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Back in New York
Well, after a 10 hour train ride and very little sleep, I’m home! Of course, the first thing I had to do was flip on the TV and watch the MLB network for the first time (my family recently upgraded to digital cable a week after I left for school, so I hadn’t had the chance to watch it yet) and I was soooo excited! However, as soon as I tuned in, I had to change the channel quickly because they were repeating 30 Clubs in 30 Days and they were doing the Phillies….a little too painful to hear about all the ways they can repeat their title. I’m now watching it though, and it’s fabulous (Nats vs. Orioles…I’m just glad to be watching baseball on TV!).
The Mets face the Cards today and it’s not on TV or radio…go figure. They’re in the top of the 4th right now, 2-0 Cards. Castillo, Valentin and Coronado have the three hits for the Mets.
In what I feel establishes the Mets as the most talented team in the majors, we have sent our league-leading 16th player to the WBC. Upset A-Rod isn’t going to play for the DR? Fernando Tatis isn’t, as he just got called to report. Before adding Tatis to the WBC roster, the Mets were tied with Boston for the most players (15 each). However, of those 15, Boston only had four or five roster players, while the Mets have something like 11 or 12. So have no fear, Mets fans, when we don’t look so hot in Spring Training, even our back-up shortstop isn’t at camp right now!
Oh, and for all those who just aren’t satisfied with Spring Training (it certainly helps, but it’s just not enough for me!), today marks the ONE MONTH mark until baseball returns (minus Opening Night on April 5th…but that’s not the Mets, so it doesn’t count)!!!!!
Who to Cheer For?
Ok, so maybe right now I don’t have a problem choosing who do root for yet, but I certainly have a number of teams to follow!
While the Mets are without nearly half of their 25 man roster, they are currently losing 13-0 to the Cards. Poor Freddy Garcia got roughed up a bit in his second start…I can only think this is anything but helping his run for the 5th starter position. Needless to say, this game was a little to painful to watch, so I switched to the US/Yankees game.
Team USA is beating the Yanks 201 in the 5th….David Wright is batting clean-up, nice to see a Met get that spot! Of course he’s 0-2 but give him some time to settle in. (He just walked to load the bases….woohoo!) And can I just say how hard it is to root for Jimmy Rollins? I mean, I don’t have a problem rooting for most Phillies players individually, it’s really just the team, but Rollins is the one Phillie I really don’t like. Good thing he’s not playing today. Also, the locker room arrangement has Rollins-Jeter-Wright in one row….poor Jeter being between the rivalry (it could be worse, Derek, Beltran could be where Wright is), but poor Wright being next to one Mets rivalry and another team rivalry on the other side of that! Haha, I still think it’s kind of funny.
I also tried to check on the DR, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, just to see how the other Mets are doing. Last I checked, Reyes is batting leadoff and was 0-2, no Mets pitching yet for Venezuela (although for those sentimentalists, Endy Chavez was batting leadoff and I think he had a run scored; plus, one of my older favorite players, Melvin Mora was 1-2, yay!). As for Puerto Rico, the Carlos’ had matching hits (although Delgado’s was a double) and were both 1-2. As excited as I am for the Classic, I’m dreading seeing my players play against each other…scratch that, I’m really excited to see that, I just don’t want to have to pick one team over another.
I believe we are 38 hours away from Classic action! Although, let’s be honest, how many Americans will be waking up at 4:30 or earlier to watch Japan and China?
Also, anyone who saw the MLBlogs homepage saw that the lead headline is the Mets!!! I even got on the “Meet the Mets Bloggers” links, thanks MLBlog staff!
You Can’t Win ‘Em All
The Mets fell to the Cards for the first loss of Spring Training this afternoon. I only got to watch a little of the game, but from what I saw, there were definitely some positives: first off, Livian Hernandez had a strong outing. Also, the Mets scored 8 runs, so obviously we can at least hit in pre-season (regular season is a whole ‘nother ball game… ahaha, what a pun!). Finally, it was nice to see someone not wearing blue and orange nearly blow a huge lead late in the game. I was secretely thinking it could happen, but alas, that was not the case. That’s ok though, I’d rather save up wins for the regular season anyway.
In other news, Santana has now been scratched from Tuesday’s game as well. I’m sorry, but I can’t help but get nervous over this. I know they claim to just be being cautious, but hearing that your ace and the guy you expect to pitch you into the post season has now been scratched from two games definitely isn’t comforting. I’m just hoping Johan gets on the mound soon and shows us he’s ready to repeat his ’08 performance.
I’m going to try to do a full game live blog (yay for Saturdays and no classes!) so if you’re interested, stop by and check how the game’s going if you can’t watch or listen to it yourself. The game starts at 1:10pm and the Mets are at Detroit.
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