Editor's Note - Before leaving a comment for this story, make sure you have read our new comment policy. I know…I know…It has been a head-scratching off-season for the Mets, such that your intrepid columnist was less-than-intrepid during the Holiday Season and took a brief hiatus: I was stumped as to what to write about. [...]
Yesterday, our own esteemed Brian Joura posted a lengthy, thoughtful article on how we fans could be dealing with the current state of the Mets. So far, we’re not dealing so hot. Now, let’s be real: owners Jeff and Fred Wilpon and GM Sandy Alderson haven’t given us much to work with so far this [...]
Well, the Winter Meetings: 2017 Edition are winding down. I trust a few people had some fun in the sun of Orlando and I am supremely confident that more than a few mojitos were guzzled by the grizzled. All that’s left is the Rule 5 draft, wherein a couple of teams will try to strike [...]
The 2017 Winter Meetings begin in one week and we have no clue as to what the Mets are planning to do. Of course, GM Sandy Alderson has laid out some broad outlines about the direction this offseason will take – mainly to appease the beat writers and columnists, slaves to the 24-hour news cycle [...]
The Mets haven’t gone into the offseason with this much uncertainty in a long time. If the pennant-winning campaign of 2015 seems an eternity ago, think about the year prior. Of course, the seeds of the future NL Champs were in place, but nobody knew nothin’ about where it would end up. Where it would [...]
The other day, Metsblog’s Matthew Cerrone dropped a nice little tidbit. According to one pre-season book, the Mets head into winter at 20-to-1 to win the 2018 World Series. Now that may not sound too fantastic, but it puts them eighth in line, odds-wise, behind the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, the defending champ Houston [...]
The champagne has stopped spraying by now, one would guess. The victorious Houston Astros and disappointed Los Angeles Dodgers are probably just heading to bed as this is written in the wee hours of November 2. A thrilling, twisting seven-game World Series is barely concluded and the Astros – the Mets’ NL expansion brethren of [...]
Your intrepid columnist is getting up there in years. Why, it seems like yesterday when he was a callow youth of 18, but that was 1983. They were just getting ready to start a most unmemorable World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and Philadelphia Phillies when beleaguered Mets General Manager Frank Cashen called an impromptu [...]
In 1964, the Mets were terrible. In only their third year of existence, they lost 109 games – actually an improvement over the celebrated 120 losses of 1962 and 111 of 1963 – and finished 40 games out of first place. With such luminaries as Wayne Graham, Larry Burright and John Stephenson dotting the roster, [...]
Well, here we are, another season come and gone. One might be tempted to say “down the drain,” or “shot to hell” and one wouldn’t be wrong. Let’s face it, coming off an all-too-brief success cycle, the Mets’ 2017 season is one best left in the pile of bones representing 1974, 1992 or 2003. 92 [...]
We got what we pretty much expected on this beautiful Sunday afternoon. Marquee pitching matchup? Check. Washington beating the Mets? Check. Nationals taking their final series of the year vs. New York? Check. Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom matched each other pitch for pitch, but better, more timely hitting by the Nationals allowed Scherzer to [...]
Matt Harvey has left us. Or, better stated, the Harvey we loved has. A combination of untimely injury – really, when is an injury ever timely? – slow recovery, diminished effectiveness and a little bit of his own bad judgment have conspired to threaten what was once limitless potential. Those first three conspirators are connected, [...]