Tuesday night Jason Bay had a triple and a home run in the same game. It was the first time all year he had two extra-base hits in a game. Of course, you have to have at least two hits in a game to have a shot at that and Bay has had multiple hit [...]
1989 TOPPS DOUBLE HEADERS TIM TEUFEL Topps spent the better part of the '80s in a panic. By 1989, they were facing competition from Donruss, Fleer, Score, Upper Deck, Sportsflics, and, I don't know, you and your baby sister. No doubt this was a shock to the system for a company that had enjoyed an [...]
On Tuesday's A's-Mets telecast, Gary Cohen just mentioned that the Mets have had 22 starting pitchers selected for the All-Star game. Let's name all 22. Please limit yourself to one entry.
Righthander Matt Harvey is likely on the move. After helping Class A St. Lucie (36-22) clinch the Florida State League South Division first-half crown Monday with six solid innings, the 2010 first-round pick will probably be headed to Class AA Binghamton later this week. Harvey yielded two runs or fewer in each of his last [...]
Prior to the start of the season, all Mets’s fans wanted from Jose Reyes was for him to show he was healthy, while also providing a spark to a team that was in desperate need of one for the last two years. Check and check. However, Reyes has gone over and beyond the call of [...]
Since their 3-1 start to the season, the Mets have scraped the .500 mark twice: on May 20 at Yankee Stadium, and then last night (6/15) in soggy Atlanta. That’s a couple of pretty fair ballclubs, isn’t it? It’s not like they bulldozed the Mudville Nine to get there: they did it at two of [...]
As the Mets once again climbed back to .500 on the year after last night’s 4-0 victory over the Braves, the Mets have been winning games on the heels of some terrific starting pitching. Mets’ starters have now tossed 11 straight quality starts (sans last night’s rain-shortened start for Dillon Gee) and have gone 7-4 [...]
1988 TOPPS EXPERIMENTAL CLOTH BARRY LYONS So what of Topps and its abiding fascination with cloth? Seems someone in the hallowed halls held fast to the hobby-horsical notion that the kids wanted to see cloth versions of their cards. In 1972, Topps created a test set of brown-backed cloth stickers. These made it out of [...]
You would think that after 40 years of watching the Mets’ brand of baseball, I’d be used to it by now. I was about six-years-old when I finally kind of caught on to what this “base-ball” thingy was. Since then, I’ve seen some seasons where it’s been awful from Jump Street: 1974, 1977 through ’79 [...]
Most Mets fans are counting down the days until Ike Davis and David Wright return from the disabled list. This seems innocent enough, as you always want your middle-of-the-order hitters in the lineup. But seemingly the fans want them back just as much for the accompanying removal of players from the current roster. And fans [...]
Class AAA Buffalo 3B Zach Lutz returned to the lineup this weekend, going 5-for-13, after missing about two months with a hamstring and finger injury. He has dealt with a myriad of foot injuries since turning pro in 2009, including missing two months in AA Binghamton last season due to a stress fracture in his [...]
The Mets have received strong pitching performances recently. With four of the five starting pitchers you can point to a definite start where they turned things around. For the fifth pitcher, we’ll just pick the start that fits best. Here are their before and after numbers: Before After R.A. Dickey 1-5, 5.08 2-2, 2.23 Jonathon [...]