From what I can gather out of Cleveland, the Mets and Indians have been in contact.
The Mets are interested in Martinez, but I do not believe any hard offer was ever on the table – though this, again, may just be a matter of semantics.
The thing is, the Red Sox and Rays like Martinez as well.
“The [...]
The way I see it, if the Mets want to pull off a miracle and win the Wild Card, they need to go roughly 45–20 during these final 65 games of the season.
The Mets begin a 10–game homestand tonight.
The first series will be four games against the Rockies, who lead the Mets by 7.5 games for the Wild [...]
In a report for Newsday, David Lennon paints a picture of how the Mets players are acting, as the team falls in the standing, writing:
“Each afternoon, eight players were immersed in card games as they waited for BP. Another group was behind closed doors in the theater room watching concert videos, the music thumping so [...]
Comedian and well-known Mets fan Jim Breuer had the following to say about being a Mets fan this morning, while appearing as a guest on WMMR in Philadelphia:
“They suck. It’s like being in love with an alcoholic. It’s like, you constantly defend her, and people are like, ‘Dude, your alcoholic friend is a mess,’ and [...]
In a post to his blog for the Daily News, Adam Rubin writes:
“Privately, nearly everyone in the Mets clubhouse has come to the realization that they don’t have the horses to compete.”
…publicly, this is how most fans seem to feel, as well…
The Mets are 10–36 once trailing 1–0.
They are 4–35 when trailing at the end [...]
Last night, the Mets had just two hits, and scored no runs, against Cardinals RHP Joel Pineiro, who pitched nine innings and allowed only one runner to reach second base.
…pineiro was rocking a nasty slider, and was seemingly always ahead in the count… the Mets just kept topping it over and over again, all night… [...]
The Mets have lost eight of their last 11 games.
“We’re not doing too many things right,” David Wright said, following yesterday’s loss to the Rayes. “When you look at the standings, we’re in striking distance, but we’re concerned about how we’re playing right now.”
Fortunately, The Phillies went 1-8 on their just-completed home-stand.
“We’ll be fine,” Shane [...]
According to the Boston Globe, “The Red Sox have fielded multiple calls and some offers for Brad Penny.”
The Dodgers, Mets and Phillies have all been linked in rumor to Penny so far this season.
Meanwhile, according to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, OF Jeremy Hermida is drawing a lot of interest from other teams, “but the [...]
…this is interesting, which comes courtesy of Modell’s:
“Modell’s Sporting Goods is looking for a dynamic duo of local Mets fans to represent the Mo’s Zone (sections 101 & 102 at Citi Field) for the remainder of the season! If you think you’ve got the chops, come to the Modell’s Sporting Goods store located in Queens [...]
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…despite the result, the last few days was exciting… there was a consistent, strong energy in the stands of Citi Field, which had not been there at any other point this season… i like this rivalry with the Phillies and Mets, so much more than what we had with the Braves in the 1990s, because [...]
This morning, WFAN’s Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton announced today they were recently asked by the Mets to submit four songs to replace Sweet Caroline during the eighth inning in Citi Field.
…oh, jeez, this again… ok, fine… let’s see what we’ve got…
Carton, Esiason and their staff selected the ‘Curly Shuffle,’ ‘Blame it on the Boogie,’ ‘I [...]
The Mets have started to inform participants in the Subway Series ticket lottery whether or not they have been given the opportunity to purchase tickets to the June 26-28 series at Citi Field.
I received the following e-mail:
“Thank you for participating in the online random drawing for the opportunity to purchase tickets to the Subway Series [...]
Typically, I am not a fan of interleague play.
The concept is fine, I guess, but in practice it seems unfair.
This weekend, however, I am pretty excited, since the Mets are playing the Red Sox and the Yankees are playing the Phillies.
In addition to cheering for the Mets this weekend, I will also be pulling [...]
In Newsday, David Lennon asks, “So who are these Mets? The soft, smiling do-gooders as characterized by their own general manager last weekend? Or the serious, take-care-of-business grinders who swept the Braves out of Turner Field in this two-game mini-series?”
“When you win, you have energy and passion,” David Wright told reporters [...]
According to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University, “If the Yankees face the Mets in a Subway Series, 55 percent of New York City fans back the Bombers and 42 percent pull for the Amazins.”
“Except for Queens,” Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, explains, “New York City still is the home of [...]