The mega deal that is effectively ending any hopes of a budding Marlin dynasty last week can cause a Met fan to look back at Met related fire sales that are around the same magnitude. The first one that comes readily to mind is June 15th 1977, the Midnight Massacre. While the Mets were not [...]
There has been TOO much talk about the Mets keeping/trading R.A. Dickey without any real discussion over what they think they could realistically get for a 37-year old Cy Young. It’s great that he throws a pitch that’s easy on the arm and has shown remarkably good health but age is always a concern and [...]
Jason Bay is gone, Scott Hairston’s return – at best – is up in the air and the Mets are extremely unlikely to add a big-time free agent. Which means that all of the stars have aligned for Mike Baxter to be a starting outfielder for the club in 2013. I think most people are [...]
Call him C.Y. Dickey! In what most thought to be a lock became a formality on Wednesday when R.A. Dickey captured the 2012 NL Cy Young award in a landslide. Dickey received 27 first-place votes en route to becoming the oldest pitcher since Dennis Eckersley in 1992—and first knuckleball pitcher—to win the prestigious honor. Dickey [...]
Part one in a…maybe two part (depending on when eBay packages arrive) series on this year’s crop of New York Mets Topps baseball cards. This time, let’s take a look at the Base and Update Sets: Clean white border design for the main Topps set, which been their customary design for the last few years. [...]
1992 DONRUSS ELITE DWIGHT GOODEN Donruss introduced the Elite insert set in 1991, and for the first few years of production, it lived up to its name. The regular Donruss sets of the era were as overproduced as teenage hormones, but common wisdom holds that the early Elite cards were found just one in every [...]
Welcome back my friends… I’ve missed you. It has been a heckuva two weeks hasn’t it? Hurricane Sandy arrived and we here on the East Coast have taken a battering and been left powerless, and no, I’m not talking about the Mets’ outfield or the Yankees in the playoffs. My house, in particular, was without [...]
Compared to the 2009 draft, the 2010 draft seemed to have more general talent in it. Additionally the 2010 draft was simply a wiser and better used draft for the Mets in general. The usually doubts about who the Mets could have had are less clear but right now, at least, it doesn’t look like [...]
It is a tiny bit surprising that we do not have any kind of idea how the Mets are going to handle their two biggest starts -- R.A. Dickey and David Wright. Sure, the club picked up the option on both players but would it really be a surprise if either one or both of [...]
Josh Hamilton – (32) LF/CF, 6’4”, 240 Lbs, L/L: You look at Josh Hamilton these days and the story isn’t so much about his one-time troubles with addiction. The biggest question that general managers and Sandy Alderson have for concern with Hamilton is his age and the size and length of his desired contract. Is [...]
After being sick for nearly a month, my body finally crashed on Monday. I thought I contacted the flu but found out that I have pneumonia. I also found out that pneumonia is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. Fortunately for me, most deaths occur in children or the elderly. Sometimes it’s [...]
Mark November 7 on your calendar for years to come: it will forever be known as Bay Day (at least in Mets’ circles). The Mets did the inevitable and finally cut their losses while agreeing to part ways with the much-maligned Jason Bay on Wednesday afternoon. This news comes as great relief for Mets’ fans [...]