Monthly Archives: September 2009

Mets Game 159: Loss to Nationals

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Joe Janish

Nationals 7 Mets 4 The season cannot end soon enough. The Mets had a two-zip lead early, the Nats fought back with a run, the Met answered with an insurance run, the Nats got another run, and the Mets answered … Continue reading →

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Evaluating the Mets Pitching Staff

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Joe Janish

In David Lennon’s article on the “housecleaning” of the Mets, the poor performance of the pitching staff — and Dan Warthen’s responsiblity for it — was explained away by the injuries (funny, seems that EVERYTHING that’s gone wrong for the … Continue reading →

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Mets Soft? Look Again to the Jets

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Joe Janish

At Newsday today, David Lennon reported that more heads will be rolling in the Mets organization, and noted that “Mets decision-makers have been meeting regularly for the past six weeks in an effort to sort out what went wrong this … Continue reading →

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Mets Game 158: Loss to Nationals

Posted on September 30, 2009 by Joe Janish

Nationals 4 Mets 3 With their 91st loss, the Mets may have sunk to a position lower than their opponent. The Nationals may be twelve games worse overall, but right now, the teams are all too similar — and the … Continue reading →

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Setting Up the Excuse File

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Joe Janish

The 2009 season hasn’t yet ended, but already Mets manager Jerry Manuel is setting up excuses for the 2010 season. In our latest installment of “Manuel Being Manuel”, we have this gem from The Star-Ledger, in response to whether he … Continue reading →

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Mets Can Learn from the Jets

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Joe Janish

During the NFL offseason, the Jets made the somewhat surprising move of hiring Rex Ryan as their head coach. The hiring was met with mixed opinions from the pundits, and there were much eye rolling going on when Ryan addressed … Continue reading →

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Mets Continue to Clean House

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Joe Janish

Somehow this news got buried at the bottom of Adam Rubin’s postgame report on Sunday night, as if it were inconsequential: Binghamton B-Mets manager Mako Oliveras and Gulf Coast League manager Julio Franco have been fired. Oliveras and Franco join … Continue reading →

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David Wright was NOT Disciplined

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Joe Janish

Despite at least one newspaper article to the contrary, David Wright was NOT BENCHED for disciplinary reasons on Sunday afternoon. I’ll state it again, so that it is perfectly clear: the fact that David Wright stopped running about 15-20 feet … Continue reading →

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