The Mets were shut out Tuesday night by the Dodgers over at Citi Field, the final score Dodgers 8, Mets 0. The last time the Mets scored was on Saturday afternoon. The scoreless streak is at 18+ innings. At what point does Jerry Manuel wake up and realize his offensive strategy isn’t working? Why does Jerry continue to trot out double play machine Fernando Tatis? I know Tatis was comeback player of the year last [...]

Buffalo 4, Scranton 1 cf Cory Sullivan 2 for 3, 2 runs, 2 2b, RBI, BB, .301 lf Jesus Feliciano 1 for 3, 2 RBI, .302 rf Chip Ambres 0 for 3, RBI, K, .226 dh Emil Brown 0 for 4, .273 1b Mike Lamb 1 for 2, 2 BBs, .230 3b Javier Castillo 1 for 4, 2 Ks, .280 c Rene Rivera 1 for 3, .252 ss Wilson Valdez 1 for 3, run, K, [...]

A thought occurred to me last night as the score reached 7-0 Dodgers—I don’t have to watch this crap if I don’t want to.  Not that there’s much on TV besides baseball during the summer except horrible reality shows and re-runs, but I’d rather see anything these days besides watching our Mets get trounced and embarrassed night after night.  So I reached the breaking point, and that breaking point was to reach for the remote.  [...]

According to Minaya earlier today, he is “hope[ful]” that the Mets we have can stay competitive until the myth of the injured come back to rescue us and vault us into first place. The GM has hope? I watched eight innings of tonight’s game—rather foolishly as I think about it now—and I decided that hoping this team will stay competitive is akin to hoping I will earn a million bucks next year. Possible, of course, [...]

Buffalo 1, Scranton 5 in 10 innings cf Cory Sullivan 1 for 4, BB, .296 lf Jesus Feliciano 2 for 5, 2b, .301 rf Emil Brown 0 for 4, BB, K, .284 1b Michel Abreu 0 for 5, 3 Ks, .228 dh Mike Lamb 1 for 5, 2b, K, .227 3b Javier Castillo 1 for 5, run, HR, RBI, K, .281 c Robinson Cancel 0 for 1, .233 ss Wilson Valdez 1 for 4, .196 [...]

David Lennon, the New York Mets beat writer for Newsday on his twitter account has some news on Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes and it’s not good, not at all.  On Reyes, Lennon says: “Reyes back in NYC. Got another cortisone shot. Shut down again for a few days. Not good.” On Beltran the news is not that encouraging either as Lennon says: Beltran only riding bike. No baseball activity. Will be re-evaluated at AS [...]

The story as I remember it, goes something like this: the 1973 Mets were struggling, they weren’t playing up to their potential, when general manager M. Donald Grant called a team meeting. At the end of the meeting Grant told the Mets “I believe in you guys”, at which point pitcher Tug McGraw yelled out “YA GOTTA BELIEVE!”. We all pretty much know what happened in 1973. The Mets went on to win the NL East, they [...]

I know it sounds like bad dialogue out of a comic book or a Michael Bay movie but it is unfortunately true.  Omar over the last couple of years seemed to be the “Teflon GM.”  The last 2 seasons we have witnessed the Mets collapse and miss going into the playoffs by one game.  Omar did not put a team together the past 2 seasons that played baseball in October.  The way the season has [...]

Hmmm… what next genius move will emanate from Mets’ ownership? Perhaps the promotion of Josh Thole or Wilmer Flores. My God, what farther depths will we sink to this season? If being swept out of Citi by the Yanks weren’t bad enough, today we fans were treated to a greater humiliation (owing to playoff chances and division rivalry) by being swept out of Citizens Bank Park, a 2-0 loss to the Phils, to that ace [...]

Buffalo 3, Rochester 7 cf Cory Sullivan 1 for 3, run, BB, .297 lf Jesus Feliciano 1 for 3, run, .300 rf Chip Ambres 0 for 4, K, .229 dh Emil Brown 1 for 4, 2b, RBI, 2 Ks, .297 3b Mike Lamb 1 for 3, 3b, RBI, .228 ss Javier Castillo 1 for 3, 2b, RBI, BB, .282 1b Michel Abreu 0 for 4, .235 c Robinson Cancel 0 for 2, BB, .234 2b [...]

Atlanta Braves: (5-5; -4) The Braves lost two of three to the Washington Nationals, and will travel to Chicago to play a three-game series with the Cubs. Brian McCann was the only Brave added to the All-Star-Team. The Braves are looking for anyone with interest in dreadful OF Jeff Francoeur, but other teams are avoiding him as if he has swine flu. I don’t mean to be Chicken Little, but if the Braves beat the [...]