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The 83-79 Way


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Published Nov. 13, 2009 at 8:42 a.m.

Rarely has anything I've anticipated surpassed my expectations the way SNY's Mets Yearbook did Thursday night. The 1971 highlight film immediately became the second-best thing ever aired on the channel, behind only the 2006 division clincher ... The film was titled The Winning Way , which in itself is beautiful given that the 83-79 Mets were as mediocre as all get-out in 1971. But the first installment in this series of vintage propaganda pieces is a victory in SNY programming. It's like they

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Helping Dave Howard Hear the Outrage


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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 11:10 a.m.

Today the New York Post has a brief item about Mets fans who were expecting a 10% cut in ticket prices, but are seeing reductions that are basically a rounding error. Bart Hubbach and Jeremy Olshan quote the ever-reliable Dave Howard, who defends the apparent discrepancy as follows: "It's very consistent with what we said in the beginning. Obviously, the 'average' means there is some higher and some lower, but the average is 10 percent. We haven't heard outrage about this." ... To help Dave

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Dodgers' Entire Coaching Staff to Return Next Year


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Published Nov. 10, 2009 at 10:10 a.m.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Joe Torre's entire coaching staff will be back with the Los Angeles Dodgers next season ...

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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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Hell is Out of Session


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Published Nov. 8, 2009 at 6:06 p.m.

After the events of the past few days — the Yankees winning their 27th World Series and being feted for it; the Mets doing no such thing — perhaps you wonder, what's the point? I'd love to tell you what it is, but I have no real clue ... But I do have a correction to offer, specific to previous entries to this blog: ... This was not the World Series from hell, at least not in the sense that either outcome would be equally terrible. If the Phillies had won, I can say with a great deal of

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SNY Prepares to Do Right By Us


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Published Nov. 6, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

As trophies and t-shirts were being passed around Wednesday night on five different channels, I flipped to SNY out of curiosity. Would they be taking their New York sports mandate seriously and covering the grim doings at Yankee Stadium? Would they have something special on to cheer up the rest of us? Would there be racing from the Meadowlands? ... They were airing a repeat of The Best of Mets Weekly which, at that moment, featured Dave Howard giving Julie Alexandria a tour of a Citi Field

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Dark Side's Callin' Now


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Published Nov. 2, 2009 at 5:10 a.m.

Flipping over from the encore presentation of perhaps the best episode ever of Mad Men and glimpsing the Yankees' ninth-inning rally in Game Four — the one that has all but buried the Phillies' hopes of successfully defending their 2008 championship — I thought of Luis Castillo ... or "Luis Castillo". If I say "Luis Castillo," you know what I mean. The vignette that leaps (or drops) to mind is so identified with the player, that's it's not even synonymous; it's eponymous ... I thought of

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Reinstate Melvin Mora


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Published Oct. 30, 2009 at 9:28 p.m.

In February 1998, Al Leiter became a Met. He couldn't have been happier to join the team he said he rooted hard for during his childhood, which he once referred to as "the Mike Vail years" ... This is really exciting for me. I feel like a little kid ... All it took was Wayne Huizenga dismantling the World Champion Florida Marlins before they could defend their title. Steve Phillips gladly handed over three prospects in exchange for a durable lefty who threw hard and competed like crazy. One Met

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Phils Are Fearless Enough to Beat Yanks


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Published Oct. 27, 2009 at 5:57 a.m.

To date I have been wrong about every prediction this postseason. However, I have been on the money with each of the Yankee series. That brings us to the 2009 Fall Classic and here is why I think the Phillies will beat the Yankees in a 7 game classic.Confidence + Fearlessness = PhilliesJoe Torre says [ ... ] ...

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You Never Forget Your Second


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gary carter, jesse orosco

Published Oct. 27, 2009 at 2:14 a.m.

Twenty-three years ago tonight I got to do something I haven't done since. I got to watch my team become champions of baseball ... I didn't know it would be the last time I'd have that pleasure for at least twenty-four years. I wasn't thinking about what the future held that Monday night, October 27, 1986, at least not beyond my ability to complete some long-avoided work overnight and head to the ticker-tape parade in the morning before dragging myself to my standing every-other-Tuesday

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