Month: June 2010

Carlos Beltran Debuts Without A Hitch

How’s that for a sight for sore eyes? Last night, Port St. Lucie natives Larry and Dora Licastri were nice enough to share pictures and give us a great account of each of Carlos Beltran’s plate appearances from his first rehab game in Florida. They are two of the biggest and coolest Mets fans I know, and you can follow Larry on Facebook and see all of his great Mets pics including...

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Tigers Claw Mets For 6 Runs In Loss To Detroit

Mets couldn’t get the sweep against the Tigers as they lose 6-5 despite a late inning rally. Mets fall back to .5 games behind the Braves. Game Summary Hisanori Takahashi started for the Mets and got roughed up by the Tigers early in his worst start of the season. Takahashi, who has had a great string of great starts, had trouble getting outs against Detroit. Some noticeable tactics that...

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Mets Frontrunners For Mariners Lee?

So I was doing my mornings due diligence and reading the various storylines across the blogosphere about our Metsies and came across an interesting tidbit via MLB Traderumors.com from Ben Nicholson-Smith. Ben had linked to a story by Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times. Baker asserts that the Mets are frontrunners along with Minnesota to acquire Cliff Lee in a package for Jennry Mejia and Angel...

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6/24 Minor League Report! NIESEN, CECILIANI, CENTENO!

AAA International League: Buffalo 4/7/1, Gwinett 10/17/0 2b Justin Turner 0 for 4, .270 ss Russ Adams 2 for 4, run, RBI, .230 cf Juan Padilla 1 for 4, run, HR, 2 RBI, .292 1b Mike Jacobs 0 for 4, .258 rf Fernando Martinez 2 for 3, 2b (9), BB, K, .264 3b Mike Cervanek 0 for 4, .232 lf Lucas Duda 1 for 4, run, 2 Ks, .286 c JR House 1 for 3, run, K, .306 Dillon Gee 3 IP, 9 H, 7 ER, 4 Ks, 5.31 era,...

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Steroids And Baseball, Continued

The following paragraph is part of a letter that I wrote – it was published in the New York Times on January 26, 2004. “President Bush mentioned the issue of steroids in sports in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 21, 2004. As a lifelong baseball fan, I am very concerned about the effect of steroids on the integrity of baseball and its players, statistics, records...

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