Mike Piazza, retired numbers and the Mets Hall of Fame

Retired numbers and putting people into whatever Hall of Fame, Walk of Fame, Monument Park or whatever a team honors it’s past performers can be a bit of an interesting topic. In several situations numbers are not retired until the player in question has taken his rightful place in Cooperstown, for example, with the exception [...]

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Mets Card of the Week: 1990 Bob Ojeda

1990 DONRUSS AQUEOUS TEST BOB OJEDA The 1990 Donruss set committed the dual sins of being both ugly and overproduced. Truth be told, Donruss had been on the road to this set for years. After reaching the Platonic ideal of Donrussness with their 1984 set, the company began cranking up the printing presses each year [...]

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The state of New York baseball

Did you hear about the team in New York that won’t spend any money despite being in the nation’s number one market? Boy are their fans ticked off about it, too. It wasn’t too long ago that they were a financial powerhouse and now they are afraid to go into the free agent market for [...]

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