• A roundup of recent posts from Mets bloggers
• A summary of Mets news items since the last show
• A proposal to move the Clubhouse domain to iheartmets.com

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Let’s Go Mets!

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• Audio comment about Johan Santana from fan in Boston area.
• Audio comment from Greg in Connecticut about new child (congrats!), injuries and pitching.
• The fantasy league draft is on March 22nd. Details here.
• Recognizing the international audience. Jamie in Japan on how he gets the games.

Amazin Moments Countries

• Assorted Mets news and updates from mainstream and blogs.
• There is a feed for a few Mets podcasts at http://feeds.feedburner.com/NewYorkMetsPodcastNetwork.

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• Amazin Moment’s Fantasy Baseball - Draft on March 15th at 6:30 PM. More details here.
• Talking about out the Mets outfield in 2008.
• New listener drive. Help us build the community by telling others and blogging about the podcast and the clubhouse.
• Rant on new MLB media policies. Details here.
• News of the week: First spring training game, Johan Santana debut, Injury to Carlos Delgado, Church and Anderson Collide.
• Heading to Florida next week to catch my first spring training game ever in Sarasota.

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• Audio comment from Greg in Connecticut on the Johan Santana trade.
• Pitchers and catchers report to Port. St. Lucie.
• Pitching rotation looks solid but some controversy concerning Orlando Hernandez.
• Duaner Sanchez aims to make an impact on the bullpen.
• A healthy Carlos Beltran speaks out.
• Recovering infielders Castillo, Easley and Valentin bring high hopes to camp.
• Mets ticket drawing and ticket website at www.507tixx.com.
• Billy Joel’s ‘last play’ at Shea sells out.

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The Mitchell Report

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

• Tom Glavine Departs
• Lastings Milledge Is Traded
• Luis Castillo is re-signed.
• Mets announce 2008 Schedule
• The Johan Santana pursuit heats up

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1. Relief pitching.
2. Failure of certain players to meet expectations.
3. The advanced age of too many key players.

In the next show I’ll talk about who I think should stay or go for 2008. Get your opinions in today!

Listen to an angry rant by WFAN’s Joe Beningo from last Friday morning here. All I can say is, “I agree!”

Things are looking up though with these wins and the Phillies falling apart after gaining some ground. Lets Go Mets!

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Lots of questions folks. As fans all we can do is believe in the magic.

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I talk alot about the state of the offense, going through the lineup and addressing the issues. I think we need to trade for an outfielder. What do you think? Vote here.

Plus injury updates and a comment from Greg In CT.

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We’ve been hurt by a variety of injuries but we still have some important core players like Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran. Shawn Green is expected to return very soon. Moises Alou could be back in a week or so.

Interesting schedule coming up with Los Angeles and the (surging?) Yankees over the next week.

Trade talk will heat up as the month of July approaches. Who would you trade for?

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SHOW NOTES

• Mets’ excellent road trip.
• Overcoming injuries with talent.
• 2007 Subway Series round 1.
• Lastings Milledge rap lyrics controversy.

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Show Notes

• Nice win against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
• Listener comment on Endy Chavez walk off bunt single.
• April 2007 Recap - A lot of positives!
• We need to beat the Braves.
• Great starts by Jose Reyes and John Maine who are named NL Players of the month.
• Slow starts by David Wright, Carlos Delgado and Mike Pelfrey.
• Shawn Green and Moises Alou have surprisingly good starts.
• Dealing with injuries to Jose Valentin and El Duque to start the month of May.
• Chan Ho Park makes a quick round trip.
• Damion Easely fills in at 2nd Base.
• Don Imus departs WFAN. Can we now have some sports talk in the morning?
• Mike Piazza shoulder injury.

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• Your comments
• Greg in CT - on David Wright, Carlos Delgado and Aaron Heilman.
• Zach - on Willie Randolph and the 2007 season.
• Kyle - on the Mets great start.
• April 2007 Month in Review
• The Pitching - Surprisingly good performances by Mets starters young and old.
• The Hitting - Reyes, Beltran and Alou anchoring a very impressive lineup.
• Mets 2007 Rivals
• Phils and Cards not in the picture.
• Yanks and Braves are on my mind.
• You can comment here.
• Glavine vs. Smoltz - a classic matchup and a chance for the Mets to reassert their dominance over the NL East.
• Who will lead the Mets in batting in 2007? Vote in the poll here.

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Hope to see you there.

• Solidifying the pitching rotation.
• Aaron Sele and Chan Ho Park to the bullpen.
• Duaner Sanchez back to NYC for an MRI.
• Mike Pelfrey fifth starter?
• Audio comment from Wills.
• David Wright in the two hole.
• Trading Lastings Milledge in 2007.
• Chatting the the Amazin Moments Clubhouse.

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LET’S GO METS!

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• Philip Humber sent down.
• Duaner Sanchez disciplined.
• Ambiorix Burgos disappoints.
• Mike Pelfrey as fifth starter?
• Audio comment from Kyle. Check out his sports video blog on YouTube.
• Support the Blubrry Jam To Fight Cystic Fibrosis. Your donations make a difference! www.blubrryjam.com

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• One spot left in the Amazin Moments Fantasy League.

LET’S GO METS!

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Show Notes

• Pimping the Amazin’ Moments Podcast Clubhouse.
• The pitching rotation adventure.
• Dave Williams out til May.
• Chan Ho Park signed.
• The outfield. Questionable on the corners.
• Mets ticket lottery for Yanks and Opening Day.
• Check your MLB.com media account.
• Amazin’ Moments fantasy baseball league.
• Mets making the grade in New York sports.
• Chan Ho park deal commentary.

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• Willie Randolph signed to a contract extension.
• Scott Schoenweis signed to a contract.
• Aaron Sele signed to a minor league contract.
• Cliff Floyd signs with the Cubs.
• Mets looking at Victor Zambrano again.
• Carlos Delgado might miss Opening Day.

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It’s nice to know that the team has gotten this piece of business out of the way. Willie gets a nice raise and I’m sure he feels better knowing that management has shown this confidence in him.

Time to start thinking pitchers and catchers. It’s going to be a wild spring!

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Single game tickets are as low as $5 per game. And select five game value packs are going for $37. All seats are upper reserved and all are for games scheduled from Mon - Fri.

Enough gabbing. Here’s the link: http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/nym/ticketing/packs_value.jsp.

The most sought after pitcher in the free agent market, Barry Zito, has been acquired by the San Francisco Giants in a 7 year $126 million deal. Yahoo! Sports reports here.

Disappointing would be an understatement to describe this development for Mets fans. So what will Omar do with the $75 to $100 million left in the coffers? We need to get somebody to help buoy the pitching staff. Expect a podcast on this soon. Get your comments and rants in to the comment line at 206-333-0536.

Discuss in the forum here.

1. Mets resign Tom Glavine.
2. Howard Johnson returns as a coach.
3. Mets trade Brian Bannister for a hard throwing reliever.
4. Mets sign Guillermo Mota in spite of a 50 game steroid suspension.

A little Barry Zito talk thrown in for good measure.

LETS GO METS!

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1. Mets decline Glavine’s 2007 option.
2. The signing of Moises Alou.
3. Henry Owens traded to the Marlins for two lefty pitchers.

Also, we’ve got some intro music. And added a poll feature to the forum.

LETS GO METS!

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Our team has signed Moises Alou to play left field in 2007 while declining Tom Glavine’s option for next season. There’s still a chance that Glavine will pitch for the Mets next year. So we’re just going to have to sweat this one out a little longer.

I’m not too excited by the Moises Alou pickup. He is 40 years old. And Cliff Floyd may not be a spring chicken but I think he could at least give the Mets what Alou will give them plus be a force in the clubhouse.

As of right now the Mets’ corner outfielders will be Moises Alou (backed up by Endy Chavez) and Shawn Green. This means they’re week at best on the corners. Lastings Milledge is just a question mark blowing in the wind at this point. I say that the Mets will try to deal him prior to spring training.

I understand the need to recoup revenue but come on. Do they really need the $20 million per year?

I unveil the new name. Talk about lessons learned from the playoffs. And ponder some of the burning questions facing the team in the offseason.

LETS GO METS!

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Then the news comes across the wire that Guillermo Mota’s apparent resurgence is apparently tainted. Word is that he has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs and will undure a 50 game suspension. Mota had already filed for free agency but his performance in the second half made him a candidate to return with the Mets next year. I’m sure Omar will take a pass now.

The forum seems to be heating up as well. Thanks to all for taking part in the conversation.

Let’s Go Mets! 

• Recapping the disappointing loss.
• A positive outlook for next season.
• Plans for the podcast over the winter.
• Stop by the new forum and join in.

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So for the middle reasons no podcast to follow up the loss yet. You know me though. I’m dying to get it out and also hear your thoughts. I plan to keep the podcast going through the winter and right into spring training, albeit at a slower pace. But we will be rolling in snowshoes if necessary. What will Santa Omar leave us under the Christmas Tree?

So I’ll try to get one in tomorrow or Thursday. Til then, you’ve got the new forums to play around in.

I’ve even started a couple of topics to get the ball rolling. The forum is the place where YOU can start the conversation, as opposed to replying to my thoughts.

So sign up and get the talk started. After all, spring training is only a few months away.

I agonized through every refresh of the screen. Floyd - One out. Reyes - Two outs. LoDuca - A walk. At this point I had hope for some of that old Met magic. Bases loaded, two outs, Beltran at the plate in game 7 of the NLCS. There isn’t a kid who’s played baseball, softball, wiffle ball, stickball or stoop ball that hasn’t dreamed of such a moment. A moment with the chance to be a hero and make the stadium rock. Moments like that put players into history books. Moments like the one when Bobby Thomson crushed the Dodgers with a home run that came to be known as “The Shot Heard Round The World.” Moments like Mookie dribbling one up the first base line to score a winning run.

This moment was not our moment. The moment belonged to Cardinal closer Adam Wainwright. Beltran - Struck out looking.

When a team loses a playoff series we tend to look for villains. We single them out. We dwell. Mota and Wagner were the villains in Game 2. Trachsel was the villain in Game 3. Maybe it’s Beltran or even Heilman in Game 7. Who cares? In some way all of those guys contributed big during the regular season.

The Mets had a knack for hitting with Trachsel on the mound. Guillermo Mota surprised everyone by doing a pretty good job replacing Duaner Sanchez in the second half. Billy Wagner was lights out in the second half and the first round of the playoffs. Aaron Heilman was amazing in the second half, stepping into the 8th inning role like a young pitcher determined to prove the doubters wrong. And all Carlos Beltran did was return the fans faith in the big free agent signing.

Wright had a bad series. Floyd was hurt. No El Duque or Pedro Martinez. There were challenges and some say our team was lucky to get this far under the circumstances. I don’t buy it. We had the guns to win it. They just went silent at the hands on St. Louis pitching that surprised the Mets. Beltran had a bad at bat at the wrong time against a guy who has been an effective closer. There are worse sins in the game of baseball.

We discovered a few things along the way though. John Maine and Oliver Perez stepped up. It’s going to be very interesting next year with the likes of Glavine, Maine, Perez, Bannister and Pelfrey hanging around spring training. Maybe El Duque will be around too. There are things to look forward to. Reyes, LoDuca, Beltran, Delgado and Wright are all returning. Who knows what else Omar Minaya has up his sleeve.

So no epitaph here. Just some late night thoughts (as usual). I’m going to take a couple of days, let the comments flow in, and fire up the podcast again after the weekend. I need to clear my head out and let the fans have their say. Please call the comment line, use the Mobatalk Voicemail on the site or email me MP3 Files. It would be nice to include the voices of more of the people who are on the other side of the podcast. Text comments on this post are welcome as well.

Let’s Go Mets!

It’s Oliver Perez (and a hungry Mets lineup plus 56,000 fans) against Jeff Suppan and the Cardinals. We can do this.

One game, our field, I believe.

!!!LET’S GO METS!!!

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METS WIN BABY!

Do you believe?

If you’re lucky as a fan you never get to the time of the season when one loss means your team is going home for the winter. Of course those days happen more often than not. Some seasons are magical and teams roll through to a seemingly easy World Series win. Other seasons provide a roller coaster ride, sometimes to victory and sometimes not.

This 2006 season for the Mets has been really a straight shot into the playoffs and even through the first round. Now we’ve had some late loop-de-loops that bring us to being down 3-2 in the NLCS against the Cardinals. We felt the bumps of losing Pedro and Duque but dispatching the Dodgers gave us confidence. Confidence may be a bit hard to come by at the moment.

If you must focus on the negatives then let’s get them out of the way. We’re at the end of the rope on starting pitching. Maine hasn’t been good and we can’t use Glavine again for the rest of the series. Trachsel is pretty much finished with the Mets although we might be forced to start him if there is a game 7. The bats are cold as ice once again. These playoffs are looking like the Titanic for David Wright. He got a double late, but we needed more. Jose Reyes has been disappointing as well. He’s not patient and he keeps looking for extra base hits when he should be looking to work out walks. The team has only really put it together offensively for one game in this series. Plus I know that the umpires, Tim McCarver and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are against us. Wah, wah. I’m done crying now.

Here are some positives. Shea will be rocking tomorrow night. And there is some magical history at Shea, as many of you know. We only need to win two games in a row. The Mets have done that plenty of times this season. We can get to Chris Carpenter. We did last week at Shea. It can be done again. We can get to their bullpen again as well. This is no invincible squad of arms out there. The bats can wake up too. A late flight home can get players to thinking and sometimes that’s what’s needed. The fans will be waiting and cheering. Oh yeah, and we’ve beaten the Cards at Shea in the NLCS before. I’ll be even more pragmatic and state that this series is about one game. We can win one game tomorrow night and the worry about winning one more game. One game, our field, I believe.

!!!LET’S GO METS!!!

We get an okay start out of Oliver Perez, who goes into the sixth. Carlos Delgado turns into a one man wrecking crew. The rest of the lineup thaws as well. The bullpen throws 3 1/3 shutout innings to hold the line.

Game 5 gets rained out so Tom Glavine gets an extra day of rest. So does Cliff Floyd, who might just be able to pinch hit in the last couple of games if needed. Also word that Albert Pujols (who pulled an o-fer last night) is nursing a hamstring injury.

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I think this is a good thing for the Mets. All other things being equal I believe that a rested Tom Glavine can outpitch a rested Jeff Weaver. It’s also another day for Cliff Floyd to rest his sore achilles. Then again, the Cards bullpen has been tired out and they will get another day of rest as well.