Buffalo Bisons (Triple A) Team Report Surprise surprise, there won’t be any stretch-run for “the Herd” in 2011. Manager Tim Teufel and his staff have done a wonderful job, considering their roster has been raped and pillaged all season long by the major league team’s unquenchable thirst for replacement players. With virtually the entire opening day starting line-up of the Bisons either on the Mets right now, or injured (Captain Kirk), Teufel has had to mix [...]

On Thursday afternoon the New York Mets wrapped up a three game series with the St. Louis Cardinals, dropping game three, but winning the first two – including a dramatic win on Wednesday night. 3 Up 1) Reyes Return: Jose Reyes returned to the big club on Tuesday night, and turned in two game saving defensive plays. This season we’ve all gotten used to Jose doing it with his bat, but Tuesday he flashed some [...]

Brewers fans are flipping out after seeing what they believe was Francisco Rodriguez flipping the bird to teammate and Brewers closer John Axford after he blew the save as the setup man in the eight inning. In this photo by the Daily News, the FOX Sports TV cameras panned to K-Rod for his reaction after he blew the save in the eighth inning for the Brewers Wednesday night, and they caught him doing this: Yes that’s [...]

NEW YORK METS AT FLORIDA MARLINS RHP Mike Pelfrey (5-9, 4.67) vs. RHP Chris Volstad (5-8, 5.59) David Wright returns to the cleanup spot, but Jason Bay remains sidelined with a hamstring injury. Here is tonight’s line-up: Jose Reyes, ss Justin Turner, 2b Carlos Beltran, rf David Wright, 3b Daniel Murphy, 1b Angel Pagan, cf Lucas Duda, lf Ronny Paulino, c Mike Pelfrey, rhp The Mets and Marlins start a series tonight in Miami. As I [...]

If the Braves or Phillies come calling then Alderson should jump all over it.  The Braves are said to be in the market for a right handed bat and the Phillies have scuffled on offense for most of the season, both could use the offensive help.  Well what about the potential repercussions of dealing him to a division rival some people will ask.  If either one of them have the best offer, at this point [...]

After almost a year of denying any wrong doing in the Bernie Madoff Ponzie scheme, the Wilpons may now be off the hook as news has broken that the trustee, Irving Picard, has dropped the damages claim. The Post writes: Seven months after kicking off an aggressive campaign to collect $80 billion in damages from firms associated with Bernie Madoff, the trustee liquidating the Ponzi scammer’s firm is beating a hasty retreat. Irving Picard, after [...]

Jonathon Niese had a good outing, but two errors in the fifth inning lead to two unearned runs, and the Mets offense struggled today in its 6-2 loss to the Cardinals Game Notes Jonathon Niese pitched a good game, but his pitching line will not show that. Jonathon went six innings, giving up five runs (three earned) on five hits, walking one while striking out seven and giving up a two-run HR to Albert Pujols [...]

In what may very well have been the final home appearance for Carlos Beltran as a Met, the spattering of fans that did show up gave him a muted ovation during his final at-bat in the ninth inning – a shallow flyball to Matt Holliday. Beltran wenr 0-3 with a walk, and the look on his face spoke volumes – where did those seven years go? There would be no grand finale for one of [...]

According to Jon Heyman of SI.com, the Mets have decided that they want to keep Jason isringhausen rather than trade him before the deadline, despite some interest from other teams including the Cinicinatti Reds. The reasoning behind it is that the Mets feel that Izzy’s experience will serve to mentor yound relievers like Bobby Parnell and Pedro Beato, both of whom will be groomed to be end-game relievers. Considering the many years of experience as [...]