Mike, Ike & Daniel Murphy

See if you can explain this one to me- the Mets had three players this Spring fighting for the first base job:

1. Daniel Murphy, who was promised the job after his 2oo9 left-field debacle
2. Ike Davis, the rookie who's been hitting the cover off the ball
3. Mike Jacobs

So the Mets decide to give Murphy the job out of allegiance, and in spite of the fact that Ike's hitting much, much better. Okay... In a strange coincidence Murphy gets injured in a spring training game on March 3oth- just five days before the start of the season- and starts the year on the Disabled List. Okay... So do the Mets go to their Number One first base prospect Ike Davis? No, they announce that Mike Jacobs will be starting at first. Okay...

Of course, thirteen days into the season Mike is sent down and Ike is finally brought up. I think it's pretty clear what went on here: this was a public relations plan to save Murphy face by being passed over for the first base job. Daniel never hurt his knee, and the Mets never wanted Jacobs at first. So I guess everybody got what they wanted, except for Daniel Murphy and Mike Jacobs.

You better hit the baseball, Ike.

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Rock-Bottom

Because we aren't pathetic enough.

Today, Luis Castillo tripped down the dugout steps after grounding out and was promptly placed on the Disabled List. This is in the midst of the most injury-plagued season in professional sports history. Jose Reyes, Carlos Delgado, JJ Putz, Carlos Beltran, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez, Alex Cora...

And Luis Castillo trips down the dugout steps.

If there's anything funny about this please let me know.

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She's The Boss

Let's be honest: when you think Alyssa Milano, you think Mets baseball. 

Well, not really, but she's trying. The perennial television hottie- who hasn't aged since '93- just opened a specialty shop in Citi Field, one of the lovely feminine boutiques that are the hallmark of any great stadium. I think we should all help this multi-millionaire become a multi-multi-millionaire by visiting her store often. You can buy Met sports bras for fifty bucks, maternity aprons, and even a pair of lovely Met panties, that may have been worn by Alyssa herself, but probably weren't.

Look at the soft stitching of the G-string as it meets with the waistband, the bikini-cut legs that show off her creamy thighs, the snug fit of the bottom around her full, impossibly-tight-

Hey guys, there's a game going on here!!!

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WE W I N ! ! !

The Mets win the World Series!!! This is a perfect end to the most magical season I have ever witnessed... a team this great is destined to repeat in 87! What could possibly go wrong?

God bless the New York Mets and the summer of '86!!!

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