Rey Sanchez’ 2003 haircut

Early in the 2003 baseball season, the starting shortstop for the last place Mets, Rey Sanchez, disappeared during a 13-4 drubbing against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium and emerged with a nice stylish haircut. The Mets organization was publicly scrutinized.  The public’s frustrations with the performance of the club culminated in demands for [...]

Which Mets championship story makes a better movie?

Ever since the inception of movie making and the introduction of Hollywood into mainstream society, people have tried to figure out a solid plot to make into a movie. It is a very common occurrence when sports and movies collide. Since the beginning of film making, sports has been a mainstay in their genre. With [...]

Analysis of the Mets announcers: The historical edition

The following article is the final part of a three-part series analyzing the Mets announcers, and is a joint effort by Charlie Hangley, Jim O’Malley and myself.  The sections on Tim McCarver and Ralph Kiner were written by Jim, Charlie contributed the parts about Lindsey Nelson, Steve Albert, Steve LaMarr and Lorn Brown.  I wrote [...]

The 1989 Mets: The team that didn’t deserve to win

I purchased a copy of the 1989 Mets yearbook last week. While reading it, I began to wonder what happened to this team. The 1989 Mets were stacked. They were a team which had achieved World Series glory three years earlier and were returning from a dramatic and heart-breaking loss to the Dodgers the previous [...]

Comparing the 40th and 50th anniversary Mets teams

Last year the Mets had a nice big celebration for the 50th anniversary of the franchise.  This included not one, but two All-Time Team “lists” being generated.  The first being the 50 Greatest Mets in Team History, and the second was an All-Time Team, selected from various candidates by a panel of Met experts (writers, [...]

Top 10 combined seasons of Mets & Yankees victories

Since 2009, the Mets have been very consistent, winning between 70 and 79 games each year. Meanwhile, the Yankees have been even slightly more consistent with a range of eight wins between their highest and lowest total over the past four seasons. While the Yankees have been good in this span, the Mets have not. [...]

Mets Minutia: Movement on the all-time record list

Going back to the minutia of the 2012 season for a look at changes on various major offensive All Time Met records list. First, the biggest one that happened in 2012 was David Wright’s ascension as the Met All Time Hit King.  Wright surpassed Ed Kranepool’s previous record of 1,418 and is currently sitting at [...]

Mets should honor guys from the lost decade in their HOF

The Mets Hall of Fame is filled with Mets from the 1969, and 1986 era squads, and with John Franco’s induction this past year, they are getting around to the 2000 NL Champions. There is though, an era woefully unrepresented, and while the exploits of the era fall well beneath the dominance of the mid [...]