Frustration is everywhere!
The New York Mets have a major weakness. It's not much of a secret. Their defense up the middle leaves something to be desired. Despite the mediocre defense, particularly at shortstop, the team has continued to win on the strength of timely hitting that supports strong pitching. While this is a formula that has shown [...]
If last night's game was for Clint Eastwood, tonight's would please James Taylor: walkin' man. The Cubs beat the Mets on a literal walkoff, as Chris Coghlan took ball four from Jeurys Familia with the bases loaded to untie a 1-1 game. This one can once again be hung on the Mets' dearth of offense, [...]
The Mets are the number one team in the National League East, while Avengers: Age of Ultron is the number one movie in America. But if you think that is where the similarities stop between the team and the movie…you have a lot to learn. Not only do the Mets have two players, David Wright [...]
Keeping it simple this time around. Identify this Dax Shephard-looking dude, win a prize package of Mets cards. No fuss. No muss. Good luck. Now with 100% more hinty goodness: Never made it to the bigs, but would have been the only player in Mets history with his particular initials if he had made it [...]
Clint Eastwood would have loved this game; it was the good, the bad and the ugly. The good: Noah Syndergaard made his major league debut and was mostly impressive. For five-plus innings, he arrived as advertised, if a bit wild. He mowed down the Cubs in the first two innings, but ran into trouble with [...]
The Mets are an organization known for their consistent failure, starting with the early 60s, again in the late 70s and early 80s, and most recently in the early 2010s. Yet another thing that the Mets are also known for is the loyalty of their fans: they will stick through pretty much anything, evidently. That [...]
Jeurys Familia was thrust into the closer's role this season after showing some improvements the year before. Bobby Parnell, last year's presumed closer went down in his first game, received Tommy John surgery for his trouble and is still on his way back to pitching in the majors. The man who took over the ninth [...]
This was a one-run game that the Mets were never in. Jacob deGrom took the mound at Wrigley Field, resplendent with new video boards and refurbished bleachers. He may as well have been back at Yankee Stadium, though. After hitting Dexter Fowler on the knee with the fourth pitch of the game, Kris Bryant christened [...]