One Hit Blunder. Only known pic of Liddell.

NEW YORK (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) On June 3, 1990 catcher Dave Liddell made his first and only appearance in the Major Leagues with the New York Mets. In his only at-bat, he singled then “retired” with a perfect 1.000 batting average.

There are others in baseball who’ve accomplished the same feat, but none have used the achievement to their advantage quite the way Liddell has. (more…)

Teamwork! That’s what Robert De Niro wants to see if he’s successful in bringing a third Major League franchise to New York.

NEW YORK  (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) As a boy, Robert De Niro didn’t know Mickey Mantle from Mickey Mouse. Though he had virtually no interest in the sport, he played a baseball player in Bang the Drum Slowly, played a deranged baseball fan in The Fan, and even whacked a guy with bat while playing Al Capone in The Untouchables. So it’s safe to say, he’s picked up a little bit about the game – a little bit.

But now De Niro is leading a group which plans on clearing space in the TriBeCa neighborhood and building a 45,000 seat stadium, to add the New York metropolitan area’s third Major League franchise. (more…)

Cell-ebration in New York. Mets fans take down this dude.

NEW YORK (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) Arnold Harris, who claims to have six years ago, started the trend of waving on camera to family and friends while on his cell phone has finally gotten what’s been coming to him – a vicious and full beat down from three drunken Mets fans. The Mets defeated Harris’ Padres 2-1 in eleven innings.

Harris, a lifelong San Diego Padres fan, has been following his team around the country since Opening Day on April 5th. Tuesday night he was at Citi Field in New York and began his usual routine of sitting behind home plate, enjoying nachos, and waving to his girlfriend Darlene Yakabovich while the two were having a rather animated cell phone conversation. (more…)

Something Smells Rod-ten. Rod Barajas layin' on the stank.

PHILADELPHIA (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) The Philadelphia Phillies offense returned over the weekend after an embarrassing loss Friday night in the opening game of a three game series with the New York Mets.

Former Phillie, catcher Rod Barajas was at the center of the Mets’ offense in Friday’s 9-1 shellacking of Kyle Kendrick, and again, Sunday evening when he took forty-seven year old Jamie Moyer deep. But the Phillies exploded for nine runs in the fourth inning en route to an 11-5 victory.

After the game, Jamie Moyer didn’t pull any punches about his feelings for his former teammate. (more…)

Yikes! But I have to call it fairly.

BOCA RATON, FL (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) If you’re a baseball fan – I mean a hardcore, dyed in the wool baseball, you probably have the MLB package on your cable or satellite TV deal. You may be like me and even have the MLB app on your iPhone. You just can’t get away from your team. And if you’re a transplant like I am – that is, root for your original home team in your new home city, well then these technological wonders are an absolute necessity.

Being a Phillies fan in Miami isn’t terrible.  They’re in the same division. So, given the way the unbalanced schedule currently sits, I get to see my beloved Fightins for three series a year. Add a trip up north once a summer to the City of Brotherly Love, and that’s not bad at all. But for me, its not enough. After all, I’m a chronic.  I need to follow all 162 games a year, let alone the post season.

But here in lies the rub. (more…)

Met Expectations. At least Mr. Met will remain in the Majors. But for how long?

FLUSHING, QUEENS NY (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) Off to another slow start and not expected to contend in the National League East in 2010, the New York Mets will suspend their Major League operations having been sent down to Triple A.

“This is temporary,” said Mets General Manager Omar Minaya. “I suspect it’ll be a week or two until the guys straighten a few things out.  Naturally we’ll have to forfeit our Major League games over that period, but truthfully, does it make a difference?” (more…)

Screwball. Jimmy Manson’s avant-garde baseball theories might have a ripple effect throughout the entire Mets system.

ST. LUCIE, FL (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) Jimmy Manson, the 47 year old bastard son of killer Charles Manson was named Bench Coach of the New York Mets Single-A affiliate, St. Lucie Mets.

The younger Manson, who bears a striking resemblance to his infamous father, says he doesn’t remember much about his dad and was raised by his aunt and uncle. His mother, known simply as “Buzzie,” disappeared without a trace in June of 1969, though it is believed her voice can be heard singing backup on a series of folk-rock recordings by the Manson Family done at Spahn Ranch in the spring of 1968. (more…)

Mets Get Hot! Finally, something connected to the Mets gets hot, just in time for post season.

NEW YORK (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) Benny Diablo, a 39 year old Mets fan from Queens, had seen enough. The thought of the hated, crosstown Yankees playing in their fortieth World Series turned his stomach. But seeing his National League East rival Phillies putting a 6-1 thumping on the Bronx Bombers sealed the deal. (more…)

Forever Young. Cy Young is expected to pass his physical.

FLUSHING, NY (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) New York Mets General Manager Omar Minaya still feels his ball club can win the National League East and proved it today in an answer of sorts to the Phillies signing of former Met, Pedro Martinez. The Mets signed legendary Hall of Famer and 511 game winner Cy Young. Young, who died in 1955, still has to pass his physical and is scheduled to make a three minor league starts  before joining the big club, most likely by August 1.   (more…)

One Hit Blunder. Only known pic of Liddell.

NEW YORK (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service) On June 3, 1990 catcher Dave Liddell made his first and only appearance in the Major Leagues with the New York Mets. In his only at-bat, he singled then “retired” with a perfect 1.000 batting average.

There are others in baseball who’ve accomplished the same feat, but none have used the achievement to their advantage quite the way Liddell has.

Shunned by his girlfriend Molly Hoover in 1988, the career minor leaguer vowed he’d make the Majors someday, and she would rue the day she turned her back on a “future” Major Leaguer.  Immediately after game, he called her to tell her what he had done, and that big bucks were on the way, which she of course would miss out on.

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Wank Fest 2009. Carlos Beltran contemplates new batting box routine during spring training.

NEW YORK (Sportsman’s Daily Wire Service)  Mets outfielder Carlos Beltran is no different than almost every other Major Leaguer; he has his own set of batter’s box rituals between pitches. 

Most fans are very familiar with a batter’s distinct style of preparing to make contact with the pitcher’s offering; spitting, crotch adjustment, neck tilts, flexing, praying, elbow pumping – the list seems endless.  But now Beltran is raising the bar. 

“Well, the first thing I do is pleasure myself before each at bat,” the veteran outfielder said. “I generally think of Angelina Jolie, or, if there’s a hot babe in the Founder’s Section, I’ll think of her as I discreetly rub up against my bat in the on-deck circle.

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