There’s been a lot of bickering about just exactly how the owners will take advantage of the pandemic to pay players less than what they contractually owe them. It’s nothing short of amazing how the owners are able to shape the narrative here. Of course, it’s been 25 years since the last time baseball had [...]
What follows is a Twitter exchange about Noah Syndergaard not paying on a lease during the pandemic. This is a couple of days old but these days I see things when I see them. Hope the lack of timeliness doesn't detract from the overall message. Amidst a fundamentally uninteresting dispute over an apartment lease, the [...]
Have you been following any of the online simulations of the 2020 season. Me, haven't seen one of them. But I did see that in one, the Mets were 11 or 12 games above .500 and it made me wonder how that should make me feel. Should it be happiness because the team is poised [...]
Life has not been normal for anyone. Most of us have been quarantined for 75 days, and, even if we've been lucky enough not to get sick or lose a loved one or our job, it's been a trying time. We're working from home (if at all), kids are home schooling, we miss friends and [...]
It is always interesting and exciting to hear about the best fielders. Rarely do we get a good look at the terribly bad fielders. Derek Jeter is always mentioned as a terrible fielder and having the worst negative performance of any fielder. This has some bias toward the good hitters, like Jeter. In looking at [...]
Did that article title make you throw up a little? That's understandable. Like it or not, however, the designated hitter (DH) is coming to the National League (NL) for the 2020 season. It will once again vanish into the ether in 2021 like some bad dream, but it will most certainly come back for good [...]
Last night five writers from the site participated in a draft to pick all-time Mets teams. There’s no point scoring involved in this and everyone was left to their own on how to rank and rate the players. For the sake of simplicity, this was based on the best one year of a player’s career [...]
One of the early iconic moments in Mets history is the “Black Cat Game” which occurred on September 9, 1969. The Cubs came to New York for a two-game series holding a 2 ½ game lead over the Mets. The Mets won the first game to cut the lead to 1 ½ games. Game two [...]
My guess is that everyone was excited thinking about the 2020 season back in January, thinking the Mets had a good shot at the postseason. Then the world turned upside down. Now, assuming they end up with an 80-game season, does that change the picture any? Are the Mets more or less likely to make [...]
Bartolo Colon made news recently when he stated a desire to return to the majors and retire as a Met. When you have a reputation for being a club open to giving chances to guys who were last good three years ago, this is the kind of stuff that happens to you. Rick Ankiel, Jose [...]
May 15 was the six-year anniversary of Jacob deGrom’s major league debut, where he allowed one run in seven innings to the New York Yankees and took the loss – owing to a lack of run support which has become the hallmark of his career in Flushing. But while deGrom has blossomed into the two-time [...]