After a shaky end to a solid R.A. Dickey outing, the Mets showed some fight, coming from behind late to defeat the Marlins 6-5. Game Notes R.A. Dickey had a solid outing today, and everything was going smoothly until the seventh inning. In that inning, R.A. allowed the first two hitters he faced to reach, and after a ground-out fielders choice and a pop-out, he allowed a three-run home run to Gaby Sanchez. Dickey’s final [...]

Good Morning, Met Nation. Starting the day off with Mets talk may not be ideal as of late but true sports fans can’t help but get caught up in the banter, debate, and drama. Unfortunately, with our beloved Amazins, there’s more than we can stomach at one setting. Adam Rubin from ESPN NY has been especially chatty about the team over the last few weeks: New York’s Finest The team has been referred to as [...]

The Mets and Marlins play game two tonight after last night’s walk-off victory for the Amazin’s as they beat the Marlins by the score of 6-5. In order to continue their winning ways the Mets will have to take down Sanabia tonight while the fish will attempt to take a crack at Misch. Misch is 0-2 this season in as many starts with a 3.00 ERA. His first game was fantastic as he allowed only [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 3/9/0, Pawtucket 7/13/0 The Clippers lost tonight as well, so the Bisons remain 2 out of the wildcard. Michael Antonini had a decent outing, giving up 4 runs on 8 hits in 8 innings, but he took the loss tonight. Lucas Duda had 2 doubles, Nick Evans and Kirk Nieuwenhuis each had one. ss Luis Hernandez 1 for 5, run, 2 Ks, .273 2b Andy Green 1 for 4, run, 3b, [...]

Tyler Kepner of the NY Times just blew my mind in a recent article in which he writes, The Marlins have spent about $396 million on player salaries from 2000 through 2010, with 873 victories and a World Series title to show. The Mets have spent about $1.212 billion on salaries in those seasons, with 877 victories and no championships. In other words, the Mets have spent about $816 million more than the Marlins to [...]

Some of you may have caught Monday night’s telecast of the Buffalo Bisons game on SNY. I wish they would broadcast minor league games more often, even if meant not broadcasting it live because of similar start times with the Mets. I’d rather watch a pre-recorded Bisons, B-Mets or Cyclones game over Beer Money and Daily News Live re-runs anytime. For those lucky enough to tune in and watch the Bisons destroy the Pawtucket Red Sox 12-4, it was also [...]

I was just reviewing the latest posts on MetsBlog and came acros this morning’s posting of the NL Wild Card Standings. The Philadelphia Phillies are 70-54 and in first place in the NL Wild Card standings. With 38 games left to play, even if the Phillies played below .500 and ended up going 18-20, the Mets would still have to go 26-12 just to tie them. That doesn’t take into account the other five teams [...]

Before I begin, I want to first clarify that I was happy when the Mets signed Jason Bay in the offseason. I would have preferred a similar type deal to the one that the Red Sox offered of two years with a team option, but I realized that the Mets had to overpay to get him to play in Flushing rather than in Beirut. One of the things that I felt made the deal less [...]

No,  I haven’t lost my mind. I don’t think Oliver Perez is a good player at all.  Ollie is not a team player, he plays for the name on the back of the jersey.  Perez has shown that he has no inclination to work on improving his game and giving something back to the team that is for some reason paying him to be on the team. Ollie would rather sit on his you know [...]

The Mets are fresh off of a road series victory and hope to continue their winning ways back in Queens tonight as they take on NL East division rivals, the Florida Marlins. The Marlins and the Mets are essentially tied for third and forth place in the division, and both teams, if for nothing else than pride, would like to finish higher than the other. Also, both teams, still have slim mathematical hopes for making [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 12/15/1, Pawtucket 4/8/2 Dillon Gee had a good outing tonight, giving 4 runs (3 on his own, 1 Sean Green IHR) on 6 hits and 2 walks (both in the 7th) in 6.2 innings for his 13th win of the season. Lucas Duda was on base 4 times with 2 hits and 2 walks, Nick Evans and Kirk Nieuwenhuis both doubled. Fernando Martinez did not play (much to my disappointment, I [...]