New York Mets
Hey, Mets fans, that awful season was just a bad dream—if you believe StubHub.
The company sent an e-mail Monday offering tickets for Mets’ playoff games.
“Be there alongside your New York Mets as they chase baseball immortality,” the e-mail said. “Go to StubHub, where you’ll find a fantastic selection of tickets to every playoff game—so you experience the championship chase live and in person.”
StubHub said e-mails were sent to fans promoting several teams not in the postseason.
“This was due to an e-mail glitch,” spokeswoman Joellen Ferrer said in a statement. “We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused. Follow-up e-mails will be sent to every person that received the e-mail, notifying them of the error on our part. In no way does this affect any transactions that have taken place on StubHub.”
The company sent an e-mail Monday offering tickets for Mets’ playoff games.
“Be there alongside your New York Mets as they chase baseball immortality,” the e-mail said. “Go to StubHub, where you’ll find a fantastic selection of tickets to every playoff game—so you experience the championship chase live and in person.”
StubHub said e-mails were sent to fans promoting several teams not in the postseason.
“This was due to an e-mail glitch,” spokeswoman Joellen Ferrer said in a statement. “We regret the error and apologize for any inconvenience or confusion this may have caused. Follow-up e-mails will be sent to every person that received the e-mail, notifying them of the error on our part. In no way does this affect any transactions that have taken place on StubHub.”
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ap-mets-playofftickets&prov=ap&type=lgns
25. New York Mets. TQI = 0.424
There was a time earlier this season when the Mets ranked at the top of the NL East in our on-paper rankings and in the actual standings. And then they fell off a cliff. Injuries to many key players were a big factor in their decline--especially in terms of their weak offensive numbers (wOBA = 0.322). But they were also a below-average fielding team (-22 runs), which made their average pitching staff look worse than it was. Our cW% (0.450) matched up well to pW% (0.444), which were both a tad higher than their actual record (0.432). So they probably did get a bit unlucky. And with some of their good talent on the mend, perhaps they will recover next season. The NL East isn't an incredibly strong division, so I think they have a chance to compete next year.
http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2009/10/15/1083044/btb-power-rankings-season-review#storyjump
A year ago, the Mets flirted with the idea of their very own Wolf Pack for the inaugural season of Citi Field.
Considering that many of the fans wore paper bags on their heads by late September, a few dozen loonies in hairy wolf masks and bushy paws would have been a welcome diversion from the dog of a team on the diamond.
Looking back, however, Randy Wolf - the Met killer - is very happy to have landed in Los Angeles. Especially now that Wolf will be starting today's Game 4 of the NLCS against the Phillies, his former team, at Citizens Bank Park.
Wolf began his major-league career with the Phillies in 1999, which is when his howling fan club - think rejects from a Teen Wolf movie audition - sprouted in the cheap seats at Veterans Stadium. Incredibly, Wolf said Sunday that he has stayed in contact with his eccentric pals, though he doubted they would suit up for Game 4.
http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/passed-on-by-mets-wolf-howling-success-with-dodgers-1.1531512
When Jeff Francoeur was traded to the Mets, I figured he would play out the season and be non-tendered. A massive disappointment for his hometown Braves, this is a player who was one of the top 5 least valuable players in all of baseball in 2008. At the time of the trade, he was on his way to another sub-replacement level season. The previous 2 sentences are the main reasons why I was so befuddled by the effusive praise for the trade by the mainstream media, bloggers and my Met fan friends. How did people not realize just how bad a player he had been for a significant period of his career? Did the memory of a Sports Illustrated cover and a 1.21 gigawatt smile sufficiently hide the glaring warts on his game?
Naturally, Francoeur proceeded to perform well for the Mets, posting a decent .311/.338/.498 line. Combine production with an infectious personality and we're looking at a new fan favorite. Of course, his plate discipline remained terrible. He swung at a greater percentage of pitches out of the strike zone than any other Met and had the worst unintentional walk rate of his career. Sustaining a high batting average with such awful peripherals is a tough task. However, Francoeur has posted a BABIP in the .340 range in 2 other seasons (2005 and 2007), so who am I to say his .343 Mets BABIP is unsustainable?
Brooklyn Cyclones:
SS Robbie Sheilds (3rd Rd.-2009) out with TJS – may be out entire 2010 season
Winter Leagues:
Monday – AWL:
Ruben Tejada : 1-for-1, 1-2B, .429
Josh Thole: 1-for-1, .419
Angel Calero: 0.1 IP, 0 hits, 0 runs, 0 BB, 0 K
World Cup:
The United States of America moved from No. 4 to No. 2 in the International Baseball Federation's (IBAF) latest installment of the Men's World Rankings which were released Monday.
Behind first place finishes at the IBAF "AA"/16U World Youth Championships and the IBAF Baseball World Cup, the U.S. jumped ahead of Korea and Japan and put it within striking distance of Cuba, which has held the No. 1 position since the rankings debuted earlier this year.
With these rankings, the IBAF also introduced several tournaments from the last four years that were not originally taken into consideration for the World Rankings. These events include continental pre-qualifying tournaments and invitational events like the "Good Luck Beijing" Baseball Tournament in 2007. The inclusion of the new events has introduced 22 national baseball teams to the IBAF World Rankings, and all of the new tournaments meet the criteria of events which the IBAF considers for rankings points.
http://web.usabaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091019&content_id=7493888&vkey=news_usab&gid=
Free Agency:
Relief Pitchers
Luis Ayala FLA
Danys Baez BAL
Miguel Batista SEA
Joe Beimel COL (B)
Joaquin Benoit TEX
Rafael Betancourt * COL (A)
Chad Bradford BAL
Doug Brocail * HOU (B)
Kiko Calero FLA (B)
Elmer Dessens NYM
Brendan Donnelly FLA
Octavio Dotel CWS (A)
Alan Embree COL
Scott Eyre PHI (B)
Josh Fogg COL
Chad Fox CHC
Ryan Franklin * STL
Gary Glover WAS
Mike Gonzalez ATL (A)
Tom Gordon ARZ
John Grabow CHC (A)
Kevin Gregg CHC (A)
Eddie Guardado TEX
LaTroy Hawkins HOU (A)
Mark Hendrickson BAL
Matt Herges COL
Bobby Howry SF (B)
Jason Isringhausen TB
Masahide Kobayashi * CLE
Brandon Lyon DET (B)
Ron Mahay MIN
Gary Majewski WAS
Guillermo Mota LAD (B)
Will Ohman * LAD (B)
Darren Oliver LAA (A)
Chan Ho Park PHI (B)
Troy Percival TB
J.J. Putz * NYM
Juan Rincon COL
Fernando Rodney DET (B)
Duaner Sanchez NYM
Scott Schoeneweis ARZ
Brian Shouse * TB (B)
Rafael Soriano ATL (A)
Russ Springer TB (B)
Brett Tomko OAK
Jose Valverde HOU (A)
Claudio Vargas MIL
Ron Villone WAS
Luis Vizcaino * COL
Billy Wagner BOS (A)
Jamie Walker BAL
Jeff Weaver LAD
Kip Wells CIN
Jamey Wright KC
Bobby Valentine, whose New York Mets reached the World Series in 2000, is one of the finalists for the vacant Indians manager's job. — Valentine, 59, it has been learned, will come to Cleveland this week for a second interview.
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