This article wasn't exactly what I was expecting but it did have one pretty good idea - create a Red Zone type channel for MLB. MLB does not have that outlet. And the truth is, it’s the sport that might need it the most. Baseball games can be dull. Action is not guaranteed. When forced [...]
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On this date in 2015, Jacob deGrom had one of his signature games, as he hurled eight shutout innings, allowed just three baserunners and notched 10 strikeouts. But it's not the best game ever by a pitcher with Mets ties on July 8. Rather that goes to former first-round pick Billy Traber. The Mets took [...]
In a normal year, we see pitchers leave Spring Training and get babied once the regular season starts. There are two thoughts behind this - 1) There arms haven't build up the necessary stamina. 2) The weather is usually cold and not conducive to long outings. It could have been different for Tim Leary if [...]
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Several different sites are running simulations of the 2020 season. MetsBlog is publishing results from MLB The Show 2020 and the Mets in that simulation are doing quite well, 10 games above .500 after 72 games. Baseball-Reference is doing one and the results are not so great in that one. This one is being done [...]
Back in the day, it was hard to get mainstream reporters to say anything remotely bad about the owners. Mike Vaccaro doesn't let the players off but it's clear who he's giving the largest share of the blame. Of course, no one bears a greater burden of the shame than Rob Manfred, baseball’s loudest carnival [...]
They say that politics make strange bedfellows but hearing the latest rumor on a proposed sale of the Mets by the Wilpon family makes me think sports is right up there in that department. As a Knicks and (long ago) Rangers fan, the idea of the owner of the 76ers and the Devils becoming the [...]
Through the life of the site, there's probably been hundreds of posts around baseball cards. Shoot, the image for yesterday's article was a card. I miss Doug Parker's weekly COTW column. Periodically I try to get him to do it again but he always declines in the politest way possible. Anyway, with all the bad [...]
What follows is a Twitter exchange about Noah Syndergaard not paying on a lease during the pandemic. This is a couple of days old but these days I see things when I see them. Hope the lack of timeliness doesn't detract from the overall message. Amidst a fundamentally uninteresting dispute over an apartment lease, the [...]
Have you been following any of the online simulations of the 2020 season. Me, haven't seen one of them. But I did see that in one, the Mets were 11 or 12 games above .500 and it made me wonder how that should make me feel. Should it be happiness because the team is poised [...]
My guess is that everyone was excited thinking about the 2020 season back in January, thinking the Mets had a good shot at the postseason. Then the world turned upside down. Now, assuming they end up with an 80-game season, does that change the picture any? Are the Mets more or less likely to make [...]