NY Mets Report
RON WASHINGTON’S COCAINE BLUES
By Steve Keane at 17 March, 2010, 2:33 pm
Bizarre story about Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington testing positive for cocaine last season. First thing I’d like to know is who leaked this to Jon Heyman as it should have been confidential. It seems that since 2008 MLB managers, coaches and front office personnel are subject to drug testing. Before getting tested, Washington told [...]
Read More >>HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY Y’ALL
By Steve Keane at 17 March, 2010, 1:51 pm
And it’s St. PATRICK not St. “PADDY’ S Day as the name “PADDY” and any time I hear someone use the term I make sure they know my distaste for that term. One of the best things about this St. Patrick’s Day is it falls on my day off which means I don’t have to [...]
Read More >>BOB MURPHY NOMINATED FOR THE IRISH AMERICAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
By Steve Keane at 16 March, 2010, 9:59 am
One of my favortite places to eat and watch sports is FOLEY’S NY PUB & RESTAURANT, 18 w33st in the shadow on the Empire State Building, has released the names of this years nominees for the IRISH AMERICAN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME:
Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame Announces Nominations for 2010 Induction Class
Foley’s NY Pub & [...]
CHECK IT OUT: ALL DOWN THE LINE
By Steve Keane at 16 March, 2010, 9:47 am
Caryn Rose of Metsgrrl fame has a new site called All DownThe Line. The site is devoted to Ms. Rose’ travels around the baseball landscape and the ball parks she has visited. As always the words and picture are first class. Do yourself a favor and bookmark this site.
Read More >>SPEAKING WITH THE ENEMY, MY INTERVIEW WITH CRASHBURN ALLEY
By Steve Keane at 16 March, 2010, 9:33 am
Over the weekend while looking while watching the shingels of my roof fly through the air with the greatest of ease, I did a Q & A with the talented author of Crashburn Alley, Bill Baer (and Baseball Prospectus and Baseball Digest Daily and ESPN The Sweet Spot) on our beloved Metsies. Bill is hoping [...]
Read More >>“GOOD-BYE, LUV” RON LUNDY 1935-2010
By Steve Keane at 16 March, 2010, 9:15 am
If you are under 45 years old, you probably have no idea who Ron Lundy is. Lundy, one the great voices of 77 Music Radio WABC a radio station that just screams of summertime, school yards and stick ball games of my youth, whose signature open was “Hello Luv, From The Greatest City in the World I’m Ron [...]
Read More >>MORE IMPURE THOUGHTS
By Steve Keane at 15 March, 2010, 11:42 am
Daniel Shoptaw, the Prime Minister of the Baseball Bloggers Alliance and the operator of the Cardinals blog C70 At The Bat, does a series on his site, Playing Pepper where he interviews bloggers from other teams sites to get the lowdown on their season. Now up on C70 At The Bat are the New York Mets [...]
Read More >>NOT EXACTLY A MAINE MAN
By Steve Keane at 15 March, 2010, 9:25 am
We are told not to take the stats from spring training too seriously especially early, but the quotes coming from John Maine after his cameo appearance yesterday left me a bit unsettled.
Because of the rain the last couple of days in Florida, the Mets have tried to rearrange the pitching assignments to make sure every [...]
LAZY SUNDAY
By Steve Keane at 14 March, 2010, 3:27 pm
WOW What a weekend! Saturday we had tickets for a show at the New Victory Theatre and decided to go by car instead of ferry/subway. As bad as the weather was, lots of traffic on the roads and on the sidewalks. Driving rain and 50 MPH winds but the city was still packed as was [...]
Read More >>RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY……………
By Steve Keane at 13 March, 2010, 11:18 am
With the witch hunt by guys like John Harper and the Legion of Ignoramuses A/K/A the callers to WFAN talking out their ass about Jose Reyes’ Thyroid (how is this for a man bites dog story, Joe Benigino and Evan Roberts are now the best and informative hosts on the station since they had an [...]
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