The Big O

Worth nothing that we haven't yet had a losing streak of more than 2 games. Now that I've said that, everyone pound some wood.

I need a hug.

First time we've been shut out this year. (Projected rate: 4.76. Not bad.) Second lowest combined run total of the year. We've won 20 of our last 31.

Zvon wrote: Phils TV quiz- Who was the last Met pitcher to take a no hitter into the 9th inning? David Cone?

NL East Head-to-headSquadronNY PHIWASFLAATLTotMets0-06-22-05-413-6 Phils0-01-23-14-18-4Nats2-62-12-31-17-11Fish0-21-33-20-04-7Braves4-51-41-10-06-10 National League EastSquadronWL%GBhomeroadRSRAstreakL10New York 2110.677--12-69-4151124L17-3Philly1714.548410-107-4155157W88-2The South of Francoeur1318.41986-57-13154147W14-6Capital City 1121.34410.53-108-11138163W14-6Miami 821.276122-126-9130156L32-8 * Yesterday aside, we've won 5 of 7, 10 of 15 and, uh, 20 of 30. Had another 4-game winning streak (first since SF-ATL in late April). * Somebody's due for a statistical correction. Monday's games Atlanta 2, Colorado 0 Philadelphia 8, Florida 5 Mets 2, Washington 1 Tuesday's games Philadelphia 7, Florida 5 Washington 6, Mets 2 Atlanta 5, Colorado 4 Wednesday's games Florida 6, Washington 5 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 4 Mets 4, Pittsburgh 3 (12 innings) Thursday's games Florida 11, Washington 3 Philadelphia 6, Atlanta 3 Mets 6, Pittsburgh 0 Friday's games Washington 6, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 8, San Francisco 3 Mets 8, Atlanta 7 St. Louis 7, Florida 2 Saturday's games Mets 6, Atlanta 5 St. Louis 7, Florida 6 Pittsburgh 5, Washington 4 Philadelphia 4, San Francisco 1 Sunday's games Washington 5, Pittsburgh 4 St. Louis 9, Florida 1 Atlanta 13, Mets 3 Philadelphia 9, San Francisco 5 Next series Mets (21-10) [Martinez (5-0, 2.72), Glavine (4-2, 1.94), Trachsel (2-2, 4.96)] at Philadelphia (17-14) [Myers (2-1, 3.11), Lidle (3-3, 4.17), Floyd (3-2, 6.16)] Atlanta (13-18) (Thomson, Davies, Hudson) at Florida (8-21) (Moehler, Johnson, Mitre) Washington (11-21) (Armas, Hernandez, Day) at Cincinnati (21-11) (Claussen, Harang, Arroyo)

Sweet sassy molassey!

Johnny Dickshot wrote: The Mets have produced a new video that combines live footage of fans, taped player images and highlights, interspersed with animation to introduce the lyrics of the song for a new generation of fans to join in by "following the bouncing head" of Mr. Met. Mr. Met was unavailable for comment.

Gwreck wrote: Apparently in response to pledges for WFMU, they take requests, and somebody requested "Meet the Mets," which they performed. A friend just emailed it to me...the questions are: 1. Newsworthy or just news to me? 2. Anybody need the MP3? I was searching for a recording of the original MtM song a couple of weeks ago around when "OTOT" was released and stumbled across a streaming (RealMedia) version of Yo La Tengo's here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/04/yo_la_tengo_is_.html I was happy to see an MP3 version posted yesterday on one of the prominent Mets blogs as well.

VeeZee's line through 5: 1 ER 5 hits 4 K's 2 BBs

From the "He-coulda-phrased-that-better department": ]After starting each of the Mets first 23 games, Xavier Nady was given the afternoon off. Randolph said Nady was "banged up," but the right fielder said he was fine. "Nady hasn't ever played every day in his career," Randolph said. "We want to make sure that transition is smooth. Mentally, some times it's good to give a guy a blow."

NL East Head-to-headSquadronNY PHIWASFLAATLTotMets0-05-12-03-310-4 Phils0-01-21-12-14-4Nats1-52-12-11-16-8Fish0-21-11-20-02-5Braves3-31-21-10-05-6 National League EastSquadronWL%GBhomeroadRSRAstreakL10New York 168.667--7-49-412089L16-4The South of Francoeur1014.41764-56-9115115W14-6Philly1014.41765-105-4108131W14-6Capital City 817.3208.51-77-10108133L23-7Miami 616.27392-74-994110L33-7 Observations * We're holding at .667. Same winning percentage as last week at this time, due to our 4-2 over last week. On the road. In the Pacific time zone. And in Georgia. Yeah. * 3 of our 5 divisional opponents had 1-win weeks (ATL 1-5, WAS 1-6, FLA 1-5). Sucks to be them. * The NL East averages the lowest runs scored (109) and runs allowed (115.6) in beisbol. The AL East (130.6 / 129) averages the highest. * Mets have allowed 2nd fewest total runs in baseball. (Detroit? What?) * Mets increased their RS - RA difference to 31, putting us 5th behind MFY (53), Detroit (50), Chisox (44) and Cards (32). * The AL Central is hella stratified -- KC is at -56, Minny at -51. We face the NL negative leader in the Bucs (-37) next. * Badness: Pedro and Glavine miss the Braves this weekend. Ulp. Monday's games Chicago 6, Florida 3 Cincinnati 4, Washington 2 Philadelphia 6, Colorado 5 Milwaukee 3, Atlanta 2 San Francisco 6, Mets 2 Tuesday's games Cincinnati 6, Washington 5 Colorado 7, Philadelphia 6 Milwaukee 4, Atlanta 2 Chicago 3, Florida 1 Mets 4, San Francisco 1 Wednesday's games Milwaukee 5, Atlanta 4 Cincinnati 5, Washington 0 Florida 7, Chicago 5 Mets 9, San Francisco 7 Philadelphia 9, Colorado 5 Thursday's games Colorado 6, Philadelphia 3 St. Louis 6, Washington 2 Friday's games Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 1 Mets 5, Atlanta 2 Colorado 3, Florida 2 Washington 8, St. Louis 3 Saturday's games St. Louis 2, Washington 1 Colorado 8, Florida 7 Mets 1, Atlanta 0 Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia 2 Sunday's games Atlanta 8, N.Y. Mets 5 Colorado 3, Florida 1 Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 9, Washington 2 Next series Washington 8-17 [(Ortiz 0-3, 6.75; O'Connor 0-1, 0.00)] at New York 16-8 [(Zambrano 1-2, 9.64; Maine 0-0, 0.00)] Pittsburgh 7-19 [(Snell 1-2, 5.79; Maholm 1-3, 5.86)] at New York 16-8 [(Martinez 5-0, 2.94; Glavine 3-2, 2.29)] Colorado 15-10 (Jennings, Cook) at Atlanta (Hudson, Sosa) Atlanta (Smoltz, Thomson) at Philadelphia (Myers, Lidle) Philadelphia (Madson, Lieber) at Florida (Willis, Olsen) Atlanta (Smoltz, Thomson) at Philadelphia (Myers, Lidle) Philadelphia (Madson, Lieber) at Florida (Willis, Olsen) Florida (Moehler, Vargas) at Washington (Armas, Hernandez) Washington (Oritz, O'Connor) at New York (Zambrano, Maine) Florida (Moehler, Vargas) at Washington (Armas, Hernandez)

="Edgy DC"]Deals from 2004 which are still open. August 27, 2004 New York Mets traded Dan Wheeler to the Houston Astros for Adam Seuss. I cannot find Seuss. I cannot find him on a bus, I cannot find him with a guy named Gus. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/050422steroids.html ]April 22, 2005: Major League Baseball announced nine more minor leaguers who have been suspended for testing positive for performance-enhancing substances, a list headlined by former Mets righthander Grant Roberts. All nine players were suspended for 15 games as first-time offenders. Roberts had been released by the Mets at the end of spring training, as was outfielder Adam Seuss, who was also suspended. Seuss has since re-signed with the Astros, who originally drafted him in 2002 out of UC Riverside. Lefthander Damien Myers of the Tigers organization, also released at the end of spring training, also was suspended. http://www.carolinaleague.com/article.php?article_id=507 ]6/29/05: Salem, VA -- For a second time in 2005 the Salem Avalanche's Roster has undergone a major overhaul ...OF Adam Seuss has been released. Seuss' career with the Avalanche has come to a close after nearly two seasons with the ballclub. The outfielder had a great start to the 2004 season, and finished the year hitting .283 in 104 games. After being dealt to the New York Mets organization near the end of the 2004 season, Seuss was acquired by the Astros once again in the off-season. Seuss was hitting just .148 in 39 games in 2005. Great.

"National League pitchers don't stand a chance!" gush the Braves announce-os about Andruw. Then he gets jammed for an IF fly by a Steve Trachsel fastball.

Team totals StatCurrent (21 gms)Projected rateRecordYearChange over last 11 gamesAB7335654.57156181996+81.771Runs 109840.8578631999-114.943Hits1981527.42915531999-141.1712B39300.8572971999-55.5433B430.857471996, 1978-33.943HR282161982000+5.4TB329253824301987-248RBI107825.4298141999-114.171BB564327171999-5.4SO124956.57112031968+0.771SB25192.8571591987+63.257CS215.429991980-16.971GIDP17131.1431491999+1.543XBH71547.7145131987-84.086HBP969.429652001+20.829SF969.429591997-60.171SH1184.8571081973+20.057 Projected broken records in bold type (through 21 games; will update) Addendum to the stolen bases in a Mets career posted above: SBs per games rate as a Met: Vince Coleman 2.37 Jose Reyes 3.03 Mookie Wilson 3.97 Roger Cedeno 4.30 Lenny Dykstra 4.69 Howard Johnson 5.71 Darryl Strawberry 5.81 Lee Mazzilli 6.44 Wally Backman 7.22 Buddy Harrelson 11.50

This reminds me of a six degrees-ish thread Edgy used to do about longest-running trade returns. Maybe there's a thread somewhere. Seems like most of our current roster was signed, not traded, and the longest trade I could come up with was Vance Wilson (drafted 1993) for Anderson Hernandez. I'm sure there are longer ones involving an endless parade of minor leaguer swaps. I wonder how far back they'd go. We still have a thread like that? Can anyone come up with a trade remnant dating to pre-1993? Edit: Holy hell, Luis Lopez. Thanks JD.

="Marty Noble"] If the hamstring strain Brian Bannister suffered Wednesday causes the rookie pitcher to be assigned to the disabled list, and if Carlos Beltran still feels unable to play Friday when the Mets open their series in Atlanta, the Mets probably will promote a position player from the Minor Leagues for at least four games. That player will not be Lastings Milledge, general manager Omar Minaya said Wednesday. It could be Victor Diaz, who has not been hitting productively in Triple-A since he was demoted April 17. The player promoted probably would be returned to the Minor Leagues on Tuesday if the club needs to promote a pitcher -- John Maine, Jose Lima or Jeremi Gonzalez -- to replace Bannister. Maine is the only one of the three on the 40-man roster. The Mets won't know enough to make a decision about Bannister until Thursday, if then. He is to be re-evaluated in Atlanta. He said he never had a hamstring injury, so he has nothing to judge this one against. "It might just be a real bad cramp," he said. "The best thing is that's it's not in the worst place -- high or low. It's in the middle of the muscle."

rpackrat wrote: Is Julio now the oldest guy to steal a base? Googling reveals that last year he was the oldest player "in 96 years" to steal a base. Looks like: ="Baseball Almanac"]On August 18, 1909, Arlie Latham was chosen by John McGraw to be the Giants first full-time coach. Later that day, Latham steals second base to become the oldest player to date, at age forty-nine, to steal a base.

I'm nearly positive he's the oldest player to ever drive in Jose Reyes and Endy Chavez with a single off of Tim Worrell in San Francisco. edit: My mocking is trumped by Franco swiping a bag.

Centerfield wrote: It it's Valentin someone go kick Willie in the head. It's our #1/#2 PHer. Ninja edit: Facing Tim Worrell.

.658/.329/.404 is a pretty interesting line for Carlos!

Coved!

Zvon wrote: of course, not big enuff. Mets lose. Is it tru they have lost 17 out of 21 at SBC Park? Naw -- tonight they lost at AT&T Park. I'm sure they lost some of those 21 at Pac Bell. And 3Com Park.

="Adam Rubin"]Wright, who felt a shooting groin pain trying to avoid a ninth-inning pitch Saturday, intends to play through the injury. He first felt it swiping a base Thursday. "I can feel it, but it's not hampering me at all," Wright said.

NL East Head-to-headSquadronNY PHIWASFLAATLTotMets0-05-12-01-28-3 Phils0-01-21-12-14-4Nats1-52-12-11-16-8Fish0-21-11-20-02-5Braves2-11-21-10-04-4 National League EastSquadronWL%GBhomeroadRSRAstreakL10New York 126.667--7-45-29465L15-5Lack of Larrytown99.50033-36-69792W15-5Philly710.4124.53-84-276101W16-4Capital City 711.38951-46-78898L15-5Miami 511.31362-43-77382L14-6 Observations * The NL East averages the lowest runs scored (83.6) and runs allowed (87.6) in beisbol. The AL East (101.2 / 96.4) averages the highest. * Mets still own the fewest runs allowed in baseball. * Last week was the 'worst' of the season so far, at 3-4. Nobody else in the N.L.E. went better than 1 game over .500 (3-2), however. * Mets own 3rd in RS - RA difference at 29, behind Chisox (34) and the MFY (35). * Philly is nearly the worst in the negative differential (25), with the Pirates (27) and KC (44!) outdoing them. Monday's games Cincinnati 9, Florida 1 N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3 Tuesday's games Washington 10, Philadelphia 3 Florida 12, Cincinnati 6 Atlanta 7, N.Y. Mets 1 Wednesday's games Cincinnati 9, Florida 8 Atlanta 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Philadelphia 7, Washington 6 Thursday's games Washington 10, Philadelphia 4 N.Y. Mets 7, San Diego 2 Friday's games Washington 7, Atlanta 3 Florida 4, Philadelphia 3 San Diego 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Saturday's games Atlanta at Washington, ppd. Florida at Philadelphia, ppd. N.Y. Mets 8, San Diego 1 Sunday's games Philadelphia 4, Florida 2 San Diego 7, N.Y. Mets 4 Atlanta 3, Washington 1 Next series N.Y. Mets [Glavine (2-1, 1.38), Trachsel (1-1, 3.71), Bannister (2-0, 2.35)] at San Francisco (10-8) [Matt Cain (0-2, 6.75), Jamey Wright (2-0, 2.91), Jason Schmidt (0-2, 5.33)] Florida (Vargas, Willis, Olsen) at Chicago Cubs (10-7) (Zambrano, Marshall, Guzman) Cincinnati (12-7) (Ramirez, Williams, Arroyo) at Washington (Hernandez, Traber, Patterson) Atlanta (Davies, Hudson, Sosa) at Milwaukee (9-10) (Capuano, Ohka, Sheets) Colorado (10-8) (Asencio, Jennings, Francis) at Philadelphia (Floyd, Madson, Lieber)

="Zvon"]The bottomline, this should be a kool Met picture thread. Found these wire photos in a filing cabinet at work the other day. They encompass some interesting moments in Mets history. Full-size scans are Imageshacked for your protection (and so as to not break the forums) and presented in chronological order with the original AP cutlines: New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden became baseball's all-time rookie strikeout king Wednesday surpassing Herb Score's mark of 245 whiffs. Gooden fanned 16 Pittsburgh Pirates for a total of 251 strikeouts though tonight's game. (Sept. 12, 1984) New York Mets, newly-acquired catcher Gary Carter and Frank Cashen, strike a pose in Shea Stadium Wednesday. The seven-time National League All-Star played for the Montreal Expos for 10 years before the trade. (David Pickoff/Dec. 12, 1984) New York mets Gary Carter, right, is congratulated by teammate Keith Hernandez who scored on his tenth inning home run to beat the Pirates 9-7 in ten innings Sunday in Pittsburgh. It was Carter's 32nd round-tripper on the year. (Dale Sparks/Sept. 29, 1985) Bud Harrelson answers questions at a press conference at Riverfront Stadium Tuesday evening where he was named the new manager of the New York Mets. Harrelson replaces Davey Johnson (who) was fired. (Al Behrman/May 29, 1990) St. Louis Cardinal Vince Coleman is all smiles at a press conference at Shea Stadium in New York Thursday after it was announced the outfielder signed a four-year contract with the New York Mets for $11.95 million. (Bebeto Matthews/Dec. 13, 1990) New York Mets Kevin Elster wears a straw hat as takes some warm-up tosses at Mets Stadium in Port St. Lucie Sunday morning. The early spring training arrival last played Aug. 3, 1990 and underwent arthroscopic surgery a month later to repair torn anterior capsule and labrum of the shoulder. Pitcher an catchers are scheduled for workouts Friday. (Richard Drew/Feb 17, 1991) New York Mets left hander Sid Fernandez, second left, is in pain as he's aided on the mound in Port St. Lucie Monday afternoon. He suffered a fractured ulna bone in his pitching arm after being hit by a ball batted by Houston Astros Javier Ortiz. With Sid are Chris Donnels, ump Gerry Davis and trainer Steve Garland, left to right. (Richard Drew/March 11, 1991) J. Frank Cashen, General Manager of the New York Mets, announces his retirement Friday as general manager, but says he will stay with the club as Chief Operating Oficer and Senior Executive Vice President. Cashen will turn over the genral manager job to Executive Vice President Al Harazin, he stated Friday at the Shea Stadium new conference. (Susan Ragan/Sept. 27, 1991) Outfielder Bobby Bonilla, left, who last week signed a $29 million contract to play for the New York Mets, chats with Pittsburgh Pirates assistant trainer David Tumbes Tuesday at the winter baseball meetings in Miami Beach. Bonilla is currently the highest paid player in baseball. (Kathy Willens/Dec. 10, 1991) New York Mets pitcher Dave Cone is unhappy with his pitching against the Atlanta Braves Wednesday in Port St. Lucie, FL., at one point arguing with the home plate umpire. Cone pitched 4.2 innings, gave up five hits and six runs with six strikeouts. The Braves won 8-6. (Susan Ragan/April 1, 1992) New York Mets centerfielder Howard Johnson slams into the fence while robbing San Diego Padres Darren Jackson of an extra base hit during the second inning of their game Thursday in San Diego. (Lenny Ignelzi/May 21, 1992)