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Mr. Met with his second appearance of the season on 30 Rock last night, or two fewer than David Wright has in 2012. He appeared on a couch with Tracy Jordan in a wacky flashback montage.

Pudge Rodriguez still out there.

WAITER: How did you find your steak? CUSTOMER: I merely looked under my baked potato and there it was. From Mad magazine, sometime in my childhood.

"The mornings are always chaotic on MetsBlog, because the news cycle seems to be different every day." -0dXUkKHXVY

soupcan wrote: ...and why the heck wouldn't they at least put him in the pinstripes? It's the little things you know? Per Howie, and picked up on by Lukas, Mets are loosely going snow whites during day games, pinstripes at night. Roger was just fittin' in.

We did not have a friend at Manufactuers Vanover.

Francouer rocks! (As long as he's nowhere near our lineup.) Times story notes the Giant territorial claim couldn't be clearer, even if it is fairly stupid at this stage of the respective franchises' existences. In the Bay Area, the market had always been more clearly demarcated: the Giants had the rights to San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, and the A�s controlled Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Neither team had Santa Clara County, where San Jose is. Then in 1990, Bob Lurie, the owner of the Giants at the time, wanted to move to San Jose; Walter Haas, the A�s owner, gave his consent. When Lurie�s deal collapsed, the Giants kept the rights to Santa Clara County. Wolff argues that Haas agreed to give the Giants the rights to Santa Clara County only if the team moved there. Yet when Lurie sold the team in 1993, the buyers � which included the Fisher family � did so in part because Santa Clara County would remain Giants territory. When Fisher sold his stake in the Giants so he could buy the A�s, he did so knowing the Giants had control of Santa Clara County.

Santana 3.0 Davis 1.0 Rauch 1.0

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 4/9/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT 1,255

Ruben Tejada � SS Daniel Murphy � 2B Lucas Duda � RF Ike Davis � 1B Jason Bay � LF Josh Thole � C Kirk Nieuwenhuis � CF Ronny Cedeno � 3B Johan Santana - LHP And Roger Craig is throwing out the first pitch on the 50th anniversary of the first Mets game, when he also threw the Mets' first pitch. Let's Go Mets!

Limbaugh is paid to be virulently opinionated to say nothing of offensive (he's only been bellowing about "feminazis" for 24 years). Imus was paid to be irreverent, albeit with a gloss of down-home intellectual curiosity. Their employers could have given two figs what they said as long as the balance sheet worked in their favor. When "sluts" and "nappy-headed ho's" proved potentially unprofitable, the balance tipped the other way. Those are commercial enterprises, and and their cases, in a way, exemplify the free market. People get up in arms over their "outrageousness," advertisers pull out. Advertisers pull out, all that opinion and irreverence suddenly ain't worth standing behind...even though their employers knew damn well what they had nurtured. Guillen's brand equity is loose cannon. That's what the Marlins hired. They didn't count on him turning around and firing in their own faces is all. Marlins ownership is a worm, but I can't blame them for trying to wriggle off the hook Ozzie (and they, by hiring him) created. If Guillen was speaking from some (bizarre) conviction that Castro was good for Cuba, and stuck to it, I'd sort of respect the taking of a stand. But he was just being wacky because that's what Ozzie Guillen does. Thank goodness MLB condemned him, because they would never associate with something as wretched as an arm of Castro's government, lest they be seen as having legitimized his freedom-squelching regime. No, not them.

Cedeno 2.0 Tejada 1.5 Gee 1.5 Thole 0.5 Parnell 0.5

Ozzie Guillen was hired to be good for business. He looms as the diametric opposite. It's funny because it's happening to the Marlins.

Ronny Cedeno, Mets third baseman No. 148. Or as was put in An Amazin' Era when the count was a mere 79 men at third base... Smith and Jones and a Stearns named Dude Samuel, Valentine, Reynolds, Bressoud 148. Ronny Cede�o 04/10/2012 147. Josh Satin 09/28/2011 146. Nick Evans 07/17/2011 145. Daniel Murphy 05/31/2011 144. Willie Harris 05/12/2011 143. Luis Hernandez 08/31/2010 142. Mike Hessman 07/29/2010 141. Justin Turner 07/19/2010 140. Wilson Valdez 08/25/2009 139. Andy Green 08/19/2009 138. Fernando Tatis 06/17/2008 137. David Newhan 09/29/2007 136. Ruben Gotay 09/07/2007 135. Damion Easley 04/19/2007 134. Julio Franco 09/10/2006 133. Eli Marrero 07/02/2006 132. Jose Valentin 05/26/2006 131. Miguel Cairo 04/21/2005 130. Chris Woodward 04/13/2005 129. David Wright 07/21/2004

Ronnie was his most impressive in six seasons last night. Most of the time, when it comes to opinion, he mostly seconds Gary to the point I think if Gary did a 180 on a given issue, Ronnie would seamlessly agree with that, too. He really offered up some analysis this time.

Murphy 2.5 Tejada 1.5 Nieuwenhuis 1.5 Pelfrey 1.0 Ramirez 1.0 Rauch 1.0 Thole 0.5 Wright 0.5 Baxter 0.5

Wonder if Celine Dion's room is the same one used by that hooker the last coupla years.

GO!

Edgy DC wrote: Hey, you were the one who euphemized Ozzie as "quotable" when what you really meant was that he was an uunrestrained jackass. You mean there are restrained jackasses?

METS ALL-TIME HIT LEADERS Through Games of 4/8/2012 1. Ed Kranepool 1,418 2. Jose Reyes 1,300 3. DAVID WRIGHT 1,254

Niese 3.0 Tejada 2.5 Murphy 2.0 Francisco 1.5 Hairston 1.0

Other years in which Mets started 3-0 and MFYs started 0-3: 1973, 1985. Pretty good years those.

themetfairy wrote: While we're judging the new place, I HATE the Cholula Hot Sauce signs on either side of the video scoreboard - they are loud, crass and distracting. Double Cholula Signs seem more appropriate for a Tijuana bordello. Or a bordello anywhere, I suppose.

Terry Mulholland came up eight days before the Rockies' starting pitcher tonight, Jamie Moyer. They were teammates for two months, acquired within a day of each other at the 1996 trade deadline by the Mariners, each for a future Met (Mulholland from Philly for Desi Relaford, Moyer from Boston for Darren Bragg). Mulholland kept on rockin' the free agent market, signing with the Cubs en route to fulfilling the SMB tour schedule.

Duda 3.0 Wright 2.0 Dickey 2.0 Thole 1.0 Parnell 0.5 Rauch 0.5 Francisco 0.5 Nieuwenhuis 0.5