a new site that covers Mets and all baseball is INFIELD CHATTER, stop by and check it out as there is a great free agent primer post and word the Braves not looking to trade top prospects for Jake Peavy

Look we all know the Mets need pitching, pitching and more pitching but there is not much we Mets fans can do but hope that Omar spends the $150 mil or so the Skill Sets have given him to bring back value for their bucks.  Now something WE do have control over is outfitting ourselves in the finest fashions and that means clothing apparel from the Gary, Keith, and Ron charity website. If you’ve been to Shea you’ve seen your fellow Mets fans dressed in the t-shirts and caps with the familar baseball/headset logo and you felt left out because let’s face it all the cool kids in the class are wearing something from the Gary, Keith and Ron collection. So in order to ratchet up your standing in the Kool Kids Klub have I got an offer for you!

When you go to Gary, Keith and Ron and  pick out what you want (not just t-shirts and caps but gift baskets and stuff animals as well) for being a reader of the Eddie Kranepool Society you will get 10 % off your order just by typing the word BLOGGER in the coupon spot on the order page. Such a steal!

So go now look over the merchandise and place your order today remember not only will you be the envy of your friends when you don your Gary, Keith and Ron apparel but you are also helping some great causes.

Thank you Mark Healy for the hat tip from Gotham Baseball.  Heals, echos the feeling that the attituted of the Mets needs a blast from the past.

Yes, Greg Prince, Next Year can not get here soon enough for me either.

I think my head is still swiming from the managerial screw up by both Good O’ Cholly and Joey Specs so read the lay of the mis-managerial land from Beyond the Box Score.

Eddie Kunz is not having a good go of it in the AFL as lefties are whipping his ass and it has me worried

The empty suits at MLB Properties really have too much time on their hands as they have given an ultimatum to the clubs of the Cape Cod League that if they continue to use the nicknames of major league teams, they have to get the approval of MLB Properties of all the merchandise they sell at their games and on-line.

If the clubs don’t change the names and not comply to MLB Prop approval then MLB will withhold the $100K they give to the league that helps out greatly in the CCBL maintain the ball fields. If you have never been to the Cape to see a Cape League game the ball fields are all high school fields that are beautifully kept up. The work is all done by volunteers who are lovers of baseball and of their community which doesn’t register with the empty suits on Park Avenue. (tip of the Mets Cap to Spitting Seeds for the link)

Saw this post on Beyond The Box Score where they ranked the ten best center fielders in baseball and Carlos Beltran ranked #2 while Grady Sizemore beat out Beltran for the top spot. Here is the comment on Beltran:

2. Carlos Beltran (53 off, 13 def, 66 tot) – No matter what the Manhattan-based publications tell you, Beltran is one of the ten best position players in the world.  He gets on base, hits for power, steals bases without being thrown out, plays center field, and runs down everything out there.  Given what Manny and Tex are going to sign for this year (and what Andruw Jones signed for last year), his $18MM yearly salary is a steal.

There were a couple of comments from previous posts that I was going to answer in the comment section but I felt it would be better  to answer them in a full posting especially the second  one from an alleged Mets fan.

The first comment comes from Phanatic who is I guess a fan of the Phuckin’ Phills:

{I guess the fact that the Phillies scored 8 runs yesterday without a homerun will be ignored on your website. Well, isn’t that convenient.}

Well, since I am commenting on it you would be wrong Cheese Wiz breath. Yes the Phinks did mange to beat the Hollywood Bums without the aid of thier best weapon the home run but that game yesterday is what I envision baseball in hell to be play like with the duo of Mc Fullofshit and Doofus Joe announcing it that was the equivalent of 4 hours of root canal without Novocaine.

This post comes from someone named Ceetar and I’ll break his comments down in five sections:

{Honestly, who are you to say how much they should spend and how much they should charge for things?}

I’m guessing here you mean the Skill Sets and you’re right I have some pair of balls to be outraged that all of their energy is going into filling up the suites with wine sippers who couldn’t give a flyin’ fuck if the Mets won or lost. I mean really I do have some nerve fighting to make sure that the working class Mets fan that has supported this organization for years through more lean times than winning times is able to attend a Mets game that won’t cripple his bank account.    

{Sure, it sucks that the world, and baseball, is more expensive. It’s still cheaper than other sports. It’s still affordable to go to games. So you can’t buy a run down pair of seats that would probably collect clutter anyway, big deal. It’s a business, and that’s a necessity that we have to deal with.}

Maybe you have to deal with it but see me I have tough time dealing with shit that pisses me off. I guess what’s affordable to some is a big luxury to others. I’m very fortunate that I was able to spend over $1500 dollars just for tickets to Mets game this year add in parking and food and shirts, hats and other Mets crap I’ve bought this year it’s well over $2500 dollars right now there are not many people who can afford that and what you need to remember is baseball is not a rich man’s sport it has always been the middle class that has supported baseball and especially the Mets and the Skill Sets need to remember that as I am especially surprised by Freddie Skill Set as he is so Brooklyn Dodger-centric and that WAS their fan base.

{security at Shea has always sucked, I agree with that. Don’t know what there is to really do about it, but ignore them as much as possible, which is what I’ve taken to doing. I couldn’t care less how they’re dressed.}

Do you go through life just ignoring assholes? I mean at some point you take a stand and I don’t know about you up when some fat slob making 7 bucks an hour says that I can’t walk through the field level section because my Upper Deck ticket makes me unworthy of such a privilege it pisses me off. The same way when I’m told that I have to leave a stadium on the last day of it’s use because said rent a cop says so as for how they dress I guess you’re a fan of orange pollyester, with belly’s hanging over the pants and dirty rags in the back pocket look sorry but I’m not.,  

{I guess it would’ve been nice if they’d let us walk on the field after the game. However, it probably would’ve been a security nightmare. Maybe not, maybe so. It’s just not a big deal to me, it’s not like they owed us that. It’s not like we’d ever (except for some of us, via little league and the ron keith gary people..which you could’ve done if it was important to you) be on the field normally. Fans’ place is in the stands, and the players on the field.}

I guess you weren’t at the last game as there were more cops at Shea, it was like a Dunkin Dounuts grand opening. You must be in the Bush cabinet with that “security nightmare” scenario. It would have been fine to let everyone walk out to through the outfield fence but then that would be something nice to do for the fans and that’s against the Skill Set Doctrine. As for me going on the field I have been on the field at Shea as have been my kids so I’ve been fortunate enough to have done that but maybe, just maybe someone in attendance that day never had that chance wouldn’t have been the descent thing to do to afford that chance for someone? Guess not.    

{Collapsing sucked. I know. It pisses me off too, and Omar has already made the bad move of resigning Manuel, however I think he’ll make some good moves in the off season (and not necessarily the ones the ‘fans’ demand he makes because they think they know better) and this will be a good team again in ‘09. And I can’t wait to see a game at The Citi, because so far it looks great and promises to be a fun time.}

Who would you have hired instead of J-Man? I’m pro-Omar as well but the Mets are beyond being “good” it’s time to be a championship team and the first step is to find some grinders and pitchers for the bullpen. Don’t get me wrong I’m looking forward to the new park as well Ijust hope I’m welcome there that’s all. 

A very big tip of the Mets cap to Will Carroll via Baseball Toaster who put up this clip of Jon Stewart and the Daily Show showing the dick heads at FOX News talking out of their big fat ass’

Am I the only person not impressed by Nanook Nancy’ speech last night?  Oh and thanks John McCain for forcing the NFL to start tonights  Giants-Redskin game at 7 PM so you can give the country an hour speech it which you will tells us absolutely nothing

Memo to Mike Francesa, Shut the fuck up about how hot it is siting in the bubble at Giants Stadium to do your train wreck of a radio show, it’s not like your digging a ditch okay your sitting on your fat ass guzzling Diet Coke by truck load trying to be entertaining and it’s not working. That’s not sweat from the heat Mike, it’s flop sweat.

Hi all It took me awhile to get started but not the Amazin’s as they are giving Jason Bergman and the Nats a good old fashion ass kicking. So far it’s 10-nil Mets but we all know this game is no where near close to being over.

TV camera focused on Jason Bergman after that inning and looked like he was paralyzed. Manny Acta left Bergman out there to the point where it was embarrassing. Bergman walked 5 Mets that inning and gave up 8 runs. As much fun as it is to watch the Mets pound the ball, it does make you feel a little uneasy watching a guy get humiliated.

Someone needs to smack Charlie Samuel in the head with these black uni tops really enough all ready. The grey road uni is one of the best not only in baseball but in sports. Same with the home white pinstripe suit and  is the  solid Royal blue hat. Really enough with the fucking black why do the Mets have to look like that half pint weasel Giusepe Franco?

AFLAC trivia question What Mets player led the league in hits?

Without Googling it I’ll say Lance Johnson