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As the Mets enter the sixth week of the season and their second visit to Philadelphia, only eight teams in the majors, four in the NL and four in the AL, have won more games than Terry Collins’ club. Most people would have expected 18 teams to have a better record than the Mets at this point. The Yankees and Mets have identical 15-13 records. One man’s ceiling is another man’s floor. As a reward for their limited success the Mets get to face Roy Halladay and the Phillies tonight at Citizens Bank Park and then Cliff Lee on Wednesday. The Mets are 10-5 against the NL East, including a 7-2 division record at home. For the first time this season R.A. Dickey and Johan Santana have posted back-to-back victories after Dickey’s superb eight-inning knuckleball performance in the Mets’ 3-1 win yesterday over the Diamondbacks at Citi Field, a game played in a tidy two hours and 16 minutes.
Getty Images THOLE STROKES! Josh Thole lines an RBI single up the middle for the Mets’ third run in yesterday’s 3-1 rubber-game win over the Diamondbacks. This was 1959 and Hoyt Wilhelm. METS BOX SCORE Of course, nothing is ever simple for the Mets. Young shortstop Ruben Tejada, who replaced Jose Reyes, the often-injured shortstop who raced off to Miami, did a face plant at first base after a beautiful bunt single in the fourth inning and came up with a strained quad and bruised ego. Things could go downhill quickly for the Mets. But for now they are holding on. “I personally think we’re a fun team to watch, and a lot of good things can happen,’’ catcher Josh Thole told The Post after driving in one of the three runs with a fourth-inning single. The other two were driven in by Daniel Murphy. In a fascinating scene three hours before the game, Murphy was offering some hitting tips to Thole in front of Thole’s locker. “When I walk down the street, people are saying, ‘Hey, keep going, you guys are playing hard,’ ” Thole said. “You appreciate hearing that, and when you show the fans that you care and have passion, that’s all they are asking for.’’ Wins help, too, and the Mets have been putting up just enough to keep from falling into the abyss. This game got interesting in the ninth when Dickey walked the leadoff hitter, gave up a run-scoring double and was replaced by Tim Byrdak. The lefty got Jason Kubel to fly to the wall in left. Closer Frank Francisco came on and got a strikeout before the game ended with a towering fly by Miguel Montero that Lucas Duda engulfed in front of the right-field wall. Francisco makes it exciting, but at least he’s healthy. Nine teams have lost their closers to injury this season, and the Marlins demoted Heath Bell, so in that respect, the Mets are ahead of the game as Francisco picked up his seventh save. If not for the bullpen blowing Friday night’s game in the eighth inning, the Mets would have swept the Diamondbacks. Jon Niese meets Halladay tonight. Then the Mets chose to give journeyman Miguel Batista the ball tomorrow instead of offering an emergency start to young Matt Harvey. The Triple-A right-hander is not close to being ready for such an assignment, they say. The offensively-challenged Phillies have their own issues. All in all, this is an important week for the Mets with a visit to the Marlins after the trip to Philadelphia. For now, the Phillies and Marlins are looking up at the Mets, but that could flip-flop quickly. Murphy, who batted fifth, is hitting much better since moving to the middle of the order, going 7-for-12 in the series. He told me that is because of an adjustment he made with hitting coach Dave Hudgens three days ago. “I feel confident right now,’’ Murphy said. “We’re playing well. We’ve done a good job of learning from the mistakes we’ve made.’’ These Mets will continue to make mistakes. “But we feel like we can compete, we have competed and we’ll continue to try to play good baseball,’’ Murphy added. If they don’t, the good vibes will be gone in an instant. kevin.kernan@nypost.com the Mets, Mets, Josh Thole, Daniel Murphy, Roy Halladay, Phillies, Phillies |
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Washington -- It’s impossible to say whether the good feeling the Rangers derived from their triple-overtime victory over the Capitals will carry into Saturday, when the teams meet in Washington for Game 4. But the Capitals don't seem worried. Washington trailed Boston 2-1 in games before winning in seven, so they have no reason to believe this loss will be any more difficult to overcome. “We have confidence in our team,” Washington’s Troy Brouwer said. “We played a real good game, I thought, holding them to one goal, almost, for two whole hockey games. I mean, if we continue playing like we did, creating offense, blocking shots, you know, playing good, patient hockey, we’ll be successful.” Capitals coach Dale Hunter played in a four-overtime game and now has stood behind the bench over a three-overtime thriller. He lost both games, but neither of them ended a series. “Well, you go into triple overtime it’s a special game,” Hunter said in the wee hours of Thursday morning. “But it’s just one game and you got to bounce back.” Rangers forward Marian Gaborik won it with a goal in the 115th minute. The game started at 7:40 p.m. on Wednesday and ended at 12:14 a.m. Thursday. The defeat conjured memories of Washington’s 3-2 loss to Pittsburgh in 1996, a game that lasted four overtimes. “Well, you’re pretty drained after,” Hunter said. “I think both teams would be pretty drained, and it’s nice that both teams get two days to recoup. This way, they both get to come back and get two days of rest and you see a better hockey game.” Capitals associate goalie coach Olie Kolzig was in the net for Washington during that four-overtime affair against Pittsburgh and in the press box at Verizon Center on Wednesday night. As the game developed, he had a hunch a marathon was in the making. “I actually called it,” he said Thursday. “I said this has got the feeling of a double, triple overtime game. It just felt like a chess match. It wasn’t wide-open hockey; it wasn’t end-to-end chances. So you knew it was just a matter of a bad break or whatever team was going to be mistake-free.” Capitals, Washington, Troy Brouwer, Marian Gaborik, Dale Hunter, triple overtime, Rangers, hockey games |
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Amar’e Stoudemire’s temper tantrum may have come after the final buzzer Monday night, but it still drew a T. But it wasn’t a technical, it was T-shirt designed by Crosstown New York, available for sale within hours of his meltdown. Poking fun at Stoudemire, who is likely to miss the rest of the Knicks’ series with the Heat after he punched the case to a fire extinguisher, the shirt features Amare’s name with the ‘r’ replaced by a fire extinguisher. It is available at crosstownny.com.
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St. Francis Prep jumped into second place with a big win. Andrew Cunningham had three RBIs and Aaron Acosta and Nick LoPrinzi each had two RBIs to lead St. Francis to a 9-7 win over Bishop Ford in CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens ‘AA’ baseball Monday at the Parade Grounds in Brooklyn. Mike Bekmessian had a big pinch-hit RBI single and John Mendez added a run driven in for SFP (5-3). Ford falls to 6-4. Xaverian 13, St. Edmund Prep 4: Tommy Anselmo gave up no runs on two hits over the first five innings for Xaverian (9-0). Gabe Hernandez had two hits. St. Edmund falls to 1-8. Archbishop Molloy 10, Christ the King 2: Greg Boyle gave up just one run in a complete-game effort and Chris Piteo had three hits to lead Molloy (5-4). CK falls to 1-9. Holy Cross 5, Monsignor McClancy 1: James Callahan gave up no earned runs on four hits and struck out three in seven innings for Holy Cross (5-4). Tom Lentino went 2-for-3 with two RBIs, Nick LaForgia was 2-for-3 with an RBI and Sean Broderson was 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Mike Guglielmi went 2-for-3 to lead McClancy (5-5). CHSAA CLASS A LaSalle 12, St. John’s Prep 0: Jayson Negron pitched a complete-game two-hit shutout, striking out eight for LaSalle (3-2). Negron also had a three-run double and scored twice. Devon Graham went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBIs and two runs scored and Victor Rosario was 1-for-2 with two RBIs, a run scored and two walks. St. John’s Prep is 1-4. Cathedral Prep 8, Bishop Loughlin 1: John Starace went 2-for-4 with five RBIs and Tim McQuail pitched a complete game, giving up just two hits and striking out nine for Cathedral (3-2). Loughlin is 1-1. mraimondi@nypost.com John Mendez, St. Edmund Prep, St. Francis Prep, Aaron Acosta, Bishop Ford, Nick LoPrinzi, St. Francis, Tom Lentino, Jayson Negron, Gabe Hernandez, Victor Rosario, Monsignor McClancy, Holy Cross, RBIs, RBIs, Mike Guglielmi, Chris Piteo, Devon Graham |
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HERO The Heat’s Big 3 dominated with LeBron James (19 points, nine assists, seven rebounds), Dwyane Wade (25 points) and Chris Bosh (21 points) all delivering. The trio scored 65 of the Heat’s 104 points. ZERO Amar’e Stoudemire, who put his health in jeopardy — and risked the team’s fortunes — by selfishly punching the glass covering a fire extinguisher after the game, lacerating his left hand. Stoudemire received stitches and could miss the rest of the series. KEY PLAY After trailing for most of the game and going down by 11 midway through the third quarter, The Knicks cut the lead to four with 1:37 to go in the period. But the Heat quelled the Knicks’ run when James found Shane Battier for a 3 to put Miami back up seven, part of a quick 6-0 spurt. The Knicks never get closer the rest of the night. KEY STAT 12 The Knicks tied the Grizzlies’ NBA record with a dozen straight postseason losses. TO QUOTE ... “Now we have to see what we are made of at home.” — Knicks coach Mike Woodson Knicks, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, the Heat, The Knicks, Stoudemire, Shane Battier |
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DENVER — Ike Davis might be struggling, but manager Terry Collins wants to make it clear: The Mets aren’t considering a platoon at first base. A night after Zach Lutz got the start at first base to give the Mets an extra right-handed bat, Davis was back in the lineup against the Rockies, and will remain in the lineup for the foreseeable future — even against lefties — according to Collins. Davis entered play batting only .132 with three homers and seven RBIs. He had struck out 12 times in 28 at-bats with runners in scoring position, leading the major leagues in that category. Collins said Davis’ slump has been a prime topic of conversation in his daily coaches’ meetings. METS BOX SCORE “Ike Davis is going to play,” Collins said. “We’ve got to get this guy going, and not playing is not helping him, so we’re getting him in there.” * Chris Schwinden is scheduled to pitch Wednesday in Houston despite stumbling in his season debut on Friday, when he allowed six runs, five earned, over four-plus innings. ... Collins said he came close to using outfielder Mike Baxter to pitch the ninth inning Friday night with the Mets trailing 18-9. Baxter was on call to be the next pitcher behind Bobby Parnell, but the manager changed his plan at the last minute and decided to use Tim Byrdak. But that message wasn’t conveyed to Baxter, who began running in from left field toward the mound when he saw Collins on the field to make a pitching change. Baxter got to the infield and turned back when he realized Byrdak was entering. * Johan Santana will be tested on four days’ rest for the first time this season when he faces the Rockies in today’s series finale. Over his first four starts, Santana has worked on extra rest, an early precaution in his return from surgery to repair a torn anterior capsule in his left shoulder. ... Collins says he was not offended by Dexter Fowler’s bat flip and pose as his shot cleared the fence in Friday night’s fifth inning. “That stuff is all part of the game today,” Collins said. “This isn’t 20 years ago when guys took offense to stuff like that. I’ve seen games here in the past where guys have hit homers and flipped the bat at home plate. They hit them so far here you might want to look at them.” manager Terry Collins, Ike Davis, Mike Baxter, the Mets, Mets, Tim Byrdak, Johan Santana, Zach Lutz, Chris Schwinden, Rockies, Bobby Parnell, online |
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Ford, which yesterday posted its 12th straight profitable quarter, is looking to use some of that cash to make upfront pension payments to 90,000 white-collar workers this summer. The carmaker hopes to lower its $74 billion worldwide pension liability. The payments could amount to roughly $400,000 a pop, or more. Ford, with 164,000 workers around the world, said the wholesale pension payout is the first offered by any US company. Ford already has accumulated $9.3 billion in cash this year, and intends to use about $3.8 billion to kick off its buy-out bonanza to 75,000 US employees, its largest single workforce, and thousands others elsewhere, the company said. “We believe this is the first time a program of this type and magnitude has been done with an ongoing pension obligation,” Ford CEO Alan Mulally told analysts while unveiling first-quarter earnings.. Ford reported a first quarter profit of $1.4 billion, down sharply from its $2.55 billion first-quarter profit a year ago. The company said it took a bath in Europe operations, which lost $149 million. CFO Robert Shanks called Europe’s slide the worst since 1995, saying it “is like looking back at the US in 2008 and 2009.” Meanwhile, Shanks hailed the buyout plan as “a huge step forward in terms of actually eliminating some of the obligations altogether.” The US pension tab is about $49 billion. Shanks had no idea how many salaried workers — including a handful of current retirees collecting checks — would accept offers. Union workers aren’t involved in the deal yet, he said. “This will be done person by person because it’s done with actuarial data around each individual, and how long they might be expected to live — so actually it’s not one rate,” said Shanks. “It’ll be thousands of rates.” Filings showed Ford pays white collar workers a base pension of about $48 a month, multiplied by the number of years of service. Executives get bumped up to as much as $100 a month or higher, depending on their pay scales. Mulally, who joined Ford in 2004, has no pension as such, but owns 22 million shares of Ford valued in excess of $265 million. Veteran executive vice president L.W.K. Booth has a pension pot valued at $13 million based on his 34 years of service, filings said. tharp@nypost.com Robert Shanks, white collar workers, Ford, upfront pension payments |
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CHARLOTTE — Look out Miami, here come the Knicks. The Heat is on and the Knicks’ confidence is already overflowing. The Miami Dream Team officially became the Knicks’ first-round opponent last night and they will begin this star-studded battle royale tomorrow at deafening American Airlines Arena. Amar’e Stoudemire, who surged into the playoffs last night with a powerful 21-point night in their 104-84 regular-season-finale win over the Bobcats, is not lacking confidence. Stoudemire said he feels the Knicks roster — on paper, top to bottom — is slightly better than Miami’s, citing depth. LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh? Stoudemire feels the Knicks match up just fine, thank you.
AP GRAND FINALE: Amar’e Stoudemire, who scored 21 points, goes up for a shot against Tyrus Thomas in the Knicks’ 104-84 regular-season finale victory over the Bobcats, who officially became the NBA’s worst team ever after ending the season with their 23rd straight loss. “We have incredible depth,’’ Stoudemire said. “Our bench has been phenomenal for us all season long. We’re a much better defensive team than we were before. We have so many threats offensively to match their offensive threats. So it’s pretty much even as far as our starting lineup and I think our second unit is a little bit stronger.’’ It is a matchup Knicks fans have salivated over the moment James spurned the Knicks on July 9, 2010 and took his so-called “talents to South Beach.” Ironically, 13 years ago, in the last lockout season, the Knicks and Heat met in the first round in 1999. The eighth-seeded Knicks upset the top-seeded Heat in a deciding Game 5 when current assistant general manager Allan Houston hit the game-winning runner off the backboard at the buzzer. The Knicks believe magic can happen again. Perhaps the Sports Illustrated jinx will rear its ugly head again with King James on this week’s cover, Wade won’t be dominant, entering with a dislocated left index finger, and bench sparkplugs Steve Novak and J.R. Smith can light up Miami. Rookie Iman Shumpert, fellow Chicago native, will get Wade all series. “I love it,’’ Shumpert told The Post of the Miami matchup. “I got a bad taste in my mouth from the last time. I felt we should’ve won the game. I’m looking forward to our team being at full strength. They say that’s the toughest opponent. We’re going to have to play them anyway. Why not play them in the first round? I’m not afraid of anyone.” “We feel we can compete with anyone in the league,’’ Stoudemire said. “We feel like we’ve been playing well under Coach Woodson. It’s going to be a tight battle. Every game against Miami has been a tight one. So it’s really anyone’s game.’’ The Knicks were 0-3 versus the Heat, but two of those losses came in Miami when Mike D’Antoni ran the program and their defense was intermittent. Next > 1 2 Dwayne Wade, Miami, Miami, Stoudemire, Stoudemire, LeBron James, Knicks roster, Knicks, Knicks.The Heat |
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Vice President Joe Biden is pictured at a campaign event in Exeter, N.H., on April 12. (Jim Cole / Associated Press / April 12, 2012) Since it became clear that Mitt Romney would win the GOP nomination, the Obama campaign has been eager to portray the former Massachusetts governor as the committed conservative he presented himself as in the primaries. But Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday portrayed Romney as weak and waffling when it comes to foreign policy, an issue on which Democrats feel they have the advantage in the fall campaign. Biden contrasted what he characterized as Romney's uncertainty with President Obama's record of making "hard calls with strength and steadiness," with no better example than ordering the operation that killed Osama bin Laden, a successful mission that is nearing its one-year anniversary. Speaking only roughly two miles from ground zero in New York, the vice president outlined the high-stakes decision Obama made, noting that even his most senior national security advisers – including Biden – were divided on whether to proceed. "He made one of the most courageous decisions I've seen a president make in my lifetime, and I would argue in a long time," Biden said. "On this gut issue we know what President Obama did. We can't say for certain what Gov. Romney would have done." Biden also repeated what he has said should be the bumper sticker slogan for the Obama campaign: "Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." "You have to ask yourself, if Gov. Romney had been president, could he have used the same slogan in reverse?" he said. "People are going to make that judgment. It's a legitimate thing to speculate on." The 2012 election is expected to turn on the state of the economy, which polls have shown to be overwhelmingly the biggest concern of voters. But those same polls show that one of the areas where Obama holds a clear advantage over Romney is on foreign policy. White House and campaign aides have denied that Biden's speech was timed to coincide with the anniversary of Bin Laden's death. The month ahead also will give Obama opportunities to show himself to voters as a leader on the world stage, with the G8 leaders summit at Camp David and a NATO summit in his hometown of Chicago. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released earlier this month showed that by a double-digit margin, voters said Obama was stronger than Romney on national security and foreign policy. But Romney had the advantage on jobs and the economy. Biden did attempt to link the two in his speech, arguing that Obama's auto industry rescue, among other economic policies, "made us stronger not only at home, but abroad." He also argued that Romney's "loose talk" of war with Iran was in part to blame for an unsettled oil market, and thus higher gas prices at home. But the speech was more an opportunity for Biden to testify to the president's leadership, saying Obama kept his promise to end the war in Iraq, set a clear strategy for success in Afghanistan and showed resolve in dealing with Iran and North Korea. Invoking Teddy Roosevelt's mantra to "speak softly and carry a big stick," Biden said: "I promise you: the president has a big stick." He quoted Romney as saying in the 2008 campaign that if voters want someone who has foreign policy experience "we can simply go to the State Department" and that a president "is not a foreign policy expert." The comment, Biden argued, showed "a profound misunderstanding of the responsibilities of the president and the commander in chief." "That kind of thinking may work for a CEO but it will not and cannot work for a president. And it will not work for a commander in chief," he said. The Romney campaign, in a conference call before the president's remarks, argued that Obama's foreign policy has weakened the country. Dan Senor argued that the president's track record has left the nation and its allies "exposed and isolated in a way that I have not seen in American foreign policy history for years." "It's clear Biden has amnesia about the Obama administration's foreign policy failures whether it's alienating allies like Israel, the failed Russia reset, and emboldening adversaries like Iran and Syria that seek to undermine our nation's security. America can't afford four more years of leading from behind from President Obama," added RNC spokesperson Kirsten Kukowski. michael.memoli@latimes.com
Original source: Joe Biden blasts Mitt Romney's 'CEO mindset' on national security
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Kevin Kernan
