NEW YORK - This being baseball, these things happen glacially. One day you wake up and you're a game and a half out of first place with a lot of time left and it all doesn't seem so bad anymore.

Jerry Manuel is a worried man. And he has every right to be. His Mets are struggling. And that's so even if they are only a half-game out of a first-place tie with the Phillies in the NL East. They ...

Jerry Manuel's a cool guy. Laid back, I mean. That's the first difference I notice between the Mets' interim skipper and the deposed Willie Randolph, who certainly wasn't an obtrusive presence to his ...

LOS ANGELES - The brilliant sunshine at Chavez Ravine Thursday served as a stark contrast with the black clouds hovering over the Mets, and specifically manager Jerry Manuel. So it was only fitting ...