John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 26, 2009, 1:55 am
And why not? After all, you have a lot to be thankful for! First thing being that the Mets are interested in bringing their best reliever back for 2010. Hey, don't laugh, Elmer Dessens was the ...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 19, 2009, 1:37 am
(Our story begins with Matt Holliday returning to his crib after beers with the fellas ...) MH: Don't forget, McGwire's the designated driver tonight. See you later, party animals. OM: Hello...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 15, 2009, 12:19 am
Lance Berkman has gotta stop eating Thai food right before he goes to bed. From Astros beat guy Brian McTaggart's Twitter, via Mets Fever: Lance Berkman just told me: "Last night I had a dream I g...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 13, 2009, 6:00 am
I'm not sure how I feel about the Mets' interest in Jo-El Pineiro. It's human nature to take note of a pitcher's success against you, and eliminate three losses a year by signing him t...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 13, 2009, 4:00 am
With news that Benny Agbayani has finally retired after a long career in Japan, let's look at his most memorable moment as a Met (modified with video game footage because heaven forbid Bud Selig a...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 10, 2009, 2:34 am
You have to assume that any rumor that involves dumping Luis Castillo's contract is probably too good to be true. Look, my past man crush on Castillo is well documented. And he deserves a world ...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 7, 2009, 1:36 am
Metstradamus comes home from work after a long day of dealing with hoards of Yankee fans using mass transit to travel to and from their victory parade, and finds a surprise waiting for him. X: Hey, m...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 6, 2009, 2:17 pm
"All I kept on hearing in the streets of New York when you go get bagels in the morning was, 'Omar, please address the bullpen.' Well, to all you Mets fans, we've addressed the bullpen." -...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 6, 2009, 6:00 am
All right, so we're mere hours into the off-season, so let's kick it off by being impatient. It's so "New York Cliche" to be impatient, but I'm embracing it. How can I help it? Alread...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 4, 2009, 11:50 pm
For nine years, I've had the indignity of having witnessed the last Yankees world championship in person. Now, I don't have to say that anymore. So I suppose that's a good thing (along wi...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Nov 2, 2009, 3:32 pm
You wanted hell? You got holy hell instead. Big Apple women may soon be able to take a ride on Derek Jeter -- the bridge, that is. Bronx leaders have proposed naming the soon-to-be-built East 153rd S...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 30, 2009, 1:41 am
I'd love to play Stratego against the Wilpons ... they'd turn all their pieces facing me to start the game. Not enough that they're bringing in former Diamondback Chip Hale to coach third...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 26, 2009, 2:47 am
At midnight on Monday, October 26th, the New York Yankees won the 2009 American League pennant, completing a World Series matchup with the Philadelphia Phillies. Also at midnight on Monday, October 2...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 25, 2009, 5:00 am
What Have You Learned is our very special off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 22, 2009, 5:00 am
Wait, let me get this straight ... the Mets made money off the Madoff scandal? And still never signed an extra bat??? I mean, there was extra money? I don't buy it. If there was extra money, the...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 18, 2009, 2:43 am
A new procedure put in place in response to the Adam Rubin fiasco, beat writers will now be expected to put all questions for Omar Minaya in a box at the beginning of the day. Omar will address your q...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 15, 2009, 11:00 pm
What Have You Learned is our very special off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 14, 2009, 11:00 pm
What Have You Learned is our very special off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 14, 2009, 2:42 am
What Have You Learned is our very special off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 9, 2009, 4:00 am
What Have You Learned is our very special off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 7, 2009, 7:00 am
What Have You Learned is our very special off-season series that will outline what you've learned, what I've learned, and hopefully what the 2009 Mets have learned about themselves, others, an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 5, 2009, 2:33 pm
FLUSHING, N.Y., October 5, 2009 - "The New York Mets today announced that Bench Coach Sandy Alomar Sr. and First Base Coach Luis Alicea will not be returning for the 2010 season. Alomar Sr. will be of...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 4, 2009, 3:48 pm
This is the end, the merciful end for the 2009 New York Mets. My only friend ... the end. This may, or may not be the end for Nelson Figueroa as a Met. If so, what an ending. And I know that Figueroa...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 3, 2009, 10:25 pm
Interesting throw in to the game notes on the bottom of the wire copy for Saturday's 5-1 win: "The announced paid attendance was 37,578."The unannounced attendance in the real world? Let's jus...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 3, 2009, 12:57 am
When Nick Evans strode to the plate for the first time in 11 days after being kept in some sort of storage, the scent of mothballs and Sucrets was palpable. It was too much for Tim Byrdak to take, as ...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Oct 2, 2009, 12:03 am
I really wanted to avoid a third straight "manifesto". For as sick as you may be of reading them, believe you me, I'm more sick of writing them. And while there's no "Manifesto Part III" comi...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 30, 2009, 9:37 pm
Apologies for the short post tonight. I don't even know what to say except that when the first two runners got on off Frankie in the ninth, my thought was "how are we going to lose this one?" Su...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 29, 2009, 11:46 pm
Kristina Horner is one of a handful of bloggers who have entered a contest to be able to blog from Antarctica. Certainly, it's a unique and interesting experience, as although people are stationed...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 29, 2009, 1:07 am
How do you know you're not having a good September? How about when you're on the verge of losing your fifth game in a row, and already you're being tangentially compared to Anthony Young b...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 27, 2009, 4:18 pm
Nice day you picked to pitch a complete game shutout, Pat. On this Yom Kippur prelude where the revised schedule had the Mets, Yankees, Jets, Giants, and the Rangers all playing at the same time, it&#...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 27, 2009, 2:55 am
Thank heaven for Gary Cohen, proving that I'm not the only one yodeling in a canyon. Here's what he said on Saturday in not so many words: "Why the $%*& is Fernando Tatis starting at first bas...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 26, 2009, 1:14 am
Cory Sullivan strokes what will forever be known as the least fun game winning hit in major league history I wish I could say that I could feel some satisfaction in potentially eliminating the Marlins...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 7, 2009, 1:35 am
The Mets' 4-2 victory over the Cubs was marred by yet another incident of another incident involving another water leak that turned into a tidal wave in the locker room. John Maine, who made his r...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 6, 2009, 1:05 am
It's meaningless late September losses to the Cubs that make me opine for the days of Craig Brazell. Sad, isn't it? Brazell was the guy who basically knocked the Cubs out of the playoffs in ...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 4, 2009, 9:38 pm
"Doesn't he remind you of Henry Fonda? If Henry Fonda was a pitcher, that's how he would talk" -Bob Ojeda, on Bobby Parnell's postgame comments regarding getting out of a seventh inning ja...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 3, 2009, 7:37 pm
I've been on that other side, Rockies fans. Really ... I have. Because last season Jason Marquis was the fifth starter playing for the team that had nothing to play for, and he hit a grand slam an...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 3, 2009, 1:20 am
... can't he? Scared to death of another bases loaded walk in the eighth inning, Brian Stokes threw a pinata to Giambi with the first pitch in a tie game and Giambi, obviously wearing the infamou...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Sep 2, 2009, 2:56 am
We all know that April comes in like a lion. What you may not know is that September does the same. Yes, September comes in like a lion as well ... but Razor Shines gives it the stop sign. When Angel...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 30, 2009, 8:53 pm
The lords of baseball saw an opportunity to throw some high hard ones by me while I've been away. To that I say, ha! You're going to have to do a lot better than this to get one by me. Besides...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 27, 2009, 10:43 am
Coincidentally, we're up here in Boston to have some chowder and catch Billy Wagner's debut with the Red Sox (which didn't come on Thursday ... Nick Green pitched instead). It was a little...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 27, 2009, 2:33 am
As the season drags to a close, we find our latest irony: Mike Pelfrey getting tagged by the Marlins, while Livan Hernandez ... yes, that Livan Hernandez ... giving up just two runs in six innings, in...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 26, 2009, 3:46 pm
More "bad" injury news: MIAMI -- Left-handed pitcher Oliver Perez has patellar tendinitis in his right knee and will undergo season-ending surgery, the Mets announced Wednesday afternoon. Team medica...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 26, 2009, 2:49 am
Does J.J. Putz count as two injured players since he frayed an entirely different muscle? Does Johan Santana count as two injured players because he's Johan Santana? That means the Mets lost fou...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 25, 2009, 1:32 pm
The saga is over ... Billy Wagner is a Boston Red Sock. The Mets, instead of getting the two first round draft picks through arbitration desperately needed to help resurrect the franchise, or even ha...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 25, 2009, 3:15 am
I'm starting to get the feeling that Frankie Rodriguez is the Jamie Lee Curtis of the group ... the last one standing after Michael Myers has killed everyone else, while Billy Wagner is the guy wh...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 24, 2009, 12:54 am
Oliver Perez waited on the mound for Jerry Manuel to reach him, no doubt to remove him from his much ballyhooed matchup with Pedro Martinez before Martinez could stroll to the mound. He didn't kno...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 23, 2009, 3:12 am
For one night, when you hear "Nolan Ryan" 'round these parts, it's not followed by the seven no-hitters he pitched somewhere else. It's not followed by echoes of one of the worst trades ev...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 22, 2009, 2:41 am
Tonight was merely a sad reminder of how life could have been 'round these parts in September. Close games with division rivals ... Cole Hamels imploding ... some brushback pitches ... smart baser...
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John Coppinger posted an article on The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus - Aug 20, 2009, 10:57 pm
How could it be piling on when there's constantly new material to complain about? The latest drama in this anything but "drama-free" zone revolves around Gary Sheffield. First came rumors of Shef...
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