I was a junior at Richmond Hill High School in 1962 and I was quite excited that Queens was getting its own baseball team. I grew up a Dodger fan and had my first slap of reality when the trucks left town. It would have been hard enough to root for the Giants, but they [...]
The buzz on the street is that the Mets, still strapped for cash and likely to bleed money for another season or two might need to part ways with their beloved 3B. As David Wright would leave Flushing for a new franchise, this Met fan wonders, who the Mets will bill as the great hope [...]
There are two baseball games today as MLB hosts its first ever 1-game Wild Card play-in format. Here’s a Mets-themed guide to those two games. National League: Cardinals at Braves – on TBS at 5:07 PM Mets 2012 records vs ATL: 6-12 vs STL: 4-3 In postseason vs ATL – swept the first-ever 1969 NLCS [...]
Looking through a vacuum, the Mets' 2012 season was pretty par for the course. Think about it. Nearly every pundit and prognosticator predicted the Mets to be an underwhelming bunch and almost all unanimously picked the Mets to finish last in the NL East. At least we beat out the Miami Reyes! So, for the [...]
It may be early October but this is the Halloween Roundtable edition. I reached out to friends in the Mets blogosphere recently to ask the following question: What's the top priority for Sandy Alderson this offseason? These people all do great work and their names are hyperlinked to their blogs so please go ahead and [...]
1975 TOPPS HANK WEBB WAX BOX Back in the spring of 2011, I did a piece on Hank Webb. This past May, I wrote about a 1970 Topps box. Well, today is the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup moment. The moment that I stumble into the path of a random stranger, we collide awkwardly, and then [...]
Metsense October 1, 2012 - 9:30 pm yes I'm going to bed - nice chatting with both of you 360fan_97 October 2, 2012 - 6:07 pm Lets go Mets! 360fan_97 October 2, 2012 - 6:08 pm lets go RA! Metsense October 2, 2012 - 6:11 pm Lets go RA, it may be your last start [...]
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The pieces are all familiar. We’ve been here before. There are two games left to the year and the Mets are out of it. Again. We fans sit on the sidelines and watch other guys have fun for the next couple of weeks. We watch, intrigued and happy for the Orioles and A’s. We watch, [...]
Don’t like focusing on the negative? Click here for the positive in Part I How do you ultimately judge a season where not much was expected only to have the team play inspired ball for three-plus months of the year? Especially when that strong play was followed up by inertia from the front office and [...]
Name October 1, 2012 - 8:50 pm Anyone here for this meaningless game? Chris F October 1, 2012 - 8:57 pm Im in now and again Name October 1, 2012 - 8:58 pm Jon Rauch continues his slide. He's either been really good or really bad this year. Chris F October 1, 2012 - 8:58 [...]
Blue Chips: Only ranking players with high ceilings. This excludes Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Reese Havens, Collin McHugh and others from my rankings. Not because they won’t be useful players but because they won’t be stars. The follow-up to this will be the Top 20 Role Player Rankings. Zack Wheeler: With Matt Harvey now firmly in my [...]