The Daily Sports Rant

Filed under the category of “are you really surprised”, when it mattered most.  For the second year in a row, the Mets had a chance to make the second season, with the final game and again folded like a wet taco…
I cant totally crap on the Mets, since my Yankees checked out almost 3 weeks [...]

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Ok, I know this is NFL Football Sunday, but also there is still some meaningful baseball to be played
Again as I predicted in my earlier posts (sort of), it will come down to the last game for Los Mets.  Johan Santana pitched his mind out yesterday, going 9 innings on 3 days rest and blanking the Marlins 2 [...]

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Ring Ring…Ring Ring
Willie:  Hello?
Jerry Manuel:  Yo Dawg, Its Jerry.
Willie:  Hey kid, what you up to?
JM:   Ya know, just chillin’
WR:  I see that my boys lost 3 in a row.  Only one game up on the Brewers.  We talkin the Brewers man!!!
JM:  They are my boys now.
WR: Whatever, so what you want?  I got the grill goin’
JM:  [...]

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The Mets have lost their hold on first place.  Is this Deja Vu all over again?
This is not the historic collapse of 7 game lead with 17 games to play as in 2007.  Thanks Willie!  Wait, he’s gone now…
They were only up 2+ games on the Phillies as of last week, who seem to own [...]

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1.  Mets leading NL East by 3 games, with 17 to play.  Plenty of time to skrew this up, but I sense a change this year.  A new breath of energy in this 2008 year from interim coach Jerry Manuel.  Besides a few guys are on walk years and dont want to lay a stinker [...]

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