With the holidays coming to a close, the annual tradition of evaluating our lives and resolving to make them better has begun. Of course, I am referring to New Year's resolutions. While on a personal level, this can be an important step, we never seem to make a resolution as sports fans. Why wouldn't we [...]
Looking for a topic to write about, I went over to the official Mets site to look at how the guys playing Winter Ball did. Usually you can find someone hitting the cover off the ball but of the 16 hitters in various leagues, the highest OPS was the .834 posted by Juan Carlos Gamboa [...]
It is amazing what we can find out online, especially in regards to sports (particularly baseball), here in the 21st Century. It’s to the point where it’s more surprising what you cannot find in a quick Google search than what you can. So I was caught off guard when I recently was unable to find [...]
On Thursday afternoon, the Mets announced the signing of LHP Aaron Laffey to a minor-league deal. Laffey pitched last year in Toronto and made 22 appearances (16 starts) while going 4-6 with a 4.56 ERA. The Mets are hoping that Laffey can resurrect his once promising career and become a formidable force out of the [...]
It would not surprise me if someone had a database of all of the trades in MLB history and they said that it was not all that unusual for a team to make a trade and receive three minor league guys and a major league player. But my guess is that it’s quite uncommon to [...]
Despite gaping holes in the outfield and the bullpen, there has been a bunch of speculation recently about the Mets chasing another starting pitcher. Okay, it’s the offseason and I know all too well how exciting it is to have something new to write about in late December. Still, would it be too much to [...]
2000 PACIFIC ORNAMENTS MIKE PIAZZA For your holiday pleasure, Card of the Week offers you a Piazza in a pear tree. OK, actually it's a Piazza in a 7 ft. pre-lit artificial tree, but that doesn't scan quite as well. Here's wishing you and yours a holly jolly one!
It's that time of year once again. Time to open presents and fake being exceptionally pleased by the gesture of a loved one, even if the gift is below expectations. It's supposedly the thought that counts. This time of year, I am reminded of the many acquisitions our beloved New York Mets have given to [...]
The Mets are drafting 11th in the upcoming 2013 draft. We have no shot at getting a compensation pick and I think I’d rant for days if Alderson jeopardized a pick by signing the wrong free agent. So let us look at some of the names that may linger around through 10 picks to fall [...]
The Mayan Apocalypse has come and gone and the world is still here, which means it’s time to start Christmas shopping. No doubt lots of you want to leave coal in the stockings of everyone related to the Mets but let’s at least give the players something that they really need. With that in mind, [...]
Now that the R.A. Dickey and David Wright questions have been answered, the Mets can move on to other business. But before we can get into specifics, let’s go back and look at one of the most fundamental questions there is as far as team building: What’s the available payroll for 2013? After last year, [...]
It was winter in Flushing, And all through the land, The fans were bemoaning, The lack of a plan, We had jettisoned Jason, Who sank in the Bay, We had snuggled up Wright, And convinced him to stay, We had talked to Saint Dickey, And we begged him, Don’t Go! But we’d spent all our [...]