As I sat there last night and watched a fourth inning unfold that included a bases-loaded walk to the opposing 47-year-old pitcher (the second consecutive walk of the inning, mind you) and a grand slam home run to the most hated Phillies player, probably ever, I thought that maybe, just maybe, I had entered some sort of twilight zone. Manuel has done a lot of things over the course of his short tenure as Mets [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 7/12/3, Louisville 20/24/1 (yikes) The good news? The Bisons beat up on Aroldis Chapman today. The bad news? Louisville beat the snot out of every pitcher the Bisons sent out there, sans Bobby Parnell. The Bisons offense had 12 hits and a walk, while going 5 for 11 (.455) with RISP, leaving 7 on base and striking out 11 times. Jesus Feliciano, Chris Carter and Omir Santos had multi hit games, [...]

Just when things were seemingly going great for the Mets, especially after taking the first game in the just completed Phillies series, they hit a brick wall. And while there was not much the Mets or Jerry Manuel could have done to defeat the always dominating Roy Halladay on Saturday, I do believe they had a very good chance to win the rubber game and take the series. When you look at a game like [...]

The Mets have an outstanding record in comparison to what most Met fans expected. Almost nobody expected a first place position at this juncture of the season. Almost nobody expected that they would play with such vigor, good defense, and timely hitting. I can safely say that NOBODY expected our ace, the only pitcher that the Orange and Blue Nation considered dependable would offer up 3 and 2/3 innings and 10 R against their division [...]

No matter how good a team is they will still lose 50 games over the course of the season. On the flip side, the worst team in baseball, no matter how awful they may be, will still manage to win 50 games. It’s those other 62 games that separates pennant winners from last place. Tonight’s thrashing at the hands (and bats) of the Phillies was one of those 62 we were supposed to win. I [...]

This past Saturday night, the NYPD began an investigation involving an SUV parked in Times Square packed with fertilizer and fireworks that could have been part of some kind of terrorist attack. A report from the Washington Post surfaced that Police and FBI agents are investigating a 911 call placed at 4 a.m. Sunday from a public telephone near Times Square warning of an imminent explosion and that it was only a diversion. Serious stuff [...]

Although I often cringe at the MMO posts that are almost an hour-by-hour barometer of the current state of the Mets (lose a few in a row, we’re terrible/win a few in a row, we’re pennant contenders), I couldn’t resist starting to write this as Johan Santana dejectedly trudged off the mound after the lambasting the Phillies laid on him in the fourth inning tonight. Because here’s the bottom line: If Johan Santana cannot take [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 6/12/0, Louisville 4/14/0 in 10 innings. Dillon Gee was very uneven today, he surrendered 10 hits and a walk in 6.2 innings, but held Louisville to just 2 runs, getting a ND. John Lujan, despite giving up 2 runs in the top of the 10th inning, picked up the win after heroics by Mike Hessman and Chris Carter. Hessman, who’d earlier in the game hit a 2 run homer to tie [...]

Gary Matthews Jr. who is batting .156 and slugging .219 in 16 games is starting in centerfield and worse yet leading off tonight. Even if you could make a case for batting GMJ over Angel Pagan, why would you bat him first? Ike Davis is also riding the pine tonight against left hander Jamie Moyer, even though he is batting .571 against southpaws. Fernando Tatis will be playing first base tonight instead. Does Jerry Manuel look at [...]

5 – Losing 10-0 looks a lot worse then it actually is.  Remember, it still only counts as one in the loss column.  It is probably better to lose 10-0 then 10-7, and save some runs for upcoming games.  Some run support for Santana tomorrow would be nice. 4 – Pelfrey was going to give up runs eventually.  Against a lineup like the Phillies, along with poor defense – it was bound to happen.  If [...]

You can’t win them all, and so the Mets streak ends at eight after an ill-fated fourth inning that saw the Phillies open the flood gates on the heels of two dropped pop-ups by Jose Reyes and Alex Cora. It went all down hill for the Mets and Mike Pelfrey after that as those cheesy bums anihilated the Mets 10-0. Game Notes Mike Pelfrey started today for the Mets, and things were going pretty good through the first [...]