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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — Daisuke Matsuzaka allowed one run over six innings in his bid to become the Mets' fifth starter, helping New York beat the St. Louis Cardinals 5-3 Monday. Competing with Jenrry Mejia, Dice-K allowed three hits and three walks, striking out five...

Well Met fans the pain of watching Ike Davis flail away at breaking pitches has come to an end. For now. Davis was sent to the minor leagues by the Mest on Monday to hopefully find his hitting stroke again. Also sent back to the minors were relief pitcher Robert Carson and outfielder Mike Baxter...

The Hope O’ Meter has seen better days. After losing blowing another series to the cross town Yanks, the Mets headed out to Chicago and dropped two of three to the worst team in the Bigs. Errors are up, power is down, and the Hope O’ Meter is at a season low 5.56. Let’s break down the pros and cons, starting with the abundant cons:

Now this is a great debate topic. Did Mets manager Terry Collins make the right move by removing David Wright from last nights loss to the Milwaukee Brewers? Here is the setup. Brewers take a 8-0 lead in the 7th inning after hack relief pitcher DJ Carrasco of the Mets drilled Ryan Braun after Rickie Weeks of Milwaukee cracked a homerun off of Carrasco to make the score 8-0...

At various, likely random intervals throughout the season, I will be updating the New York Mets 2012 Hope-O-Meter. This meter, which has a standard 0-10 scale, will represent the optimism of the Mets faithful that the season won’t be a huge embarrassing failure. Well, after a somewhat impressive 1-0 win over the Atlanta Braves, the official Hope-O-Meter reading is a stellar 7.25.

With the kind of year the Mets have had, does it really shock you that two of their most productive players got hurt in the same game? And should it really shock you that both of these players are now going on the disabled list? Allow me to answer both of those questions for you: NO!

The Yankee bats went quiet once again on Friday night as the Yankees lost game one in their three game Subway Series to the New York Mets two to one. So what was the good news and bad news for the Yankees in this loss?