If Mets need a new poster child, is Matt Harvey it?

The buzz on the street is that the Mets, still strapped for cash and likely to bleed money for another season or two might need to part ways with their beloved 3B.  As David Wright would leave Flushing for a new franchise, this Met fan wonders, who the Mets will bill as the great hope [...]

A Mets-related take on the 2012 Wild Card round

There are two baseball games today as MLB hosts its first ever 1-game Wild Card play-in format. Here’s a Mets-themed guide to those two games. National League: Cardinals at Braves – on TBS at 5:07 PM Mets 2012 records vs ATL: 6-12 vs STL: 4-3 In postseason vs ATL – swept the first-ever 1969 NLCS [...]

Roundtable: Sandy Alderson’s top offseason priority

It may be early October but this is the Halloween Roundtable edition. I reached out to friends in the Mets blogosphere recently to ask the following question: What's the top priority for Sandy Alderson this offseason? These people all do great work and their names are hyperlinked to their blogs so please go ahead and [...]

The business of Mets baseball Part II: Keeping Wilpon’s lobsters

Okay, we now have down on paper how the Wilpon family became Mets owners, the era of Omar Minaya, the beginning of Sandy & Company, the recession, and ‘The House That Number 42 Built’. I’m going to dumb it down a little here so everyone can understand just how a business survives and what determines [...]

A last look at the run differential for the 2012 Mets

Last night’s loss to the Braves dropped the Mets’ record to 73-85. The team’s actual record matches exactly its Pythagorean Record. Earlier in the year the talk was how the Mets were exceeding their Pythagorean Record by an insane amount. Those of us who pointed this out were scoffed at and while I looked for [...]