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

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Guest Blogger: Eric Gerald Elie
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.

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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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About Eric Gerald Elie...
Eric Gerald Elie is an Arcadia University Junior who is going to study abroad in the Spring semester.  He is spending his 2nd term as a Junior in Austrialia and will be covering the Austrailian open exclusivly for TheBloggingACE.  Come back to TheBloggingACE in January 2012 to read the inside story of the Austrailian Open from the perspective of an american student studing a broad, I meant abroad...LOL


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