Here are the back covers of today’s New York Post and New York Daily News, highlighting Monday’s 3-1 Opening Day victory over the Washington Nationals. George Steinbrenner would have raised hell and fired half of his staff if he were alive to see the Mets stealing the Opening Day back pages. Winning the back pages is the first step to taking back New York from the Yankees. Well let...
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While the news on Jenrry Mejia and his sore elbow put a damper on Monday’s Opening Day win over the Washington Nationals, there was a ray of hope in the performances of Jeurys Familia and Buddy Carlyle. Both righthanders handled their late inning relief outings with efficiency and sheer dominance in the case of Familia. A year and a half ago I predicted that Familia would eventually become...
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It looked like Bartolo Colon was indeed the right choice for Opening day with his gem on Monday. And Matt Harvey was confident too. Bartolo’s got that covered,” Harvey said. Harvey actually predicted months ago that the Mets would win on Opening Day. And Colon made him look smart today. Colon was phenomenal. Going against $210 million man, Max Scherzer, Colon went 6 strong innings,...
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This may have not been the #1 motivation for the Mets controversial decision to start Bartolo Colon on Opening Day – a decision that paid off in spades after the Mets defeated the Nationals 3-1. But one competitive benefit of this move, is barring weather postponements, the Mets top two arms, Jacob deGrom and Matt Harvey are set up to start the first two games of the annual, always hyped...
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Closer Jenrry Mejia was warming up in the bullpen and getting ready to enter the ninth inning on Monday against the Washington Nationals, when he suddenly dashed back to the dugout to alert trainer Ray Ramirez that he had a stiff elbow and couldn’t loosen up. Mejia apparently told the team he had a tender right elbow two days ago, but the issue still hadn’t cleared up as he tried to...
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According to a report by Adam Rubin, when the Mets placed Cesar Puello on waivers, which he cleared and was eventually demoted to Triple-A Las Vegas, technically none of it ever happened. Apparently, Puello told the team he was injured and general manager Sandy Alderson had to rescind the demotion after an MRI on Monday revealed a “stress reaction” in his back — which is a...
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