The SNY takeover?

SNY, the Mets' cable channel, is in talks with local stations about providing sports reports for their newscasts, The Post has learned.

The sports channel is talking to both Ch. 11 and Ch. 4 about eventually doing away with their own sportscasters and replacing them with SNY reporters, according to sources.

-Michael Starr, New York Post

I find this intriguing as both a Mets fan a media nut.

I believe SNY has done a fine job of establishing themselves not only as the Mets network, but – as they say – a home for all New York sports.

If this ever happens, maybe more fans start watching SNY more often, the network gains popularity, and so do the Mets.  Also, they might just feed some more money into the Mets organization.

High hopes?  Yeah.  But I’m a dreamer.

H/T Geoffrey Sorensen

Manuel’s Musing

“He can navigate.”

-Jerry Manuel on Mike Pelfrey

Game Recap: Mets 2 – Padres 1

I yelled and clapped quite loudly at T.G.I. Fridays.  Oops.

The Good

Mike Pelfrey.  Seriously, how good is he?  A no decision after nine stellar innings of baseball is just wrong.  Only five hits and one earned run, as he struck out five and walked none.  He only needed 103 pitches to get through the nine innings.  I was shocked that he didn’t come out to start the 10th.  What a performance.  I’m so proud of him.

Solo shots.  Jose Reyes and Ike Davis both homered for the Mets only runs.  Davis’ shot was an absolute bomb, landing about a dozen rows up in the Pepsi Porch.  Can’t wait to see where Hit Tracker puts that ball.

Reyes, Pagan and Wright each had two hits.  Wright picked up a two-bagger, while Pagan (thanks to a fan and botched call by the umps) hit the game’s only triple.

The Bad & Ugly

J. Bay: 0-5, 3 K

The usage of the bullpen really frightened me, but save for the one hit Pedro Feliciano allowed, they were perfect.

Game Ball

Pelf and Davis

On Deck

Mets and Pads go at it tomorrow night, 7:10 p.m.

Jesus Feliciano promoted

Jesus Feliciano, 31, is making his first appearance in the majors with his promotion to the Mets yesterday.

Feliciano had been hitting .385 / .426 / .481 over 53 games for the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons.

A career minor leaguer, Feliciano has been with four different organizations.  He’s been at the Mets Triple-A level for the last four season.

Omir Santos was moved back to the minors to make room for Feliciano.

Manuel’s Musing

“That's a tremendous problem to have.”

-Jerry Manuel on having too many outfielders

Mets go with UNC’s Harvey

With the seventh overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft, the Mets selected University of North Carolina’s Matt Harvery.

The 6-foot-4 right hander, from Mystic, Conn., went 8-3 with a 3.09 ERA, 102 strikeouts and 35 walks over 96 innings as a junior.

From UNC…

A first-team All-ACC pick and preseason All-America, Harvey ranks ninth all-time in strikeouts (263) and tenth all-time in wins (22) in Carolina history. The Mystic, Conn., native pitched two complete games this season while registering a career-best eight wins.

In 2010, Harvey led the Tar Heels in nearly every statistical pitching category posting 102 strikeouts and a 3.09 ERA in 96 innings pitched. Opponents hit a lowly .224 against the junior, who registered a near 3:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

He also struck out a career-high 15 batters in a complete game on April 23.

Harvey was drafted out of high school by the Los Angeles Angels, but they missed out on signing him when his agent, Scott Boras, passed on their $1.4 million offer.

Guess The Met! [Solved]

The rules are easy: I post a Mets player photo, but only reveal a tiny part of the image.  From there, your goal is to try and guess which player the photo is of.

No prizes, but pride and honor is on the line.

Here is today’s Guess the Met… Good luck!

Can you guess this Met?  Leave your guess in the comments!

This Met is… CARLOS BELTRAN!

Manuel’s Musing

“[Ruben] Tejada is a young player that right now. I kind of like to pick and choose his battles.”

-Jerry Manuel on Ruben Tejada

Game Recap: Mets 7 – Marlins 6

Sweep.

The Good

Fighting back.  Mets were down 5-0 before rallying back with three in the sixth and three in the seventh.

Chris Carter and Angel Pagan drove in the three runs in the sixth on RBI singles.

Jeff Freakin’ Francoeur.  Ten game hitting streak.  2-4 with a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the game.  Welcome back, first-week Francoeur.

David Wright is also on fire.  3-5 today with a run scored.

Productive double play.  The Mets took the lead in the 8th on a Ike Davis double play.

The Bad & Ugly

Taka’s start.  He let up five earned over 5 1/3 innings.  Walked two.  Not really terrible, but not good either.

Ryota ain’t right.  One inning, allowing one earned on two walks.  Something isn’t right with him.

Can we have a 1-2-3 9th inning, K-Rod?  Please?

Game Ball

Citi Field, because the Mets love the park.

On Deck

Monday is an off-day before the Mets welcome the Padres on Tuesday night, 7:10 p.m.

Manuel’s Musing

“This, purely, is Oliver Perez. Oliver Perez came in and said his knee is bothering him.”

-Jerry Manuel on Oliver Perez’s knee