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Closing Time With the Mets: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Mike: After Jose Valverde’s latest implosion this weekend he was removed from his tenuous hold on the Mets closer’s job. Kyle Farnsworth has been named the current closer. Farnsworth, remember, was...
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2 Guys Talking: Rafael Montero Makes His Debut
Mike: With the Yankees at Citi Field tonight the game was guaranteed to have a little more juice than the usual mid-May, mid-week game. But now the game has taken on more importance, as one of the...
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The Mets and Yankees Meet at a Fork in the Road
Even though the Mets and Yankees share this town, I don’t spend a lot of time following the Yankees. I’m very much immersed in the Mets, including this blog, and there is basketball, and football, and...
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Some Thoughts on the Long Weekend: Abreu, CY, a Solid Bullpen, Jon Niese...
If anyone has ever uttered the phrase, “There is no such thing as too much baseball,” they might not have seen this weekend’s Mets versus Phillies series. I remember years ago reading a biography of...
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2 Guys Talking Mets Prospects Current and Past: Degrom, Matz, Lara,...
Mike: I’m having a hard time reconciling a few things. When Sandy Alderson arrived in October of 2010, one consistent message had been that a major order of business was the need to rebuild a “barren”...
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2 Guys Talking: The Mets Bullpen No Longer Scares Us
Mike: Stress is a terrible thing. It can really wear you down. When it came to watching the Mets early in the year I had two major stress points. One was the Mets horrific bullpen, the other was the...
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2 Guys Talking: Some Positive Surprises in 2014
Mike: We like to bring up the fact around here from time-to-time that one of the great joys of baseball is that it is not really so easy to figure out. If everything always went according to plan there...
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Youth Can Be Served
It has been an interesting weekend, in a meaningless way. Without coming out and saying as much, Sandy Alderson waved the white flag on 2014. First came the news that Flores was going to get some...
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The 5 Best Things That Sandy Alderson Has Accomplished for the Mets So Far
Jimmy: Okay, Mike. Maybe this is too broad a category, but let’s look at the “5 Best Things That Sandy Alderson Has Done for the Mets So Far.” I don’t think there’s been a total of 5 transactions, so...
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After a Long and Winding Road, Jeurys Familia Has (Finally) Arrived
Jimmy: You know, Mike, I’ve been thinking about Jeurys Familia. Obviously, he’s been sensational for the Mets this season. It seemed like we’d been hearing about him forever. But in the way back, the...
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