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Most every Mets fan knows that the team won the World Series in 1969 and finished the year with 100 wins during the regular season, the first time in franchise history that the club finished above .500 for the year. A lot of fans know they finished with a great kick, going 40-14 in their [...]
If you ask 10 people about the pandemic in general, and MLB trying to have a 60-game season in the middle of a pandemic in particular, you might get 10 different answers. One thing that seems clear, at least to me, is that people who haven’t been affected directly are the ones most vociferous about [...]
Leave it to the Mets to take a seemingly obvious decision and make it in the most excruciatingly inept way with what appears to be an almost embarrassing lack of forethought. After days of refusing to commit to Steven Matz's next start and flirting with the idea of moving Seth Lugo into the rotation, the [...]
It wasn’t long after Pacella was in New York that folks started to notice he lost his cap a lot. The pitcher didn’t actually misplace his cap, it flew off his head almost every time he threw a pitch. “I don’t know when it started,” Pacella said. “I know it became a big deal, it [...]
After a rough stretch in the early 1990s, the 1996 season was a transitional season for the New York Mets. The team finished with a dreadful 71-91 record, good for fourth-place in the NL East, but gave fans a foreshadowing of the success which followed in the later part of the decade. Generation K was [...]
Topps' 1967 baseball card set featured a subset with multiple players on a card with an alliteration theme based on the team's name. There was "Cards Clubbers," "Pitt Power" and "Twin Terrors." For the Mets, it was "Mets Maulers" and it featured Ed Kranepool and Ron Swoboda. While they ended up as two of the [...]
Back in 1966, the Mets weren’t considered a good team but they did participate with a few other major league teams in a gas station plastic cup giveaway promotion. That year, the Mets joined the Cincinnati Reds, the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in giving away these cups featuring the [...]
Conventional wisdom is that you’re going to win one-third of your games no matter what and lose one-third no matter what. It’s what you do with that other third that determines how good of a year that you have. This was one of those games that could have gone either way. But Michael Conforto came [...]
Who would've thought we'd have a lineup where Luis Guillorme batted ahead of both Wilson Ramos and Amed Rosario?
This past week, the Mets have added Matthew Allan, Francisco Alvarez and Ronny Mauricio to their 60-man roster and they are now receiving instruction at the alternate site in Brooklyn. This is a case of better late than never but why was it even late? They should have been there from Day 1. They missed [...]
The Mets broke open a close game with a four-spot in the eighth inning en route to an 8-3 win over the Marlins Tuesday night in Miami. It’s encouraging to see the offense do so well for the Mets. They produced 10 hits and six walks on the night, including four extra-base hits and three [...]