The Mets are in the postseason. That sounds weird. In any event, the Mets currently stand two games above the Cubs in the NLCS. It’s never okay to say a series is over before the final out, but confidence is key for the Mets. While the Mets will be sending Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, and [...]
It is by now a secret to no one around the league that the Mets have a formidable pitching staff. Young and full of high velocity stuff, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey and Noah Syndergaard have been lighting up the October competition to an even more impressive degree than most thought possible. After all, this is [...]
Normally I would be writing about the minor leagues but, as I got the rare chance to watch the Mets take a 2-0 lead in the NLCS last night, I am going to focus on something else. Chiefly I will write about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of last night’s win against the [...]
My father was born in 1919 and grew up in the Bronx. In a neighborhood filled almost exclusively with Yankees’ fans he became a New York Giants fan. In introducing me to baseball in the mid 1950’s and specifically to Giants’ history he often cited the accomplishment of Carl Hubbell who in the 1934 All-Star [...]
We heard so much about the Cubs hitting six home runs in Game 3 of the NLDS and 10 homers overall in their 3-1 win over the Cardinals. If the Mets were to win this series, their young pitchers were going to have to limit the long ball or else the Cubs would run away [...]
Lucas Duda is certainly not the only Mets player that has struggled at the plate so far this postseason. Travis d'Arnaud has an OPS under .500 and David Wright has a batting average and slugging percentage of .063, for example. Both of these players contributed, however, to the Mets' Division Series victory against the Dodgers [...]
Well look at us fellow Mets fans. While most major league players have packed up and headed home our team is still in the tournament with a chance to go the World Series. Let’s look at what we’ve learned so far. Murphy is money in more than ways than one No one is a bigger [...]
Yes, I'm still bitter about Rick Sutcliffe and 1984 - why do you ask?
This writer has been a diehard, bleeding orange and blue Mets fan for nearly 40 years. Many of you reading this can relate. Running lineups and trades through your head as you go to bed every night, only dreaming of moments like this. We freakin’ did it and hot damn, does it feel good! No [...]
The playoffs landed at La Guardia for the first time since 2006. To say that Mets fans the world over were thrilled about this might be the understatement of the year. A hard fought 162-game regular season – which began with an 11-game winning streak and culminated with the dispatch of the Washington Nationals with [...]
Are the Dodgers Punting the NLCS? We weren’t going to be lucky enough to get the Dodgers to not start both Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke starting twice in the five game series. What you have to realize is that if the Dodgers do beat the Mets tonight they are severely handicapped against the Cubs [...]
There are six players for the Mets who have started the four previous NLDS games. As you would expect from a small sample, their stats are all over the place. But five of the six have come up big in at least one game and have something to hang their hat on, regardless of how [...]