They say that politics make strange bedfellows but hearing the latest rumor on a proposed sale of the Mets by the Wilpon family makes me think sports is right up there in that department. As a Knicks and (long ago) Rangers fan, the idea of the owner of the 76ers and the Devils becoming the [...]
Through the life of the site, there's probably been hundreds of posts around baseball cards. Shoot, the image for yesterday's article was a card. I miss Doug Parker's weekly COTW column. Periodically I try to get him to do it again but he always declines in the politest way possible. Anyway, with all the bad [...]
What follows is a Twitter exchange about Noah Syndergaard not paying on a lease during the pandemic. This is a couple of days old but these days I see things when I see them. Hope the lack of timeliness doesn't detract from the overall message. Amidst a fundamentally uninteresting dispute over an apartment lease, the [...]
Have you been following any of the online simulations of the 2020 season. Me, haven't seen one of them. But I did see that in one, the Mets were 11 or 12 games above .500 and it made me wonder how that should make me feel. Should it be happiness because the team is poised [...]
My guess is that everyone was excited thinking about the 2020 season back in January, thinking the Mets had a good shot at the postseason. Then the world turned upside down. Now, assuming they end up with an 80-game season, does that change the picture any? Are the Mets more or less likely to make [...]
There seems to be a lot of momentum for the MLB season to get underway in early July with a schedule of around 80 games. Of course, we still don't know all of the details, including where the games will be played. One recent proposal was for games to be played in MLB parks right [...]
The owners are looking to use the pandemic to force players to accept a proposal that they've always rejected previously. MLB wants salaries to be a percentage of revenue. The players have rejected this in the past because it's a de facto salary cap. But the luxury tax threshold acts in the same way. Should [...]
Bill Weiss lived for baseball. You might be tempted to say he forgot more about baseball than anyone else knows, except he never forgot a thing. He didn't like or use computers but had an incredible ability to recall details. And he was willing to talk to anyone. For six decades, from 1945 to 2005, [...]
Last Thursday, right before the start of the NFL Draft, got a text from a college buddy saying, "There will be no MLB this year." Immediately went to MLB.com but didn't see any news of this, so asked my friend where he heard it. He replied that he just finished a Zoom call with some [...]
News broke yesterday about Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez retaining JPMorgan Chase to help raise money to purchase the Mets. My first exposure to this was a Facebook friend linking the MetsBlog story and stating that if this happened he would no longer be a fan. Now, it should be stated for the record that [...]
With Noah Syndergaard's season-ending injury, the best reason to keep Tomas Nido on the roster is gone. Does that change the Mets' thinking about the backup catcher position? Do they keep Nido because it's the easiest thing to do? Do they utilize Rene Rivera as the backup? Or do they look to make a trade [...]
Last year, Dominic Smith proved to be a valuable reserve, finally delivering on the promise that at one time had him ranked as the top first base prospect in the minors. Of course with the season Pete Alonso turned in, it looks like Smith's future on the Mets is limited to being a reserve And [...]