A Look At The First Half Of The Season
metsfansforever.com 7/13/2009 — Author: Greg Pomes The All-Star break is upon us and I have to say I'm happy to be done with the first half of the season. To say that the 1st half of the 2009 season has been difficult on Met fans would be the understatement of the year. The Mets are currently in 4th place in the National ...

Reconnaissance: Q&A with Mets blog Amazin Avenue
thegoodphight.com 7/3/2009 — More photos » by Frank Franklin II - AP Posted because it's the best type of photograph in all of sports - the ball-in-the-stands gimp face gallery! (No, not the ...

Mets Fan Reeducation: The Media, The Management, And You
amazinavenue.com 7/7/2009 — When I heard Reverend James Lawson, a local professor at Vanderbilt and a hero of the Civil Rights movement, speak about First Amendment rights, I was taken aback by one thing in particular he said (and I'm paraphrasing): "The news media is based on ...

The State of the Mets
weretheteamtobeat.com 7/3/2009 — The last month has been incredibly frustrating, but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic To be honest, I don’t even know where to start. The last two and a half years have been excruciating, but June of 2009 will go down as one of the worst months in Mets history. And ...

2009 Mid-Season Report: New York Mets - Wait Til Next Year
metspolice.com 7/13/2009 — There are going to be a lot of Mets fans that are not going to be too happy with me after they finish this article. In fact, I'd venture to say that there will be a few who will refuse to finish it because they will say I'm not a true fan, I am being too negative, and that I am giving up the ...

Welcome to .500
flushingfaithful.com 6/29/2009 — Here we are at .500, looking at a team that is just pathetic. The Mets are fielding a AAA team and trying to compete. If the Phillies didn’t tank it like the Mets at the same time they’d be like 6 games ahead and not looking back. We have the Howard Johnson interview from Friday ...

Just So Many Summers, Babe
faithandfear.blogharbor.com 7/6/2009 — There're just so many summers, babe. And just so many springs. Don Henley's lyrics came to me early in the 1993 season. Too early. 1993 wasn't, sadly, the last worthless season that we'd have to spend, but damn if it wasn't over fast. The Mets were 12-25 after 37 games, 15 behind the 1st ...

Halftime!
theballclub.blogspot.com 7/13/2009 — This season started in somewhat disjointed fashion for the Mets, who had already suffered through a pair of close-but-not-quite-good-enough finishes the previous two seasons. The prevailing thought was that whatever problems had reared their heads, be it character, bullpen or otherwise, had ...

The D Squad
mets.gearupforsports.com 6/23/2009 — Sorry for the lack of updates GUF-ers but - after a tough week for the Mets - the 2009 MLB season just got a lot rougher for an already depleted New York Mets team. Carlos Beltran was placed on the 15-day DL on Monday and joins a plethora of Mets stars (Jose Reyes, Carlos Delgado, JJ Putz, ...

Another Win, Another Injury
mets.gearupforsports.com 6/2/2009 — As the Mets inactive list becomes more populated, so does the win column. The team placed back-up center fielder Angel Pagan on the 15-day disabled list after he pulled up lame on a Hanley Ramirez fly ball on Sunday. Pagan has played well since joining the Mets last season, though he has only ...

Francoeur talks about first trip back to Atlanta — NYDailyNews.com - Baseball 7/15/2009
After a career spent entirely in the Braves organization, before which he was a standout HS football player in the area, Jeff Francoeur will be returning home for the first time since the Braves dealt him to the Mets last Friday for Ryan Church.  ...

Phillies lock in Pedro for rest of 2009 season — FOXSports.com News for MLB 7/15/2009
Pedro Martinez agreed to a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Wednesday. The team put the three-time Cy Young winner on the 15-day disabled list with a mild shoulder strain. It has not been determined when ...

David Wright Wants to Be a Lifetime Met — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/15/2009
David Wright is starting his sixth year as a Met this week and has made it known that he would prefer to stay with the Mets for the rest of his career. In this day and age of players only wanting to go where the money is and putting in no trade ...

10 Reasons For the Mets to Have Hope — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/15/2009
The Mets are six-and-a-half games behind the Phillies (and of course also trail the Marlins and Braves) and are also six-and-a-half back in the wild-card race (and have seven teams ahead of them), so it may take a miracle or at least wishful ...

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