Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun little ongoing exercise to while [...]
Welcome to the off-season. Once again, since the Mets are not one of the ten participants in the post-season, it’s time instead for some post-mortem. In this, the first edition of a new series, the Mets360 staff will take a look back at our pre-season previews and see how they played out. Just a fun [...]
Your intrepid columnist was recently engaging in some spirited Facebook debate with some fellow fans, who were moaning that 2006 was “our” last good year. Let us commence to differ. 2006 was a special year. The Mets got off to a super-fast start – they were 22-11 on May 10, after a 13-4 drubbing of [...]
In case you hadn’t heard, Mets’ uber-phenom Matt Harvey took a trip to sunny Florida yesterday to consult with Dr. James Andrews, the guru of Tommy John surgery. This is an exploratory visit, if you will, to determine the extent of the ligament tear in Harvey’s forearm. If it’s a teeny-tiny tear, then Harvey might [...]
Your intrepid columnist made his second appearance of the year at Citi Field on Friday, August 23. The night was rife with portents. The Detroit Tigers and the animal known as Miguel Cabrera rode into town for the first time since June, 2010. Detroit arrived red hot, having won 17 of their previous 26 contests, [...]
“Bring your kids to see our kids!” So went the lame entreaty from the Mets to bring your kiddies, bring your wife out to the ol’ ballpark: Shea Stadium, 1978 vintage. The fossil front office tried to drum up interest in a whole new crop of Mets. In the absence of Tom Seaver, Dave Kingman, [...]
This is an old song, but Met fans are conditioned. “Hope for the best, expect the worst,” goes the mantra, at least since Carlos Beltran stapled a bat to his shoulder in October, 2006. We all knew this one was too good to last, didn’t we? Matt Harvey – the bellwether of the young pitching [...]
Team of the future in N.Y.? It’s the Mets – ESPN.com, August 21, 2013 “The Mets will have to really screw it up to not be good next year” – Mike Francesa, WFAN radio, August 20, 2013. There’s an awful lot of enthusiasm out there for a team that currently stands 58-67 and a tidy [...]
When this season started, everyone pointed to the Mets’ outfield as a major weakness. At the time, everyone wasn’t wrong. Coming out of Florida, the “set” lineup was Lucas Duda in left field, Collin Cowgill in center and a combination of Mike Baxter, Marlon Byrd and Jordany Valdespin manning right. Not exactly a group that [...]