straight day in observance of Operation Get Your Shit Together. Hopefully his shit is assembling itself.

Living in such close proximity to Congress, the acronym capital of the world, you should be able to do better than OGYST.

How about OOOPS! Operation Our Outfield Performance Sucks!
Or DEMOTE! Don't Encourage More Of Torres' Errors!

[ashie62]

Hows the weather at Citi?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

sporadic, 3-minute episodes of heavy rain, just wet and humid otherwise.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Paused after two complete innings, thanks to them water-drops. Sandy riding out the wetness in the SNY booth, talking Ike, filling in value at a roster's margins, and- at the moment- the process behind the Niese extension. Great stuff.

[Benjamin Grimm]

David Wright isn't going anywhere... unless he wants to.

[Edgy MD]

Sandy talking process: the new porn.

MLB.com has cut both the video and audio feeds during the rain delay.