Earlier I wrote a piece on Cory Vaughn. To say the least, I’m still excited for his 2012 which is set to begin in Port St. Lucie. What I didn’t imagine was that I might be looking at two other prospect outfielders in the same ballpark. The Port St. Lucie Mets will be fielding an [...]
Last year on Opening Day, I made 15 predictions for the club and seven of them ended up coming true. That may not sound like much, but it was a marked improvement over 2010 when I ended up getting only three out of 15 correct. As a prognosticator, I make a pretty good analyst. I [...]
There are so many things that need to break right for the New York Mets during the 2012 season in order for them to get to the playoffs. Quite frankly, I do not care about the division. Give me the wildcard and I can live with that. Here are just ten things that could help [...]
Happy Opening Day folks! No matter your disposition on the state of the Mets, Opening Day is always a clean slate for all and everyone starts the season 0-0. How can you not get excited to hear the sound of the crack of the bat and the ball hitting the leather, which is now about [...]
Well the first game of the season is tomorrow and the Mets have their Opening Day roster set. Mike Baxter and Miguel Batista have made the team and Andres Torres, Tim Byrdak, and Frank Francisco will be ready to go as well. All-in-all you look at this Spring as a Mets fan and things went [...]
1963 TOPPS HERITAGE STICK-ONS DAVID WRIGHT Topps released its annual Heritage set a few weeks back. The 2012 edition covers the 1963 set, which is best known for including the Pete Rose rookie card. The Rose rookie is perhaps one of the top 10 most noteworthy cards in collecting history, and definitely one of the [...]
Back in the end of January, I wrote a piece detailing 10 things to watch for in Spring Training. Now that Grapefruit League play is just about over, it’s time to check in on those things, see what happened and what we can learn. Here they are in the order I presented them in January. [...]
An MRI on Frank Francisco’s ailing left knee did not show any structural damage. That’s the good news. The other side of the coin is that the relief pitcher is still experiencing some swelling and he may or may not open the year on the disabled list. Already the speculation has begun about who would [...]
Opening Day is two days away. That means a lot of things: it means we’ve crowned an NCAA basketball champion, it means we’re getting ready to hunker in and watch the Masters, it means warmer weather is on the way. It means summer is around the corner. Those days of soda and pretzels and beer, [...]
For years the mantra of the New York Mets has been: Anything that can go wrong will. Last year, our ace missed the entire season, we had another member of our starting rotation appear in just four games, our first baseman missed most of the season after colliding with our third baseman on a pop-up, [...]
There are some who say he was born of the Storm Giants who live in the clouds, and others who claim he was raised by bears in the Adirondacks, still more believe that he could fell a tree with one swing of his mighty club but Met fans know that he’s their best hope to [...]
There hasn’t been much for Mets fans to get excited about this Spring. Even the highest profile player on the team, David Wright, has missed a major amount of action with an abdominal tear. He’s back now… or rather he’s returned now, and will be ready for Opening Day. Joining him is Johan Santana, who [...]