In his column today in the NY Post Kevin Kernan has some quotes from David Wright regarding Willie Randolph that may surprise some. David told Kernan that:

“There is another side to Randolph, I’ve seen him throw chairs. I’ve seen him flip tables. I’ve seen him kick people in the butt, The motivation is there, now it’s completely up to us as players to go out there and do our jobs and to get it done.”

So, maybe the Wally Backman, Larry Bowa and Lou Pinella side of Willie is not talked about much, but according to Wright there is a side to Willie that can be Mark Foleyesque. Maybe if he were to be thrown out of games the way Bobby Cox is, just to prove to us that he cares, he’d accumulate as many rings as Cox has. Yeah, and with all that talent for all those many years in Atlanta, one ring would have been suffice here in NY? … No, folks, he would have been getting tossed from games elsewhere a long long time ago.

Over at Yahoo’s blog Big League Stew David Wright answers some unique questions from David Brown. Here’s a couple of the questions David fielded from the Q & A.

Q: What about the widely held belief that you are the Austin Powers of the majors, in that men want to be you and women want to be with you?

Q: (After doing the GQ Photo shoot) How close were you guys (Reyes) to quitting the Mets and joining a boy band after that?

Q: What was Al Pacino like in the green room of David Letterman — lots of “hoo-ahs!”?

Q: Ever go up to Mr. Met and say, “Hey, buddy, why the big head?”

Go read David’s answers to those questions and more you won’t be disappointed.

The Mets beat the Washington Nationals 6-0 tonight.

• Mike Pelfrey was brilliant, allowing no runs and only five hits and two walks over seven innings. He struck out two and 65 of his 100 pitches were strikes.
• Jose Reyes began the game with a spark, hitting for a single, double, triple in that order in his first three at-bats.  He failed to hit for the cycle, although he singled again in his fourth at-bat.
• David Wright was 3-4 with a 2 2Bs and a 2-run HR to start the game. He scored two runs and had five RBIs, and now has 15 on the season.
• Carlos Beltran was 1-4 with an RBI.
• Ryan Church batted 2nd, behind Jose Reyes while Luis Castillo batted 8th. 
• Duaner Sanchez pitched the ninth for the Mets, striking out one and allowing one hit.

Game ball definitely goes to Mike Pelfrey who had a fabulous outing.  He was in control the whole time and never got out of control.  He was phenomenal.

Reyes had a fantastic game, but his hammy doesn’t seem 100% yet.  If he was hustling the whole way, that 3B could’ve been an inside the park HR, and he was caught stealing in the first inning.  Take your time Jose it’s a long season.  It was also nice hearing fans chant the ‘Jose-Jose-Jose-Jose’ rather than it being blasted over the loud speakers.

Nice to see Wright getting back into the groove of things, a HR and a 2B, plus another hard hit ball to his former high school team-mate Ryan Zimmerman.

Aaron Heilman still doesn’t look like himself, but I still trust him with the ball in his hands…call me crazy. He got out of the 8th unscathed, but it was scary.

Awesome to see Duaner back in a real game again, he can be such a lift to this team.  Plus his goggles are pretty boss.  Also amazing to see how emotional he was after the game in the post-game interview, behind those goggles I swear I saw tears.

Finally, I told all my friends today it was a guaranteed win because I wore my Mets tube socks today.  Make fun of tube socks all you want, but they get it done for our Mets.  Everybody then asks, why I don’t wear them everyday and you simply have to understand that you cannot abuse the power of the Mets tube socks.  Might’ve been a bit early too early to bring them out, but this was a nice win and I don’t regret it.

By the way, Luis Castillo should bat ninth. 

Wright talks with Dave…

David takes BP with Letterman…

Don’t forget to set your DVR for David Wright’s appearance tonight on Late Show with David Letterman. Wright will take batting practice from Letterman on 53rd Street. Some guy who was in The Godfather and played a blind man who said “HOO HA” will be on the show as well.

Watch David Wright hit his 100th career home run. Also, listen to Ron Darling tell us about El Sid’s baked potato and mustard diet.

via bugs and cranks

David Wright hit his 100th home run in the loss to the Brewers on Sunday, giving him sole posession of 9th place in the all time Mets home run leaderboard.

1. Darryl Strawberry - 252
2. Mike Piazza - 220
3. Howard Johnson - 192
4. Dave Kingman - 154
5. Todd Hundley - 124
6. Kevin McReynolds - 122
7. Edgardo Alfonzo - 120
8. Ed Kranepool - 118
9. David Wright - 100
10. George Foster - 99

Keep it up D-Dubs. He should wind up around 5th by the end of the year, and its not unreasonable to see him on top of the list in five to six years. Its sort of incredible how many home runs Strawberry was able to smack in what was a career cut short. I can only imagine what Straw could have done if he went down a different path.

David Wright has just reached his milestone 100 career home runs. Congrats Davey! Now lets keep it up!

David Wright will be a guest on the “Late Show” with David Letterman next Monday, April 14. David Lennon of Newsday adds,

Wright will appear with “some other guy named Al Pacino”

Hat tip to Peter at Brooklyn Mutt for the news.

Can I trade places with this guy for one day, please?