Nothing puts a bounce in your steps quite like an 8-2 stretch before the All-Star break, especially when things looked bleak immediately before that. Much like Charlie Brown when he goes to kick the football, my optimistic side can’t help but to come out in times like this, when everything seems possible. Here’s hoping that [...]
On July 3 the fat lady was warming up her boisterous pipes. Sporting an abysmal 37-48 record, the remaining 77 games in the New York Mets’s 2014 campaign were worthless wastes of time. But the celebration of American Independence, defeating a disappointing powerhouse in the Texas Rangers on July 4 sparked an 8-2 run entering [...]
At the end of the 2010 season, the New York Mets were in shambles. They had multiple massive contracts for bad players, they were in the middle of a downward spiral of losing seasons and had a farm system that was a disaster. Due to the Bernie Madoff scandal, finances were abysmal and the organization [...]