January 14, 2010
By now you’ve likely heard the news that Carlos Beltran had knee surgery without the Mets permission. The surgery was performed by Beltran’s doctor in Colorado. His contract requires that the Mets provide written permission to have elective surgery from the reports that I’ve heard. At issue is whether the knee surgery was medically necessary [...]
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August 19, 2009
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Of course, the big news of the day is the continuing feud between Ryan Church and Jerry Manuel. But there’s more on the heels of the Mets 9-4 win over Atlanta at Citi Field last night.
Here’s the news:
Gary Sheffield says that he doesn’t expect to be with the Mets for [...]
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August 19, 2009
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The Atlanta Braves are in town and Jerry Manuel and Ryan Church took the opportunity to wage a mild war of words. Basically, Manuel said that David Wright’s concussion is being handled differently than Church’s because they’re “different animals”. Manuel later tried to clarify by saying they’re “different individuals” and [...]
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August 18, 2009
Atlanta Braves (62-56 Road: 30-29) at New York Mets (55-63 Home: 32-27) 7:10pm
Derek Lowe (12-7 4.08) vs. Oliver Perez (2-3 5.97)
TV: SNY
What to watch: The Braves come to town hot, winning seven of their last nine games. Lowe has won his last five decisions and hasn’t lost a game since July 5. You already know [...]
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July 10, 2009
Here’s the announcement to the media from Omar Minaya discussing today’s trade with the Braves. Ryan Church and Jeff Francoeur and trading right fields in the NL East.
Omar Minaya audio
This is Ryan Church’s reaction to the news that he’s been traded to the Braves. He does a good job of showing class when he could [...]
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July 10, 2009
We have the announcement of a trade this afternoon with the Mets sending Ryan Church to Atlanta for Jeff Francoeur and cash. It’s basically a swap of under-performing right fielders. Despite Jerry Manuel’s denials, I think we all knew that Church was in his dog house.
We all know Francoeur, we’ve seen him a million times [...]
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July 3, 2009
The story of this game is that Livan Hernandez got lit up by the Phillies for 7 runs in 3 innings. When that happens, the game is usually over. And it was in this case. The bullpen came in and threw five shutout innings, only giving up one hit.
On offense, Ryan Church was 3 for [...]
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