Is Jerry Manuel putting a gun to his own head by shifting Jose Reyes out of the leadoff spot? Oh, baby! Spring Training games start Wednesday – meaning that in less than 24 hours, we’re going to be checking out boxscores. It doesn’t get any sweeter than that. Well, except checking out boxscore...

"The only thing that I know is he will be watched every time he faces us. Hopefully we kill him, and then he'll have to deal with the situation." [NYDN]...

We’re booking along now. At this pace we’ll be done with this slow mock draft by mid-June. It doesn’t matter how long it takes as long as you learn something, or at least laugh at us a little. Here’s the results from round two; a round where we see the first pitcher taken and...

Mike Pelfrey won his 6th straight start and the Mets won their 9th straight, beating the Rockies 7-0 and completing the sweep to end the unofficial first half of the season. Pelfrey threw 8 shutout innings and was fantastic again. For the 2nd straight start he did not walk a single batter, and it s...

The Mets have won nine straight games. Feel free to bask in that for three days. I was basking as well, until ESPN's Jon Miller reminded us that the last time the Mets reached ten in a row was the not the Miracle Mets of '69, not the bad guys who won in '86, or even 1988. It was the immortal bunch f...

This is getting nerve-wracking. The hottest team in baseball over the past ten games isn’t the Tampa Bay Rays. They’re a mere 6-4, and the four losses are consecutive (to the Royals once, the Yankees twice, the Indians once) through this writing. It isn’t the Chicago White Sox, tho...

Excellent. Sports Illustrated's jinx is alive and well. It figures that the Mets would celebrate the return of the New York Jets by putting up a touchdown against the team formerly known as the New York Giants ... and more importantly, against starter Tim Lincecum. There's probably something pervers...

Don’t look now, but the New York Mess (er, Mets) are (drumroll, please) back to a game over .500. They got there at the expense of their number one National League East nemesis. And, they got there in spite of their own most arduous obstacle. Themselves. No one wants to go quite so far as to s...

When Pedro Martinez left the game in the 6th inning, he was all smiles with a 10-2 lead as Mets fans were giving him an ovation in Philly. A little over an hour later, the Phils were 1 swing away from handing the Amazins arguably their worst regular season loss in franchise history. But Jayson Werth...

I think we can all agree that so far the 2008 season has not been the best in New York Mets history. But they sure have given us some memorable games. In another crazy finish, the Mets beat the Phillies 4-2 in 12 innings on Sunday. The game lasted more than 7 hours, thanks to a 2 hour 50 minute ra...