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May 19, 2015 - 9:03 AM
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ANZALDIMAN
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Thanks for posting those videos Eric. I look forward to following your You Tube Channel in the future.
Wow, Pete Franklin. It's interesting how WFAN has changed since those early years of pioneering the 24 hour sports talk cycle. Pete is gone now. Many loved him, many despised him, but it made for good radio. Art Rust Jr. is also gone now, and his show on WABC was really the first sports program that reached a mainstream audience in New York before FAN. I also used to listen to a young Michael Kay when he hosted "One on One" on WFUV while he was a student at Fordham.
Matt Harvey should have two more victories under his belt than he already has, but there is no dispute that he has been superb so far this season. Noah Syndergaard has now made his long awaited debut in the Mets rotation and he has been impressive in two starts. Steven Matz is not far from being called up. Another good young arm. The Mets starting pitching is right up there in statistics with the best staffs in baseball. The problem has been the hot and cold offense and the lack of run support. Cuddyer and Granderson need to get going. Michael Cuddyer is a much better pure hitter than we've seen so far and I don't believe that he's on the downside at 36. He just won a batting title a few seasons ago. He's still got a lot of hits left. The pitching has kept the Mets in a lot of these early games as the offense has struggled to plate runs. No better example than Harvey's superb effort last night against the always tough St. Louis Cardinals. The Mets were able to come away with a victory in extra innings but Harvey deserved a win.
Unfortunately, Dillon Gee will likely lose his spot in the rotation as these young arms are promoted and called up. Gee has been a professional in how he's handled all this, including the way he handled how the team openly made him available in trade proposals last winter. I knew these days would come. Gee has found himself the odd man out in what has now (other than Bartolo Colon) become a young rotation of power arms. Colon is playing out his contract with the Mets and when he's gone you still have Matz and Wheeler along with Harvey, Syndergaard, deGrom, and Jon Niese. It's a crowded field down the road. Gee would slip right in as a third, fourth, or fifth starter on a lot of major league rotations. I can think of a team across town right now that would love to have him and could use him right now. I'll be sad to see him go. Gee struggled with the franchise through some lean years and he was always a positive guy and a solid contributer. He's too valuable as a starting pitcher right now to be used as a long man in the bullpen.
That said, here's hoping the Yanks can beat the Nationals a few times in this upcoming series to help out the Mets. The Mets are still hanging on to the keys to the penthouse in the National League East Division and the Nats are right on their heels trying to kick them out. Go Yanks! (For now) 
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Well, now that the NY Rangers got knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Tampa Bay Lightning.......
That was brutal! I have to say in all honesty that was not a pleasant post-season. The Rangers never made any of their wins fun and in the end that cold offense got them.
Yankees continue to run hot and cold. They look awful in Oakland then get hot in Seattle.
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Well, now that the NY Rangers got knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Tampa Bay Lightning.......
That was brutal! I have to say in all honesty that was not a pleasant post-season. The Rangers never made any of their wins fun and in the end that cold offense got them.
Yankees continue to run hot and cold. They look awful in Oakland then get hot in Seattle.
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Jun 14, 2015 - 5:59 PM
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Eric Paddon
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Ten days later and the Yankees are still having a hot/cold season on all levels. A seven game winning streak, then three straight brutal losses, including losing their closer to the DL and then they snap that to keep their heads above water first place wise. They are again lucky the AL East has become the "AL Least" as they called it in the 1989-92 era.
The Mets suffered their first no-hitter thrown against them since the late Daryl Kile of Houston in 1993 when Chris Heston of the Giants did it. That makes by my count, seven no-hitters thrown against the Mets in their history (Sandy Koufax, Jim Bunning, Bob Moose, Bill Stoneman, Ed Halicki, Kile). Johan Santana of course became the first Met to do it in 2012 though lucky for Met fans, replay was not in place yet!
No Yankee no-hitter since Cone's perfect game in 1999 (though I still have nightmares of Mussina losing a perfect game to Boston in 2001 with one pitch to go). Houston had a combined six pitcher no-hitter against the Yankees in 2003 but no pitcher has thrown a complete game no-hitter against them since Hoyt Wilhelm in 1958 for Baltimore.
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Anyway..