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Mets principal owner Fred Wilpon said he believes the franchise is headed in the right direction and that general manager Sandy Alderson is on course to improve the team.

Ever since Adam Wainwright threw that impossible curveball by an apparently immobile Carlos Beltran - two men likely to be Cardinals All-Stars at Citi Field this July, which is just mean - Mets fans have been kicked in the face by their team in every conceivable fashion.

Mets general manager Sandy Alderson hates losing. Despises it. He is a former Marine who served in Vietnam, and the son of a decorated Air Force officer.

For those who weren't condemned to endure another feeble showing by the Seattle Mariners' offense Sunday, here is all you need to know: Jason Bay led off with a solid single to left field, giving manager Eric Wedge a chance to show why he moved rookie Nick Franklin to the No.

From the time Matt Harvey was forced to leave in the top of the eighth inning with what was termed "back tightness" until the Marlins had beaten the Mets 2-1 in 20 innings and 6 hours and 25 minutes, the longest game Citi Field has witnessed, Mets Nation prayed to the baseball gods that have been so cruel to them.

In advance of Andy Pettitte's June 3 start, his first after a stint on the disabled list, the Yankees huddled with him to figure out a way to lighten his workload a bit between starts.

Jason Bay hit eight home runs in all of 2012 with the Mets, a number he matched Saturday with the Mariners when he whacked his seventh and eighth bombs of the season.

This was the third blown save of the season for Wilhelmsen , all in his last four tries.

May 21, 2013; New York, NY, USA; New York Mets third baseman David Wright reacts to making the third out of the eighth inning against the Cincinnati Reds during a game at Citi Field.

The draft injects youth, talent and potential into your farm system, and no team can ever have enough of that.

Periodically, Rising Apple will feature guest posts from other writers. The following article is from Aaron Leibowitz , who chronicled his experience at Citi Field on Tuesday night: Have you ever come across someone just begging to be punched in the face? Was that someone, perchance, a New York Yankees fan? On Tuesday night, those someones seemed ... (more)

Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans.

We try to figure out why players come here and suddenly shine and, perhaps, we miss the most obvious reason - they are pretty good players.

Before being tricked into returning to his own angular, crystalline universe, Bizarro Aaron Harang did us a favor and pitched a game this afternoon.

If you liken the travails of the current Mets ownership to a game show, hedge fund manager David Eichorn was an unlucky contestant, As of this date in 2013, the Wilpon family claims that their Bernie Madoff-induced money issues are "all in the rear view mirror," though the veracity of that claim is certainly debatable.

While the media covering the Mets - whether it be beat reporters, the SNY TV crew, or Mets Radio Network voices - may think it's best for Davis to be shipped out, what intriguing stories would be left to cover on a team that already had its one-way ticket to Irrelevance punched? There are already plenty of bad performers on the stages of Las Vegas.