Earlier today, after starting Angels 1B Kendry Morales went down with an injury, it was mentioned that the Angels have no solid backup plan at 1B. Can the Mets be players? The Mets currently have Daniel Murphy rehabbing at AAA, and with Brandon Wood struggling as well at 3B for the Angels, could he be a fit? Murphy could platoon between 1B and 3B and possibly be a good trading chip with a team the Mets [...]

The New York Mets Cubans continue their poor performances on the road (6-16) as they lose game two of the series to the Milwaukee Brewers Bears, 8-6. Negro League Remembrance Night, of all nights. Game Notes The Mets sent out the bullpen workhorse Fernando Nieve for his first start of the season. Jerry Manuel, during pre-game, said he would limit Nieve’s pitch count to 80 pitches. He reached more than half that in just the [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 4/11/0, Toledo 5/7/0 cf Jesus Feliciano 2 for 4, 2 runs, K, .383 ss Justin Turner 3 for 4, K, .272 dh Daniel Murphy 1 for 4, .222 3b Mike Hessman 1 for 3, run, HR (17), 2 RBI (53!), BB, .308 1b Mike Jacobs 1 for 4, 2b, K, .266 lf Andy Green 2 for 4, run, 2b, HR, RBI, .282 rf Russ Adams 0 for 4, .285 c JR [...]

After the bitter taste of last nights walk-off loss against the Brewers wore off, I recalled it wasn’t that long ago that we lost in similar fashion against the Braves in Atlanta. I decided to look further and went to the best place for Mets research, Baseball Reference.  It took a while to go through every boxscore, but after double checking and triple checking here is what I discovered… The Mets have already amassed six walk-off [...]

You could almost hear the Brewers bench let out a collective sigh of relief when they saw Pedro Feliciano take the mound for the ninth inning. No longer would they have to face a dominating Johan Santana who had held them in check for the first eight innings of the game. All they could muster was three hits against Johan, who effectively confounded the Astros all night with his fastball, slider and cunning changeup. Johan was [...]

Johan Santana was on his game today, but Ryota Igarashi couldn’t continue the Mets winning streak nor their scoreless inning streak in a 2-0 loss to the Brewers Game Notes Johan Santana was dominant against the Brewers, becoming the first Mets pitcher to pitch a full 8 innings in the season up to this point. Johan allowed 0 runs on 3 hits, with 2 walks and 5 strikeouts. Johan was drawing flyball after flyball, pitching [...]

I can already imagine all the “Fire Jerry Manuel” posts that we’ll be seeing tomorrow morning when we log onto our computers. Why didn’t he leave Johan in… Why didn’t he let Pedro Feliciano pitch the entire inning… Why didn’t we bring in Jenrry Mejia… Personally, I didn’t have a problem with taking Johan Santana out after eight innings, so I’m not going to knock Jerry. Instead, if you’re going knock someone, how about we knock Ryota Igarashi who [...]

Song of the night: Gorillaz – Rock the House AAA International League: Buffalo 7/15/0, Toledo 3/7/0 Dillon Gee had a decent outing today, giving up 3 runs on 6 hits in 6 innings for his 6th win, and Bobby Parnell had 2 perfect innings in relief for his 2nd save of the season. Jesus Feliciano continues to hit (4 for 5), and his OBP is now approaching GMJ’s OPS (.430 vs 468). Of course, in [...]

Apparently Mike Francesa doesn’t think very highly of us bloggers. Today on his radio program that’s simulcast on the YES network, he went on a rant against Matt Cerrone from MetsBlog. Cerrone wrote a piece today regarding the emergence of Mike Pelfrey, giving him credit for his turnaround. For some reason it irked Francesa so much that it prompted him to say this: “Who cares what Matt Cerrone thinks…he looks like a 12 year old…who [...]

Philadelphia Phillies: (26-20; Leader) Well, the Phillies became the first league champion to get held scoreless during a sweep. They will head to Florida to try to get someone to cross the plate. They’ve been held scoreless in 46 of the last 47 innings. They are the only first-place team in MLB history to have been swept scorelessly (is that a word?) by the last-place team (at the beginning of the series the Mets were [...]

During the mid 1980′s my niece and I went to Shea often during the summers – our schedules just worked out that way.  Sitting up in the third tier behind home plate, we had a great view of the whole field.  Hilary would take out her program and write the lineup in it so that she could keep score. She was in her early teens and our seat neighbors – usually guys – would look [...]