1994 PINNACLE MUSEUM COLLECTION JOE ORSULAK If Woody Guthrie were alive in 1994, he would have written songs about Joe Orsulak. Orsulak is the MLB version of the common man. He has a common name, a name that sounds like hard work, a name that is democratic enough to include just about every vowel. (There [...]
Note: This was written and ready to go last Monday but a little hurricane got in the way. I’ll start working on 2010 and have that ready for next week. In the meantime I will also say that anyone who reads this should get out and vote today. The Mets were not entering the 2009 [...]
On November 14th, it will be announced whether R.A. Dickey will be the Mets 5th recipient of the NL Cy Young Award or not. Either way, it is certain that he will be the 27th, and 16th individual Met to receive NL Cy Young consideration by the Baseball Writers Association of America’s voters. So let’s [...]
My Facebook friend Mike Emeigh had an interesting post over at BTF the other day where he asked: Wind back the calendar to 1975. If you could have told MLB then one thing about the game, what would it be? It provided some interesting answers so I thought we should examine the same question from [...]
Today we have three trivia questions based around the electric Dwight Gooden. Leave your answers in the comments section and then check back on Wednesday when I post the answers. Question #1 Which player (minimum 25 PA) had the highest lifetime AVG versus Gooden? Question #2 Which player hit the most lifetime HR versus Doc? [...]
How many of the 11 players who have been enshrined in Cooperstown who have also played for the Mets can you name? Most of these players made their marks for other teams yet many of them had big moments for the Mets, too. Here is the list: Roberto Alomar – It was thought to be [...]
In his last start of 2012, Dillon Gee allowed 1 ER in 8 IP and picked up the win, as the Mets improved to 46-39. For the rest of the year without Gee, the club was 28-49, meaning either that Gee picked a fortuitous time to get hurt or that his loss was a bigger [...]