Fare thee well, R.A. Dickey. You were a terrific pitcher while you were here, and are an even better human being wherever you are. We, the fan base of the New York Mets wish you nothing but success in the jungle that is the AL East, especially against your new ultimate rivals, the New York [...]
It was just about a full year ago that I envisioned better things on the horizon for the Mets. I thought the team’s finances would stabilize. I thought Sandy Alderson would be somewhat freer to make marked improvements to the product on the field. I thought the kids ripening on the farms would be ready [...]
The 2012 Winter Meetings are in mid-meeting form. R.A. Dickey is going to be traded. No, wait, he’s going to be extended. Jonathon Niese is the one who will move. No, wait, the return won’t be big enough so he’s staying put. Mets are interested in John Lannan. No, wait, he’ll want too much money. [...]
Sometimes, your intrepid columnist is stuck. The day I’ve scheduled to write will start with me having no bleeding idea what I will write about. I’ll scratch my head for most of a morning and sweat and strain to get down five hundred or a thousand words worthy of the pixels I’ll expend -- if [...]
It became official yesterday. Commissioner Bud Selig approved the mega-deal between the Miami Marlins and Toronto Blue Jays. Mark Buehrle, Josh Johnson, John Buck, Emilio Bonifacio and our immortal beloved Jose Reyes are leaving sunny Florida and are headed to the Great White North, while Henderson Alvarez, Yunel Escobar, Adeiny Hechavarria, Jeff Mathis, Anthony DeSclafani, [...]
Welcome back my friends… I’ve missed you. It has been a heckuva two weeks hasn’t it? Hurricane Sandy arrived and we here on the East Coast have taken a battering and been left powerless, and no, I’m not talking about the Mets’ outfield or the Yankees in the playoffs. My house, in particular, was without [...]
The World Series is about to begin, featuring a matchup between two venerable franchises who -- surprisingly -- have never met before. The San Francisco Giants will be talking on the Detroit Tigers in serious competition for the very first time ever. You would think there would have been some instant when Ty Cobb clashed [...]
As I write this, the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants are enjoying a well-deserved day off in the midst of their National League Championship Series, to give it its full, “Avenue Of The Americas” title. Hostilities stand at one-all and this entire postseason tournament – taking into account all ten teams involved – [...]
I’m getting excited about the Mets’ future. For real. I’m listening to my friend Mack Ade wax optimistic about the fortunes of this team in 2014 and beyond. I read with great interest a piece in MLB Trade Rumors that predicted a very busy 2013 off-season for the boys in blue and orange. I saw [...]
The pieces are all familiar. We’ve been here before. There are two games left to the year and the Mets are out of it. Again. We fans sit on the sidelines and watch other guys have fun for the next couple of weeks. We watch, intrigued and happy for the Orioles and A’s. We watch, [...]
Where have I been? I need to apologize to you, gentle reader. Your intrepid columnist has been MIA – that’s for “missing in action,” not “as bad as the Marlins” – for the better part of a month. Chalk it up to a swirling vortex of work emergencies, vacations and the general suckiness of the [...]
I’ve decided I want the Fred and Jeff Wilpon to sell the Mets. I’m at the end of my rope with these guys. Maybe 32 years is too long to hang onto something, just for the sake of hanging onto something. It’s almost as if they’re trying to prove a point: see? You can have [...]