Where’s the hype? Domingo Tapia, SP: Like always, some of you minor league savvy readers may be familiar with Domingo Tapia. Tapia is a guy most people pegged as the Mets sleeper prospect of the year. Keith Law ranked Tapia 7th on his Mets top prospects list and had this to say: “Right-hander Domingo Tapia [...]
Matt Harvey sure looked ready for prime time last night. In his major league debut, Harvey pitched 5.1 scoreless innings, did not allow a run and broke Tom Seaver’s franchise record for strikeouts in a debut. And for good measure, Harvey went 2-for-2 at the plate with a double. He finished the night with 11 [...]
Matt Harvey makes his MLB debut tonight in Arizona against the Diamondbacks. Game time is slated for 9:40 PM. It may take the software a minute to load when you first click on the page. Please be patient. Enter your comments in the text box above where it says "Powered by Quick Chat" and the [...]
Earlier today, I did a podcast with A Gal for All Seasons, Taryn Cooper. Here we talked about Matt Harvey, Luke Gregerson, Lucas Duda and the difficulties in finding a Jonathon Niese jersey. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/mets360/2012/07/26/mets360-with-taryn-cooper
Some good financial news for Fred and Jeff Wilpon came down the line today. Irving Picard – trustee overseeing the restitution to victims of Bernie Madoffs’ Ponzi scheme – announced he’s ready to disburse roughly $1.5 billion to those victims. According to Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork, the Wilpons will see a benefit from this, even [...]
The big news today in Metsland is that Sandy Alderson turned down a trade offer from the Padres where the club would have sent Daniel Murphy west in return for Luke Gregerson. On July 1st this might have been an interesting trade proposal. On July 26th, if Sandy had pulled the trigger it would have [...]
I don’t think I need to remind anyone here about the tumultuous state that the Mets currently find themselves in. Clearly, I don’t have to tell you they have dropped 12 out of their last 13 games. Obviously, Mets’ fans are at the end of their rope and almost all have thrown in the towel [...]
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I need a smile. Seemingly all of the goodwill built up by the Mets’ strong play at the beginning of the year has melted away after the All-Star break. I watch games now expecting bad things to happen and that’s not how I wish to be a fan. Need something, anything, to break this cycle [...]
2008 TOPPS SILK CARLOS DELGADO The first baseball-player silks were distributed by tobacco companies in the early part of the 20th century. Those early issues (catalogued as S74 and S81, for those of you scoring at home) were actually satin, not silk, and were intended to be sewn into pillow covers and the like. So [...]
Can the Mets score first? Can they keep the game going to extra-innings? Will Terry Collins ask Manny Acosta to go multiple innings his first time back? Find out these answers and more in this episode of Mets Soap! R.A. Dickey toes the rubber for the 7:10 start. Enter your comments in the text box [...]
I think it’s safe to say the Dog Days have arrived – that all-too-familiar time when one day runs into the next and it seems like no one has any energy. People get edgier this time of year, tempers shorten and frustration lengthens. If you’re a fan of the Mets, the Dog Days started just [...]