When you’ve been a Mets fan for a certain length of time and are of a certain age, individual seasons take on a personality. Some are simply dreadful, like the first fitful years of the team’s existence – save the inaugural 1962 season, which was historically bad, record-wise, of course, but too much fun for [...]
Does memory need outside confirmation to be meaningful?
Baseball, and Mets fans in particular, received some terrible news yesterday, but the news wasn’t wholly unexpected. Just the same, though, it came as a shock. Tom Seaver, arguably the greatest pitcher of his generation – certainly, the greatest right-handed pitcher – has withdrawn from public life at age 74, due to a losing battle [...]
Now that David Wright has moved from the field to the front office, we can assemble an all-time team of players who played their entire MLB careers with the Mets. Each player must have played at least one game at the position to which he is assigned. 1B… Ed Kranepool was an easy choice here. [...]
There was a New York Post article where former GM Sandy Alderson was quoted as saying that he wished he had re-signed Daniel Murphy. It’s an easy thing to say in hindsight. Murphy was great in 2016 and 2017 before an injury-marred year last season. But you don’t get to make decisions in hindsight and [...]
We’ve turned over to our 2019 calendar, and that means we are now in the 50th anniversary year of the remarkable, World Series winning 1969 Miracle Mets. This was a team that was little changed, with respect to personnel, from the ‘68 edition, a team which had finished in ninth place with a 73-89 record. [...]
The Las Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL have advanced to the final round of the Stanley Cup hockey competition, remarkably in their very first year of play. One reason for their success was the makeup of the hockey expansion draft, which allowed the franchise to grab some good young and some good established players [...]
2015 was the best season that the Mets have had in the 2010’s, by far. Highlighted by a World Series appearance, the Mets also took the division crown during a heated race with the rival Washington Nationals. A lot of wild things needed to happen that season for the Mets to get to the World [...]
The upcoming baseball season will mark the 50th anniversary of the ‘68 Mets. This squad was interesting in several ways, as it gave indications of what was to come in the historic WS winning 1969 season. The club posted a record of 73-89, good enough for ninth place in the NL, 24 games behind the [...]
Last month, Part I covered the first half of a mythical all time team of Mets players who were born in New York City. To refresh, they were Ed Kranepool at first, T. J. Rivera at second, Ted Schreiber at…
Perhaps dealing with relentness negativity for weeks at a time has left me with a weakened immune system. Regardless, the result is that I have the flu. Generally I don't get sick and this is easily the worst I've felt since coming down with pneumonia back in late 2012. There's no way I can contribute [...]
New Year’s Day will mark the 120th anniversary of the formation of New York City as we know it, when Staten Island, Brooklyn and Queens officially became part of New York City. To note the occasion, it might be fun to assemble a lineup of Mets who were born in the city. The parameters will [...]