I’ve been to my local head shrinker,
To help classify my disease,
He said it’s one of the cases of acute schizophrenia he sees.
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Poll: What’s your take on the Mets in the third week of May?
by Brian Joura • • 7 Comments
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Gut Reaction: Mets 3, Angels 0 (5/19/17)
by Brian Joura • • 11 Comments
There’s no place like home. The Mets returned from a disastrous road trip and snapped a seven-game losing streak with a 3-0 win over the Angels Friday night. Jacob deGrom gave the team what it desperately needed – a strong…
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Checking in on Jay Bruce’s defense with advanced numbers
by Brian Joura • • 10 Comments
One of the criticisms of the Mets heading into the 2017 season was how they weren’t a very athletic club and this was likely to show up on the defensive side of things. One of the main sources of this…
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Gut Reaction: Diamondbacks 5, Mets 4 (11 INN) 5/17/17
by Brian Joura • • 13 Comments
The Mets were swept for the second straight series, as they lost the series-closer against the Diamondbacks, 5-4, Wednesday afternoon in Arizona. The Mets jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first but by the third…
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Gut Reaction: Diamondbacks 5, Mets 4 (5/16/17)
by Brian Joura • • 3 Comments
The schizophrenic Mets lost their sixth straight game, this one a 5-4 setback against the Diamondbacks in Arizona. Before the current streak, the Mets had gone 8-3 in their previous 11 games. But before that, they had lost 10 of…
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Our annual complaint of the Mets and the disabled list
by Brian Joura • • 8 Comments
California sunlight, sweet Calcutta rain, Honolulu Starbright…
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Gut Reaction: Diamondbacks 7, Mets 3 (5/15/17)
by Brian Joura • • 9 Comments
Getting out of Milwaukee did not prove to be the magic pill the Mets needed, as they traveled to Phoenix and saw another late-inning meltdown in a 7-3 loss Monday night. Arizona tallied six runs in the eighth inning, with…
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Gut Reaction: Giants 6, Mets 5 (5/10/17)
by Brian Joura • • 12 Comments
The Mets snatched defeat from the jaws of victory, allowing four runs in the ninth inning en route to a 6-5 loss to the last-place Giants. For the third time in the last four series, the Mets had a chance…
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Tommy Milone and the on-going quest for a depth starter
by Brian Joura • • 12 Comments
Back in late January, before the Mets had finished assembling their 25-man roster, there was a discussion in the comments section of one of our articles, where MattyMets said: “On paper we have 7 starters, but who’s next in line…
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Gut Reaction: Marlins 7, Mets 0 (5/7/17)
by Brian Joura • • 10 Comments
The Marlins avoided a sweep with a 7-0 whitewashing of the Mets Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets missed a chance to get back to .500 with the setback and suffered their first shutout of the season. The game…
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Mets’ recent hot streak propelled by offense not starting pitching
by Brian Joura • • 5 Comments
The Mets brought back virtually the same team that ended 2016 for the current season. Sure, there were tweaks on the margins, as James Loney was not invited back. But anyone who was a fan in 2016 would have no…
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Gut Reaction: Mets 11, Marlins 3 (5/6/17)
by Brian Joura • • 2 Comments
The Mets won back-to-back home games for the first time all year with an 11-3 thrashing of the Marlins Saturday night. After dropping five of the first seven games of the year against Miami, New York goes for the sweep…