As Mets Look Ahead, They Keep Looking Back
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A handful of potential managers, including Lenny Dykstra, has emerged from the Mets' 1986 World Series-winning team.
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Wally Backman was a scrappy, intense second baseman for the world champion Mets in 1986. He promises to bring that style to the Diamondbacks as their manager.
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The Braves&#39; sense of timing is impeccable. Whenever the Mets are down, along comes their tomahawk-chopping nemesis to show them up.
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If the Mets were actually in the pennant race, and not a fourth-place team playing out the string with minor leaguers, it might have been considered classic.
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The Mets have now lost nine of ten games and in small but distinct ways this dreadful stretch is starting to wear on the team.
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Outscored by 34-12 during a sweep by the Colorado Rockies, the Mets were still dealing with the aftereffects when they arrived at Minute Maid Park.
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The keys behind the MetsÂ defensive consistency do not involve any sort of flash or glitz, just steady play spearheaded by their strength up the middle.
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Sure, the New York Mets are missing two experienced starters. They still have Tom Glavine, though, and his stellar pitching performance put them on the brink of a first-round sweep.
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As the Mets round out their search for a new manager, the club is giving a last-minute nod to its past. Wally Backman, an infielder for the Mets from 1980-88 who played second base on the 1986
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The New York Mets twice blew a three-run lead, and they might be about to blow the NL East.
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The Mets (79-61) got solid efforts from starter Mike Pelfrey and their bullpen, and the teamâs defense chipped in with a handful of outstanding plays.
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Mike Piazza wants the New York Mets to get him out of a situation that&#39;s been difficult to deal with. For much of this season, he didn&#39;t know whether he&#39;d be at catcher or first base until he got to the ballpark and glanced at the lineup card.
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The Mets&#39; approach to this off-season could be determined by the connection between a Dominican-born general manager to a pair of Dominican-born players he helped sign 14 years apart.
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So much for a Phillies flop. It's the New York Mets who are guarding against a September swoon.
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New Jersey, which tried for years but  failed to win the Yankees baseball team from New York City, now  has set its sights on the city's other baseball team, the Mets,  who play in Shea Stadium in Queens.
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The star starter and the key reliever for the Mets may seem to have little in common, but both are seeking to defy expectations.
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That Oliver PÃ©rez is even under consideration to start in the postseason for the Mets represents a development that would have been unthinkable two months ago.