As you probably realize, I'm taking a few days vacation away from the blog. Between the holidays, the loss of my grandfather and decompressing after a hectic first half of senior year, I need a few days to myself to relax and reflect.
I wish you all a Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year. I'll pop in if anything important happens, but consider this blog on vacation for the next week or so. I'll be back in the new year with the 2010 Met of the Year award voting. Talk to you in a few days.
Update – 12 a.m.: Brian Costa tweets that it is a one-year, major-league deal.
A good low-risk, possibly-high-reward signing for the Mets.
I won’t be around much today. If you follow my Twitter, you likely know why.
So here, on this cold December day, are as many New York Mets-related songs I could find on YouTube. Which is your favorite?
Some of these are just gold.
It’s been 10 days since offers were extended to Jason Bay and Bengie Molina. In the interim, the Mets signed Ryota Igarashi for next year’s set-up man.
But still, as noted in my letter to Jason Bay, the waiting is the hardest part.
I’m pretty sure this song sums up many Mets fans feeling right now.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – The Waiting
I’m off to pick up some Christmas presents. I’ll be back if anything breaks.
Hey Jason Bay,
I know you want a lot of money and a nice big contract, probably the last “big” contract of your career, but if you ever want to be welcome in New York City if you sign with the Mets, you better hurry up and put some ink on paper.
Just letting you know it’s a rough world out there for Mets fans. We’re reeling after three disappointing seasons and we just watched the Phillies and the Yankees win the last two World Series. Not fun.
Mets fans are getting antsy, though. The biggest move the team has made this offseason is signing Ryota Igarashi. Yeah, exactly.
Though it might be a good signing, it’s done nothing to appease fans.
They’re simply chomping at the bit to see their team improve on paper. You signing would quell this bubbling anger.
You’ll be welcome by most fans here in New York. Many fans want you here very badly. So just a suggestion: If you want to play here and not be booed mercilessly through your first 150 at bats, I would get your John Hancock down quick.
And then apologize to fans for making them wait. I know many are already quite angry.
Anyway, hope to see you in orange and blue fairly soon. (But hopefully not for five more years)
Oh, and work on your defense a bit, would you? Thanks.
Sincerely,
Andrew Vazzano
I wholeheartedly disagree. Have at it in the comments to explain your opinion.
Last week, I wrote that the Mets had signed former first-round pick Clint Everts. Omar Minaya was the GM to draft Everts for the Montreal Expos back in ‘02.
Today, we learned (via Brian Costa), that it was a major-league deal and he has been added to the 40-man roster.
While waiting on Jason Bay and reveling in the signing of Ryota Igarashi, here are links to the videos from Jose Reyes’ interview on WFAN from Wednesday.
Enjoy and if anything happens, in the next three hours, shoot me an e-mail (TheRopolitans@gmail.com) and I’ll pull the car over and post from the road.
In one of those articles where you scratch your head and wonder, was there nothing else to write?, Bob Raissman penned this.
The gist of the article is that when the Mets lost, less people watched Mets games, meaning SNY struggled with commercials and sponsors.
Thanks, Bob. Couldn’t get that one on my own!