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Citi Field: Where Homeruns Go To Die

07 Jan 2009 04:42:34 PST

Written by Eric Simon
Citi Field, the new ballpark for the New York Mets, is poised to become MLB's new Grand Canyon. City Field is a vast, cool weather, sea-level stadium, and those factors will have a hugely negative impact on home runs. Eric Simon: For starters, what makes Citi Field a "Grand Canyon" where Shea...

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Omar playing hardball ?

06 Jan 2009 19:05:46 PST

Written by Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com)
Wednesday's meeting will take place as the Mets begin to turn elsewhere for their need to bolster their starting rotation. A "person familiar with the talks" told The Associated Press that the club has already made an offer to right-hander Tim Redding and is approaching doing the same to l...

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OMAR NEEDS TO GO GLENGARY ON LOWE/BORAS

04 Jan 2009 08:10:05 PST

Written by kranepool
According to Boras, the Phillies and Braves are in the running for Lowe’ services. If the Mets played in the AL East Boras would tell us the Highlanders and Red Sox were serious bidders. If the Mets played in the Middle East Baseball League, Borras would tell us the Israeli’s and the Palestin...

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Here We Go Again: Phillies & Mets (FanGraphs)

31 Dec 2008 19:09:49 PST

Written by Eric Simon
TOTALS For the Phillies, we are looking at +26 wins from the lineup, +11.8 from the rotation, +3.4 from the bullpen, and +1.5 from the bench. This adds up to +42.7 wins. Given that a team chock-full of replacement players would win 47-48 games, the Phillies are projected to win 89-90 games in 2009.

Original story at Amazin' Avenue .

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HOW LOWE DO WE GO?

29 Dec 2008 07:43:58 PST

Written by kranepool
Omar Minaya would like Johan Santana to sit out the World Baseball Championships and hopefully Santana will abide by this request. Is there a bigger waste of time and work hours that the WBC? Who gives a shit? I understand that the Latin players have tremendous pride in playing for their cou...

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No, You May Not See Hank Baskett's Wife Naked

26 Dec 2008 13:03:26 PST

NY - Probably more than most Major League Baseball executives. [East Coast Bias] • More predictable than the Mets: Hot off the presses! A Wii baseball injury ...

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New York Mets news and blogs - January 08, 2009

08 Jan 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit New York Mets news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• WILD THING, YOU MAKE ME SICK! -- by kranepool from Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog
• Manny Still Waiting For A Home, Where Can He Still Go? -- from RealGM.com
• Mets in deep negotiations with Lowe ? -- by Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com) from Mets Fever
• Mets deep in negotiations for Derek Lowe -- from Yahoo! Sports
• Back-up 1B & possible future position holder... -- by Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com) from Mets Fever
• For Murff, one look was all it took -- from Dallas Morning News
• IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PITCHING -- by kranepool from Kranepool Society :: A New York Mets Blog
• The Suckiest Bunch of Sucks That Ever Sucked -- by Jason from Faith and Fear in Flushing
• Mets shining in Puerto Rican league..... -- by Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com) from Mets Fever
• One player can mean all the difference -- from MLB.com

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Mets need to fill holes

18 Dec 2008 17:34:28 PST

nyy said in the Newsday Forum: By heart I am a Yankees fan, but I will say this, the mets have a good looking team. but what the mets need to know and the fans more importantly, you need more then 1 guy to win, proven last year when every met fan i knew proclaimed a title the day Santana was introduce...

Original story at topix.net .

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Yankees, Mets still have work to do

17 Dec 2008 17:38:00 PST

Written by Steve Harasymiak
The wild card question in Queens is what effect, if any, will the Bernard Madoff scandal have on the Mets? Fred Wilpon, the Mets’ principal owner, is a longtime friend of Madoff and reportedly Madoff’s Wall Street scam has cost Wilpon in the neighborhood of $300 million. While Wilpon has ha...

Original story at At Bat . Related stories include: Mets still not ready to deal Fernando Martinez - Newsday.com

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1975 Topps Mets

16 Dec 2008 19:51:27 PST

Written by Paul
Why didn’t they have the catchers put on their gear before taking photos with this pose? The back of the card reveals that Ron made the Florida Instructional League All-Star Team in the fall of 1972. (I never knew the Instructional League had an All-Star Team.)

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Possible Blockbuster deal: CWS-Mets

03 Dec 2008 13:12:20 PST

Written by Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com)
John Perrotto of Baseball Prospectus in his latest On the Beat ( subscription Req.) is reporting a possible block buster trade in the works between the White Sox's and Mets. We know the teams have had dialogue and the two GMs are friendly. Several White Sox's blogs felt that the Vazquez trade w...

Original story at Mets Fever . Related stories include: Back-up 1B & possible future position holder... - Mets Fever , CWS: Want them all, Come and get 'em - Mets Fever

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WHAT’S THE FREQUENCY OMAR?

04 Nov 2008 09:35:11 PST

Written by kranepool
I’m sure this is just a smoke screen, Minaya at his sandbagging best as Jeffey Skill Sets told us in his message to the fan base, that there will be “addition by subtraction” but now his Brain trust tells us different. Here’s an idea for Omar, Tony B, and John Rico, stop with the fucking mind gam...

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MAYBE WATCHING THAT PARADE WILL STOKE SOME PASSION IN OUR TEAM

01 Nov 2008 11:24:44 PDT

Written by kranepool
So Philadelphia enjoy your parade and I’ll continue my tough love of the Mets and I’ll slap them around until they show me they will slap and when they do your ass is ours. In a way I understand the obsession the Philadelphia Phillies have with the Mets. As much as the can celebrate being the best...

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LCS, LIFE ON MARS, HOCKEY AND CAROL ALT NAKED, HAPPY THURSDAY “YOUES GUYS”!

09 Oct 2008 08:31:08 PDT

Written by kranepool
I’m hoping the Dodgers take the NLCS and I’m also hoping that Omar Minaya is hiding outside the Dodgers hotel with a big bowl of rice and beans from one of the fine Dominican eating establishment in The Heights to lure Manny back home, but this series is sooooooo close that the only thing I’ll...

Original story at Kranepool Society .

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Pictures of Lilly (and Santana) haunt Yankees

27 Sep 2008 21:30:18 PDT

I don’t know what was worse - seeing Johan Santana step up and be the ace for the Mets, or watching former Yankee Ted Lilly was pitching no-hit ball through six innings for the Cubs. To think of what the Yanks could have done with either of these pitchers made me sick.

Original story at NY Daily .

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Four Omar - Five to Go

24 Sep 2008 12:11:16 PDT

Speaking of Daniel Murphy -- Look for the Mets to make sure he has no more than 130 AB this regular season, so he can qualify for Rookie-of-the-Year honors in 2009. Shouldn't be a problem to hold him to 16 AB during the last five games. The inside scoop is that Manuel would like to try Murphy at 2B n...

Original story at Mike's Mets .

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The New York Mets Of September ‘08 : It’s Like Deja Boo Fucking Hoo Again

17 Sep 2008 09:32:40 PDT

Written by GC
Last night’s 1-0 loss to the lowly Nats introduced a new and exciting theme. The incompetence of the bullpen was no longer an issue with the meat of the Mets order going rotten faster than Lehman Brothers. Two runs and nine puny hits against the worst team in baseball is not a slump. It’s the fina...

Original story at Can't Stop The Bleeding .

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Recap: Here We Go Again…Mets Continue Late Swoon

15 Sep 2008 19:45:25 PDT

Written by Andrew Rizzi
You can’t blame the bullpen for this one…well, at least you can’t ONLY blame the bullpen. Duaner Sanchez was horrible, no doubt. But the offense could not manage anything off John Lannan, and Pedro Martinez looked like a starter on his last leg.

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A Warning To Chris Hansen : It Gets Very Hot Under That Huge Head

04 Sep 2008 17:12:56 PDT

Written by GC
While the New York Mets continue to support a glorified puppy mill, I suppose they deserve some genuine praise for their noble efforts to rid our society of the scourge that is child-sex pests. But enough about the club parting ways with Paul Lo Duca last winter, it seems there’s yet another...

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I'd go with Claudio Vargas

25 Aug 2008 21:06:45 PDT

Written by Ed Ryan(noreply@blogger.com)
The 30 y/o right hander is a lifetime 46-40 with a 4.94 ERA. In his short stint with the Mets he started four games and appeared as a reliever in seven other games, which he had a 3-2 record with a 4.62 ERA. Vargas has started eight games in New Orleans in which he's gone 5-2 with a 4.36 ERA. Vargas was nic...

Original story at Mets Fever .

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Recap: Ausmus and Erstad Go Deep in the 10th to Beat Mets

24 Aug 2008 13:41:11 PDT

Written by Andrew Rizzi
Obviously Pedro Feliciano didn’t have it today, and neither did Aaron Heilman…and this is just going to be the story of the season the rest of the way. Everyone knows the bullpen is the one major weakness on the Mets, and how they fare the rest of the way will determine how far the team can go. Lui...

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HOT STUFF CAN’T GET ENOUGH!!!

21 Jul 2008 08:13:22 PDT

Written by kranepool
Howard Megdal has a fine column today in the New York Observer on the Brooklyn Cyclones and the Mets top three draft picks RHP Brad Holt, 1B Ike Davis and INF Reese Havens. Megdal goes in to detail on Holt’s performance and I agree 100 % that Holt will be on a fast track through the organizations...

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JUST WHEN YOU THINK WE’RE OUT, THE METS DRAG US BACK IN

15 Jul 2008 08:15:31 PDT

Written by kranepool
Looking back on the Mets first half it’s hard to believe that on June 24th this team was ready to have 25 toe tags attached to thier feet. That was the night the Seattle Mariners, used Oliver Perez and Claudio Vargas as batting practice pitchers to the tune of an 11-0 win. That series deflated al...

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WOW, NICE MUFFIN TOP BABY

10 Jul 2008 07:53:10 PDT

Written by kranepool
I wonder if the Giants can hang around a while longer as they seem to have become to Mets the Mets what the Washington Generals have become to the Globe Trotters. Santana went just 77 pitches with the rain delay and from reading the game story wanted to stay in but Old School Dean Warthen felt it...

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JUST CALL ME THE NEW CAPTAIN RED ASS

07 Apr 2008 07:41:03 PDT

Written by Steve Keane
I hate when I get like this. It’s only two games in the beginning of the season but I’m so fucking mad about the Mets losing to the Braves. It doesn’t matter who is in those uniforms, the Braves could bring up the whole Richmond Braves team put BRAVES on their chest and the Mets would drop 2 of 3 to th...

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JUST CALL ME THE NEW CAPTAIN RED ASS

07 Apr 2008 07:41:03 PDT

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