David Wright has been the star of the Mets this year. He is an early contender for the MVP award. He’s hitting right around .400, and he’s dominated at the plate. His fielding has looked a lot better this year too. Those are good reasons to offer him an extension now, but I think the Mets should wait. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the Mets will extend him, but remember he [...]

Recap: For the first time since 1996, Mets fans could walk the field parading their Mets banners and expressing their passionate love for their New York Mets. R.A. Dickey took the hill looking to take this four game set from the Padres with a win on such a special and fan-filled day and did not disappoint. Dickey went a dominant shutout 7.1 innings, allowing just three hits and a walk while punching out ten Friars. [...]

This back page from this morning’s Daily News brought a smile to my face. What a remarkable comeback we are seeing from our ace Johan Santana! Santana has pitched solidly all season long, but yesterday took the cake and he looked and played the part of a true ace pitcher by delivering a complete-game shutout to beat the Padres and improve to 2-2 on the year. Santana struck out seven batters and allowed just four base [...]

 Buffalo 8, SWB 7 By Pete Shapiro The Bisons squandered a 6-0 lead in this game and fell behind SWB 7-6 before rallying for two runs in the eighth inning to hand the Yankees an 8-7 defeat on Saturday. Jordany Valdespin tied the game 7-7 in the eighth, when he singled in Josh Satin from third with the tying run. Moments later with Pascucci on third and ‘Spin on first, Valdespin was caught trying to [...]

While watching today’s broadcast of the Mets 9-0 blanking of the Padres, there were so many great things going on. This was easily one of the best games I’ve watched all season thus far. May there be many more! Johan Santana was as cunning as ever and even though his fastball resided in the 86-88 mph range today, the crafty southpaw spun a gem and went all the way on a complete game shutout, his [...]

Nothing like a 4-hit shutout against a team you were supposed to beat, huh? Summary This felt good, did it not? Johan started today and guaranteed us at least a split of this four game series with the Padres. Santana went out there this afternoon and decided to turn the clock back a few years to a more dominant time. The man was working like he was double parked out there too – only 96 [...]

Even the most casual of Mets fans could probably tell you that David Wright’s name is plastered all over the team’s all-time leader board in various categories.  If he’s not already the franchise leader in an offensive category (doubles, extra-base hits, total bases, times on base, RBI), he should be there by the end of the season (hits, runs scored). Obviously, if Wright’s name is all over the team’s all-time record book, then it stands [...]

SWB 8, Buffalo 7 By Pete Shapiro SWB Designated Hitter Jack Cust led off the bottom of the 10th inning with a walk-off home run off reliever Edgar Ramirez, to snap a 7-7 tie and make winners of the SWB Yankees by a score of 8-7. RHP Jeurys Familia started for the Herd and just didn’t have it today, throwing 47 pitches (28 for strikes) in only two innings. He gave up five hits, and [...]

Yesterday, the Mets made the Padres look like they were a powerhouse contending team after an embarrassing 11-5 loss. Luckily the real Padres showed up tonight and the Mets had their bats swinging, Gee dominating, and Citi Field was rocking. Dillon Gee now has back-to-back good starts since losing his goatee. He was dominant on the mound mixing up his pitches, getting the called third strike on multiple pitches. He has been using more of [...]