Mets Enjoy Playing the Spoiler&#39;s Role
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The Mets have rescued themselves from the humdrum finish of a season gone bad. They have won five of their last seven games and are causing havoc with the playoff plans of the Cubs and the Braves.
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The commissionerâs office held coin flips in case the Mets wind up in a tie for the N.L. wild-card lead.
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Nobody is more excited about the addition of Carlos Beltran than his new teammates with the New York Mets.
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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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With less than a week in the regular season, a period that will determine if the Mets can laugh about September or weep through October, they are trying to find the old, electrifying JosÃ© Reyes.
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com. It was Willie Randolph&#39;s pedigree and his willingness to form a partnership with Omar Minaya that led the Mets general manager to choose him as the club&#39;s new manager late Wednesday night.
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After injuring his left knee making an impressive leaping catch in the ninth inning that likely saved the New York Mets win, Carlos Beltran couldn't bend it. But he still had his sense of humor.
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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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With six players 40 or older, there are obvious health concerns at Metsâ camp. But their presence also adds a richer dimension to a team that integrated players young and old with great success last season.
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He enters a game now not to the menacing sound of Metallica. Mariano Rivera does that -- and Rivera is on the outside looking in. Keith Foulke needs no impending-doom tune to signal his arrival. His pitching seems to be working just fine.
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It is really not much of a stretch to wonder if Omar Minayaâs Mets have been built to last.
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The Mets appreciate RamÃ³n CastroÂs character and jovial personality, but they are more interested in whether he can be their backup catcher in the postseason.
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After having Carlos Delgado slip away, the Mets fill their hole at first base by acquiring Doug Mientkiewicz from the Boston Red Sox and are eyeing Magglio Ordonez for the outfield.
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The Mets&#39; big message at Omar Minaya&#39;s surprise coronation yesterday was that Minaya has &quot;full autonomy,&quot; baseballese for the power to make any decisions related to baseball.
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Carlos Beltran, the man who was seemingly destined to play center field for the Yankees and then was supposedly going to return to the Houston Astros, will instead become a member of the Mets. In Beltran, the Mets now have their marquee player for several years and, they hope, their savior of sorts.
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On Tuesday, the Yankees will share the spotlight with the Mets, who are acting like an increasingly pesky kid brother.
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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.