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Coming off my worst picks, last week’s games went a bit better. Hey one fewer loss is improvement! Last week’s selections went 7-9, bringing the season-long total to 65-72-4. Feels like the picks should get better as the season goes along but that hasn’t been the case at all. But these picks didn’t start with [...]
1966 TOPPS KEN BOYER When I was in grade school, I read every sports biography I could get my hands on. Our school library had “Ken Boyer: Guardian of the Hot Corner,” and I became the third person in my house to check out the book from PS 1. Because their brothers seemingly had a [...]
Here it is, 7:45 Eastern on Thursday and it's time to make a pick. It's hard to muster enthusiasm, with the picks being lousy for a month now. But soldier on we must! Tennessee (+14) over Dallas - In this five=game losing streak, the Titans would lose getting 14 points just once, when they played [...]
This year the Mets used 61 different players during the regular season. The last time they made the playoffs in 2016, they used 46. That’s why you hear so much more about the need for organizational depth than you did five years ago. The big change is on the number of pitchers a club uses. [...]
Chris Flanders thought he was going to be having a simply wonderful holiday in beautiful Seattle, WA. Instead, he came down with a Covid isolation in a hotel room. Chris’ loss was our gain, as the two of us conducted an email exchange of Mets thoughts on Friday night and Saturday morning. So, for your [...]
Last week was the worst one yet, as the picks went just 6-10 against the spread. It was a great week for the underdogs and my picks loaded up on the favorites. In all, eight of my picks for the favorites didn’t cover. Ouch. That brings the season record to 58-63-4. In an effort to [...]
1991 TOPPS SID FERNANDEZ This is a card from the junk wax era. But to me, this is the last great Topps set. The 1990 and 1991 sets aren’t thought much of by collectors and that’s a shame. The 1990 set was colorful without being garish and the follow-up was a modern take on the [...]
It's 7:48 Eastern time and the Jets game starts at 8:15 New York (-2.5) over Jacksonville - These are two teams going in opposite directions, with the Jets having lost three of their last four and the Jaguars winning three times in their last four. But the Jaguars still have road issues and the Jets [...]
It’s been an incredible year for the Mets and their fans. A regular season with 101 wins was a great year, a 24-game improvement over 2021. And somehow, despite losing Chris Bassitt, Jacob deGrom, Seth Lugo and Taijuan Walker, it’s been a great offseason, too. Steve Cohen has thrown nine-figure contracts around like they were [...]
The Mets re-signed setup man Adam Ottavino, inking him to a 2/$14.5 million deal. And like all of the cool kids, Ottavino has an opt out after the first season. If he can perform anywhere close to how he did last year, the Mets will have a formidable relief corps. Of course, the Mets had [...]