Well look at us fellow Mets fans. While most major league players have packed up and headed home our team is still in the tournament with a chance to go the World Series. Let’s look at what we’ve learned so far. Murphy is money in more than ways than one No one is a bigger [...]
Yes, I'm still bitter about Rick Sutcliffe and 1984 - why do you ask?
This writer has been a diehard, bleeding orange and blue Mets fan for nearly 40 years. Many of you reading this can relate. Running lineups and trades through your head as you go to bed every night, only dreaming of moments like this. We freakin’ did it and hot damn, does it feel good! No [...]
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 [...]
Are the Dodgers Punting the NLCS? We weren’t going to be lucky enough to get the Dodgers to not start both Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke starting twice in the five game series. What you have to realize is that if the Dodgers do beat the Mets tonight they are severely handicapped against the Cubs [...]
There are six players for the Mets who have started the four previous NLDS games. As you would expect from a small sample, their stats are all over the place. But five of the six have come up big in at least one game and have something to hang their hat on, regardless of how [...]
This postseason has been a wild ride so far, but for some teams more than others. Every team has something to prove this postseason. There are currently seven teams left in the 2015 playoffs, and none of them seem to be backing down. But out of these teams come four major story lines. The Mets, [...]
We continue our look at the drafts of the Mets under Sandy Alderson by focusing on the 2013 Draft. This was Alderson’s third draft and we see a continuation of themes from his first two years at the helm, most noticeably going underslot to sign a high school pick with his first selection while also [...]
There will be a Game 5 as the Mets could not muster any offense one night after exploding for 13 runs in their last game and they fell to the Dodgers, 3-1. Clayton Kershaw was too much to handle, even pitching on three days rest. He limited the Mets to just three hits and one [...]