A strong effort from\u00a0Johan Santana\u00a0and (in my opinion anyway) first-half MVP\u00a0Angel Pagan\u00a0helped the Mets salvage the final game of the “first half” today, and allow them to reach the break at 48-40, and four games out. Make no mistake they will need a better second half to reach the postseason but given all the uncertainty, and how badly they’ve looked at times, I think they pretty much deserve to be where they are right now and you have to be satisfied with it. Their ability to improve depends in large part on whether\u00a0Carlos Beltran\u00a0is ready to resume his usual game. The Mets following the victory Sunday recalled\u00a0No. 15\u00a0and he’ll apparently be in uniform and batting cleanup on Thursday when the season resumes in San Francisco.\u00a0Jesus Feliciano, who oughta be proud of what he accomplished, was sent down to make room.<\/p>\n
Don’t forget today — Monday, July 12, is\u00a0Amazin’ All-Star Monday<\/strong>\u00a0at Two Boots at Grand Central Station, where\u00a0Greg Prince\u00a0and I will co-host an evening of Met-centric discussion with\u00a0Howard Megdal, author, journalist and self-professed candidate for Mets general manager; and\u00a0Marty Noble<\/strong>, Mets beat writer for more than 30 years at the Bergen Record, Newsday and MLB.com. Details at the\u00a0Facebook invite here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A strong effort from\u00a0Johan Santana\u00a0and (in my opinion anyway) first-half MVP\u00a0Angel Pagan\u00a0helped the Mets salvage the final game of the “first half” today, and allow them to reach the break at 48-40, and four games out. Make no mistake they will need a better second half to reach the postseason but given all the uncertainty, … Continue reading “Not Half Bad”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341,170,335],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angel-pagan","tag-carlos-beltran","tag-johan-santana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}