With delay due to technical difficulties, every day I have been writing down posts for the site on sticky notes, and now am pulling them together as a list of thoughts and comments.
During the monday night nationally televised game, they quoted Reyes as saying that Gomez is faster than he is on a foot race (which I'm sure was on one of the metsblog sites ages ago).
Shawn Green and Carlos Gomez both had long long foul balls that were nearly homers, the pitch right before they each homers.
Steve Trax had another bad night this past week, and actually is on the DL right now. There is still a lot of speculation in Baltimore that he, Mora and Payton will all be moved before the deadline.
There was one Mets game earlier this week were LoDuca punched his glove on the inside of the plate as a trick, and the pitched ended up on the outside corner…..nice.
Also found this quote on a calander this week:
Hank Aaron: “I never thought home runs were all that exciting. I still think that the triple is the most exciting thing in baseball. To me, a triple is like a guy taking the ball on his 1-yard line and tunning 99 yards for a touchdown.”
That is a real thought provoking quote.
Baseball Digest went on shelves this week, and in the Stat Corner this month, its all about cycles. There were some real interesting facts in there such as the Marlins, Padres, and Devil Rays each have no players that hit for the cycle. Jim Hickman on the Mets in 1963 is one of 14 players to ever hit a natural cycle. (That is going in order). Tony Lazzeri is the only player (yankees, 1932) to hit the natural cycle ending with a grand slam. Jon Olrued is one of two players to hit for the cycle in both leagues (national league with the Mets).
Also, there have been 235 cycles hit from 1900 to 2007, and there are 53 Hall of Famers who have done so (Ripkin will make 54)
This is of course to go along with Huff hitting for the cycle. I might post later some other new stats I have written down some where.
I also heard on Basbeall Tonight that people are thinking that the Mets have interest in Contrears from the White Sox.
Thats cool as long as we dont give up Humber. For two reasons. One, is his that he is a good prospect. Two, is that after 14 tries, I have secured an auto of his from Ebay.
