Flushing University Lectures for Sunday August 5, 2007

Stefi Kaplan of You Can't Script Baseball isn't crazy about day games cos she has a day job like most of us, but likes the Mets wins on Thursday and Friday. Stefi writes for FU every Monday.

Matt Himelfarb of Cyclones Nation suggests the Mets eliminated Kevin Mulvey from trading consideration and wonders why. Matt writes for FU every Monday.

Taryn Cooper of My Summer Family went on a memorable roadtrip with FU faculty member MetsGrll this past week. Check out the photos of their trip to Miller Park and Wrigley Field. The Coop writes for FU every Tuesday, although she'll be taking this week off.

Ed from Westchester of The Blue, Orange and Green Cafe brings us up to date on his thoughts of the moves the Mets made and didn't make at the trading deadline. Ed writes for FU every Tuesday.

Writerhoward of Metbaseball has a nice compilation of the results of the Mets systems pitchers from Saturday. Writerhoward will be writing for FU every Wednesday starting this week.

Dana Brand of Mets Fan Blog Dana writes that the other night's 13 inning game loss against the Brewers may just be a microcosm of the season, where there is very little that will differentiate an early playoff exit from going all the way. Dana writes for FU every other Thursday.

John Coppinger of The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus has got a great caption under a shot of Willie and John Maine as well as a great recap of Friday's win. Metstradamus writes for FU every Friday.

Our grand poobah, Mike McGann, writes every Wednesday at FU.

Evan Pritchard, whose book, Flushing Fever - The Story of the Incredible 2006 New York Mets: A Fan’s Perspective,, will be available in e-book form at FU, writes occsaional Wednesdays at FU.

Dana Brand whose book, Mets Fan will be published in late July or August by McFarland and will be available on amazon.com and bn.com of Mets Fan Blog contributes every other Thursday at FU.

Tom Starita of NY Baseball Online contributes every Thursday here at FU.

Joe Janish of Mets Today Catch Joe's column Fridays right here at FU.

Shari Forst writes for FU every Saturday.

Kevin Collazo of Shea Faithful Kevin writes for FU every Sunday.

Jaap Stijl of Archie Bunker's Army tells us why Marty Foster, the first base umpire in Saturday's game should sign up for lifetime membership for the American Council of the Blind.

Brooklyn Mets Fan writes of John Maine's unfortunate meltdown on Saturday.

Dan Lerner of Hot Foot discusses the grassroots effort in place to save the Home Run Apple.

Ed Ryan of Mets Fever mentions that the NO Zephyr's LOOGY Willie Collazo has been named the PCL player of the week Ed. thanks for the reference to FU as well.

MetsGal of MetsMerized Online writes of three Mets who statistics may not be in the record breaking category, but who have contributed signifcantly to the fortunes of the 2007 Mets.

Mike Steffanos of Mike’s Mets shares some thoughts on John Maine's quick exit yesterday and reminds us this kid is only 26 years old.

Cheddar Ben of Yankees 2000: Promote the Curse writes of Damion Easley's 360 foot dash around the bases the other day.