Monthly Archives: August 2006

Phillies 3 Mets 0 The only silver lining in this atrocious series vs. the Phils is that, if Philadelphia completes the sweep on Thursday afternoon, they’ll STILL be 11 games behind. Journeyman Lieber shut out the Mets on five hits, … Continue reading →

Phillies 11 Jose Reyes 4 Ugh, again. I wish Jay Horwitz would have mentioned that this would be the week that the Mets’ starting pitchers would be replaced by the winners of the “Pros vs. Joes” show. I would have … Continue reading →

Phillies 13 Mets 0 Ugh. Pedro gives up six runs in the first inning, Darren Oliver does one better in a hair under four innings of relief, and the Mets offense garners a lousy four hits (three singles) against a … Continue reading →

Mets 3 Nationals 1 Yesterday, a Mets’ relief pitcher vultured an undeserving win. Today, a Mets’ relief pitcher rightfully earned a well-deserved win. Chad Bradford came on with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning of a … Continue reading →

Mets 6 Nationals 4 Last night, the Mets lost but it was a positive game because Tom Glavine pitched so well. Tonight, the Mets won but it was a somewhat negative game because John Maine fell down to earth. Maine’s … Continue reading →

Nationals 2 Mets 1 OK so we lost … probably Billy Traber’s bottled-up anger for the Mets sending him to Cleveland all those years ago. I’d be pretty ticked off, too, if I were him. The good news is that … Continue reading →

Mets 7 Padres 3 El Duque enjoyed another strong outing in his bid to be a playoff starter, as the Mets swept San Diego for their first 2006 Shea broom job. It was a close game until the bottom of … Continue reading →

Mets 4 Padres 3 Another one-run win over the Padres, and again it never seemed that close. I’m not sure what it is … now I’m thinking that the Padres brought their laid-back, southern Cal attitude to NYC and just … Continue reading →