Soon enough, we will concern ourselves with Spring Training hellos, including those from the Mets’ most recent flurry of somewhat tentative acquisitions. There’ll be first-pitch greetings from Shawn Marcum, Scott Atchison and LaTroy Hawkins; first-catch greetings from Landon Powell; greetings for the first time in a little while from previously dispatched Omar Quintanilla; greetings for [...]
 
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 2 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chris Woodward, Danny Heep, Ed Charles, Football, Going Out On Top, J.C. Martin, Kevin Mitchell, Landon Powell, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Masato Yoshii, Octavio Dotel, Omar Quintanilla, Pedro Feliciano, Ray Knight, Scott Atchison, Shawn Marcum, Team History And then there was one. Or there appears to be. With Jason Isringhausen’s reiteration of his intention to retire after putting in a yeoman year’s worth of work with the L.A. Angels — though he left the door open a crack in case “some GM is dumb enough to want to sign me” — it means [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Armando Benitez, Bruce Chen, C.J. Nitkowski, Jason Isringhausen, Last Met Standing, Long Island Ducks, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scutaro, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Team History, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton The Phillies salvaged the final game of their weekend series with the Mets, but it’s plain from looking at them that they are in serious trouble this year. They have Ty Wigginton. They’re doomed. Last time we checked in with Ty, we noted that the holder of our rookie record for hits (146 in 2003) is the [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jamie Moyer, Livan Hernandez, Octavio Dotel, Perseverance, Steve Miller Band, Terry Mulholland, Ty Wigginton, Xavier Nady Congratulations to the five Faith and Fear in Flushing readers who each won a copy of Baseball’s Greatest Games: 1986 World Series Game 6 from A&E Home Entertainment in association with MLB Productions. These five industrious fellows answered a quiz issued last Tuesday to coincide with the 25th anniversary of what was then indisputably the greatest World [...] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2011 Postseason, Alejandro Pena, Bob Johnson, Bob L. Miller, Calvin Schiraldi, Darren Oliver, David Cone, Jack Lamabe, Jeff Reardon, Juan Berenguer, Kenny Rogers, Kevin Tapani, Mike Remlinger, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Martinez, Rick Aguilera, Roger Craig, Team History, Tony Castillo, Tug McGraw The “we” and the “us” was not at all out of line, nevertheless I found it surprising how much Octavio Dotel engaged in first-person plural pronouns when interviewed after the St. Louis Cardinals won the 2011 World Series. He hasn’t been a Cardinal much longer than he’s been most anything else in the big leagues, [...] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2011 Postseason, Cardinals, Last Met Standing, Octavio Dotel, Team History, World Series [NOTE: WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED.] The story in Central Texas is Mike Napoli coming through loud and clear. The story in St. Louis is Tony La Russa hearing static on the line while his players left everything else on base. But here in Metsopotamia, where we take every opportunity we can [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2011 Postseason, Bill Buckner, Darren Oliver, Mike Napoli, Mookie Wilson, Octavio Dotel, Team History, Tony La Russa In delivering our Detention Lecture for Yahoo! Sports, Greg and I noted some silver linings about the 2011 Mets, most notably that they had a number of players who made leaps in how you think of them, whether the jump was between “useful player” and “potential star” or “bench guy” and “bona fide regular.” Your [...] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Albert Pujols, Angel Pagan, Bobby Parnell, Cardinals, Citi Field, David Wright, Jason Bay, Lucas Duda, Mike Pelfrey, Octavio Dotel, Stats, Storytelling Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 118th game in any Mets season, the “best” 119th game in any Mets season, [...] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, Darryl Strawberry, Fiftieth Anniversary, Mookie Wilson, Octavio Dotel, Team History, The Happiest Recap Just when you thought you’d never again see a 1998 Met in the big leagues — no one who knew the rare pleasure of dressing in the same clubhouse as Tony Phillips, Ralph Milliard, Todd Haney, Willie Blair and Jorge Fabregas — up stepped Jay Payton to emerge as this season’s Longest Ago Met Still [...] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1998 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, Bobby Valentine, Bruce Chen, Gary Matthews Jr., Jason Isringhausen, Jay Payton, Jeff D'Amico, John Thomson, Juan Acevedo, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scuatro, Melvin Mora, Mike Hampton, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Pedro Feliciano, Scott Strickland, Team History, Ty Wigginton, Tyler Walker In one of the legendary exchanges of 1969, Leo Durocher dismissed the challengers nipping at the heels of his frontrunning club after his team salvaged the final game of what must have been, from the standpoint of the visitors’ clubhouse at Shea Stadium, a very demoralizing series. “Were those the real Cubs today?” a reporter asked [...] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Glendon Rusch, Jason Isringhausen, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Paul Byrd, Team History |
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