If last night's game was for Clint Eastwood, tonight's would please James Taylor: walkin' man. The Cubs beat the Mets on a literal walkoff, as Chris Coghlan took ball four from Jeurys Familia with the bases loaded to untie a 1-1 game. This one can once again be hung on the Mets' dearth of offense, [...]
The Mets are the number one team in the National League East, while Avengers: Age of Ultron is the number one movie in America. But if you think that is where the similarities stop between the team and the movie…you have a lot to learn. Not only do the Mets have two players, David Wright [...]
Keeping it simple this time around. Identify this Dax Shephard-looking dude, win a prize package of Mets cards. No fuss. No muss. Good luck. Now with 100% more hinty goodness: Never made it to the bigs, but would have been the only player in Mets history with his particular initials if he had made it [...]
Clint Eastwood would have loved this game; it was the good, the bad and the ugly. The good: Noah Syndergaard made his major league debut and was mostly impressive. For five-plus innings, he arrived as advertised, if a bit wild. He mowed down the Cubs in the first two innings, but ran into trouble with [...]
The Mets are an organization known for their consistent failure, starting with the early 60s, again in the late 70s and early 80s, and most recently in the early 2010s. Yet another thing that the Mets are also known for is the loyalty of their fans: they will stick through pretty much anything, evidently. That [...]
Two of the greatest observers of the human mind share a birthday today, May 12. Of course, I’m talking about Yogi Berra and George Carlin. Carlin is no longer with us and Berra is 90 today. But after all of us reading this have been long gone, they’ll still be quoting these famous philosophers. Here [...]
Jeurys Familia was thrust into the closer's role this season after showing some improvements the year before. Bobby Parnell, last year's presumed closer went down in his first game, received Tommy John surgery for his trouble and is still on his way back to pitching in the majors. The man who took over the ninth [...]
This was a one-run game that the Mets were never in. Jacob deGrom took the mound at Wrigley Field, resplendent with new video boards and refurbished bleachers. He may as well have been back at Yankee Stadium, though. After hitting Dexter Fowler on the knee with the fourth pitch of the game, Kris Bryant christened [...]
In one form or another, we’ve heard about how the Mets have survived with two of their best hitters on the DL and veterans like Michael Cuddyer, Curtis Granderson and Daniel Murphy underperforming. David Wright’s last game was on April 14 and Travis d’Arnaud’s was on April 19. The team had an off day on [...]