The Mets hitters all used Beastie Boys as their walk up music last night?

Mega-hooray Mets! (Never said those words in that order before!)

RIP Adam Yauch.

(Well, everyone's walk up music should be the Beastie Boys every day but we'll save that for another day)

A modern day Crash Davis

I see that the Mets have signed 31 year old outfielder, Val Pascucci. Val, if you don't know (and why would you anyway?) is closing in on 200 career minor league home runs. He currently has 193 home runs while with clubs in Vermont, Cape Fear, Jupiter, Harrisburg, Edmonton, Albuquerque, New Orleans, Lehigh Valley and Portland (Ore.). He also played two years in Japan.

I bet Val has quite a hat collection to say the least. He could probably also serve as a consultant to that show "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" when he finally retires.

Ok, I am going to pencil him in for "zero" home runs with the Mets in 2010 and he is not somebody I am not going to consider for a fantasy team.

That's just me though.

They gotta take him now

Ok, so Jason Bay has passed his physical with the Mets.

How did this happen? Didn't the doctor get the memo?

Now presumably the Mets HAVE to pay Bay all that money to hit in a pitcher's park and can't just tell their fans, "Hey we tried but how we were to know that he would fail his physical?"

I wonder if the Mets used a new doctor this time because they sure didn't seem to be communicating very well here.

I bet Omar Minaya is pissed! Stay away from him today.

When was the last time....

.....a big name free agent signed with a team his people were consistently saying* that he didn't want to play for because he ran out of options and he didn't want to play for less than "market value"?

You are supposed to be happy when you sign these things, you know.

This should be interesting.

*Peter Gammons reported earlier that Bay would "rather play in Beirut than Queens" and the offer did sit for 3 weeks as Bay apparently kept saying that he couldn't find a pen with ink in it or something.

He's not only a sour-puss on the card

It appears that the Mets newly acquired catcher, Chris Coste is not exactly pleased to be with his new team.

Per Bart Hubbuch of the New York Post, the ex-Phillies catcher/first baseman signed with the Mets just three days after belittling his new team in an interview with a Philadelphia sports website.

After telling CSNPhilly.com that he "will always be a Phillie," Coste said he had been hesitant to sign with the Mets, "It was the Mets," Coste said. "It's the last team I ever saw myself playing for. I knew I was going to accept (the contract), but had to think about it for a few days."

This guy is 37 years old and hit .224 last year with 2 home runs (both of them) and 18 rbis.* And he had to think about a contract offer from a major league team?

Hey Coste, I know catching Oliver Perez is no picnic but so what? Further, Gary Sheffield is no longer on the roster so what is the problem?

Life is rough I know but.....

Mets fans, got any rotten tomatoes?

*I know that he is a defensive catcher but so what?

K-Rod does not accept apologies. Save your breath.

As everybody has probably already seen by now, Francisco Rodriguez of the Mets and Brian Bruney of the Yankees had a little verbal (though it looked like K-Rod might have wanted it to be more) altercation in left field during batting practice before yesterday's game.

Video replays of the incident show K-Rod to be the aggressor in a "no doubt about it" kind of way and ultimately having to be physically restrained and removed from the scene by teammates. That said, as the Mets appeared to "have the field" at the time, I am not sure that it was quite appropriate for Bruney to approach K-Rod then in his attempt to apologize for something that he said about him in the paper. Maybe yes. Maybe no.

Ok, well anyway the apology was definitely NOT accepted. That much is clear.

After K-Rod's (not so) little outburst, the Mets proceeded to lose to the Yankees 15-0.

Moral of the story: Don't do that stuff!