So the Mets have chosen versatility and pop over youth and quick bat as Fernando Tatis has won the 25^th spot on the roster over Ruben Gotay. If by some stroke of good fortune, Gotay clears waivers he can then sign a minor league deal and play everyday in “Nawlins. But if there is a team out there that has the stones to take a shot at a young man who can hit and have a little patients and work with on his defense (could centerfield be an option for Gotay?) who could have yourself a diamond in the rough .

Tatis had a lot of things in his favor, an ex-Expo, a guy who has had success in the big leagues. A guy who has worked hard in the bushes to get back to the Show. He played Winter Ball so even with visa problems he came in to camp in shape and ready to play and he had the good fortune of Gotay hurting his ankle.

All in all I’d much rather have Matt Murton or X-Nady on the team but I guess Omar feels the cheaper way is the way to go kind of like going with the lowest bid on a contract. That’s what the city did when it paid about a billion dollars for four brand new vessels for the Staten Island Ferry route. All four boats are pieces of shit and breakdown down regularly. The moral here is you get what you pay for.

SNY has a new gimmick where they take viewers phone calls during games. This has Classic Keith Hernandez Bloppers written all over it.

Billy Wags has signed on with 1050 WEPN and will be a guest of sissy boy Michael Kay ( a fucking pansy if there ever was one) and he also should make some kind of stupid statement by June. Also it’s kind of strange that Willie Randolph has not signed on with the Mets flagship station WFAN yet. I remember back a few years ago when Bobby Valentine (my favorite Mets manager other than the Great Gill Hodges) did a spot with Howie Rose on 620 WSNR Sporting News Radio Maybe I can work a deal with WNYC radio and Willie and I could do a spot each week? Now that would be compelling radio.

Tom Glavine still can’t shut the fuck up about last year and he still insults Mets fans intelligence:

  After an interview with two New York reporters ended yesterday, Glavine quizzed the pair about spring occurrences with the Mets as well as New York current events. When he broached the crane collapse on East 51st St. that killed seven people, Glavine suggested that was the type of event for which he reserved the word “devastating.” In recent comments, his unwillingness to apply that label to a baseball game - even one that completed a historic collapse and saw him charged with seven runs, seven hits and two walks in one-third of an inning - had irked fans.“It’s just that word,” he said. “The way I look at it, you get a phone call that tells you, ‘Hey, your son is terminally ill,’ that’s a heck of a lot different feeling than I’m going to have over a baseball game. That’s just where I was trying to come from.” 

One more time you dumb ass, we understand that losing a baseball game is not the same as an illness or death, stop making Mets fans out to be idiots you money grubbing phony. In a “baseball sense” the way the team lost was “devastating”. See we as fans and New Yorkers know all too well the difference between real life devastation and fandom devastation. Obviously you don’t you insulting shumck.

Bill Conlin takes his head out of an Entenmanns box to write a column on the pitching woes of the Phillies and the fact that Aaron Rowand will be missed in the clubhouse as take names and kick ass kind of guy.

Good thing she didn’t have something else pierced ME-OW