Citi Field Tours

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The Mets announced that they’re going to start offering tours of Citi Field on Memorial Day weekend. It’s only $10 for adults and $7 for kids and senior citizens. The tour is 60 minutes and includes the Empire Suites, the dugout, walking on the field, the clubhouse, and the Mets Hall of Fame.

It sounds like a good deal and I’m surprised that the Mets haven’t offered this sooner. I did a tour of Safeco Park in 2002 when I was in Seattle and it was awesome! I wish I could find the photo of me at the Mariners press conference table. It was a blast though. You’ll love the tour if you do it.

Call the Mets box office to get tickets at 718-507-TIXX.

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Marlins 2 – Mets 1 May 13, 2010

MLB: Cubs vs Mets APR 22

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsThe Mets got a great start from Johan Santana. He locked up with Josh Johnson in an excellent pitchers dual. The aces were as good as advertised tonight. And it was a nice comeback from a couple of rough starts for Santana. He went 7 IP only giving up 1 run, an unearned run on his own throwing error.

As expected, the Mets didn’t do much hitting against Johnson. They only had 4 hits in the game and Jerry Manuel promised changes to the lineup in the coming days. The only run they scored was on a Rod Barajas single in the second inning scoring Jason Bay.

The game was lost in the bottom of the ninth when Fernando Nieve threw a wild pitch that allowed Cody Ross to score from third. Dan Uggla was pinch hitting at the plate and Nieve uncorked a wild breaking ball inside and in the dirt that Barajas couldn’t handle. It’s an ugly way to lose a game and the Mets fourth loss in their last five games.

Box score

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Preview: Mets at Marlins May 13, 2010

New York Mets (18-16) at Florida Marlins (16-18)  7:10 pm

Johan Santana (3-2 4.54) vs Josh Johnson (3-1 3.35)

TV: SNY   Radio: WFAN

What to watch: The Mets and Marlins start up a four game series in Miami tonight. The Marlins just won 2 of 3 from the Cubbies in Chicago. Johnson has been his usual rock-solid self with the Marlins winning two of the last three games that he started. Santana recovered a bit in his last start going 7.2IP against the Giants, but he did give up 4 ER. That’s shaky for him.

Don’t forget to visit The Mets Report Facebook page during the game to chat with other Mets fans! Connect with The Mets Report on Twitter too.

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Mets Links: Carlos Beltran, Phillies Cheating, More

New York Mets v Washington Nationals

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsOn the heels of a home series lost to the Nationals again, it’s time for some Mets links. The team is in Miami for four games and really needs to show something against a division opponent. It’s warm in Miami, so Oliver Perez doesn’t have the built in excuse for getting bombed. Anyway, here are the links.

Carlos Beltran started some light running in Port St. Lucie. He says that he feels fine and is hoping to avoid another knee surgery.

The Phillies were caught on camera stealing signs against the Rockies. The Rox filed a complaint with MLB and the Phillies were reprimanded. The Mets filed the same complaint with the league two weeks ago when they roughed up Johan Santana. And Santana seems to agree with the assessment.

Jeff Francoeur has cooled off and the stat guys are out for his head again. I’m really not liking what I’m seeing from Francoeur right now. It looks like he’s regressing to his pre-Mets days.

MLB gave the Phillies three extra home games to avoid the G20 Summit in Toronto. Francoeur told the Daily News that it’s “bullshit”. And I couldn’t agree more.

Yahoo’s Slumpbot .200 has some good stats on the not-so-graceful aging Santana. They recommend that he find his change-up again quickly.

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Mets Road Trip Preview May 13-20, 2010

Boeing 747-8 Freighter Plane Makes First Test Flight

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsThe Mets’ third road trip of the season has them visiting three of their NL East rivals for the first time this season. They face the Florida Marlins in a four-game weekend series to start off, head to Atlanta’s Turner Field to face the Braves for two, and then finish off against the surprising Washington Nationals at Nationals Park, with two games set to take place there.

Thursday, May 13th: Mets (Santana) vs. Marlins (Johnson) 7:10 PM, MLB Network Game

Friday, May 14th: Mets (Perez) vs. Marlins (Sanchez) 7:10 PM

Saturday: May 15th: Mets (Maine) vs. Marlins (Robertson) 7:10 PM

Sunday: May 16th: Mets (Niese) vs. Marlins (Nolasco) 1:10 PM

Monday, May 17th: Mets (Pelfrey) vs. Braves (Hudson) 7:10 PM

Tuesday, May 18th: Mets (Santana) vs. Braves (Lowe) 7:10 PM

Wednesday, May 19th: Mets (Perez) vs. Nationals (Hernandez) 7:05 PM

Thursday, May 20th: Mets (Maine) vs. Nationals (Atilano) 7:05 PM Continue reading “Mets Road Trip Preview May 13-20, 2010”

Mets and Gary Matthews Jr’s Struggles

Florida Marlins at New York Mets

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsWhen the Mets traded Brian Stokes to the Los Angeles Angels in the offseason they were hoping to get some decent production from Gary Matthews Jr., who they envisioned as a possible starting center fielder.

…Yeah, that hasn’t worked out so well.

Matthews Jr. is hitting .152 with no RBI, and 19 strikeouts in 46 at-bats.

He’s been extremely late on the fastball and his confidence is just about as shot as possible. Hell, my confidence in him is shot, as I’m one of the more patient Mets fans out there. It was tough to back Minaya on sending Frank Catalanotto to the minors rather than Matthews Jr. Sure, they both haven’t been able to buy a hit this year, but at least Catalanotto was putting the ball in play and giving himself a chance. Matthews Jr. hasn’t been able to do that.

The only way to help snap this funk that Matthews is in is to… well, play him. He’s not going to break out of it pinch-hitting every few games. It may not be pretty, but it might be the only way. If he gets a couple starts in and still can’t snap it.. well, it might be time for Matthews Jr. to head down the same road that Catalanotto did.

But striking out in almost 50% of your at-bats is not a good sign.

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Baseball Day Games – Why Can’t We Have More of Them?

Casey Stengel;Roger Craig

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsEven though both the Mets and Yankees had lost their games before 5pm, I thoroughly enjoyed my workday and that was because there were so many day games on today. I’m left to wonder if this is what it was like for the previous generations of baseball fans?

Today more than half of baseball had started playing by 1pm. I started by listening to the pre-game show on WFAN live from Citi Field at around noon. Since this was a day game there were large groups of kids in attendance and you could hear them chanting “Let’s go Mets!” and generally having a good time at the park. It’s a great sound to hear in an office. Continue reading “Baseball Day Games – Why Can’t We Have More of Them?”