Mookie, Melvin Join Mets

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Published Feb. 8, 2010 at 4:21 p.m.

Mookie Wilson is rejoining the Mets as the minor league outfield and base running coordinator and Bob Melvin is joining as a pro scout ... Both men have major league coaching experience ... Additionally, both men have been managers (Wilson managed the Brooklyn Cyclones in 2005 and Melvin managed the Mariners and Diamondbacks) ... Both [ ... ] ...

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Davis, Save Us

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Published Nov. 30, 2009 at 7:21 a.m.

The Mets were meandering through their most arid major award season since 1993 — the last time no Met scored a single vote for MVP, Cy Young, Manager of the Year or Rookie of the Year nor nabbed a Silver Slugger or Gold Glove — when it appeared we'd have nothing more to sate our perilously low self-esteem than Luis Castillo's fantastic seventh-place finish in voting for mlb.com's National League Comeback Player of the Year balloting (six points behind the decreasingly heartwarming return of

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The Days After

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Published Nov. 10, 2009 at 7:56 a.m.

Welcome to a special Tuesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End , a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it comes ... For life's a mystery ... I shall remember ... For thirty days ... Thirty days ... —The Rainmakers ... It was in 2004, I think, that I was doing a little research

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As Mookies Go & Eras End

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Published Oct. 21, 2009 at 1:27 a.m.

Welcome to a special Wednesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End , a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it comes ... In the span of six summer days in 1989, the Mets traded Mookie Wilson and Berke Breathed stopped drawing Bloom County ... Both entities had been a staple of my

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Teufel Back - Wally Next?

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Published Oct. 15, 2009 at 4:31 p.m.

According to Adam Rubin, Tim Teufel is on the verge of being named the 2010 manager of the AA Binghamton Mets. In addition, several other former Mets could be returning to the organization:Wally Backman is expected in New York this week to cement a position as a Single-A skipper, while Mookie Wilson also is in [ ... ] ...

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Now About That Franchise Hit Record...

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Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 8:32 a.m.

There's a lot of talk going around about all-time franchise records for hits. I assume this has something to do with the eternal appreciation fans and media have for true legends of the game. Given that the subject is in the air, I thought it would be fun (my kind of fun, at any rate) to explore how the vaunted Met record for most hits in a career came to be ... The first Met to hold the all-time franchise record for hits was Gus Bell. He produced the first Met hit ever, a one-out single to

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September More Meaningless Than You'd Suspect

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Published Aug. 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

I'm all for the myths and carrots that keep us going as fans in discouraging years. We deserve ideals and distractions after giving our all to a team that has given us far less than planned, projected or promised. We're the ones who invest our hopes and dreams and keep investing despite no sight of tangible payoff. Give us at least the spare change of change, right? ... When the Mets have a 2009, and it's overstocked with Everyone Must Go veterans, the inclination is to approach September by

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Mookie disappointed about lack '86 Series display

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Published May 16, 2009 at 8:45 p.m.
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Mookie Wilson is responsible for perhaps the most indelible moment in Mets history, even if Bill Buckner is more famous for letting the ball sneak through his legs in the bottom of the 10th inning in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series ...

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