If fans picked the team’s manager, it is highly unlikely that Terry Collins would have gotten the job last season. But if you asked those same fans a year later what they thought of Collins, the vast majority would give him a favorable job rating. Collins did an excellent job of keeping his team together [...]
By now you have noticed the new logo and header atop of our home page. I liked the old logo a lot but with Jose Reyes no longer around, I just did not want to be reminded of him on a daily basis. So the challenge came up to create a new logo with no [...]
The latest episode of the Mets360 podcast is available and the guest is Mike Silva. You can listen at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mets360/2012/02/02/mets360-with-mike-silva Mike and I covered a wide range of topics including: his work as a columnist thoughts on Jon Heyman the BBWAA the Wilpons' finances Johan Santana Daniel Murphy and Mike's history with the Mets
It looks like the Mets' roster is rounding into shape. The only thing missing, it seems, is a lefty-hitting, flexible outfielder who can be brought in on the cheap. Enter Rick Ankiel. So, what exactly are the Mets waiting for? For a team in search of some spunk and grit, Ankiel could provide the Mets [...]
Well it’s suddenly February and that big football game is only a few days away. And you know what my favorite part of the Super Bowl is? No, the thought of seeing Tom Brady miserable, or seeing what kind of weird/creepy/funny commercial ETrade has in store for us. No, it’s more of the fact that [...]
1987 SPORTFLICS BOB OJEDA These first-wave Sportflics cards deserve a cult of their own. Now, the less said about the mid '90's Second Coming of the brand, the better. Those sets were more Stone Roses Second Coming than the Jesus kind... But these mid '80s cards were out there kicking against the pricks. The hobby [...]