5-21. Five-and-twenty ... (wait for it) ...-one. That was the Mets' record for the month of June, 2018. 5-21. The Mets ended the third-losingest month in their history, with a whimper, not a bang. Having screwed up my schedule and not realizing this game was scheduled for a 4:10 PM first pitch, I ended up [...]
Yeah, yeah, we lost again. This time to the last place team. The one who traded away all their best players in the off-season. The one we'll be trading standing places with by Sunday if we don't right this sinking ship. Ace and constant topic of Yankee fan speculation (no you can't have him, especially [...]
It is easy to nitpick the New York Mets and everything that has gone wrong this season. Their offensive performance has been absent, the bullpen has been as reliable as the New Jersey Transit system, and at times have even been mismanaged to the point of making someone want to pull their hair out. This [...]
Amid the seemingly endless string of bad news this season for Mets fans is one glimmer of hope - a potential comeback by our captain, David Wright. The face of the Mets franchise hasn't played in a Major League game since 2016. Since being diagnosed with spinal stenosis back in early 2015, Wright has undergone [...]
Our bullpen has been a disaster of late. Who's to blame? Management for bringing back Jerry Blevins and signing Anthony Swarzak instead of other available free agents? Coaching for overusing the bullpen early in the season with the "two times through the lineup" strategy? The starters for not going further into games? The relievers themselves [...]
A long time ago, a young pup of a blogger compared the beginning of the Sandy Alderson era of Mets baseball to 1980, the beginning of the Frank Cashen era. Well, we’ve now come full circle. The sad end of Alderson’s tenure as General Manager now coincides with a feeling that this season is much [...]
The entire Mets season was played out in microcosm in this maddening loss to Pittsburgh. Manager Mickey Callaway was outmaneuvered by Pirates' manager Clint Hurdle, the bullpen failed and there simply was not enough offense. Zack Wheeler started for the Mets and was absolutely stellar through seven innings. He allowed five hits, walked one and [...]
The Sandy Alderson edition
When a team gets bad off-the-field news, the game on the field becomes secondary. When the sobering news of Sandy Alderson's cancer diagnosis and leave of absence was announced, tonight's game took a back seat. Early on, it appeared as a series of squiggly lines and jumbled emotions. Steven Matz squared off against Chad Kuhl, [...]