Mets Sweep and New Background Pic

Big Pelf did it again, the Mets sweep, and I finally figured out how to use my own background image. Nice!

In celebration here is another of those autographed cards of mine I found a while back.

Franco was one of my favorite Mets and is underrated as an all time closer in my opinion, I was disappointed when Armando Benitez was awarded the closer's role over him. I was overjoyed for him that he could save a playoff win after Benitez blew the save earlier in the game.


As for the background image, much like my header it contains some old and some new. Enjoy!

Blue is my favorite color, especially when next to Orange

David Wright just hit a homerun to put the Mets up by five runs on the Marlins on this fine Saturday. That reminded me of a card, which I got in the mail this week from EdS over at Roll Out the Barrel.


Now refractors are pretty cool, I mean even the name is cool. However, a BLUE refractor is another step up from refractors of other colors. It just looks so right on a card of a Met like this one.

Now EdS sent me a bunch of other David Wright cards and Mets stuff in general, all of which I am very appreciative of. Yet, I wanted to highlight this gem: A Julio Franco card.


First, this is fun because I did not already have a Julio Franco card in a Mets uni. Second, this card is hilarious because Mr. Franco clearly has a sawed off bat on the front of a card lauding his hitting prowess. Third, I find a foil card of old man Julio to be funny in itself. It seems to me that Julio Franco, at his age in this card, should only be on nice cardboard only cards.

Anyway, enjoy your Saturday, thanks again EdS, and hopefully Jon Niese and the Mets can hold off the Marlins the rest of the way.

Let's Go Mets!

Happy Days Are Here Again

How sweet it is to sweep rather than be swept.

Well now that the Mets are at one of the peaks in their incredibly up and down season, all us Mets fans have to enjoy it and hope that the worst troughs of the season are behind us.

Tonight, to culminate the shutout sweep of the Phillies, Mike Pelfrey pitched. I have relatively few cards of Pelfrey (I'm in the market for more), but I do have a few nice ones like this one:


Jose Reyes, for the third consecutive game, made a difference offensively by scoring some runs. Here is an appropriately patriotic card of his in honor of Memorial Day this weekend.


Finally, Jason Bay is hitting and driving in runs which has finally gotten the Mets offense going.


It is hard to believe that the Mets have not shut out a team through an entire series sweep since 1969, and that they would do it both in 69 and 2010 against the Phillies.

It has been a very good six games for the Mets. Hopefully they can keep it up while in my current neck of the woods this weekend.

Becoming the Comeback Kids

So, I was able to make it to my first Mets game of the season this past Sunday on a trip back to New York. I was especially excited by two things: the new Mets Hall of Fame and Tim Lincecum pitching against the Mets.


The Mets Hall of Fame did not disappoint. Here are a couple pictures I took of it.



Timmy was good, but he did not dominate. The Mets were able to drive up his pitch count and get two runs off him after ceding him a 4-0 lead. To be fair to Lincecum the Giants fielders tried their hardest to give the game away to the Mets, so by the time Lincecum left it was 4-2 Giants.


Yet, Mr. Met was not done with his rally cry and the Mets were actually able to take the lead off the Giants bullpen.


However, an Aaron Rowand HR that several commentators have said "hit a jetstream" on an incredibly windy day in, addition to Brain Wilson, sealed the deal for the Giants.


I was, nonetheless, impressed that the Mets came back even if they did not win. They also took 2 of 3 from one of the better teams in the NL. Then, yesterday they actually completed a comeback against the less imposing Nationals. It is good to see the Mets have some heart again.

PS: It was Mothers Day, and, yes, I did bring my Mom to the game.

The Bright Side of a Bad Series

Now, don't get me wrong, like most Mets fans I was cursing pretty heavily when Santana walked Moyer, andI had a feeling the grand slam was going to follow. Also, do not mistake me for someone who thinks that the Citizen Bank Park is not a joke of a bandbox (though Santana cannot blame his performance on that fact alone).

At the same time, it is still early in the season and I cannot give up on the Mets even now, especially not after that streak they put together last week. I also am interested to see how they rebound in Cincinnati and how they play the Giants next weekend.

Additionally, it is hard for me to forget this man's performance on Friday night:


Similarly, this man's at bats are so encouraging that I am impressed even when he does not get a hit.



Lastly, though this man had a bad game, he did not pitch nearly as bad as his stat line from Saturday looked.