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• All the Mets will be using Beastie Boys as their walk-up music for Arizona game

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  Earlier today word came out that Beastie Boys founding member, and music icon, Adam Yauch, aka MCA, passed away at the age of 47 after a nearly three year battle with cancer.  Yauch was born in Brooklyn and if you’re a fan of the legendary rap group you know they were proud of their heritage, and often rapped about their New York roots.

  To honor Yauch, the New York Mets starters have decided to use strictly songs from the Beastie Boys catalogue as their walk-up music for their Friday game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.  No word on which songs which players are using, but according to Anthony DiComo, Mets beat writer for MLB.com, David Wright has requested Brass Monkey, from the group’s classic Licensed to Ill album.

  From DiComo’s Twitter account…

  

  And the bit about Wright…

  

  Say what you will about the Mets, but this is one classy gesture from the organization.

   

• VIDEO: Only You (And Your Pennies) Can Help Stop Mets Cruelty

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  The only thing sadder than watching the Mets’ failings of the past few years is watching those failings set to the music of Sarah McLachlan. The Canadian songstress’ haunting, melodic voice is almost enough to make me want to help these sadsack New York Mets by donating my hard earned money to their cause.

  Notice I said almost. Read more ›

   

• Mets CF Angel Pagan’s Bodily Functions Made Him Almost Miss an At-Bat

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  Which is a polite way of saying that Pagan was on the crapper and not in the batter’s box where he was supposed to be during the top of the 5th inning of Monday night’s blowout loss to the Phillies.

  Angel Pagan knows that when the bowels say it’s time to move, it’s time to move, baseball game be damned.

  With the count 3-2 to Nick Evans in the top of the 5th, Mets skipper Terry Collins went looking for his centerfielder, to no avail.  When no batter appeared after Evans walked, umpire Mike DiMuro headed to the New York dugout to find out what the problem was.  Finally someone informed Collins that nature called Pagan, and he went to the bathroom to answer. Read more ›

   

• VIDEO: Mets Fan Wearing Creepy Baby Mask Gets Mocked by Marlins Announcers

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  Welp, the Mets lost again, this time 2-1 to the Florida Marlins in 11-innings, at home no less, and the news gets worse as All-Star 3rd baseman David Wright has a stress fracture in his back and is out indefinitely.

  Time to break out the paper bags Mets fans.  Please break out the paper bags.  Don’t follow this guy’s lead and start wearing these disturbing “crying baby” masks to Mets games en masse—that’s more nightmare fuel than a city can handle, even one the size of New York.

  This frightening display wouldn’t even had come to our attention if it hadn’t have been for Marlins announcers Tommy Hutton and Rich Waltz cracking up at the site of a giant headed bawling infant sitting behind home plate.  Wouldn’t they have felt like crap if this wasn’t a mask, but the result of some weird genetic abnormality.

  Who are we kidding—they’d have laughed anyway.  And we would have laughed right along with them. Read more ›

   

• Phillies Fans Chanting “USA!” After Hearing of Bin Laden’s Death Gives Chills

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  Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or in a cave, or happen to be Amish, then you’re just waking up to the news that U.S. forces killed public enemy No.1, Osama Bin Laden.  The rat was holed up in a custom built hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, when he was shot in the head by NAVY Seals, then buried at sea.

  Clearly this was one of those country-uniting, “do you remember where you were when” moments, and the revelry and celebrating has continued well into the  night and early morning in the U.S.  Makes me extremely proud of my American heritage.

  One of the better moments from last night came from the Phillies-Mets game at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia.  It was Top of the 9th, game tied 1-1, when news spread throughout the stadium of Bin Laden’s death.  Almost immediately the crowd started chanting “USA, USA!” in unison, in a moment that was both spine-tingling and incredibly patriotic.

  Video follows the jump (let’s hope MLB realizes this is less about baseball, and more about American pride, and decides not to take it down)… Read more ›

   

• Mets Get Pranked on Their Own Network With Funny “Family Guy” Clip

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  Someone at SNY SportsNet New York, the television network owned by the NY Mets, decided to beat the rush and begin dumping on the Mets right out of the gate, starting with their Opening Day broadcast.  Making fun of the Mets on and off field ineptitude is getting to be as easy as making emo teenagers depressed, and just as much fun.

  Towards the end of the SNY broadcast of the Mets 6-2 season opening loss to the Florida Marlins, an unknown SNY staffer thought it would be hilarious to insert a “Family Guy” soundbyte into the production, one in which evil baby Stewie laments about how much of a letdown it is being a Mets fan.  Only a portion of the audio made it to air, but that doesn’t mean it’s any less funny, especially after you see the clip in its entirety. Read more ›

   

• This 2011 Mets Promotional Video is Worse Than the Luis Castillo Signing

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  What this abomination of a 2011 New York Mets promotional video lacks in production values, it more than makes up for it with some stellar acting, courtesy of David Wright, Jason Bay, Jose Reyes, Ike Davis, Josh Thole and Carlos Beltran. Read more ›

   

• Soon-To-Be Fired Mets Manager Not Happy With Soon-To-Be Hired Mets Manager

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  Somebody want to inform the recently unemployed Joe Torre that as of right now the Mets managerial job is not vacant.  Well, not yet anyway.

  Torre, the former Mets/Yankees/Dodgers skipper was back at Yankee Stadium for the unveiling of George Steinbrenner’s memorial at Monument Park.  ESPN New York asked Torre if he might be interested in the (more than likely) soon-to-be vacant Mets job.

  “No question” was Torre’s response if he would ever come back to Flushing.  He followed that up by telling WFAN that “I am curious. When the season is over, I hope the phone will be ringing.”

  That’s assuming that current Mets manager Jerry Manuel will be canned.  That’s a pretty safe assumption, given the team’s lacklustre performance under Manuel these last three seasons.

  But Manuel hasn’t been told by Fred Wilpon or any of the other head office gang that his services will no longer be required on or shortly after October 3rd.  Until he hears otherwise, Manuel is still the man in charge of the Mets…and he’s none to happy with Torre and his comments.

  “That’s not integrity,” he said before today’s game against Florida. “That’s what you hope to find in those high-profile positions, such as this.”

  “I find it also curious when someone comments about a job that someone already has,” Manuel said. He added, “I don’t know him from a personal basis. But when things like that come out, or are said, you question the integrity. That’s what comes to my mind.”

  It’s hard not to blame Manuel for getting his back up—he’s a dead man walking.  And Torre is there to help his widow, the Mets, pick up the pieces, as it were.

  UPDATE: On Tuesday Torre publicly apologized to Manuel for his remarks, going so far as to suggest he’s done as a manager in baseball for good.  “I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else,” Torre told ESPN Los Angeles.  Whether he means it or not is anybody’s guess, although I can’t see Torre going to the Mets and jeopardizing the love the Yankees fans have for him.

  [NJ.com]

   

• Former Mets, Royals Pitcher Charged With Kidnapping, Attempted Murder

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  Ambiorix Burgos, former pitcher for the Royals and Mets, has been charged by the Dominican Republic police with the kidnapping and attempted murder of his ex-wife, Dilenia Reynoso.

  But this is not your ordinary “kidnap and try and kill your ex” story.  No it is not.

  Burgos allegedly abducted his former wife from the home of a local prosecutor she was staying with for protection after she had received death threats from Burgos.

  So there’s that…and then there’s this.

  Apparently Burgos really wanted to make his ex-wife suffer, because she says he tried to kill her by force feeding her—wait for it—rat poison.

  Burgos pitched for the Kansas City Royals from 2005-06, and started the season with the New York Mets in 2007 before being demoted to Triple-A.  The 26-year-old has had previous brushes with the law–in 2008 prosecutors dropped the charges against Burgos in a fatal hit-and-run, and last year Burgos was sentenced to nine months in jail for assaulting his girlfriend.

  A Dominican judge has ordered Burgos to remain in jail for the next three months while prosecutors prepare their case.  Hopefully they can make an airtight case against this scumbag, and send him to prison for a long, long time…where I’m sure he’ll make the switch from pitcher to “catcher” fairly quickly and painfully.

  [Seattle Times]

   

• Mets Fans Have Trouble Understanding the Concept of the Rally Cap

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  And now for something completely different…rally lunchboxes?

  It’s pretty clear to me why the Mets are as bad as they are–poor management, underwhelming (but overpaid players), and most of all, clueless fans.  Rally caps work…rally lunchboxes do not.  At least not this time.  Brad Lidge pitched a perfect ninth to preserve the Phillies win.

  /OK, so not all Mets fans are clueless…just the majority of them

  //bring it on Mets fans
  
  
  
  
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