Flushing University Lectures for Thursday March 29th

John Coppinger of The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus provides his preview of the Braves. With their improved bullpen and if Andruw Jones and Tim Hudson have good years, he thinks they could be a contender.

Kevin Collazo of Take The 7 Train thinks the 2007 bullpen is better than 2006. He's worried about the offense, and the age of the team, and thinks if Milledge is left off the team, we're in trouble.

Suprise suprise. Brooklyn Mets Fan thinks Amiborix Burgos will make the cut after all.

Dan Lerner of Hot Foot discusses Julio Franco's diet, which includes 10 egg whites for breakfast.

For the gamers out there, Dan Ziegler of LoneStar Mets provides a review of Major League Baseball 2K7 for the PS3.

Ed Ryan of Mets Fever provides his outlook and predictions on the final 25 man roster. Also, he reports on yesterday's blowout loss to the Braves. Of concern is the poor outing from Aaron Heilman. He also mentions that Lastings Millege's hand may well be responsible for deciding the final roster spot.

Joseph DeCaro of MetsMerized Online is wondering as the spring losses keep piling up if the Mets are going to be ready to turn it on come Sunday night.

Kyle DeBussey of Mets Prospects makes the case for including Ben Johnson on the 25 man roster. He admits its a logn shot, but thinks its worth considering.

Mets Walk-Offs wants to get it out of the way early, so he shares stats with us about the Mets performance on Opening Days including "the Mets have alternated wins and losses in their last 5 Opening Days and not to alarm you, but if the streak continues, they're due to lose on Sunday."

Jeff Brohel of Metsquire can't handle the optimism surrounding the prognostications for the Mets of 2007, so he lets us in on what he is thinking.

Mike Steffanos of Mike’s Mets interviews Erik from PhilliesFlow.com about his outlook for the coming season. Joyce Mandelkern is less than enthusiastic about spring games, and having received her season tickets, can't wait for Sunday night. Well, Joyce, move over 'cos you have a lot of company!

Pat Andriola of Shea Faithful provides an interview with undrafted Jackson State graduate Mets prospect Joaquin Rodriguez.