SANTANA HAS A DAY AT SHEA

 
Queens welcomed a new king yesterday. It was a greeting fit for royalty, too, as the Mets officially unveiled Johan Santana with a glitzy, made-for-TV ceremony at Shea Stadium that was held in two languages and came complete with celebrity tributes... [link]

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Mets usher in Santana era at Shea

NEW YORK -- Shredded office documents, the 21st century equivalent of ticker tape, still were visible on lower Broadway Wednesday morning, a day after the Giants had been the guests of honor in the Canyon of Heroes. And the Mets were staging their own ...
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Santana Draws a Crowd

The New York Mets introduced Johan Santana Wednesday to some 200 media members gathered in the Diamond Club at Shea Stadium. On hand were all the top suits, from Fred and Jeff Wilpon down to Omar Minaya and Santana's counsel. Anyone and everyone from the New York media scene was in attendance as well.
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We’ve raised questions all along about whether or not Johan Santana is really the one player fix everyone is making him out to be, but this is downright stupid. Santana signed a six year, $137.5 million contract with the Mets. We’re ...
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Hernandez Brothers' Reunion on Ice? - NJ.com: Always Amazin'

You can read until your heart's content about the Santana Introductory Press Conference, but you will not find a more entertaining read about it than by Rich Hoffman at the Philadelphia Daily News. Among his more amusing notes: Still, with everything, ...
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Santana ready to help Mets move past '07 collapse

Johan Santana arrived at Shea Stadium on Wednesday, put on his No. 57 Mets jersey for the first time and said he anticipated little difficulty in adjusting to pitching before some of baseball's most demanding fans.
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