Well, we dropped this one to the Cubs 5-3 and these losses are getting hard to stomach. Summary So… Dillon Gee started this one and did not pitch horribly – but he did not pitch well enough to win on this Tuesday night. To be fair, it really was not a bad pitching performance, but the concept of pitching to a game comes into play here, and Gee just did not have his best stuff....
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After a rough Subway Series, the Mets traveled to Chicago to visit the great Wrigley Field to play the Cubs. Johan Santana started for the Mets and has been trying to regroup as he hasn’t pitched that spectacular since his no-hitter. He probably didn’t think he’d have a dueling war against the Cubs’ Travis Wood who only has one win this season and an ERA over four...
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Bobby Parnell is on the hot seat again as an oblique injury to Frank Francisco has once again led the 27-year old reliever to assume the role of Mets closer. It’s a role he’s held three times before, but never could retain for more than a week or two and never with any success. While Parnell looks tantalizingly fit for the closers role by virtue of his devastating fastball which can...
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Introduction by Stephen Hanks When the New York Mets announced their All-Time Team last week in honor of the franchise’s 50th Anniversary (Davey Johnson as manager over Gil Hodges? No freakin’ way!), it was no surprise that the first baseman was Keith Hernandez. But for Mets fans who go all the way back to the first days of the club (my first live game was at age 8 at the Polo Grounds in...
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Congratulations to this week’s MMO Player of the Week… Through the use of the scorecard, let’s take a look at how Ike Davis did this week: G AB H R 2B 3B HR RBI BB K AVG 5 15 2 2 0 0 2 8 2 4 .133 Although Ike didn’t have many hits, all two of his hits were big ones. This week he brought a lot of run production with his 2 home runs and 8 runs batted in. This includes his grand slam...
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How many times have we seen this already this season… I’m talking about Terry Collins lamenting about what he could have done to prevent another bone-jarring moment in a Mets loss. He has compiled enough material to complete his own personal volume of a Book of Lamentations. Last night, was another typical Mets loss you can hang on the skipper of the Mets. Mike Vaccaro of the NY Post...
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