Art Shamsky Rekindled

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Published Jan. 23, 2010 at 12:04 p.m.

Art Shamsky has re-launched his offical website, and it’s looking good. Nice to see the internet can properly rekindle Mets history, since the Mets themselves are incapable. Be sure to check it out and “eduMETcate” yourself.James K at Amazin Avenue likes the idea of Fernando Tatis returning to the Mets. I disagree, and you will [ ... ] ...

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Six Seats Suddenly Available

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Published Dec. 1, 2009 at 5:24 p.m.

As the Mets go about their alphabetical roster restocking — Alex Cora ... Chris Coste ... Chuck Cottier? — they'll have to do it without five of their longtime ticketholders. A Mets fan and FAFIF reader sent us the note below the other day explaining why he and his friends will not be renewing their seats ... I don't know whether this group, whose letter was signed "Amazings NY," has reconsidered its decision based on the subsequent securing of clubhouse wise man Cora or eternal Phillie

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Editing the Lowlight Reel

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Published Sept. 27, 2009 at 9:43 a.m.

You'd figure everybody had all the evidence they needed to prove just how inept the 2009 Mets were. They've filled gag reels and faux Monopoly boards with pops that were dropped, bases that went ungraced, fielders who fell and everything that went comically wrong — right? ... But wait! Another clip has revealed itself. It's footage from September 26, the 155th game of this besotted season. We pick up the action in the fifth inning of the Mets at Marlins, two outs, David Wright, All-American

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Fun While It Lasted

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Published Sept. 13, 2009 at 5:56 p.m.

The never-say-die Mets didn't say die until the ninth in the afternoon portion of Sunday's quasi-doubleheader. But their offense failed to come to life in any tangible way until the eighth, so the late-inning heroics effect that proved so popular the day before was kind of dimmed and doomed ahead of time ... It really pays to score four in the first and take your chances from there ... Gosh, Saturday's game was so much fun, making it that much more of a shame that we had to trudge back to our

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Damn Thing III

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Published Sept. 12, 2009 at 9:49 p.m.

In Mets-Phillies lore, you win the Damn Thing when you go to Philadelphia, you build a huge lead, you hold on for dear life and you come away thanking your lucky 10-9 stars that you didn't blow the Damn Thing. It was the formula for broacast immortality on July 25, 1990 and it echoed clear through to July 7, 2008 ... Mets 10 ... Phillies 9 ... It remains the official score of sweet relief, no matter what route the Mets take to arrive there ... This Saturday afternoon in South Philly, it wasn't

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This Much Is Certain

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Published Sept. 11, 2009 at 10:25 p.m.

It's a measure of how far we've fallen (with farther to go) that I switched off the TV feeling that the Mets had eked out something akin to a moral victory by only allowing the Phillies to beat them by two runs. Nelson Figueroa bit and scratched and came out of things only vaguely mussed, Ken Takahashi conducted himself well and our Triple-A lineup was gallant in tilting at a few windmills before its predictable unhorsing ... Now that it's over, though, it's just another loss on the march to 90

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The Game Abides

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Published Aug. 22, 2009 at 11:51 a.m.

For the Mets, whatever happens between first pitch and final out has become secondary. There are injury woes, draft-pick signings, waiver claims, contract disputes and front-office assessments that are more important and usually more interesting than the outcome of the actual games. At this point, the Mets' 2009 W-L record is a measure of how much lipstick winds up on the pig ... And yet there's still baseball under all this mess, and last night the baseball was marvelous, full of tension and

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November Comes Early

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Published Aug. 10, 2009 at 11:48 p.m.

To start off on a rather obvious note, game recaps are supposed to say something about the game you just watched, or missed, or fell asleep during, or were going to watch and didn't and now feel guilty about it. Let's dispense with tonight's game in relatively brisk fashion, then: ... 1. Mike Pelfrey was bad. Again ... 2. Daniel Murphy had a miserable night against a tough lefthander, then it got worse. He wasn't even in your picture when Anderson Hernandez confidently fired the ball to first

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