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The Mets get a much needed win, 11-7 over the Braves

The New York Mets coming into tonight were nine games back in the Wild Card to the Atlanta Braves. Having lost the first game of the series already, the Mets needed a win tonight to have any playoff hopes this year. The Mets were not only able to get that much needed win tonight, but they were also able to also wake up their bats.
Tonight the Mets muscled out four home runs with Justin Turner hitting two, one in the first and one in the fourth. The other two home runs were hit by Jason Bay in the third and Josh Thole in the fourth. Turner was one of several Mets who were having a hard time finding not only their home run swing but any sort of hit. For the past four games, the team gathered a collective batting average of .206 in the month of August before the game tonight.
Bay and Thole were two more Met hitters who have yet to find their stride this season. Jason Bay is barely staying above water hitting .242 before tonight’s game in which he went 2-5 with three rbi’s today. Then you have Josh Thole who after tonight has his batting average up to .259 on the year, both players combining for only ten home runs on the season.
This game overall was a team effort with the Mets having scored eleven runs on sixteen hits having everyone on the starting lineup getting a hit besides the pitcher. This was all on done with Tommy Hanson, the Braves current ace with Jair Jurrjens being placed on the 15-day DL today due to a right knee sprain.
They say that if you want to get to Tommy Hanson, you have to get him early or not at all, and the Mets did just that. Tommy Hanson era in the first is two innings is just over 5.00, then from the third inning on shows-off an era at almost 2.00. The Mets were able to tag Hanson with seven runs on eight hits in only 3.1 innings.
Now with the Mets finding lightning in a bottle with the storms rolling in and out of Citi Field all night, hope to take there hot bats into the last game of the Series tomorrow as the look to take the series from the Braves and in-turn close in on the Wild Card.

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Has the Fire Sale Begun?

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Guest Blogger: Eric Elie

Has the Fire Sale Begun?

The Mets are a hot topic of conversation as the teams general manager Sandy Alderson has made it clear that a fire sale of the team will only happen if he feels they are out of the playoff race come the trade deadline.



On Tuesday, the New York Mets sent Francisco Rodriguez and cash to the Milwaukee Brewers for two players to be named later. This trade was almost inevitable due to K-Rod’s contract situation (Would be given a 1-year 17.5 million dollar contract if he finished 55 games this year, currently at 34 on the season). The trade was assumed to happen but it happened 17 games before the trade deadline. A little early for a team to trade a big piece. Though in the interview of Sandy Alderson with WFAN in the video above, we hear Alderson’s reasons with insight on the future of the Mets in retrospect with the deadline, Jose Reyes, and Carlos Beltran.
The Mets as well as their fans are about to go on an emotional roller coaster this next 17 games as the teams present state and future hang in the balance.

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“Long Time No See”

It has been a while since I posted anything on my blog so I want to do I wrap of everything that has happened since mid June.

The Mets, since that last series against the Angels that ended on June 19th, have lost only one series and produced a 11-6 record. With this new surge, the Mets were able to send two players to the All Star game this year, right fielder Carlos Beltran and shortstop Jose Reyes.
Both of these players may not be Mets by the end of the season as both have their contracts expire at the end of the 2011 season. Carlos Beltran seems to already be on the move out of here and the mantra from the fans is they know the Wilpons have no interest in pursuing a new contract with Beltran and are willing letting him go off to free agency. The same cannot be said about Jose Reyes.
The spirit of the New York Mets, Jose Reyes, provides not only the spark offensively for this team, whether it be with the bat, his speed, or defense, but he is also the culmination of the burning passion that the Mets fans bring to every game at Citi Field. This man, homegrown through the Mets organization, is beloved by this city and is argued to be the most dynamic player in all of baseball.
The management, especially Sandy Alderson, seems to have the same feelings as the fans when he expressed to the Mets booth, Ron Darling and Gary Cohen,the Mets impending future on Thursday’s game vs the Dodgers. “Very Unlikely”, was the words used to describe the prospect of trading Reyes before the trade deadline, as for the rest of the team, the standing’s will dictate what Sandy Alsderson wants to do.

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110708&content_id=21588472&vkey=news_nym&c_id=nym

If the Mets keep surging come the trade deadline, the firesale that was predicted this season will be cancelled. If the Mets end up faltering and falling apart like they have done in the past, the slogan for the Mets this July should say, “Everything Must Go”.
So with the Mets winning the first game of the Giants series last night on the shoulders of Scott Hairston and his pinch-hit home run in the 8th, they hope to see more balls fly over the wall as the go up against All-Star bound Tim Lincecum tonight at 9:10 Eastern time as the Mets are guaranteed to enter the All-Star break this year above the .500 mark.

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Jose Reyes, an important part of the Mets and their fans.

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Jose Reyes, an important part of the Mets and their fans...

I want to start this blog with a hot topic that has been the at the forefront of every conversation around baseball, where will Jose Reyes land by the end of the year.

On June 4th, 2011, I was able to head on down to Citi Field and watch my New York Mets take on the Atlanta Braves.  The game was amazing, we had a great pitchers duel between Dillon Gee and Jair Jurrjens.  Both these pitchers were able to hold each others lineups down as it was a scoreless game going into the bottom of the seventh.  Here is where the Mets were able to show what they are capable of.

After Jason Bay was able to reach base on a fielding error by the Braves shortstop Alex Gonzalez, the stadium started to stir.  Then as soon as you see Josh Thole, the Mets catcher hit a screaming line drive to right, you see the crowd beginning to wake up.

As the bases are then loaded after Ruben Tejada got hit by a pitch thrown by Jurrjens and pinch-hitter Jason Pridie gets an rbi single.  Scott Proctor comes into a game where everyone in the stadium is thinking the same thing.  As Jose Reyes comes up to bat, everyone is just praying to the baseball Gods that Reyes does what he does best.

http://mlb.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=15544411

Then on command Reyes hits a bases clearing triple down the left field line.  The entire stadium just explodes as Reyes slides head first into third giving the Mets ad 4-0 lead which would hold, leading to a Mets 5-0 victory against the Braves who would then go on to win the rubber match the next day by a score of 6-4.

That one game Saturday, more importantly, that one at-bat by Reyes, proved to me how important the All Star shortstop is to the Mets.  He is the heart and soul of the Mets.  He leads by example and gets everyone in the dugout to play better when he is performing.  More importantly the management for the New York Mets need to see this quality in Reyes and retain him, he should be considered an irreplaceable commodity to the organization as he will forever be loved by the fans of New York for his work ethic, performance, and those slides into third base.   He is too important to the fans to have traded for prospects or just let go into free agency.   I would love to see Reyes got offered a long-term contract before the All Star break as every other Mets fan believes should happen.   I hope that in the end, the Mets will not look back at their future decision on Reyes and regret it.

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