I’m going to All Points West in Liberty State Park, NJ tonight. The Big draw for me initially was Vampire Weekend/Yeah Yeah Yeahs/ with the Beastie Boys headlining. Now the Beasties have been replaced by Jay-Z. That will work.
Rumors are that two of the three Beasties will still make it and will hang out with [...]
According to Mike Silva at NYbaseballdigest.com, by way of Joe Demayo, the Mets will acquire Adam LaRoche from Boston now that the Sox have picked up Victor Martinez from Cleveland.
Concurrently, Jon Heyman, tweeted: SI_JonHeyman
#redsox now shopping adma laroche to make room for v-mart. #braves are interested.
LaRoche has hit .248/.326/.446 this year with 27 2B and [...]
I just don’t see the Mets doing anything significant today, so lets take a look back at the short-season teams last night.
SSA: Staten Island Yankees 12, @ Brooklyn Cyclones 3
@ Brooklyn Cyclones 3, SI Yankees 0
The Yanks bombed Darrin Gorski for nine runs in two innings, and that was pretty much the end of things [...]
AAA: @ Buffalo Bisons 4, Pawtucket Red Sox 1
Nick Evans hit a tie-breaking three-run homerun in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Bisons their third straight win over Pawtucket.
Lance Broadway danced around nine hits to allow just one run in 7.1 IP. He fanned four and did not walk a batter.
Milt [...]
The B-Mets, K-Mets and Cyclones are all schedule to play two today. Use this as your gametime thread.
By the way, four lefties will throw in the B-Mets doubledip with Eric Niesen in game one and Michael Antonini starting game two.
Trade deadline? Who needs trades?
This is the ninth and final installment of my continuing review of my pre-season ranking of the Mets Top 41 prospects. Part 1 (36-41) is here, part 2 (31-35) is here, part 3 (26-30) is here, part 4 (21-25) is here, part 5 (16-20) is here, part 6 (11-15 is here), [...]
This is part eight of my continuing review of my pre-season ranking of the Mets Top 41 prospects. Part 1 (36-41) is here, part 2 (31-35) is here, part 3 (26-30) is here, part 4 (21-25) is here, part 5 (16-20) is here, part 6 (11-15 is here) and part 7 (6-10) is here.
#3 RHP [...]
AAA: @ Buffalo Bisons 3, Pawtucket Red Sox 0
Ken Takahashi returned from a week and a half off to start the game with four shutout innings. He departed in favor of Adam Pettyjohn, who then fired three more scoreless frames in his Bisons debut. Adam Bostick (pictured) tossed two perfect innings to end the game, [...]
AAA: Pawtucket Red Sox (BOS) (47-53) @ Buffalo Bisons (38-61) – 7:00RHP Enrique Gonzalez (7-8, 5.52) vs. LHP Ken Takahashi (0-2, 1.91)
The Mets signed LHP Adam Pettyjohn to a minor league contract Tuesday. He was 1-6 with a 4.68 ERA in 18 games for the Louisville Bats (CIN) last week. In 2008, he led the [...]
A+: @ Clearwater Threshers 4, St. Lucie Mets 3
CF Kirk Nieuwenhuis (pictured) was 2-4 with a HR, his tenth, to run his hitting streak to 10 straight games. Over his streak, Nieuwenhuis is hitting .351 (13-for-37) with three doubles, a triple and a HR. His two-run bomb in the eighth inning briefly tied the game [...]
