Mets Win Again and nicknames for Wright and Reyes

The Mets racked up another win tonight 5-2 over the Nats. Maine picked up his first win. Also nice to see Jose starting to heat things up. I do not know if it was the time off to rest his hamstring or the switch to Church hitting behind him but he has been tearing the cover off the ball the last two games. Another strong game by the pen as well. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come as they are starting to play crisper baseball and getting on a roll albeit it is against the Nats.

There was some discussion over on Matt Cerrone's MetsBlog.com as to whether David Wright's nickname should be DWright or something else. I personally like the Beast but what do you guys think? s DWright good enough or should it be something else? I would like to take a few days and see what you guys think. Feel free to suggest other ones in the comments. My thought is that once we have a good list that we would put it to a vote. I also think Jose Reyes could use one while we are at it. He does have the Jose chant but doesn't really have a nickname. So lets get to it. If you do not want to post it in the comments feel free to message it to me here on the site.

Tags: Mets, Jose Reyes, David Wright, Ryan Church, Metsblog, nicknames

METS WIN!!!!!

Mets are back to .500 after an extra inning win tonight against the Phillies. Heilman continues to struggle which makes Dirty Sanchez's weekend work with New Orleans even bigger. He is scheduled to pitch Friday and Saturday. This will be his first time pitching back to back which is the last hurdle to him retaking his spot as Wags setup man.

It was nice to see Reyes have a good game. If he gets going the Mets offense will improve ten fold. I especially liked the excitement he showed at the end. I know he wants to tone it down as some opposing teams have expressed their dislike for the post homerun dancing, etc that Reyes is known for. However, my thoughts are if you do not like it than stop him otherwise keep it to yourself. Reyes has a youthful excitement for the game and I'm all for it. It is too bad more guys aren't like Jose.

I'm currently watching Baseball Tonight and they showed Hideo Nomo pitching for the Royals. I didn't even know he was still playing. Man he has been awhile especially for a guy who after the first couple years has been pretty bad.

Sorry for the quick diversion there but I was shocked. I have added a few things to the site. On the left you will see a link to the WFAN Live Radio feed. As any self-respecting Mets fan knows WFAN is their flagship station and does the radio broadcast for every game. I got this from WidgetBox.com where it was posted by a developer with the username of thisboy9. I added a standings widget as well which was made by the same developer. I also added a widget created by the guys over at NYFS.com that shows the scores for every game within the Mets organization. By the way if you have not visited NYFS.com you should. It is a New York Mets community with forums, write ups on every guy who has played for the organization.

Johan Santana Desktop Wallpaper

I have been playing around with the Microsoft Expression Design program and Gimp. Both of which are very nice programs. While playing around with them I decided to try putting together a wallpaper for my laptop. I have my screen resolution at 1280 x 800 and let me say it is not easy to find pictures online to fit that resolution. As a Mets fan I decided to pt together a Johan Santana wallpaper since I have not seen many out there yet. It turned out pretty good for my first time. I have posted it on Desktop Nexus which is a new site where users can upload desktop wallpapers. The site is meant to be a one stop resource for backgrounds so that us users no longer have to go hunting through Google and Yahoo pictures for a new back drop for our monitor screens. A thumbnail of it appears above.

Fernando's 2008 Debut

Well the minor league season has started as well. He is starting the year at AA playing for the Binghamton Mets. I have added a link to his current stats on the Fernando Martinez Watch page of the blog. I have also begun working on a fan site for Fernando which I hope to debut shortly.

If you wish to view Fernando Martinez's stats over the last 10 games and for the year you can do so by going here.

MLB Season Starts

Well it is finally here the start of the baseball season. My Mets take on the Florida Marlins this afternoon behind newly acquired ace Johan Santana. The Marlins are countering with Mark Hendrickson. This pitching matchup is severely tilted in the Mets advantage which should help them get off to a good start this year. You can watch the gamecast of the game here.

Also here are my official predictions for the season. The Mets in my opinion having added Santana and having Pedro for the entire season will win the division by at least 7 games. The rest of the division really didn't improve and the Mets had to experience a historic collapse to not win it last year. I think a 95 win 67 loss season should be about right. Johan wins the Cy Young after winning 22 games and Dave Wright brings home the Mets 1st MVP award, which he probably would have won last year if not for the aforementioned collapse. I know I'm probably biased but I also see them winning th World Series this year to send Shea Stadium out in style.