Posts Tagged Opening Day
Opening Day Mets vs. Florida
Posted by admin in CitiField, David Wright, Florida Marlins, Fuck the Yankees, Johan Santana, New York Mets, Opening Day, Philadelphia Phillies, Predictions on April 5th, 2010
Mets win, the Mets win! The sensational (not yet) Mets are 1-0 and like usual we dominate on opening day. Against a pitcher in the Marlin’s Josh Johnson, who normally owns us (now 7-1), the Mets looked impressive in front of a sold out CitiField.
Newcomers played well and David Wright went yard, hopefully both of which are signs of good things to come.
Johan Santana is looking like the Cy Young Award candidate that we predicted he would win, he will win, this year. With run support, 7 runs, Johan Santana could be the best pitcher in baseball. He has the advantage of pitching at CitiField, which is where home run hitters become sacrifice-fly hitters.
Yankees blew there opener against the Red Sox. Mets are 1-0 and the Yankees are 0-1. That feels good. Yankees victory last season over the Phillies earned them some love from Mets fans, because as much as we love saying Fuck the Yankees we would much rather them winning over those Phillies. Most Mets fans dislike our division rival much more significantly than even the depths of hatred we show towards the Yankees.
Mets Mets Official 2010 Baseball Season Predictions:
Mets win the division!
Johan wins the Cy Young
Wright finishes in the top 3 for MVP voting.
Opening Day of the 2010 Baseball Season
Posted by admin in CitiField, Jason Bay, New York Jets, Opening Day on April 4th, 2010
The opening day of the 2010 baseball season is finally upon us and all the offseason talking and waiting is finally behind us and the excitement of your favorite team is at least tied for first place for the moment.
My favorite team is obviously the New York Mets, and although I have a lot of hope for this upcoming season I sense a lot of pessimism from some of my friends. They all say we have absolutely no pitching, besides Johan and K-Rod.
The Las Vegas Strip casinos are putting the odds that the Mets only win half their games, finishing 81-81. Everyone points to the early season injury issues of some of the same players who missed huge chunks of time last season. Obviously, the NL pennant winner Philadelphia Phillies are obviously just as strong, and it seems Atlanta, Washington and possibly Florida have made some big strides. The Mets are predicted to finish the middle of the pack in the NL East, with the best case scenario putting them at battling for the wild-card to make the playoffs.
I just don’t buy all of that. I believe, with the level of talent we have we should be realistically battling to win the division. Our pitching obviously needs to keep us in games and our offense needs to be consistent. 2, 3, or 4 runs is not enough, we need to be scoring runs and hopefully the addition of Jason Bay is going to give us that extra punch we need to put some big innings on the scoreboard frequently.
I want us to be better than .500, and I believe we can be. CitiField is definitely a pitcher’s park so let’s use that to our advantage. That means playing great defense. With the best recent New York Mets teams including the World Series team in 2000 defense was one of the Mets catalysts for shutting down other teams big innings.
Just watched Neil Diamond sing “Sweet Caroline” at Fenway Park for the Opening Day baseball game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. The place was rocking and the game has been very entertaining. I hope this is a sign for what is to come this baseball season, because I am really hoping the Mets are rocking this year playing a very entertaining brand of baseball.
Mets Opening Day Lineup
1. Alex Cora – SS
2. Luis Castillo – 2B
3. David Wright – 3B
4. Mike Jacobs – 1B
5. Jason Bay – LF
6. Gary Matthews, Jr. – CF
7. Jeff Franceour – RF
8. Rod Barajas – C
9. Johan Santana – P
1962 1969 1986 2009 Greatest Years in Dodger Blue and Giant Orange
Posted by Señor Met in CitiField, Opening Day on April 13th, 2009
Today marks one of the Greatest Days in the History of the New York Metropolitans History.
CitiField is Finally Here.
May God Bless the grass, the dirt, the steele, the sushi bar.
May this be the start of something beautiful. May this be the home of incredible plays, exciting teams, and championship banner filled walls.
CitiField Opening Baseball Games New York Mets verse San Diego Padres
3 Hitter. Johan and Bullpen Shine on Opening Day
Posted by Señor Met in Opening Day on April 6th, 2009
Opponents Beware: If David Murphy has a monster season in the middle of this lineup scary things could happen. I’m thinking Murphy’s two RBI’s and HR could be the start of an assault on the National League record books.
Boston’s National League team record of 1,220 runs scored in 1894 might be in jeopardy.
Or tying the 1957 Cincinnati Reds record of having 7 players start in the All-Star Game. The Mets won’t need the fans to stuff the ballot box like they did for the Reds.
Opening Day Score 2009 New York Mets
Opening Day Lineup
Posted by Señor Met in Opening Day on April 6th, 2009
1. Jose Reyes SS
2. Daniel Murphy LF
3. David Wright 3B
4. Carlos Delgado 1B
5. Carlos Beltran CF
6. Ryan Church RF
7. Brian Schneider C
8. Luis Castillo 2B
9. Johan Santana P
That is one of the best opening day lineups in franchise history. Easily top 3.
Opening Day
Posted by Señor Met in Opening Day on April 6th, 2009
Lets Go Mets. 162-0 is still possible, but I would be OK with only 100 wins.
