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 ...

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 ...

Two-Week Mets Rehab and Detox Over: Lessons Learned
legendofcecilioguante.com 6/28/2009 — Rehabilitated? I Don't Know the Meaning of the Word... A wise philosopher once said: "Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an isms, he should believe in himself." Prescient commentary. Fanaticism is one of those isms, and it too is not good. This is one of the ...

Help The New York Mets Ditch The Black...And Help Fight Cancer!
metspolice.com 6/7/2009 — This is my favorite thing so far since the Mets Police started.   One of the faithful, Carlo (who has written some of the best guest posts on the blog) has put his money where his mouth is. So nobody likes cancer, and most people hate the black uniforms.  Let's defeat Charlie ...

Planning Ahead For A New York Mets Game Could Cost You
metspolice.com 5/28/2009 — Here's another great guest post from Carlo Thinking About Planning Ahead for a Mets Game? It Could Wind Up Costing You. As soon as you log onto the tickets section of the Mets website, the team is urging you to plan ahead and purchase your tickets early for the inaugural season at ...

Dangerous Game
theballclub.blogspot.com 5/26/2009 — The Mets went 5-5 on their last Road Trip, something that most fans seem to consider a hearty accomplishment considering all the injuries they've been experiencing. This is, perhaps. true, but if you consider that had the Mets hit at all after their 3rd game in San Francisco, they likely could ...

Funny Guys
theballclub.blogspot.com 6/28/2009 — The only enjoyment last night's game seems to have provided is a bunch of really ridiculous looking photographs of the Yankees making merry all over our back yard. It's kind of sickening, really. There's not much to laugh about as far as the Mets are concerned. Sometime around the 6th inning, ...

More of the Same
theballclub.blogspot.com 6/22/2009 — Clearly, June has not been the Mets month. I feel more comfortable saying that than I feel saying 2009 is not the Mets season, which is a phrase I seem to be hearing more and more lately. I'd already declared the Mets season more or less over after this particular pair of games , but when you ...

Born Again
faithandfear.blogharbor.com 7/10/2009 — Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End , a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it ...

No core, no problem for Mets
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 6/23/2009 — It's bad enough that the Mets are so riddled with injuries that Jose Reyes and trainer Ray Ramirez can get in an auto accident ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL. Thankfully, nobody was hurt. But as the Star-Ledger reports , the Mets couldn't even give a straightforward account of this non-injury ...

Interleague Play Is Over: Time For the Mets to Get Going — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/29/2009
The Mets are probably the most relieved of any team that interleague play is now officially over for 2009 As fans, we do have to give the AL East a ton of credit. They made all NL East teams look like amateurs, not just the Mets. Yes, I am aware ...

Looking at the Yankees on an Off Day — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/29/2009
The past two weeks have been not so much a Tale of Two Teams as it has a Tale of Two Offenses. Both weeks the Yankees pitched decently—certainly well enough that they could have won nearly every game they played—but in the first week of ...

Wright looks like lock for St. Louis — Surfing the Mets - NY Daily News Blogs 6/29/2009
If this were a political race, David Wright likely would be declared the winner, even though polls are still open. Wright has a sizable lead at third base in the final update for All-Star balloting before the complete vote totals are released.  ...

Ollie joining Bisons today — Surfing the Mets - NY Daily News Blogs 6/29/2009
Oliver Perez is scheduled to join Triple-A Buffalo today, and will make at least one appearance with the Bisons, presumably Friday if he's staying on a five-day cycle. Meanwhile, John Maine won't pick up a baseball until at least Thursday, ...

New York Mets: Subway Series Disaster — Bleacher Report - MLB 6/29/2009
New York Yankees sweep New York Mets; Jerry Manuel should be fired The injury-plagued Mets are running out a depleted lineup, which certainly helps to explain the lack of hitting in the first two games of the first Subway Series at Citi ...