Mets News

[Edgy MD]

Any? Anywhere? I mean anything. New name for the stadium in St. Lucie? Is Kimmy Carter expecting a child? Is Leathersich tweeting about burritos again?

Give me SOMETHING!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, they have new batting practice caps...

[Edgy MD]

That was hours ago!

[Ceetar]

@Mets: #Mets sign LHP Aaron Laffey to a minor league contract and invited him to major league Spring Training.

happy?

Laffey, 27, went 4-6 with a 4.56 ERA (51 earned runs/100.2 innings) in 22 games, 16 starts with the Toronto Blue Jays last season.

[Edgy MD]

Yes!!

Pop quiz: Find Mrs. Laffey in this array of ballplayer brides!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I find myself hoping that he's missing a ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Ceetar wrote: @Mets: #Mets sign LHP Aaron Laffey to a minor league contract and invited him to major league Spring Training.

How do they do that? Do they buy a box of Spring Training invitations at the Hallmark store and have Jay Horwitz mail them to invitees, or is it now more of an e-vite deal? Can they bring a plus-one? I'd be so bad at this. I'd never get the invitations out in time, then the night before Spring Training I'd have to call everyone and it would be soooo embarrassing, because what if they got an invitation from a cuter team? I could never show up at the Winter Meetings again.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yes!! Pop quiz: Find Mrs. Laffey in this array of ballplayer brides!

I'm hoping she is no. 7. (Front row, middle)

[Edgy MD]

And by voting your hopes and not your fears, you win yourself an autographed Aaron Laffey program, to be sent just as soon as I obtain one. Jaclyn Ayers Laffey is indeed front and center.

The Indian maiden lineup in full are:

Front, from left: Pamela Moore, then fiancee of Jason Michaels, Jaclyn Ayers, then fiancee of Aaron Laffey, Abbie Blake, wife of Casey Blake.
Back, from left: Kate Wedge, wife of Eric Wedge, Christine Williams, wife of Dan Williams, Molly Peralta, wife of Jhonny Peralta, Amber Sabathia, wife of C. C. Sabathia, and Kristen Lee, wife of Cliff Lee.

Molly Peralta should spell her name "Mloly."

[Fman99]

Breaking Mets news: You are all creeps.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

And by voting your hopes and not your fears, you win yourself an autographed Aaron Laffey program, to be sent just as soon as I obtain one. Jaclyn Ayers Laffey is indeed front and center. The Indian maiden lineup in full are: Front, from left: Pamela Moore, then fiancee of Jason Michaels, Jaclyn Ayers, then fiancee of Aaron Laffey, Abbie Blake, wife of Casey Blake. Back, from left: Kate Wedge, wife of Eric Wedge, Christine Williams, wife of Dan Williams, Molly Peralta, wife of Jhonny Peralta, Amber Sabathia, wife of C. C. Sabathia, and Kristen Lee, wife of Cliff Lee. Molly Peralta should spell her name "Mloly."

Jaclyn is the best of that bunch. Welcome to the Creepy Family.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Jaclyn is the best of that bunch. Welcome to the Creepy Family.

Yes, but the rest of them are really funny.

[MFS62]

You'd have thought that after a while, a catcher like Eric Wedge would have learned to look between the bars on his mask.

Later

[MFS62]

Any? Anywhere? I mean anything.

Here y'go, Edgy.
According to ESPN, Matt Harvey was the first pitcher since 1900 (not a misprint) to have had at least 10 strikeouts and two hits in his first game.
And the kid catcher ain't too shabby, either.

http://espn.go.com/espn/next2012/story/_/id/8695008/manny-machado-aj-griffin-matt-harvey-espn-magazine-next-issue

Happy New Year!

Later

[Fman99]

According to this article on MLB.com, the Mets are the ONLY team this offseason to not sign a major league free agent.

That shit is depressing.

[Edgy MD]

At another level, it's awesome. Let them all go out to California and dig for fool's gold. We'll sell the jeans.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"With all due respect, you know we're not selling jeans, right?"

[smg58]

Fman99 wrote: According to this article on MLB.com, the Mets are the ONLY team this offseason to not sign a major league free agent. That shit is depressing.

There are enough decent relief pitchers still on the market (Matt Capps, Chad Durbin, J. P. Howell, Matt Lindstrom, Brandon Lyon, Peter Moylan, John Rauch, K-Rod, Rafael Soriano, Jose Valverde, Brian Wilson) that I can't imagine that will last.

[Edgy MD]

Would re-signing Rauch count?

Because part of me thinks extending Wright was sort of a coup in the same sense that signing a free agent was, and while the 2013 Mets technically remain free agent virgins, let's not over-equate that with success.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy MD wrote: Would re-signing Rauch count? Because part of me thinks extending Wright was sort of a coup in the same sense that signing a free agent was, and while the 2013 Mets technically remain free agent virgins, let's not over-equate that with success.

To be fair, that sounds like the same logic that considers players coming off the DL to be "transactions" to make up for not making a trade at the deadline to improve the team.

[Edgy MD]

I'm not actually considering signing Wright to be signing a free agent. I'm considering the signing of a free agents as a single measure of off-season progress to be shortsighted.

[Edgy MD]

Looks like Quintanilla is boomeranging back to the Mets. Not sure if it's a major- or minor-league deal.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Since Tuesday (ie every day of 2013 so far) I've spotted somebody wearing a Mets cap. That's never happened to me before living in this country. It feels almost......... prophetic.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I left my kids a list of jobs to do when I went off to work yesterday.

Among the chores were cleaning their rooms, emptying the dishwasher, finding out what textbooks are needed for the upcoming semester and finding the Mets a reliever.

My son, after much research, obtained JP Howell. I'll alert the Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: My son, after much research, obtained JP Howell. I'll alert the Mets.

Looks like the kid might be just a little bit late

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Frayed Knot wrote: metsguyinmichigan wrote: My son, after much research, obtained JP Howell. I'll alert the Mets. Looks like the kid might be just a little bit late

Sigh. Kids. Well, at least the room was cleaned.