I went to my first game of 2012 last Friday (4/20). Dinner at McFadden’s with my wife & my cousin & his wife beforehand, meeting up with my friend Greg Prince during and a surprisingly – and dispiritingly – quick exit after. It was a great night and a very good game, despite the final [...]
Monday was a day to forget for the Mets, as they lost a doubleheader to the Giants by a combined 13-3 score. After losing two doubleheaders last year in April, most members of the Mets should be willing to forego twinbills before May for the foreseeable future. Perhaps the one player who might feel otherwise [...]
Zack Wheeler came to the Mets as a top prospect who seemed to have a few issues. Namely, control. Back in the CAL when he was with San Francisco’s A+ affiliate, he was walking half as many batters as he struck out. Which isn’t good when you strike out as many as he did. Averaging [...]
In honor of today’s single-admission doubleheader with the Giants, I’ve gone back and listed 20 memorable moments in doubleheaders from Mets history. Usually these lists are 10 items long but with a doubleheader you get twice the fun! This is neither exhaustive nor definitive, so if you have a moment from a twinbill worth mentioning [...]
To start the 2012 season the Mets have seen some positives and some negatives. David Wright has came out of the gate swinging a hot bat, then he broke his pinky, missed three game and when he came back he picked right back up where he left off. Jon Niese and Mike Pelfrey are throwing [...]
Coming into the 2012 season, I believed the Mets offense was going to be good and the fate of the team rested with how well the pitchers would perform. After 14 games, the Mets are 8-6 yet the offense is 13th in the 16-team National League in runs scored. Obviously the pitching has been better [...]
After coming up on April 7 to take the place of Andres Torres in centerfield, Kirk Nieuwenhuis has made it be known-with the way he has played-he does not want to go back down to Buffalo. Nieuwenhuis has been scorching hot coming out of the gate and is now batting .371 for the season and [...]
Terry Collins moved Captain Kirk to the leadoff spot on Wednesday against the Braves. Kirk went 3 for 4 with 3 runs scored, an RBI and a stolen base. Those dividends and Kirk’s blistering .375 batting average are not things that we can expect day in and day out from him, but lacking a natural [...]
"That kind of business I leave to Seth and Sam (Levinson, his agents). They can handle it. But I'm going to steer clear. I'm trying to play baseball. Worrying about my contract is too much. It's hard to prepare for Barry Zito as it is. It's damn near impossible if I'm thinking about business.''' -David [...]
Mets fans had high expectations for Lucas Duda heading into the season. He did not produce much offensively right out of the gate but in his last five starts, Duda has recorded a two-hit game three times. While his bat seems to be heating up, strikeouts have been a problem here in the early going. [...]
The atmosphere here is decidedly different in 2012 than the past couple of years. The Mets have lost two straight games to the Braves at their own personal chamber of horrors, Turner Field. Add in the fact that the aggregate score of the two debacles was 23-9 against. This could be vintage late-’09 or most [...]
Usually, teams should take all the necessary precautions when thinking of handing out long-term extensions to players approaching their 30’s. Heck, the Mets heeded that warning, by not showing Jose Reyes any love and letting him walk this past offseason. However, sometimes you have to reward the face of a franchise for being there through [...]