[TS] Sports of The Times: Up-and-Down Mets Might Have to Face the Music
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Lose the choreography and dial back the frivolity. Thatâs my advice for the Mets as they resume the season. The Yankees, on the other hand, could use a bit of strut.
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Everything's bigger in New York including Omar Minaya's goals. The new Mets' general manager wants to take the NL East from the Braves and precedence over the Yankees.
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With a few more starts, Pedro MartÃ­nez could tinker with his control and recapture his sharpness. Unfortunately for the Mets, he is out of time.
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This is the way Mets fans wanted their team to do it with Vladimir Guerrero and Alex Rodriguez. They wanted the general manager of the moment, Steve Phillips or Jim Duquette, to get in there early.
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The Mets dropped their fourth consecutive game last night, a 6-3 defeat in 10 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium.
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The Mets lost for the sixth time in eight games, but that seems to be irrelevant. There are two goals for the rest of the regular season: avoid injuries and nurse players like Pedro MartÃ­nez back to full strength.
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Tom Glavine is struggling after 21 exceptional major leauge seasons and The Mets, who have lost 14 of their last 18 games, are in a free fall that is threatening to redefine their season.
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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
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Baseball can be so fickle. The line between the daring and defeatist is precariously thin, blurred by intangible factors, altered by blind providence.
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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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Talk about an East Coast bias! One look at the latest All-Star balloting is enough to make anyone outside New York and Boston cringe. The Mets, Yankees and Red Sox have dominated the fan vote so thoroughly this season that 10 of 16 starters &amp;#151; not including the two pitchers &amp;#151; on July 11 in Pittsburgh could come from those three teams.
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ItÂs possible, perhaps likely, that the best Pedro MartÃ­nez can bring to October now is five or six innings, like the rest of the Mets' well-worn rotation.
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In recent weeks, the question of Art Howe&#39;s firing by the Mets has always been more about when the ax would fall, not if, and even the manager seemed resigned to his fate before last night&#39;s doubleheader against the Braves at Shea Stadium.
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For the first time in two and a half seasons, the cheery success story of the New York Mets has lost some of its luster.
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Tom Glavine nearly made history for the New York Mets, and Greg Maddux turned in another routine outing, outperforming someone nearly half his age again.
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer. in New Jersey as a Mets fan. ``I&#39;m taking away my experience as positive.&#39;&#39;. Burnett, plus left-hander Dontrelle Willis.
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On Tuesday, the Yankees will share the spotlight with the Mets, who are acting like an increasingly pesky kid brother across town.