Ex-Intern Andy Martino replaced Adam Rubin and It didn't take lomg for the low end of the Mets world to call him out::
Hey Andy, is it true you wrote this when you covered the Phillies: "Daniel Murphy had a couple hits and drove in a run today, which is embarassing compared to how great Ryan Howard is. Luis Castillo made 2 errors which of course is almost a years worth for Chase Utley. And speaking of other great players the Mets don’t have but the Phillies do ..." If it's true, I hope it's not killing you covering a team that doesn't have all the "great players" of the team you just left. BTW, Wright, Beltran, Reyes, and Santana are great players and Reyes is better than Rollins whose numbers are grossly inflated by the bandbox he hits in. Hope this helps for your future reporting. nydailynews.
Welocme home Andy... remember, the Metroline goes both ways...
A total of $972MM was spent on Major League free agent contracts this offseason, led by the Red Sox at $137MM. The Marlins are on bottom, with no big league free agent contracts signed. Each team spent about $32MM on average. Check out the list below, and contact us if you notice any errors. - 3.Mets - $75,350,000 - Tim Dierkes
I'm a little surprised at this figure. This team just doesn't feel 75 mil richer... btw... the Marlins spent bupkis...
Little known fact: D.J. Dozier is the only man who could have prevented the Dallas Cowboys’ emergence in the 1990s. Dozier’s football career didn’t go as planned, right from the start. He had trouble staying healthy and often found himself on the bench, a situation that forced the Vikings to trade away every one of their draft picks over the next twenty years for running back Herschel Walker. I think it’s safe to say that if the Vikings had been happy with Dozier’s production, the Walker trade would never have been a necessity. In four years with the Vikings, Dozier managed just 643 yards, and eventually he got restless. He wanted to play and didn’t particularly care what sport he’d be playing. He announced his interest in essentially becoming the next Bo Jackson, playing baseball during football’s offseason.
The ultimate April Fools sports joke happened back on April 1st, 1985. This was when George Plimpton wrote an article for Sports Illustrated about a rookie pitcher training for the Mets named Sidd Finch.
For those that may not know the story, Finch was a recluse discovered by the Mets and could throw a fastball at 168 mph- all while only wearing one shoe. Seven days later it would be announced that he retired. It would be two weeks later, April 15th, that SI would let everyone in on the joke. Could you imagine this happening today? Probably would be very difficult to pull off in the “age of information,” much less keep it going for two weeks. I don’t remember the original article, I was able to read it at the same archive I provided above, but did read the subsequent novel by Plimpton that came out a few years later.
When New York Mets shortstop Jose Reyes smiles, all of Flushing smiles too. Fans get that warm, fuzzy feeling. After Reyes returned to Port St. Lucie last week to begin working out, the media asked manager Jerry Manuel what his All-Star’s presence met to the team. “His smile, his energy,” Manuel said. “That’s huge for us to have him back, even just in the dugout.” The newest Met, Jason... - mets360
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I remember it and thought it was a piece of Plimpton fiction, but did not make the connection to the April Fool’s issue date. And certainly did not decipher the subtitle acronym:
"He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent life-style, Sidd's deciding about yoga -- and his future in baseball."
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