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Key to 2008 - It’s Not Johan

By joe • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: 07-08 Offseason, Mets Hitting

While we Mets fans continue to bask in the afterglow of obtaining Johan Santana, it should be noted that acquiring the ace — while extremely important to the Mets’ hopes — is not necessarily the key to winning the NL pennant (or the NL East, for that matter).
Rather, it could be argued that the key [...]



How Axl Rose Can Help the Mets

By joe • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Mets Hitting

Last night when Tom Glavine walked out to the mound, he had the wrong Guns N Roses song playing. Instead of Sweet Child O’ Mine, it should have been Patience.
Yes, the Mets won the game, and they won on Monday as well. But their offense is still atrocious — they’ve accumulated only 6 runs and [...]



Beltran - Marquee Player?

By joe • Jun 23rd, 2007 • Category: Mets Hitting

Now that everyone around him is hitting again, we may see Carlos Beltran go on a tear.
There’s an article at Flushing University questioning whether Beltran is a marquee player — or the type of guy who can carry a team all by himself.
What’s your thought? Read the article and enter the forum at FU, or [...]



How Einstein Can Help the Mets

By joe • Jun 21st, 2007 • Category: Mets Hitting

Over and over during the Mets’ last 16 games, we keep hearing utterances such as “…we’ll get out of this thing …” , “… we have to ride it out … ” , ” … we have to get through it …” , and etc.
This 13 losses out of 16 games slump is a RESULT [...]



Down Must Go Down

By joe • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: Mets Hitting

Oliver Perez did not pitch well on Wednesday night, but he did not deserve to lose.
In the postgame comments, Willie Randolph alluded to Ollie’s struggles with his command, and suggested that the team was looking for a well-pitched ballgame, ” … maybe win 1-0, 2-1 … ”
Huh?
Willie, you must be joking. The supposedly most dangerous [...]



Mets: Lackluster or Lacking?

By joe • Jun 5th, 2007 • Category: Mets Hitting

After the Mets lost two of three from the Diamondbacks, the team’s vocal leaders — Paul LoDuca and Billy Wagner — suggested that they needed to turn up the intensity.
Quoth Wagner:
“We canâ??t go out and play the type of baseball weâ??ve played the last three games. We canâ??t play this lackluster. We have to go [...]