... Atlanta extinguishing and post-season Met hopes for too many years to be confident about this series. The Mets are only two games over 500 on the record. The Braves are playing over 500 at home and ... going to be a tough team to beat and will probably want at least a split of the four game set. Then the Mets finish again Florida and it feels like no victories have come easy against that team.This Met ...

... re Baaaack: September 2007 Defense Arrives Right on Time," and "First Place Too Fishy for the Mets?"--show clearly that I had packed it in several times. Sure, I'm a bad fan, but these guys ... the distance and his tendancy to field the ball as though he has a cannon when he clearly does not will not hurt the Mets so much Club" and congratulating them on the coming influx of dues paying members that ...

... hoisting a cheesy trophy in October. There's little doubt that the Mets fell into that first category last year: their offensive output ... past, but in the four months since I wrote that attack piece, the Mets have gone 61-44. Maybe I didn't agree with giving up the farm ... end of the ol' luck stick. So I must admit: I don't know enough about the Mets farm system or mission statement or organizational ...

... a bit nervous to witness Sean Marshall utterly dominating the Mets, but the bats finally woke up in the fifth inning and ... the crowd whenever Castillo came to the plate, it occurred to Rickey that there has never been another Mets player as utterly loathed as Luis Castillo is ... the makeup on Saturday. Sure there's that small bit about giving the Mets pitchers an extra day of rest, but that pales in ...

Black cat. Black bat. It's always something when these teams meet, which is why the New York Mets should be very pleased today they may be playing these same Chicago Cubs again in some ... "Weird," Pedro Martinez said. "I just kept watching it on TV in slow motion." Just like that, the Mets had runners at first and second with one out, and the table was set for a different kind of buffet. Three batters ...

... following a game the Cubs didn't have to win with any sort of detachment. Goddamn those Mets. In tonight's showdown before the inmates, Carlos Zambrano returns to the mound ... to Neifi Perez and Jason Dubois. He has only won once in his last seven starts, but pitched well enough the last time out to keep the Mets bullpen out of the game until the seventh inning as the Metropolitans collected a much ...