At least it wasn't a no-hitter
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 6/28/2009 — Oh for the good old days when the Mets would blow leads late. Even the Luis Castillo game is starting to look good by comparison. How often do the Mets look like they have a chance in the late innings these days? As soon as the Yankees erupted for four runs in the sixth, the game was over. Last ...

Inexcusable
metsfansforever.com 6/29/2009 — Author: Will Sommer As everybody knows by now the Mets were just swept by are hated rivals, the Yankees. I was embarrassed to be a Met fan this past weekend. I wasn't embarrassed because of the lack of offense. I was embarrassed because of their lack of fundamentals. In the opening game of ...

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 ...

Time to gloat and do the Snoopy dance over the Yankees sweeping the Mets
subwaysquawkers.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — I guess I should be all empathetic and make murmuring noises to Squawker Jon about how I feel bad for him that his Mets got swept by the Yankees. Because he and his fellow Met fans would do the same for us, right? Wrong. C'mon, who are we kidding here? If the Mets swept the Yanks, Jon would be ...

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, ...

July 4th Baseball
athbloggs.blogspot.com 7/4/2009 — For years, baseball was as big a part of the Fourth of July as fireworks and picnics. Every team in baseball played doubleheaders, giving fans a long day at the park. It marked the midpoint of the season and set up the rest of the summer. In the 1970s, the doubleheader went the way of the ...

The Status of the Mets
theballclub.blogspot.com 6/29/2009 — Judging from this past weekend, it's not very good. I went against my general ballpark routine last night several different ways in the hopes that it might change the Mets luck and bring them a few runs last night. Some of my efforts might have been more for the preservation of my own sanity ...

Yankees and Mets fans are unimaginative
bases.newsvine.com 6/29/2009 — Freakonomics -- the book, the blog, the phenomenon -- is basically about applying economic theory to non-traditional things. Things like parenting and sumo and the Ku Klux Klan and what have you.

July 4th (and 5th) 1985: New York Mets Defeat Braves In 19
metspolice.com 7/4/2009 — I think of this one every year. Thanks to the NY Post for this recap from 2007: ATLANTA MARATHON At 4:01 a.m. on July 5, 1985, the fireworks finally went off over Fulton County Stadium. The Mets and Braves had just played a game that featured two rain delays and six hours, 10 ...

Garbage Time Team
theballclub.blogspot.com 6/30/2009 — Sometimes I wonder if the Mets just go into Garbage time mode before the game's even started. That's more or less what it looked like last night in Milwaukee, where the Mets looked completely worn out and hung over from this weekend's massacre before exploding for 3 whole runs in a 9th inning ...

Tweeting At Nats Park — Nationals Journal 7/2/2009
Dear Nats blogger/Twitterer/fan: Hi. I'm Jon DeNunzio, one of the editors in The Post's Sports department, and I'm looking for some help with an experiment this weekend. We're considering a project that would capture and display Twitter posts from ...

Red Sox's Jason Bay to become US citizen — The Seattle Times: Sports 7/2/2009
Red Sox left fielder Jason Bay has long played America's pastime and will now be able to call himself an American.

Mets Look to Dominican for Next Big Thing — Bleacher Report - MLB 7/2/2009
In July of 2005, the Mets signed outfielder, Fernando Martinez out of the Dominican Republic for roughly $1.4 million. At the time the signing was seen as a pivotal move in making the Mets a winning franchise following the acquisitions of Pedro ...

Mets sign son of former All-Star Urbina — Major League Baseball News 7/2/2009
The Mets signed 16-year-old lefty Juan Urbina, son of former All-Star Ugeth Urbina, to a $1.25 million signing bonus on Thursday.

Wang finally records first victory — Newsday.com - Yankees 7/2/2009
Chien-Ming Wang's previous two starts had done much to alleviate the pressure his manager had put on him, but something was still missing. "Let's get him a win," Joe Girardi said.