“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 [...]
The Mets finished off their four-game sweep of the Rockies with a 12-3 win Thursday afternoon at Citi Field. It was the 11th sweep of the year for the Mets and second of a four-game set. New York is now 63-52, the first time all season its been 11 games over .500. Nine of the [...]
The New York Mets are on a roll these days and the baseball world is taking notice. They've been the focus of MLB ad campaigns and even stealing the back pages of the New York newspapers from their cross-town rival Yankees. Yes, life is good currently in Queens these days, but it almost wasn't this [...]