Friday, July 03, 2009

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND.

No Philly roadtrip for us. I declared the entire city offlimits (with certain exceptions) for 2009, and in hindsight, that was a wise move.

We are actually going to the House of Evil tomorrow on free corporate tickets my father got for us. At the time, we thought it might be our only affordable way into the new train station (if you’ve been there, you’ll get it), and at the time, the Blue Jays were good. After recent events, I wasn’t looking forward to this (and we are meeting other family there, so we can’t ditch it) until I checked the probable pitchers last night and found out that we will get to see Doc Halladay throwing for the Jays! It is also my chance to get some more photos and be able to do a full stadium writeup - I am remiss and am missing Fenway and Camden and hope to get those up this weekend.

Out to Flushing to do some photographs of Citi Field when no one’s around, and to finally check out the Shea markers. We never have time to do this on an actual game day.

Enjoy your weekend!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

DISTRACTION TECHNIQUES.

Yes, that is how desperate we are here at MetsGrrl Headquarters: we are resorting to pictures of baby otters to keep our morale up. (Whaddya want, this is a chick blog, remember?) Perhaps it will help you. Or, you will think that I have gone completely off the deep end. You are probably not that far from the truth.

I know, I should not watch the games, but I cannot resist watching a Santana start. What is everyone else doing for distraction?

Just go look at the adorable baby otters again. You could Google “baby otters” and get some delightful You Tube videos, but I am not sinking that low here on the blog… just yet anyway.

Let’s remember that we go to PHILLY this weekend. The thought makes me want to start drinking now and I’m not even going.

Monday, June 29, 2009

GROUP THERAPY.

As long as no one is going to tell me to stop being cranky, or that I need to be less angry, and as long as you’re not a Yankees fan, the floor is all yours. Have at it.

Right now, I am still speechless.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

OLLIE’S REHAB START.

I headed down to Coney Island today to check out Oliver Perez’ rehab start with the Cyclones. Ollie did well, 6 K’s, 72 pitches, 2 walks, 2 hits. I started to feel like he wasn’t throwing enough strikes towards the end of his outing, but attribute that to a nervous Mets fan wanting her pitcher back in the rotation than any real serious analysis.

Oliver’s delivery seemed more controlled. His movement was smoother, he flails about less in his landing. Of course it’s easy to be in control when you’re throwing a minor league game, time will tell if he can transfer anything he’s learned in this rehab outing to the big time. Tony Bernazard was hanging around to check things out.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

SUBWAY SERIES 09.

Go right ahead, Yankees fans. Beat your chests and preen and shout, you beat a team consisting of Daniel Murphy, Argenis Reyes, Alex Cora, Brian Schneider, Jeremy Reed, led by that Cy Young contender Tim Redding, with David Wright striking out big and before you say “Gary Sheffield,” remember that he’s the player that the Tigers were happy to pay US to take off their hands.

So, yeah, you go right ahead and brag about that.

Tomorrow night? Maybe? Chien-Ming Wang? Could we actually get some hits early on so I don’t have to spend half the game Tweeting to jinx the no-hitter?

Oh, I’m sorry - am I being cranky?

Friday, June 26, 2009

JOHN MAINE.

I was [] this close to wearing my MAINE-TALLICA shirt and going down to Aberdeen to see his rehab start, but sanity prevailed and I’m only going as far as Coney Island on Sunday to see OP.

Fernando Nieve has been a prince, but I have run out of appendages to cross during his starts. I’m not even all that confident about Oliver being consistent once he’s back in the rotation. We need John Maine back and healthy.

8TH INNING SING-A-LONG VOTE IS UP!

I don’t know why they need a vote - however, at least this selection of songs shows someone was TRYING to put some thought behind the thing, instead of just going through the Top 25 Most Played playlist on Jeff Wilpon’s iPod.

But let’s run them down, song by song, shall we?

Thursday, June 25, 2009

THERE’S GONNA BE A SHOWDOWN.

I try to be judicious about what promo opportunities I pimp here, but there was so much unintentional humor that I had to post it. Plus, it’s in Midtown and on Friday, so the chances of people being able to check it out are higher than your usual activity.

YANKEES’ JOBA CHAMBERLAIN AND METS’ DANIEL MURPHY JOIN DELTA TO SEND FANS TO THE SUBWAY SERIES FOR “FIRST CLASS” EXPERIENCE

New York Yankee Joba Chamberlain, New York Met Daniel Murphy and Delta Air Lines are sending fans with the most team flair to this weekend’s Subway Series at Citi Field to watch the game in truly “first class” seats at the ballpark.

The players will join Delta, the official airline and proud sponsor of the New York Yankees AND the New York Mets, to host “Fan Flair at Pershing Square” on Friday, June 26, 12pm at Pershing Square in Manhattan. Yankees and Mets fans are invited to dress in their best team-themed attire for a chance to attend Sunday’s game, the grand finale of the Subway Series.