Who’s the Mets’ biggest rival, the team you enjoy beating most? Your answer might depend upon when you first got into the game. To me it’s always nice to beat the Cubs. Maybe it’s not the same as it was…
Yesterday the New York Post published an article by Mike Puma in which he talked to two anonymous “talent evaluators with strong knowledge of the NL East,” to discuss which club in the division had the best rotation. On the…
Things are never as easy as they seem. And that point is driven home more than ever in the uncertainty of our new Covid world. The Mets announced their preliminary summer camp roster and it was hard not to notice…
Do you know who the Mets’ player representative to the MLBPA is? Off the top of my head there was a blank but after looking it up and hearing the name, it rang a bell. Give up yet – ok,…
There are things we’d like to be able to do in our job but we don’t for a variety of reasons. Maybe the owners don’t provide us with enough resources. Or maybe our bosses institute policies that are absurd but…
They’re running a poll on MetsBlog about who the team’s leadoff hitter should be. The good news is that Brandon Nimmo is the overwhelming favorite, garnering over 80% of the votes among the three candidates. The bad news is that…
In 1977, RC Cola had a series of cans with pictures of MLB players on it. Since this came in the prime of my card collecting years – have two complete sets that year, one a factory set and the…
In Friday’s column about the unfairness of Interleague play, longtime commenter Name asked if it was fair that the Marlins had to oppose Jacob deGrom six times while the Phillies only had to face the league’s best pitcher once. To…
If you’ve been reading the site for a while, you know my stance on Interleague play. To summarize, it’s unfair to the Mets because while teams they’re battling for a playoff spot get to play a pushover – last year…
They’re all stars on draft day. With the exception of the Knicks and the 2009 Draft, no matter the sport, no matter the team, you always hear team reps exclaim how they can’t believe so-and-so fell to them, as he…
When the Mets made the disastrous trade for Robinson Cano and Edwin Diaz, speculation was that the Mariners allowed them to protect two of their minor leaguers from being involved in the trade and that the Mets chose Pete Alonso…
Back in the day we were constantly told how journeyman Tom Hutton did great against Tom Seaver. And Hutton did begin his career against Seaver off strong, going 9-22 against him in his first three years. But by the end…
