Archive for June, 2005

Heath Gets His Bell Rung

Click here for a recap of last night’s game. The Mets bullpen, most notably Heath Bell, blew a good start by Tom Glavine. Bell gave up 3 runs in the 11th inning to turn a 3-3 tie into a 6-3 loss. David Wright batted 5th in the order in place of Mike Piazza who is […]



FOXSports.com’s Dayn Perry Likes The Mets In The NL East

FOXSports.com’s Dayn Perry explains why we should expect the Mets to emerge from NL East pack.



Graves Still Not Quite A Met – But Almost

Danny Graves wore a Mets uniform (no. 32), pitched batting practice (to batter Ramon Castro) and received a hug from Pedro Martinez but is still not officially a Met. Graves agents and the Mets are still working out the particulars of the 2006 portion of his contract. As soon as those details are worked out […]



Piazza Injured

Mike Piazza was hit by a foul ball in the top of the first and was out of the game when his turn came up in the batting order at the bottom of the inning. Ramon Castro replaced him and hit a double (his first extra base hit of the season) in the bottom of […]



No Victor-y This Time

Click here for a recap of last night’s game. The Mets suffered a 4-1 loss at the hands of Brandon Backe and the Houston Astros. Víctor Zambrano started for the Mets and sfter retiring his first 10 batters he fell apart. But even so his teammates should have been able to pick up after his […]



A No-No?? No!

Click here for a recap of last night’s game. Denied again. Going into the 7th inning last night it looked like Pedro Martinez might do what no other Mets pitcher has ever done: throw a no hitter. But then Chris Burke came to bat and there went that. Pedro ended up having to settle with […]



Graves Not Quite A Met Yet

Marty Noble at mlb.com reports that Danny Graves worked out for the Mets at Shea today. Noble says that Graves has not yet signed but can be expected to be in uniform by the end of the week.



More Sidebar Content

In case you haven’t noticed I’ve added yet more functionality to what is slowly becoming the worlds longest blog sidebar. I also changed the order in which some of the sidebar content appears in an effort to get some of the more relevant things higher up on the page. I’ve added Standings (under Archives) and […]



Graves Signs With Mets?

According to a report on ESPN.com the Mets have signed Danny Graves. I’ll have more on this when there’s official confirmation.



D-Day for Graves

According to a report by Ken Rosenthal the Atlanta Braves have dropped out of the Danny Graves sweepstakes. That leaves the Mets and the Florida Marlins the last two teams in the race. Rosenthal says Graves will sign with one of the two teams today. I think it would be great if the Mets got […]