Well it looks like manager Terry Collins had his little pow-wow with quasi-closer Frank Francisco on Sunday and two of them passed around a peace pipe resulting in Collins affirming his trust and confidence in Francisco as his closer. “Everybody wants to hear something positive,” Collins said. “I just went to him this morning and said, ‘You’ve got to hang in...
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Ramblings from Henry and Fayette Streets The Week That Was: April 16th to April 23rd The B-Mets began the week with a three game set in Manchester, New Hampshire against the Fisher Cats. They lost two of three against the Cats, their only win coming on Tuesday night, a 10-6 final with Collin McHugh earning his second win of the season. The team made the long drive home after their loss...
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Buffalo 6 – Syracuse 1 Syracuse 1 – Buffalo 0 By Pete Shapiro The Buffalo Bisons split their double-header yesterday with the Syracuse Chiefs, winning the opener by a score of 6-1 behind starter Jeurys Familia (2-1), before dropping the nightcap by a heartbreaking score of 1-0 and making a hard luck loser of Chris Schwinden (2-2). The Bisons record now stands at 9-9 for the year,...
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The MetsMerizedOnline Player of the Week for this week has shown he has a great impact on this team. This week includes the series against the Atlanta Braves and the weekend (2 of the 4 games) series against the San Francisco Giants for a total of 5 games. Here is our MMO Player of the Week for 4/16/2012-4/22/2012: Through the use of the scorecard, let’s take a look at how Kirk...
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Our friend Sean Ratliff has announced that he has retired. Sean was attempting to come back from major surgery last year after a foul ball struck him near his eye while standing in the on-deck circle. The injury resulted in six broken bones surrounding his eye. MMO’s Pete Shapiro spoke to Sean in February and he explained the difficult ordeal he had to endure and the long road back: I...
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Over the last two weeks I have seen my fill of criticism about Jeurys Familia. For some reason it seems as if Mets fans and bloggers want this guy to fail. Either that, or they are just trying to make themselves look smart by pointing out his short-comings, and predicting limited success for him as a major league prospect. The negative sooth-sayers are predicting at-best that Family will have to...
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