Last year at this time, it was all the rage. Early in the 2014 Winter Meetings, the Mets signed Michael Cuddyer and the media loved it. A veteran hitter, former batting champ and mentor to David Wright in his youth, Cuddyer was seen as the piece that would get the Mets to at least .500 [...]
Here in New York, we fans pride ourselves on being knowledgeable. We’re hip, we’re savvy, we know what’s goin’ on, man. We’re not like those blindly devoted followers in St. Louis or Cincinnati, who show up in droves, decked out in red, whether their team is in contention or not. No, we “know” better. We [...]
As this is written, MLB executives throughout the land are packing their bags and preparing for their annual swap meet/trade show, the Winter Meetings. Fans of downtrodden teams – as the Mets had been, until this year – hope to see their squad make a splash. They hope their team will suddenly become “relevant” with [...]
Hi! Happy Thanksgiving! You haven’t seen me in awhile. A nefarious set of circumstances has kept your intrepid columnist away from the keyboard these past three Thursdays and it’s good to be back. At long last, finally thawed out and recovered from some wintery exercises at Citi Field – among other activities – a post-season [...]
The 2015 World Series is all of two games old. The Mets have lost both of them. These are irrefutable facts. We fans always look for what it all means going forward. We look for portents, patterns and trends. If you ask most Mets fans in the aftermath of being nickel-and-dimed to death in game [...]
When Sandy Alderson became general manager of the Mets, he begged us fans to be patient. It would be a long road to “changing the culture” of a dysfunctional, losing clubhouse, full of bloated contracts and outsized egos. Disaster seemed to follow this franchise like a parasitic twin. If it wasn’t a shirtless minor league [...]
The New York Mets are the champions of the National League. On a night when Daniel Murphy hit another ho-hum homer, on a night when Steven Matz showed what he could do on a national stage, on a night David Wright has waited for since he was a raw rookie in 2004, the star was [...]
In 1969, after the Mets won the World Series a fan stood on the rapidly disappearing Shea Stadium grass with a sign thet read "There Are No Words." Words are failing me right now. Oh, wait, I thought of one: guts. The Mets have won the 2015 NLDS and will now face the Chicago Cubs [...]
The playoffs landed at La Guardia for the first time since 2006. To say that Mets fans the world over were thrilled about this might be the understatement of the year. A hard fought 162-game regular season – which began with an 11-game winning streak and culminated with the dispatch of the Washington Nationals with [...]
"I'd like to thank everyone who made this day necessary." -- Yogi Berra This day was extremely necessary. A win tonight guarantees -- at worst -- a split in Los Angeles, which is exactly what the Mets want. The Mets took the crucial first game of the 2015 National League Division Series with a tried [...]
Matt Harvey was late for a workout on Tuesday. That’s what happened. Harvey is 26 years old. Your intrepid columnist has hit the half-century mark, age-wise and has followed the game of baseball for all but seven years of that time, seeing pretty much all there is to see as a fan. He’s also not [...]
The eagle landed yesterday. Your intrepid columnist had received an e-mail before the weekend that his tickets for the Mets’ postseason – it’s still hard to believe the words “Mets” and “postseason” are strung together this year – series had been shipped. Possession of a partial season plan – nine Friday nights, plus Opening Day [...]