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The Dugout: Omar Badness

If you've been following the long, strange trip of the New York Mets this season, you know what a tangled, complicated world the front offices of Major League Baseball can be. You understand the frustrations, the egos, the outbursts, and the Machiavellian maneuvering. If you haven't been following the Mets, let me catch...

The House That Wright Built?

NEW YORK -- There was a moment Monday night when the script felt so perfect. It was the bottom of the fifth inning, Mets down three with two men on base and David Wright at the plate. The count was full. The crowd, which had started booing starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey three innings earlier, suddenly realized something was...

Cozy New Park Could Get Uncomfortable If Mets Struggle

NEW YORK -- Only the bobbing Home Run Apple beyond the outfield walls seems familiar, which is probably just as well. There wasn't much anyone wanted to lug from the festering dump next door -- not the roaming feral cats, not the stench of overflowing toilets, and certainly not the wretched string of September collapses...

Beware the Dugouts of March: The New York Mets' 2009 Preview

...step right up and EAT the Mets!Earlier today, blogsmith Dan Graziano (Dugout screen name: LeavesOfGraz) web logged about visiting Citi Field, the new home of the New York Mets, and reported back that all of the stadium's food is limp-wristed in nature. Excuse me, "limp-wristed in nurture." But no, the food has a...

Take Me Out to the ... Trendy New York City Restaurant?

NEW YORK -- It's a pleasant spring day here -- the kind of day that makes us think/hope/pray/beg to somebody that this most miserable of winters might soon, finally, at long last be over. So in the spirit of spring, I went to a ballpark.Specifically, I went to Citi Field, which is the new home of the New York Mets....