What the Breakfast Chicken Hatched

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Published Nov. 15, 2009 at 6:10 p.m.

Athletes have been known be implored to attend Bar Mitzvahs. Sometimes it's because a particular athlete is Jewish; there's a great bit in a movie called Keeping Up With The Steins about an extraordinarily competitive L.A. family trying to get then-Dodger Shawn Green to show up at their son's affair. Sometimes it's because the fan issuing the invite thinks an athlete is Jewish — as was the commonly misconceived case when David Cone came to the Mets with a name that sounded pretty darn

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Where's Nolan Ryan Now That We Could Actually Use Him?

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Published Aug. 25, 2009 at 2:44 p.m.

Just to catch you up on New York Mets pitcher depletion matters: ... • Johan Santana, out for the season as you might have suspected once he was scratched from tonight's start. He's going in for "minor" arthroscopic elbow surgery to remove bone chips. I know ... shudder , but they fixed his knee OK, proving perhaps that every Met who goes out with an injury maybe someday comes back. Nick Evans takes his place on the roster, thereby quelling all those urgent "Where's Nick Evans?" inquiries

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AMAZIN' TUESDAY Tonight!

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Published Aug. 25, 2009 at 6:09 a.m.

Just a reminder that your friends from Faith and Fear are co-hosting AMAZIN' TUESDAY tonight at 7:00 at Two Boots Tavern on the Lower East Side, 384 Grand St., between Norfolk and Suffolk, accessible via the F to Delancey and other popular subway lines. If you haven't been to one of our nights of reading, rooting and Randy Milligan, an impartial observer filed reviews from Metstock in June and the first AMAZIN' TUESDAY in July. When you see what you missed, surely you'll want a piece of the

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Very Good, Very Bad and All the Points in Between

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Published Aug. 15, 2009 at 10:27 p.m.

In retrospect, why were we surprised? Didn't it stand to reason that David Wright would go down too? And didn't it make sense that, having failed to injure himself sliding into third or stretching for a bag or descending the dugout steps or conducting other maneuvers that have waylaid unwary Mets, the cruel baseball gods would finally strike Wright down in frightening, decisive fashion, via a fastball from the hand of an enemy pitcher? ... I don't mean to make light of what happened in the

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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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They've Got to Be Somebody's Patsy

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Published Aug. 10, 2009 at 3:06 a.m.

When it's a particularly positive development that the Mets have beaten the Padres, it can mean one of two things: ... • The Padres are very good ... • The Mets are pretty bad ... The Padres haven't been very good all that often in their forty big league seasons. They've notched as many as 90 wins only three times. When they're not reaching for glory, they're usually wallowing well south of the National League West border. Beating the Padres when they're very good is a fine thing, but it

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Next Phenomenon: Starters Going Deeper in Games?

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Published May 29, 2009 at 5:59 a.m.

Phil Hughes demanding to pitch the ninth, Johan Santana throwing 120 pitches back to back, and Livan Hernandez complete game are examples this week of how we may see the starting pitchers revert back to throwing innings. We kept hearing while the Yankees were in Texas how Nolan Ryan has eliminated pitch counts in order [ ... ] ...

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Reyes keys 5-run fourth inning, Mets beat Bucs (AP)

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Published May 9, 2009 at 4:52 p.m.
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As he walked into the postgame interview room, Sandy Alomar Sr. shouted out a request for the media to take it easy on him. He followed that up with a hearty laugh, knowing it would be difficult to grill him. The New York Mets had just completed what might have been their most well-rounded win of the season ...

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Last Night: Video Clips, Quotes & Analysis

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Published May 6, 2009 at 5:47 a.m.

Here is SNY.tv’s Post Game Extra, from last night’s win over the Braves, featuring clips of the game; quotes from Jerry Manuel and Livan Hernandez and analysis from Keith Hernandez and Gary Cohen:viewNode("378d1673fe32b", {"width": 320, "height": 263, "player_profile": "MetsBlog", "asset_id": "552075"}); ...

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Recap: Post Game Extra from Win over Padres

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Published April 16, 2009 at 6:46 a.m.

Here is SNY.tv’s Post Game Extra, from last night’s win over the Padres, featuring clips of the game; quotes from Jerry Manuel and Mike Pelfrey; and analysis from Ron, Keith and Gary: ...

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