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Website on Mets’ dubious history happy to get no hits

At 9:50 p.m. Friday, Dirk Lammers made the post to his website he had always dreamed of: “We are obsolete … finally!!!”

Lammers has run nonohitters.com for the past five seasons to chronicle the failure by a Mets pitcher to throw a no-hitter. Each day, when the Mets gave up that first hit, Lammers would update his site with the number of games without a no-no.

Thanks to Johan Santana, Lammers no longer has to worry about that … just what to do now with his site.

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“I don’t know,” Lammers said. “Maybe a Padres fan might take it over. I’ll have to figure it out.”

Yes, the Padres are now the only team without a no-hitter in its history.

Friday night, Lammers watched the game on his iPad in an Orlando, Fla., hotel room, where he was finishing up a vacation with his 17- and 15-year-old sons.

“I don’t know if I had a feeling, but I got kind of sick of Gary [Cohen], Keith [Hernandez] and Ron [Darling] talking about it [on TV] during the game,” Lammers said, “and I decided to listen to [radio announcer] Howie Rose and watch the game with the sound down. I guess that worked.”

Lammers, a 43-year-old journalist for the Associated Press, lives in Sioux Falls, S.D. He started the site after another short-lived one dedicated to the Buccaneers’ failure to return a kickoff for a touchdown.

He said he will miss updating the site each night, but, as a Mets fan, was elated the monkey is off the franchise’s back. He plans on keeping the site active because of the history on it. He has a log of Mets’ one-hitters and Mets pitchers who threw a no-hitter for a different team.

“It’s not like the thing was profitable,” Lammers said. “It’s not going to hurt me financially. If I made 12 cents on Google ads, that was a good day. It wasn’t going to make me rich. I will miss it. It was a fun thing.”