Some might call me fickle.  Others might call me faithless.  I am certainly not fair weather.  Call me whatever you’d like.  But I’m sure that I wasn’t the only one to leave Citifield before the end of the game last Tuesday night. Those who stayed saw the Mets score six runs on so many clutch hits.  Those hearty fans experienced a remarkable and improbable 8-6 comeback win against the Nationals. I couldn’t decide whether to [...]

The Mets wasted a brilliant start from Johan Santana and lost to the Marlins 2-1 on a wild pitch by Fernando Nieve in the bottom of the ninth that scored Cody Ross with the winning run. It was a classic pitchers duel that featured two of the division’s top pitchers in Josh Johnson and Santana. Game Notes Johan Santana rebounded nicely from his disastrous start last week against the Phillies when he gave up a career worst ten [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 6/8/0, Louisville 1/8/1 cf Jason Pridie 0 for 4, BB, K, .289 rf Jesus Feliciano 1 for 5, run, K, .351 1b Mike Jacobs 1 for 4, run, HR, 2 RBI, BB, K, .271 3b Mike Hessman 1 for 2, run, 3 BBs, K, .298 2b Alex Cintron 2 for 5, .218 lf Andy Green 0 for 4, K, .289 ss Ruben Tejada 0 for 3, run, BB, K, .295 c [...]

Whenever I can’t sleep, or wake up much too early – I turn to WFAN and the voice of the night, Tony Paige.  The soft sound of that calming voice helps every time.  Last night, one of the topics was Jose Reyes and the fact that he has never learned to bunt.  Tony’s suggestion is to make him learn, put him back in the leadoff position, let him get on base and become the other [...]

The 18-16 Mets currently find themselves in third place, two and a half games behind the first place Philadelphia Phillies. Back in March, while the Mets were getting ready to close out Port St. Lucie and head north for Opening Day, I felt that the Mets stood a good chance of going to the post season so long as they did three things. The first was to get productive seasons from two out of Oliver Perez, [...]

On a rainy day at Citi Field, Mike Pelfrey matched Craig Stammen but K-Rod couldn’t keep the Mets in the game, and they lost the rubber game to the Nationals 6-4 Game Notes Mike Pelfrey went to the mound and delivered a decent performance, going 5 2/3 of an inning, giving up 4 runs on 7 hits with 3 walks and 6 strikeouts. Pelfrey struck out 5 of the 6 banners he did on the [...]

Gas is expensive these days and so would be swallowing the contract of Ollie Perez.  Right now you couldn’t get a tank of unleaded in a trade for the maddening lefty.    Nevertheless, it’s time to remove the tags and push this clunker down the hill.  For everyone’s sanity.  “They Shoot Lefties, Don’t they?” has found it’s leading man-Perez, and the Mets gleefully send him off to his next starring role.   Because he ‘ain’t getting it done [...]

According to this press release, via NJ.com, the Camden Riversharks announced today that designated hitter, Valentino Pascucci has signed a contract with the New York Mets organization. He will join New York’s AAA team, the Buffalo Bisons, of the International League. “Valentino was a team leader for us. He came in as a former major league payer and worked hard to reprove himself,” Team Manager, Von Hayes said. In the 1999 draft, Valentino was originally [...]

This won’t be that long of a blog, I swear. Considering right now I’m home early from work and it’s 4-4 in the game, I’m sure most if not anybody reading this is doing so with GameCast on at work or sitting in front of their home television. This is about the Philadelphia Phillies. You know, anybody I know who is a Phillies fan tries to discredit any belief about their fan base or their [...]

Song of the Day: Meatloaf – I Would Do Anything for Love (12 minute version) AAA International League: Buffalo 8/15/0, Louisville 7/9/0 Dillon Gee was pitching very well into the 7th, but then the wheels came off, as he allowed 3 runs on a hit, a walk, and a HBP. John Lujan came in with runners on 1st and 2nd with 2 down, but allowed both IHR to score, along with one of his own [...]