Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. The Mets have begun interviews for their managerial opening and reports have these interviews lasting up to five hours. How would you like to be the guy who was being grilled for five hours and who doesn't even get the job? Have [...]
It would be a great thing if we could wave a magic wand and come up with a system that’s fair to players, owners and fans. Realistically, there’s no chance we’ll see anything that considers the fans at all. At best, anything that works in the favor of fans is an unintentional accident. But if [...]
I am already exasperated, and it has been only two days since the start of the lockout, but not for the knee-jerk reasons that most with think. Sure, the lockout is a (temporary) downer, which I will return to below in some detail, but is the needless groaning about the payment of deferred contracts that [...]
Before the lockout came, we saw Eduardo Escobar come and Javier Baez go. Jonathan Villar is still out there but it’s doubtful he’s coming back. If forced to guess, the big wildcard is if the Mets will make a run at Kris Bryant once the labor dispute is settled. Previously, though, it’s always seemed like [...]
Imagine being 23. You wake up in a nice apartment in Queens. You get into your nice car and drive to your ultramodern office with all the amenities you desire. As you walk in, you say hello to your co-workers, all in the same position as you except they own large estates, more expensive cars, [...]
A few days ago, SNY’s Andy Martino broke down how the Mets’ front office handled the dizzying week that led to four free agents signing with the club. That alone would be impressive. But those four signings came right on the heels of Billy Eppler being named the team’s GM. Perhaps Eppler is a force [...]
Before this college basketball season started, most had North Carolina State in the middle of the pack. If everything broke right, including the continued offensive development of star defensive center Manny Bates, a fourth-place finish would be realistic. So, of course, less than one minute into the first game of the season, Bates injures his [...]
When I was a kid, the Gil Hodges cards I had from his Mets managerial days showed a guy who looked like an old man. When he died in 1972, he was two days shy of his 48th birthday. My current age is past Hodges when he untimely passed away. Yet, when viewing those 1968-72 [...]
Please use this thread all week to comment on any Mets-specific topic you wish. : The following list of players the Mets tendered contracts to comes from SNY: Meanwhile, the following players were tendered contracts for 2022: 1B Pete Alonso, INF Travis Blankenhorn, RHP José Butto, RHP Miguel Castro, INF/OF J.D. Davis, RHP Edwin Díaz, [...]