Took a look around the interwebs and some sports talk radio and this is what I found.

First up, Brian Schneider visited with Benigno and Roberts on their midday show on WFAN. Scheider told them even though he “hasn’t swung a bat yet” if they need him in an emergency he would “go out there”.

Asked if he had any thoughts on Oliver Perez, Brian said

“I just want to see an adjustment” when struggling with control. “I’ll go out there”, to the mound, “and tell him I don’t care if you throw the next two pitches in the dirt or if you hit this guy”… “He has to make an adjustment and I didn’t see that”.

Then I found these two nuggets that could kinda make you of scratch your head. First Adam Rubin of the Daily News tells us how higher-ups in Mets management mulled over the idea of replacing Rick Peterson this past off-season and Ed Ryan of Mets Fever points us towards a ESPN Jayson Stark article that reads:

So can Barry Zito ever get straightened out? We surveyed a half-dozen scouts and executives, and we found only one who thought he could. And that was a scout who said his only hope was to get reunited with Rick Peterson, “the only [pitching coach] Barry Zito ever had success with.”

So, baseball “experts” mull over whether Peterson was the problem with the Mets last year. Then six months later he might be the answer to one of the biggest flops in baseball free agency history…jeez.

Tim Marchman of the NY Sun has had enough of Willie Randolph an writes there’s nothing that Willie can do to change his mind:

It’s time for the Mets to fire Willie Randolph. They should fire him if his team sweeps the Arizona Diamondbacks this weekend. They should fire him if his team wins all three games by a total score of 27-0. They should fire him if his team puts on such a display this weekend that the greater Phoenix area literally burns to the ground around them, lit by nothing but the intensity of their passion and brilliance. The man’s time is up, and nothing can change that.

Jason at Faith and Fear in Flushing could not agree more.

NY Times Ben Shpigel gives us a pre-preview of the Arizona series in a small post he titled The Mets Past, Present and Future in Arizona.

Mets.com Marty Noble tells us about some bad memories Billy Wagner has from a ball that ricocheted off his head ten years ago in Phoenix.

Jeff Bercovici of Portfolio.com has a story about ex-Met Lenny Dykstra and some trouble he’s having with his publishing venture.

Lastly, Matt Cerrone over at Mets Blog writes about a story from the NY Post’s page six regarding Carlos Beltran’s 31st birthday party at Sofrito. Among other guest’s Jennifer Lopez was in attendance. Matt goes on to quote the page six story:

“Just when you thought it couldn’t get any wilder, Jennifer Lopez grabbed the birthday boy and shook her world-renowned booty. Then, the crowd improvised a song with the lyric, “We’re going to win the World Series.”

Then Matt totally cracked me up with this remark to finish up his post:

…take note, as this may be the first and last time the term world-renowned booty appears on MetsBlog…

Alan Schwarz in the New York Times writes a piece about Cutter Dykstra, the 18 year old son of Lenny Dykstra who happens to be one of the country’s best high school prospects.

Cutter is batting .444 this spring for the Westlake High Warriors and has the same hard nosed scrappy attitude that made his father famous. Scouts see him fitting in at the top of the order because of his speed, his gap power, and an advanced eye for working counts.

For more on Cutter, check out Schwarz’s excellent piece in the New York Times.

I would love to see DYKSTRA on the back of a Mets uniform sometime in the future. Good luck to Cutter, I hope somehow he winds up in the Mets system.

Hat tip to Hot Foot Jr. for the article.

Lenny Dykstra is interviewed by Bernard Goldberg on HBO Real Sports this week about his career including the 1986 World Champion Mets, the 1993 Philadelphia Phillies, his 1991 car wreck, and his success in finance, as an analyst at TheStreet.com

The unorthodox pitching style developed by Dr. Mike Marshall is featured as well, by Bryant Gumbell.

You can catch it right now on HBO or check the schedule for future airings on HBO’s website.

Foxsports.com is reporting that former Mets OF Lenny Dykstra is being sued by a New York City accounting firm for 111k they say that he owes.

Ouch, not looking good for Nails.

CNBC’s Darren Rovell reports in his Sports Biz blog that Lenny Dykstra is starting a magazine called “The Players Club” to help athletes make better financial decisions.

Since leaving baseball, Dykstra has taken up a career on Wall Street, and writes a regular column for TheStreet.com

I still think its hysterical that Nails is a financial wizard. Who the hell saw that coming?

Bob Klapisch in The Bergan Record catches up with Lenny Dykstra, who since leaving baseball has become a wildly successful businessman and Wall Street wizard. Lenny writes a column for TheStreet.com and his portfolio has some impressive returns. Who possibly would have predicted that Dykstra, arguably the roughest around the edges 86' Mets would become such a tycoon.

Today, Dykstra says more than 90 percent of his stock picks are
money-makers. And if you don't believe it, he says with that familiar
edge, “go ahead, dude, look it up.”

“Look, I'm one of the few players who has more money now than when
he was in the big leagues, and that's not by coincidence,” Dykstra said
by telephone Tuesday. “This is my life now, this is what I do, because
I made up my mind when I retired I wasn't going to end up broke.”

Dykstra wants to use his good fortune to help young players build a security nest of their own, knowing that not all players will have careers that can carry them past their baseball days.

Now Dykstra wants to give something back to the sport. He's
developed a concept called The Players Club as a way to protect
professional athletes against later-in-life financial hardship.

While it might be hard for the average laborer to understand (or
sympathize) with ballplayers running out of cash after retirement,
Dykstra says you'd be surprised how many do.

“When you're 23 or 24, you're getting that $500,000 check every
other week. You're not thinking about your future,” he said. “But when
you're 35 and you stop playing, your cash flow doesn't just taper off,
it's shut down completely. A lot of players aren't prepared for that.”

Read all about Lenny's big pile of money in The Bergan Record.