Manager Terry Collins has four guys in his bullpen that he trusts and three guys that he would prefer going to the dentist and having a root canal done with no anesthesia rather than placing those guys into a tight ballgame. Tim Byrdak is one of those guys that he trusts and unfortunately for Collins, [...]
Surely I cannot be the only one checking MetsBlog five times a day to see if Carlos Beltran has been traded yet. I don’t want him to be dealt but it’s hard to imagine a scenario right now where he’s not flipped to another team. We all know that Sandy Alderson was brought in to [...]
Although many have their doubts, the Mets' front office stated this week that journeyman reliever Jason Isringhausen will be part of the team until at least the remainder of the 2011 season. This was mostly done so Isringhausen could be Bobby Parnell’s mentor as Parnell tries to grasp what it takes to be a big-league [...]
The New York Mets should have been in full playoff contention by this time. Yet, as usual, injuries killed this team. Although they are not in realistic playoff contention, there seems to be an aura of playoffs with these Mets. They won't give up. Sandy Alderson says he expects the team to compete. This is [...]
The long and anticipated return of David Wright from the DL is set to occur with tonight’s game in Miami vs. the Marlins. For Mets' fans, it's not a moment too soon. So what can we expect from Wright upon his return? It’s a tough question to diagnose. The easy thing, for sure, to do [...]
When I left you last time , faithful reader, I had just sworn off buying Met tickets. You may recall, I was in high dudgeon, brimming with moral outrage and righteous wrath. I vowed that my own personal boycott would force the House of Wilpon to revamp the front office, which would turn out a [...]
Now that a trade of Carlos Beltran seems imminent, people are coming out of the woodwork to defend him and his production in his time with the Mets. But where were these people at the beginning of the year? Mets fans pledged their allegiance to Jose Reyes and now it seems likely that the club [...]
When Jason Bay finished up 2010 on the DL with his worst numbers in years, many were quick to attribute it to the concussion or first year jitters like Carlos Beltran suffered from. Instead, New York’s beleaguered left fielder has followed up with a second poor year. Before Tuesday’s game against St. Louis, Bay was [...]
Last year Willie Harris posted a .653 OPS (a drop of 104 points from a year ago) and it looked like his career was in jeopardy. He hooked on with the Mets and got off to a hot start in 2011. But by the third week of May, Harris was back to his 2010 ways, [...]
1967 TOPPS TOM REYNOLDS Did you ever wonder about the force that drove apart the “Tom” and “Reynolds” at the top of this Tommie Reynolds card? The 1967 Topps set is in general a clean, well-designed issue, and this odd gap seems out of character. So what strange, supernal powers were at work here? A [...]
I used to be a partial season plan holder at Shea Stadium. I bought the seats in 1992, splitting a weekend plan with a friend of mine: he took Saturdays, I took Sundays. Just in time for The Worst Team Money Could Buy. Isn’t my timing exquisite? I loved those seats. Mezzanine level reserved, section [...]
There’s an old joke that asks why so many Polish names end in ski. And the answer is because they’re too dumb to know how to spell toboggan. If you followed baseball in the 70s (or earlier) there were no shortages of players with last names ending with ski. There was Carl Yastrzemski and Greg [...]