Four games, 52 runs scored, 69 hits, only three of which were home runs – all hit in a single game and two of those were grand slams. As Casey Stengel meant to tell us all those many years ago, “The Mets are amazin’.” Every cylinder of the offense is firing, the pitchers are unfettered [...]
Ever see the Will Ferrell movie The Other Guys? In the movie, a mousy Ferrell and a misunderstood Mark Wahlberg play a couple of overlooked police detectives while living in the shadow of ‘super cops’ portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. I don't want to spoil the movie if you haven't [...]
1985 TOPPS DWIGHT GOODEN I caught some of the Yankees' Old-Timers Day ceremony over the weekend. It was not a moment of apostasy-- I just like baseball history. And unfortunately, my team has not given me a regular, institutionalized Old-Timers Day since back in the early '90s. They say it died of unpopularity, and out [...]
Vaughn, Peavey, Den Dekker on move in Mets farm system Both the St. Lucie Mets and Savannah Sand Gnats won first-half crowns but will have to play the second half without several key contributors. As expected, 2010 first-rounder Matt Harvey was promoted from Class A St. Lucie to Class AA Binghamton and was joined by [...]
I was vacationing in the Catskills last week, and I’m not sure if I missed anything. I know that the “meaty” portion of the Inter-League schedule began with a dreadful, boring three-gamer with the Angels at Citi – and what the hell is a Tyler Chatwood, anyway? Dropping two-of-three to an Anaheim squad which is [...]
Does anyone like Interleague play anymore? I was against it from the beginning but I understood that there was a novelty factor that people enjoyed. And while it’s fun to see the Mets and Yankees square off during the regular season, it’s not fun that the Mets end up playing a tougher schedule than any [...]
Ike Davis has been out so long that we almost forget how good he was the first six weeks of the season. Since then, the Mets have been in survival mode, trying to keep alive in the Wild Card race until Davis and David Wright return. But much like in 2009, we face the real [...]
The Mets scored 14 runs Saturday without hitting a single home run. While that’s nowhere near close to the major league record of 27 runs scored by a team without the aid of a HR, it is still quite unusual and points out the team’s problem with the long ball with Ike Davis and David [...]
The Mets received more bad news this week when it was revealed that Ike Davis will have to rest for at least an additional three weeks before any decision is made on his bothersome left ankle. The ankle is simply not getting any better. There is talk of Davis undergoing microfracture surgery, which would of [...]
“Baseball is what gets inside you. It's what lights you up, you can't deny that.” - Jimmy Dugan A League of Their Own There is something to that quote. It does not matter the team or the gender, baseball is baseball. When the men were fighting in World War II, the women were left to [...]
So much has been made about the fantastic season Jose Reyes is in the midst of right now that it’s easy to forget that this is what we missed the past two seasons. In Reyes’ last full year before the assorted leg injuries that torpedoed his 2009 season, he set career highs in hits (204), [...]
Well color me surprised. The Mets finally won a tight game at home on Wednesday night when they beat the Oakland A’s on a Justin Turner hit-by-pitch walk-off. It wasn’t a glorious way to win, but it’s a win in the books nonetheless and as usual, it wasn’t easy. The Mets fought tooth and nail [...]