OMG, as the kids say. Johan Santana guaranteed this season lives on for another day with perhaps the most impressive pitching performance by a Met since, well, since Al Leiter tossed a 5-0 shutout against the Reds, throwing 135 pitches and giving up two hits and four walks. That was Oct. 4, 1999, and it put the Mets in the playoffs.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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