I’ve decided to take a half of day off of work tomorrow so I can get home and watch Mets-Marlins and to enjoy MLB Extra Innings and all the opening day games. Since opening day is not an official holiday I and making it a semi-holiday for myself kind of like my own little Festivus.

Gee, it was mighty nice of the New York Times to include a little three column story on Shea Stadium in their 2008 Baseball Preview section today that should have been re-named the Highlander Gazette as it was all about Highlander Stadium and more insulting was a full page story on the Cubs and the 100^th anniversary of their last World Series. The Cubs get a full page the Mets get three columns? Paper of Record my ass!

David Wright looks to be listening to Keith Hernandez’ advise to cut down on personal appearances during the season and concentrate fully on playing baseball. Wright seems to be on a mission to not only push the team to the post season but to catapult himself to MVP status. Jose Reyes also even though I enjoy his Professor Reyes spots between innings I’m glad he stopped doing them. It seems both our boys have learned a lesson from last years collapse and have grown up.

I didn’t watch the game yesterday but I have to ask what was up with those generic uni’s the Mets wore yesterday? Was there a reason they didn’t wear the regular uniforms?

Looks like we have to wait until this afternoon for the final 5 man roster to be announced but it looks as though Mike Pelfrey gets the 5^th spot in the rotation by default and Joe Smith gets to stay up until Dirty Duaner gets stronger. The 25^th spot looks to be a toss up between Fernando Tatis, Brady Clark and any right handed hitting released in the next 24 hours. It seems there is a division in the front office over Tatis and Clark so this will be interesting to watch. My guess is Tatis gets the spot due to his versatility.

ENOUGH SPECULATION PLAY BALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!