The Game…
The Mets (69–62) take on the Phillies (70–62) at Shea Stadium tonight…
The Pitchers…
RHP Pedro Martinez (13–5, 2.77) starts for the Mets … Opponents are batting .192 against Martinez, second lowest in the National League … He has not allowed a run in his last two starts, spanning 12 innings pitched … Against the Phillies [...]

…in the days after willie randolph and omar minaya were hired by the mets this off-season, we heard and read a lot about how the organization was on a mission to change the losing culture inside the clubhouse…
…it seems to have changed…
…adam rubin covers the mets for the daily news…however, he doesn’t just write game [...]

Kaley weighs in on the Steve Trachsel situation at Flushing Local…
…this will be an old story after next wednesday, when trachsel has been re-entered into the team’s rotation…

By way of Rob Neyer’s chat at ESPN, CoolStandings.com, which calculates the chances of each team making the playoffs, lists the Mets as the favorites to win the Wild Card…

Thanks to your readership, MetsBlog.com has cracked the Top 100 most visited Blogs, checking in at 92 out of roughly 33 million blogs, according to the Truth Laid Bear’s traffic rankings, the definitive resource in blogging traffic…
We’re also the second most visited sports blog online, behind only Blez’s outstanding AthleticsNation.com…
…again, as i’ve said before, thank you…without your [...]

In yesterday’s Journal News, Peter Abraham asked, “At what point does a slow transition to a new team and city become simply a bad season?”…
Since his collision with Mike Cameron, Beltran has driven in just one run and scored just six times.  For the statistically-interested, that would be 80 runs scored and 13 RBI for the season, [...]

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…much of the press honors ramon castro and carlos beltran from last night’s tremendous win over the phillies…
…also give credit to the bullpen, who we spend a ton of time ridiculing on a daily basis around here…
Trailing 4–1 when Jae Seo was bounced from the game, the Mets bullpen allowed for a comeback by working four [...]

The Mets are 18-4 in the first game of a home opener, which is tops in baseball…
…this is such a huge stat…and i say this will due all respect for the task at hand, but this is an even bigger stat in the month that follows september…

In the middle of this team’s first playoff run in five summers, The New York Post’s Lenn Roberts shifts to warming up the Hot Stove, writing that Billy Wagner, who can become a free agent after this season, said the Mets are a team he would consider signing with…
…frankly, i could care less about this right now…
…hey, [...]

Steve Trachsel will throw a simulated start in the bullpen tomorrow, putting him on pace to start Wednesday, September 7 in Atlanta, which just so happens to be the same day the Mets have stopped publicly plotting out their rotation…
…i know this is a hot story with mets fans, but i just don’t get it…trachsel has [...]

“We never thought for a second we were going to lose,” David Wright confidently told reporters after the game.  “It just seemed like something big was going to happen.”…
…you know, neither did i…oddly, and i’m looking at you braden looper, i didn’t worry about losing until the mets actually had the lead…
“It sends chills up and [...]

…for those waiting on minaya’s list of september call-ups…relax…you won’t hear anything official until after tonight’s game it seems…

“It was cool,” Mike Cameron told reporters about bringing the lineup card out to home plate prior to last night’s game and hearing the crowd cheer him on….
“I’ve been getting that from all of the letters I have over in my locker and everything,” he added.  “It’s just a good feeling to have a lot [...]

A CT scan confirmed that the broken bone in Mike Piazza’s hand would take six– to eight-weeks to heal, Piazza and Mets GM Omar Minaya told reporters prior to last night’s game…
“He’s still going to be technically day-to-day, but the truth is it’s going to be some time before he’s able to go out there [...]