We didn’t miss winning Friday night’s ballgame by much. Another inch or so batwise, and either Wright or Davis gets much more than a sacrifice fly in the first and we’re tied at three. The pitcher’s glove that deflects Jerry Hairston’s grounder away from Ruben Tejada keeps a runner off base in advance of Luis […]
 
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 9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Alibis, Explanations, Johan Santana, Jordany Valdespin, Luis Cruz, Lyndon Johnson, Matt Kemp, Theories They sold the jerseys, they sold the dirt, they sold replicas of the tickets they didn’t sell…the Mets were so anxious to cash in on Johan Santana’s no-hitter that they even put the game-used shortstop up for sale! Didn’t necessarily think there’d be any takers, but the Orioles just had to have a piece of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Blasphemy, First No-Hitter in New York Mets History, Johan Santana, Omar Quintanilla That’s what All-Stars are for, eh? One belts two homers, each with a man or more on, and the other pitches fairly deep if not particularly stylishly — but it’s been established we don’t care about style points when wins are going wanting. And boy have we been wanting a win for the longest time. The last […] Matt Harvey is clearly ready. Or almost ready. Or not ready, but a better bet than the barely any longer ready for prime time Miguel Batista, which is what matters in the short term. I kept an eye on the Bisons and the Mud Hens last night from lovely, lonely Buffalo, and I can’t say […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Buffalo Bisons, Fred Lewis, Long Island Ducks, Matt Harvey, Miguel Batista, Timo Perez How is it a player named Ben Sheets never played for a team whose signature promotion involves fans carrying bedsheets? No, that’s probably not your uppermost Met concern following a very unbanner day in Atlanta, but after being subject to the worst kind of familiar — getting swept at Turner Field for the thirteenth time since […] There’s an old joke about an inveterate optimist and a pile of horse manure, the punch line of which is, “There’s gotta be a pony in there somewhere.” And indeed, you’d think that after the last 18 innings of steaming, redolent folderol in Atlanta, the least the Mets would be able to pull out of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, C.B. Bucknor, Dale Scott, Fox, Jordany Valdespin, Pedro Beato, R.A. Dickey, Tim Byrdak, Turner Field Thank you for your interest in joining the Chipper Jones Metropolitan Victim Club. Please fill out the attached application fully, and Mr. Jones’s selection committee will meet at home plate to inform you of your membership status in a timely manner. ————– NAME: Josh Edgin Replacing Gee in the rotation. The readiness of Harvey. Bay’s chances of making any kind of a contribution. Potential trades for bullpen help and catching depth. Let others ask the fleeting questions. I have matters of a transcendent nature to mull. Who, if anyone, will emerge as my favorite Met? The post has been vacant since the […] But Johan got Michael Bourn to tap a little spinner back his way, which he seized and heaved to first, with extra adrenaline carrying it a few feet too high on its way there. Last year it might have gone over the glove of Lucas Duda or Murph or Justin Turner, but Ike hopped nimbly […] Good job, fellow National Leaguers! Hurrah, everybody but the Marlins (since they didn’t help)! And what the hell…competent handling of a starting lineup that outperformed its credentials, retired wormlike manager we never need to look at again! Graciousness doesn’t always come easy when you’re used to rooting against so many of those who constitute “your team” […] |
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