metsgeek.com - 1/6/2009
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2008 was a disappointing year for my favorite teams, the New York Mets and New York Jets. Both entered their respective seasons with high hopes and looked poised for a playoff spot heading into the stretch run. It was not meant to be, as both collapsed in the final month of the season. The ...
sports.yahoo.com - 1/13/2009
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sports.yahoo.com —
If you're the type of person who doesn't
spend much time thinking about sleeve patches on uniforms,...
don't worry. Neither do the Mets. The team recently unveiled the logo to celebrate their upcoming first season in Citi Field and to say ...
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Mets' pizza patch the laughingstock of baseball uniform ...
nydailynews.com - 1/9/2009
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nydailynews.com —
Marc Rubin (no relation), a 26-year veteran stats
professor at Southern New Hampshire University's Graduate School of...
Business, where he specializes in compensation analysis, writes Surfing the Mets with the assertion that the Mets' bullpen woes in ...
(more)
What's the catch?
theropolitans.com - 1/12/2009
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Note: The Mets are the Jets are the Mets
MetsBlog.com —
... In a post to Mets Geek, James Kannengieser compares the Jets and Mets, both of whom were once in first place and controlled of their own fate, but fell one win short of the playoffs. ...
MetsGeek column: Mets-Jets parallels
Mets Tailgate —
... Check out my latest MetsGeek column, where I find some parallels between the 2008 Mets and Jets seasons. Here's a snippet: ...
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No luxury boxes for Yankees, Mets (AP) —
Yahoo! Sports - MLB News 1/6/2009
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration is bowing to critics and will forgo luxury boxes at the new ballparks for the Yankees and Mets. A Bloomberg spokesman said Tuesday the city has worked out a deal to get extra money from the Yankees and put that ...
Mets to meet with Boras this week —
Major League Baseball News 1/7/2009
Agent Scott Boras, in New York for the introduction for client Mark Teixeira, will stay in town to go to work for a couple of others. According to multiple media reports, Boras has meetings set on Wednesday with executives of the Mets.
