Well, that kind of stunk. The Mets traveled across the state of Florida to take on the power-laden Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin: a three-and-a-half-hour bus ride to a place they hadn’t played in 27 years. As Adam Rubin pointed out on Twitter, there was a brawl that day. In a spring training game. Before [...]
A year ago at this time, we heard a lot of palaver about how hungry to return to the World Series the Kansas City Royals were. They were seen as fluky pennant winners in 2014 and were picked by some to finish as low as fourth in the AL Central in 2015, but in spring [...]
There’s been a week’s worth of Grapefruit League games, now and the Mets are a .500 ballclub. I say this in jest, but it betrays my innate Met-fan fear that last year was an illusion, that a tremendous run of luck propelled the team into the World Series and that they might not be as [...]
Today begins the age of discovery. Today is the first day of spring training games for the New York Mets. This afternoon, the Mets will renew old acquaintances with the Washington Nationals. This seems apropos, seeing as the Mets and Nats will likely wrestle for the NL East title all season. Yes, the shortest/longest winter [...]
On a snowy Friday night in late January, 2016, the New York Mets announced that they had re-signed slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes to an extremely lucrative three-year contract. As most on the east coast were socked in, holed up at home amid mountainous snow piles, Met fans danced in the streets – well, the streets [...]
. If you’re a teenage Met fan, you’re having a brand new experience. If you’re in your 30’s, you can recall what it was like nine years ago. If you’re in your 50’s, like me, you can think all the way back to 1987. The Mets are coming off a great regular season, capped by [...]
There was a press conference yesterday, at which new/returning Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes appeared in the flesh – rather than as a disembodied voice from a Charlie’s Angels-style speaker box. Many in the fan base thought this was not going to happen. Actually, any of it: few thought Cespedes would return at all, and when [...]
The General Manager of the Mets had himself a pretty good weekend amid the snows. On Friday night, he secured the services of Yoenis Cespedes for another year, on the Mets’ terms. On Saturday, he was the life of the party at the annual Baseball Writers Association of America dinner at the Waldorf, cracking jokes [...]
The Mets are fresh off a National League pennant, you may have heard. Their remarkable play down the stretch to win the NL East fueled a surge in attendance, which will have a concomitant up-tick overall for 2016. They outpitched the Dodgers – crowned by most in the MSM as having the best starters in [...]
Whither Yoenis Cespedes? At the end of the 2015 season, it was all but a foregone conclusion that he would not be returning to the Mets. He was great to have around for the stretch run and his production propelled an erstwhile feeble offense to heights not seen around here since 2006. He just hit [...]
Happy New Year! 2016 has been kicked off with a bang if you’re a Mets fan. First, word came that there will be a series of celebrations commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the last Mets World Championship. 30 years is a heckuva long time ago, but it should be fun stuff, even if a lot [...]
A really quick hitter today… It’s a pretty special day today. It’s Christmas Eve, the most wonderful time of the year, as it says in the song. For Mets fans, the most wonderful time was October 5 through November 1. That’s when the team breezed through the NL playoffs and came up just a few [...]