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Despite all of this goodness, Will Leitch still picks the MFYs to win the AL East: http://nymag.com/news/sports/games/yankees-2013-4/

He wasn't going to "go north" next week but I wanted him to. He is a Gold Glove fielder on a team with very few positive attributes. We now get more of the players that Standpat Sandy cultivates. Yeah, shit happens but it didn't happen to Brian Bixler, it happened to someone that I liked.

Swan Swan H wrote: X-rays are positive. Broken wrist, surgery possible. Awful. One of the few reasons I had a modicum of hope for the Mets. Now we get more of Sandy's AAAA Crap.

1. 4th Place 2. 71-91 3. No 4. No.

[u:3fvq0dye]Just the Mets:[/u:3fvq0dye] 1. Where they will finish in the NL East 2. What the final record will be 3. If you predict a wild card spot, say so 4. If you predict a playoff appearance, how far will they go? Last year's winners were G-Fafif and metirish (74-88). In 2011 the winner was Transmonk. Don't be a J.J. Putz and predict "162-0" or "0-162".

At one point they claimed that the game was "bigger than October!" Idiots telling us what to think instead of drawing our own conclusions.

One of ESPN's fantasy baseball writers thinks that Murphy is a "sleeper": Daniel Murphy, 2B, Mets: He's a .292 career hitter just entering his prime at age 27, and he can be had in a fantasy draft on the cheap, especially following a recent injury setback (intercostal strain) that could scare off cautious owners. Murphy knows how to hit at Citi Field -- he's a career .308 hitter, with a .351 OBP, at his home field -- and he also batted .283 versus lefties last year, showing he can (and should) play every day. The Mets' lineup isn't exactly great, but there is upside with players such as Ike Davis and Lucas Duda, and Murphy should have no trouble scoring 80-plus runs if he rightfully bats second in the lineup. -- Brian Gramling

I really want Matt dD to succeed so that was great. However, bad effort by the woman on the folding chair who didn't move to get the ball.

Keith Olbermann suggests that every team should move to Arizona: http://keitholbermann.mlblogs.com/2013/03/05/is-spring-training-in-florida-doomed/

TheOldMole wrote: ...in any event, it doesn't matter all that much who they play in spring training. It does, to some extent, because you don't want to keep playing the teams that you will face the most during the season. It gives the opponent more of a chance to size up pitchers from their divisions. Admittedly, this factor is dissipated somewhat because everyone plays everybody but the Mets will still play the Nationals and Marlins most often.

Keith Alberstadt. A very funny comedian who has been on Letterman twice (and was at the Gotham Comedy Club with me): http://sasstag.com/2013/03/01/newyorkers-32/

How many people stay after a game for concerts?

G-Fafif wrote: Bob Carpenter really does suck. Thank you.

Here it is: http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=25622789&c_id=nym&partnerId=tw_content_NYM

Well done Collin Cowgill.

themetfairy wrote: No, I will NOT clap my hands! And I didn't remember how much I hated that stupid song until this afternoon. I clapped my hands for that comment. The Crypt Keeper should ban "everybody clap your hands" for the good of the game.

Who is Bobby Ojeda sitting next to?

G-Fafif wrote: I've never been to Citi Fieldbut I kinda like the music.

Fred made up a new word: http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/things-are-going-zimmo/

An LA news report on the interview Piazza is talking about: http://ktla.com/2013/02/15/exclusive-raw-interview-piazza-scully-discuss-ultimatum/#axzz2KyaMzmZK Legend-on-legend crime: Mike claims Vin Scully had it in for him. And takes on the briefest of Met teammates. Mike Piazza has not set foot in Dodger Stadium since his retirement. When the Dodgers offered to honor him with a bobblehead night last season, Piazza declined. "He doesn't want to come back because he thinks the fans will boo," former Dodgers Manager Tom Lasorda, the godfather to Piazza's brother, told The Times last month. Piazza did himself no favors on that score in his new book, "Long Shot." In the book, he blames iconic Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully for turning fans against him during the contract stalemate that preceded his trade to the Florida Marlins in 1998. Piazza, who was eligible for free agency after the 1998 season, said he hoped to stay with the Dodgers but set a deadline of Feb. 15 to reach a new contract. In the book, Piazza wrote that Scully asked him about the deadline in a spring interview. "He wasn't happy about it," Piazza wrote. "And Scully's voice carried a great deal of authority in Los Angeles." Piazza wanted $105 million over seven years. In the book, he said the Dodgers made a take-it-or-leave-it offer of $76 million over six years, said he would have signed at $79 million, and suggested the team leaked that it had offered $80 million. At $80 million -- or even at $76 million -- Piazza would have been the highest-paid player in the game. Dodgers fans took notice that spring, as Piazza wrote. "The way the whole contract drama looked to them -- many of whom were taking their cue from Scully -- was that, by setting a deadline and insisting on so much money, I was demonstrating a conspicuous lack of loyalty to the ball club," Piazza wrote. "I understood that." Piazza ripped the Dodgers in a 1998 opening day interview with The Times. In the book, he said that interview did not play well with the L.A. fans, and neither did the fact that he failed to drive in a run as the Dodgers opened the season with a four-game losing streak. "On top of that, Vin Scully was crushing me," Piazza wrote. Scully flatly denied he maligned Piazza. "That's not true at all," Scully told The Times in a telephone interview Wednesday. Scully said he could not recall the interview in which Piazza said the contract deadline was discussed. However, Scully said, he never would criticize a player about contractual negotiations. "As God is my judge, I don't get involved in these things," Scully said. "I can't imagine I would ever put my toe in the water as far as a player and his negotiations. "I have no idea where he is coming from. I really have no idea. I can't imagine saying something about a player and his contract. I just don't do that, ever. I'm really flabbergasted by that reference." Piazza retired via email on May 20, 2008. No team had signed him for the 2008 season, although he heard from Lasorda that the Dodgers might be interested. Ultimately, the Dodgers signed Gary Bennett to back up Russell Martin. "Even to the end, ten years after they'd traded me, the Dodgers were still jerking me around," Piazza wrote. "If they'd brought in Pudge Rodriguez, sure, I could understand that. But Gary Bennett?"

Edgy MD wrote: Is bitter sarcasm just the only way you address me any more? The bitter sarcasm was meant for Fred and all things Fred.

BG: I agree--that was one of the two ways I suggested in my earlier post. That's why Fred's statement yesterday was vapid.

Edgy MD wrote: They can certainly add payroll or invest in the team otherwise before July. How so? By signing Michael Bourn--oh that's right, they didn't. A big trade? A new scoreboard? Maybe they used the new found money designing those neat Mr. Met hats.

Nice of Fred to say this after the last big money FA has been signed. There's no way of proving what he said until either July, if the Mets are in contention and they add a big salary, or next fall when the FA signing period begins anew.

G-Fafif and Jason are right. The hat is great--for a fan, especially a kid. Not for the manager.