The dust has settled on the early off-season activity, such as it was. With the official announcement of the signing of Frank Francisco – the latest member of the College of Closers, joining Jon Rauch, Ramon Ramirez and Bobby Parnell – the 40-man roster finds itself at 40-men. The winter’s haul, which also included older [...]
Apart from being a Mets fan, I’m a baseball fan. I like to keep abreast of the goings-on of other teams and – as shocking as this may seem – I like to see what fans of other teams think about our club in Flushing. I’m also a fan of good writing. All this is [...]
I trust everyone enjoyed their bird last week. Thanksgiving always whets my appetite for the funtime follies of the off-season, the Winter Meetings. This is the MLB uber-convention. This is the time of the year when owners, GMs and their staves, writers, hangers-on, wannabe executives and even the stray ballplayer or two converge on a [...]
I read the papers, same as the next guy. I hear all the doom and gloom from my favorite Mets MSM writers: Adam Rubin, Steve Popper, Marty Noble and Andy McCullough. Every day, it’s a done-deal that Jose Reyes is going…somewhere. San Francisco? Detroit? Milwaukee? Boston? Miami? Yep, might as well resign myself to the [...]
I have a confession to make. I’ve never admitted this to many people, but it feels really good to get it off my chest now. I – ME of all people – was a bandwagon jumper. Years ago, I committed the unpardonable sin of a sports fan: I switched teams. At an opportune moment, in [...]
Well, being a Mets fan just gets better and better, doesn’t it? We’re worried about whether or not the team will keep Jose Reyes in orange and blue next year, while people who actually work for the Mets will now have to worry about where their next meal is coming from. On the one hand, [...]
Congratulations to the newest man of leisure, Tony LaRussa and his hearty band of Birds. The St. Louis Cardinals’ ascension to the highest heights after being ten-plus games out of a playoff spot in late-August is nothing short of miraculous – to say nothing of their multiple resurrections in World Series Game 6 alone. For [...]
If you’re a Met fan – and if you’re reading this, I can safely assume that you are -- today is one of those dates you remember. Like a space shot, hearing a classic hit song for the first time or a political assassination. From this modern day perch, I can see October 25, 1986 [...]
The two League Championship Series have just concluded and we’ll see a never-before matchup in the World Series. Texas-St. Louis offers a couple of fresh – and one most unlikely – faces on the national stage. This will be the first Series in recent memory in which both teams got there on the backs of [...]
As we watch another Metsless playoff – ten years out of the last eleven, if you’re scoring at home – there is little to say about the end of the season that hasn’t already been said. The Mets stunk. There’s little money in the till, so they’re likely to continue to stink. Attendance is down [...]
The curtain is down, the peanut shells have been swept out to the wind and another October arrives with no further Mets baseball. If the last two months were an indication of – as Leo Durocher was so fond of saying – “the real Mets,” the end of the year comes as sweet relief. From [...]
October 1 is looming and once again, rather than preparing for the playoffs, the Mets are scheduling tee-times. For your intrepid columnist, hoary jokes are all he has left. The final six weeks of the season have unfolded far worse than we thought they would, revealing the basic ugly stains that had been masked by [...]