09-10 Offseason

Torture Times Thirteen

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A few days ago, Fred Wilpon described this past offseason as: “Torture,” Wilpon said. “Very, very difficult.” I’m so glad that a Dodgers fan had similar feelings to mine during these past few months, even if were for different reasons. The Dodgers, of course, suffered a heartbreaking exit from the postseason last October. To get … Read more

Mets Add Another Catcher

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According to PlanetHardball, the Mets have added yet another catcher to the spring training mix — and it’s NOT Rod Barajas (not yet anyway). Rather, they’ve brought in German-born backstop Kai Gronauer. The 23-year-old receiver was invited to spring training, but will most likely end up back in the minors before long. He spent last … Read more

Jose Reyes is Happy and Healthy

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For the past few weeks, it seems that every Mets media outlet is covering something “new” about Jose Reyes every single day — so I didn’t want to be left out. The conspiracy theorist inside me thinks that the Mets’ internal spin doctors have launched some kind of Jose Reyes campaign in an effort to … Read more

Yuniesky Maya in Camp

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My apologies for being negative recently … er, for most of the winter. But the New York Mets have made it very difficult to extract silver linings from the black clouds surrounding the club. It’s simply impossible to get excited about a club that is counting on four starting pitchers returning from major surgeries, has … Read more

Henry Blanco is a Backup

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According to Mets GM Omar Minaya, Henry Blanco is a backup catcher. And you thought Minaya didn’t know things. Unfortunately, Minaya also announced that the Mets’ starting catching position would be a competition between Omir Santos and Josh Thole, both of whom are also backup catchers. So maybe Omar only knows some things. If this … Read more

Oxymoron of the Spring

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jumbo-shrimpYou may know what an “oxymoron” is … it’s a a figure of speech that produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect. Like “jumbo shrimp”, “cruel kindness”, “almost exactly”, “even odds”, “quiet storm” …

Or in the Mets’ case,

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