It can be done, you know. We’ve seen it happen and when it does, it makes for legendary teams with legendary stories, especially if there’s a trophy and a ring at the end. There has been many a baseball bestseller that tells the tale of the team with talent enough to take it all the [...]
I’ve been a baseball fan as long as I can remember. Went to my first game in 1973. So, I was a kid when the whole Baseball Revolution happened: I was nine when Catfish Hunter signed with the New York Yankees, ten-going-on-eleven when Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally became the first true “free agents” and [...]
The Mets notched their first win of 2021 with a combination of power, great starting pitching and – dare I say it? – some small ball. Marcus Stroman took the ball and did some wonderous things with it. In six innings, he surrendered a mere three hits, walked two while also hitting a batter and [...]
There are a little over two weeks to go in spring training, but if you listened to Mike Puma in the New York Post yesterday, you’d think that Mets’ ace Jacob deGrom is ready for the season to start right now. Against the Houston Astros on Thursday, deGrom broke 100 mph on three consecutive pitches [...]
We are -- cautiously – on the doorstep of spring training 2021. The qualifier is used because we are all still subject to the whims and fancies of COVID-19. The equipment trucks have headed South, sure, and there is a schedule out for all kinds of games, but the pandemic still has the final say. [...]
“The New Mets. The Magic is Back.” – Della Femina Travisano & Partners ad campaign, 1980 "I'm proud to be a part of the new Mets. I call it the new Mets because this organization is going in the right direction, the direction of winning." – Carlos Beltran, 2005 Mets fans of a certain vintage [...]
We are Mets fans. We aren’t used to this. No, this isn’t yet another “Woe is us, we can’t ever get a break” article. This isn’t yet another lament about the hardships of being a Mets fan. This is not about being snakebit, baby. The Mets currently sit near the top of the shabby chic [...]
It’s 2020. We are well into the playoffs of the abbreviated season, or, as I like to call it “the year that never was.” The League Championship Series are about to start as we speak with the embattled – some would say reviled -- Houston Astros taking on the perennially surprising Tampa Bay Rays in [...]
2020 is definitely a weird neighborhood to find yourself in. When you’re talking about this year, everything is in question and anything you thought you’d believed in is up for grabs, be it politics, health, societal norms and yes, even sports. To wit: we are in the home stretch of the 2020 baseball season, but [...]
I’m trying. I really am, but I’m having a hard time. What with everything else going on in the world, it’s been tough to focus on baseball – or sports in general, really. Anyone who knows me at all will be flabbergasted by that statement, but that's how it is right now. I mean, y’know, [...]
The off season is chugging along at a pace. Here we are post-Holidays, still the first week of January, spring training a little more than a month away already. Heck, the Nationals’ victory champagne is barely dried on the carpet. The Mets, as we know, have made a few moves, mainly revamping their beleaguered bullpen. [...]
The other day, the Mets had an official conference call with the press, formally announcing the signing of pitcher Rick Porcello. Porcello was snapped up at the tail end of the Winter Meetings, a surprisingly productive week for the club. The Mets also came away from the San Diego conclave with another starter, Michael Wacha, [...]