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Flushing University Lectures for Sunday August 12, 2007

Posted Sunday, August 12, 2007

The Fish are making the Mets look awful. I wish Mota would disappear. But baseball moves on, and our FU Blog Professors and FU Faculty bring us the best in the Mets blogosphere, so lets see what they have in store for us today.

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FU Blog Professors Section

Stefi Kaplan of You Can't Script Baseball has some thoughts on this past Thursday's naitbiter against the Braves. Stefi writes for FU every Monday.

Matt Himelfarb of Cyclones Nation mentions that Deolis Guerra is going to be shut down for the rest of the year and of Amborix Burgos' comeback down at NO. that Matt writes for FU every Monday.

Here are Joe Janish of Mets Today recaps from game 1 and game 2 of the Fish series. Catch Joe's column Fridays right here at FU.

Taryn Cooper of My Summer Family wants to know what is it with these Marlins? And I don't think Coop is a fan of Larry Jones. The Coop writes for FU every Tuesday.

Ed from Westchester of The Blue, Orange and Green Cafe puts some perspective in the remaining games of the season. Ed writes for FU every Tuesday.

H.P. "Writerhoward" Rosenberg of Metbaseball reminds us that the long season is getting shorter for the Mets and it may pass us by. Writerhoward writes for FU every Wednesday.

John Coppinger of The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus writes that Jorge Sosa is to French cooking as Guillermo Mota and Aaron Heilman are to Salmonella and Botulism. Metstradamus writes for FU every Friday.

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The Rest of the FU BlogProfessors

Our grand poombah, 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 most Wednesdays at FU. (DELETE??)

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.

Shari Forst writes for FU every Saturday.


FU Faculty

Jaap Stijl of Archie Bunker's Army discusses Alfonso Marquez's blown call at the plate but is more concerned about the state of the bullpen

Brooklyn Mets Fan has some thoughts about Guillermo Mota, steriods and the game yesterday.

Dan Lerner of Hot Foot has the postgame report on Saturday nights loss.

Gozer of Hot Stove New York has the recap of the Jets win over the Falcons. (Hey, I'm a Jet fan, what can I say?)

Mets Fever reports with the recent bullpen meltdowns that we may be approaching Philip Humber time

Metsgrrl shares her Shea experiences from attending Friday night's Fish game; a game we shoulda won and didn't.

Joseph DeCaro of MetsMerized Online has the latest on Paul Lo Duca being put on the 15 day DL and wonders when he returns if the Mets will still be in first place.

Mets Walk-Offs writes of Walk off tightropes, similar to the Billy Wagner magic from Wednesday night.

Mike Steffanos of Mike’s Mets summarizes the Season Pitching Stats for our Triple A pitchers. Barry Duchan writes of Ron Hunt, Pete Rose, Bobby Klaus and the 1964 Mets in his weekly retrospective on the Mets.

Kevin Collazo of Shea Faithful writes of John Maine and Oliver Perez and their recent losses against the Braves.

Cheddar Ben of Yankees 2000: Promote the Curse writes of the recent 3 year 30 million contract that Eric Byrnes obtained from the D'Backs.

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Bloggers: think you've written something that belongs here, send me a note at garyg@flushinguniversity.com and we'll take a look. Of course, all of our BlogProfessors — those who write for us regularly — will be featured in this space regularly.
 
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