On this third weekend of NFL action, the Mets broke out a football score, as they put up two touchdowns and a field goal to beat the Phillies, 17-0, in the last regular season game of 2016 in Citi Field. The game started on a somber note, as the broadcast started with a tribute to [...]
Last year’s playoff run was led somewhat equally by players acquired by Omar Minaya and Sandy Alderson. On the Minaya side, there was Matt Harvey, Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, Jeurys Familia, Daniel Murphy and Lucas Duda leading the way. On the Alderson side, there was Noah Syndergaard, Bartolo Colon, Travis d’Arnaud, Michael Conforto, Yoenis Cespedes [...]
The Mets broke a three-game losing streak in most unusual fashion, scoring two runs in the bottom of the ninth to tie it and then scoring three runs in the bottom of the 11th to win it, 9-8, Thursday night. Jose Reyes crushed a two-run homer to send it to extra innings and Asdrubal Cabrera [...]
Poor Jay Bruce. The guy was an All-Star this year, comes to the Mets and now couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat. No one doubts that he’s trying. Yet it’s undeniable that he’s been lousy since arriving and he’s even turned it up a notch here lately. In his last 12 [...]
The Mets fell behind 5-1, rallied to put the tying run on third base in the eighth inning, but came up just short, as they lost their second straight game to the Braves, this one by a 5-4 score Tuesday night. Things fell apart in the sixth and seventh innings. The Braves strung together some [...]
The Mets have gotten fantastic production from their rookie pitchers this year and the tendency is to lump them in together, especially Robert Gsellman and Seth Lugo. It seems to me that Lugo has received more publicity, so the focus today will be on Gsellman. The man with the funny name and the facial look [...]
The JV sqaud comes through!
The Mets rested many of their veterans after winning the first two games of the series and it paid off, as they emerged with a 3-2 win and a sweep of the Twins Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets looked primed to blow the game wide open in the first inning, as their first [...]
Back in the first decade of the 21st Century, much was made of the multi-culturalism of the Mets. Sports Illustrated ran a cover story in 2007 titled: “Mix Master: The Unlikely Story of How Omar Minaya Created the Melting-Pot Mets.” Flash forward to 2016 and you don’t hear a peep about that sort of thing. [...]
We're counting our chickens with a hatchet here!
Michael Salfino writes for the Wall Street Journal as well as Yahoo! Sports. A couple of days ago he posted this on social media: Painful night for Familia, #Mets fans but is this team even any good? Salfino’s a good guy, and a Mets fan, too. This wasn’t a putdown. Instead, it was a legitimate [...]
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