I want to blame this loss on Terry Collins so badly. Here's why. Bobby Parnell walks Pedro Florimon. Michael Morse reaches on an error, by Parnell. First and third, no outs. Double play and a run in isn't terrible, so I can understand Collins giving Parnell one more batter. Parnell then gives up a run-scoring [...]
Can we be happy with him as just a rental?
Two days in a row the Mets have gone toe-to-toe with one of the better teams in the National League. Two days in a row they have played into extra innings. Two days in a row the Mets have come up short. In a season plentiful with statement games, tomorrow is another chapter of the [...]
Bobby Parnell is a bit of an easy target after failing to record an out in the tenth inning and giving up the go ahead run to the Pirates last night. That the game got to Parnell in extra innings because the team failed to cash in on scoring opportunities is a separate issue, but [...]
Don Knotts as Barney Fife, George Wendt as Norm Peterson, Jon Hamm as Don Draper. On TV and in the movies we have seen hundreds of occasions where the role was perfect for the actor and the actor was equally perfect for the role. In baseball there are roles too. We call them positions and [...]
The Mets' four-game winning streak came to an end Friday night, as the Pirates came in to Citi Field and escaped with a 3-2 win in extra innings. The groundswell is building for the Mets to bring back Terry Collins as manager but he showed poor judgment with his relief pitchers in this game. In [...]
Daniel Murphy may be in the final stretch of his career with the Mets but if so, he’s going out with a bang. In his last nine games, he has a .385/.415/.641 line while bouncing all around the infield, even dusting off his first baseman’s mitt with the back injury that has slowed Lucas Duda [...]
As Keith Hernandez indicated, we might not even need to deliver a knockout punch when the season concludes with a three-game series against the Washington Nationals. We’ve got a four-and-a-half game lead in the National League East, momentum on our side and a relatively easy schedule the rest of the way. For the first time [...]
“When we’re all gone and Suhboda [sic] stays and he commences to hit balls over buildings, who says he won’t lead this club to ten or a dozen pennants?” – Casey Stengel, spring training, 1965 The Mets, sudden winners and the current innamorata of New York City, have never lacked for “folk heroes” – players [...]