Dear Mr. Alderson, Hi Sandy, you don’t know me but I’m your average John Q. Mets Fan. I’ve actually appreciated the way you’ve run the team for the past couple seasons under particularly trying times for the organization. I do have a few requests to you as we move towards the 2012 season, but I [...]
Do the names Justin Turner, Mike Nickeas, Ronny Cedeno, Scott Hairston (if healthy) and either Mike Baxter or Adam Loewen excite you? Me neither. For a team that has a sordid history of injury concerns, the Mets may need to call on their bench a lot more than they have to this year. Given the [...]
There are a ton of people who write about the Mets and I am happy to say that most of them seem to be good people, too. I guess it is not a huge surprise that the guys at the biggest sites – Cerrone and Baron at MetsBlog and Simon, Kannengeiser, Artus and crew over [...]
With all of the talk in the offseason about Bernie Madoff, losing Jose Reyes and how much other teams in the division improved, some people think the Mets could lose 100 games this year. This seems preposterous to me. Everyone seems to forget that for over half of the season, the Mets were a 90-win [...]
After 19 years in Major League Baseball, much to the delight of Mets fans everywhere, Larry “Chipper” Jones announced he will be retiring after the 2012 season. Now, here at Mets 360, we pride ourselves on talking about the history of this team. It is impossible to talk about it without mentioning the future Hall [...]
Well I've been in Port St. Lucie for a week now, and I think it's safe to say I've explored the city enough. We're going to be here for one more day, but tomorrow there are no games. So the plan is to chill out by the pool, play a little golf, and go down [...]
“I’ve had enough; I’m getting out to the city, the big, big city.” – Peter Gabriel Even for a town like New York, where everything is magnified, yesterday (3/21/12) was a rare convergence of circumstances. Johan Santana’s impressive start against the Cardinals was not the least of it, but it was semi-buried amid all the [...]
One of the biggest storylines heading into training camp for the Mets this spring for was the anticipated return of Johan Santana. After another fine performance on Wednesday, Santana is turning heads for his ability to consistently throw strikes and remain sharp after recovering from major shoulder surgery. Santana has had no setbacks in his [...]
1999 UPPER DECK RETRO EDGARDO ALFONZO I'm about 60% Irish, which means that I feel about 60% guilty for letting St. Patrick's Day pass without acknowledging it in card form. So let this emerald-lidded shot of Edgardo Alfonzo on his 1999 Upper Deck Retro card serve that purpose. I got my own green Mets' hat [...]
The dust is just starting to lift on the Mets’ financial situation and I’m not entirely sure if I should be happy about it. The Wilpons and Irving Picard – the trustee representing the victims of Bernie Madoff’s elaborate Ponzi scheme – settled on a payment of $162 million. Think about that for a second. [...]
The Mets have very few positions up for grabs this Spring. The bullpen is one place where jobs were available and the situation only got more confusing with the injury to Tim Byrdak. Since then we have found out that the Mets consider C.J. Nitkowski, who hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2005, as a [...]
So it’s finally over. Mets owner Fred “Wimpy” Wilpon will gladly pay Tuesday if you give him a hamburger today. But in this case “Tuesday” is three years from now and “hamburger” is the big business known as the New York Mets. The Madoff clawback suit is settled with the Mets on the hook for [...]