The Mets lost to the Reds tonight by a score of 4 to 2…
For a full recap, dance with the Associated Press…
…a few thoughts…
…well done, Bronson Arroyo…he is very good at keeping the ball down, while expanding and expanding the strike zone so that he can manipulate it…impressive…
…Chad Bradford has been damn near perfect all [...]

If the All-Star game voting ended today, David Wright, Jose Reyes, Paul Lo Duca and Carlos Beltran would all be in the starting lineup, according to an MLB.com press release…
…and hopefully next season, willie will be the team’s manager…
If you have yet to do so, use the link to your left and vote a maximum of [...]

The Game…
The Mets (43–25) take on the Reds (37–32) for the first game of a three game set at Shea Stadium tonight starting at 7:10 pm EDT…
The Mets and Reds split the season series between the two clubs last year… 

The Pitchers…
RHP Orlando Hernandez (4–5, 5.50 ERA) starts for the Mets … Left-handed batters are hitting .320 in 138 [...]

In the New York Post on Father’s Day, Mike Vaccaro explains how Fred Wilpon and his son, Jeff, were inches away from becoming a father-n-son ownership duo along the lines of the Glass’s from the Kansas City Royals…
…i would be curious to know he it really went down…was it the two wilpons who realized it was [...]

In a chat for ESPN.com, Buster Olney answers a variety of questions about the Mets…
According to Olney, the Mets have their eye on Mariners RHP Gil Meche and Nationals RHP Livan Hernandez…
…our buddy Luke Halpert was just talking up meche to me online, actually, citing how well the pitcher has done over his last few [...]

At his blog for the Journal News, John Delcos asks the following…
“What are your issues about going to a game at Shea and concerns about the new stadium?…
“Is it parking?  Not being able to get tickets? Are the concessions worth eating? Can you get the Mets on TV where you want?  What about the sightlines?  [...]

Last week at Black Athlete, Cliff Floyd spoke with Tony McClean about the decreasing number of African-American baseball players…
…i was able to sit down with floyd myself this weekend and talk with him for roughly 20 minutes for an interview i will post later this week, and a good chunk of our discussion is about [...]

At his blog for the Daily News, Adam Rubin recaps how he and his fellow reporters defeated the Mets executives by the score of 9–3 in a seven inning game this morning at Shea Stadium…
…classic…
…by the way, gentlemen, i pitched in high school, and was clocking high-70s along with a pretty good circle change just a few [...]

SI.com’s Steve Hofstetter writes, “The last time the Mets were this good, El DeBarge was cool…I’m kidding, El DeBarge was never cool.”…
…if you are like me, born in the late-70s, and were introduced to baseball by way of the 1986 mets, this column is for you…
…Julio Machado…jeez…i had blocked that name out of my mind, [...]

Upon me referencing Roger Cedeno earlier this afternoon, Louis, a reader of MetsBlog, sent me the following image via e-mail, which he labeled Everyone’s Favorite Cedeno Picture…
…jeez, for whatever reason, i do not recall ever seeing this picture before…it’s amazing how one photo can sum exactly what it was like to be a mets fan during [...]

At Faith and Fear in Flushing, Greg provides 14 things to shovel on the last-place Braves, one for each game they currently trail the Mets…

In 125 at-bats at Shea Stadium, Carlos Delgado is batting .216, while batting .321 in 131 at-bats on the road…
In 108 at-bats at Shea Stadium, Carlos Beltran is batting .213.  In 109 at-bats on the road, he’s batting .358…
In fact, after hitting .429 with four HR and 16 RBI over nine games in Philadelphia, Arizona and Los Angeles, Beltran was [...]

In the New York Post on Sunday, Steve Serby sat down with Lastings Milledge for a very informative Q&A…
Among other topics, the two discuss the energy among Mets fans, the definition of swagger, his favorite movie and singer, and whether he would jump into the stands if he were to hit a home run in [...]

This season, Tom Glavine is 10–2 with a 3.48 ERA sporting 71 strike outs in 95.2 innings pitched.  Yeserday’s victory made him the first pitcher in the National League to win 10 games this season…
According to ESPN.com’s Cy Young Predictor, Glavine ranks second behind Brandon Webb as being most worthy of the NL Cy Young [...]

From May 27 through last Friday, Aaron Heilman allowed 14 runs on 10 hits over 9.1 innings pitched…
…yikes…
On Friday night, his pitching coach, Rick Peterson, told reporters he believed that Heilman’s struggled stemmed from a sagging arm slot.  Willie Randolph disagreed, simply chalking it up to the ebb and flow of baseball, as well as batters [...]