Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. Over at SNY is the following headline: "Terry Collins says former Mets pitcher Matt Harvey talked about suicide." The article is linked - you can read it yourself. Sounds like a throwaway line, more than anything delivered with real intent. Regardless of [...]
Robinson Cano and J.D. Davis both joined the Mets for the 2019 season thanks to trades by short-term GM Brodie Van Wagenen. The Cano trade has been one that has been debated heatedly from when the rumors first started. The Davis deal was a much smaller transaction. Now, these two players find themselves connected again, [...]
I have a number of running spreadsheets for the Mets farm system that are all updated on a monthly basis with rankings and depth charts that are updated regularly. I use this document constantly, as I’m making my posts and while we are in the postseason we begin to see a healthy amount of speculation [...]
Ya see? Speaking up works, even if it did take seven years. The above article was written on the cusp of a season of Mets’ glory, had we but known at the time. It is the nature of the beast to rail at ownership when you’re a Mets fan, even at the start of something [...]
Brandon Nimmo hit all season long but with two main issues. The first was the mysterious hand injury, which kept him out for two months. Then there was the power drain that occurred in the first two months after he returned. When he was activated from the IL on July 3 thru the end of [...]
Many times, I’ve wondered what percentage of “Rookie Stars” or “Future Stars” or whatever label Topps was using at the time turned out to be that way. Not many is my guess. They’re all stars on Draft Day and they’re all stars when they get their first baseball card. But reality is a cruel thing. [...]
Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste I've been around for a long, long years Stole million fan's soul an faith And I was 'round when Bud Selig allowed the juiced-up players rule Made damn sure that COVID games caused a paltry 60 gate Pleased to meet you Hope [...]
Please use this thread all week to discuss any Mets-specific topic you wish. When I was a kid, I didn't much care for Old Timers Day. It was sad to watch on TV these once-great athletes waddling around on the field. Plus, that meant the real game started later. Now, I have mixed feelings about [...]
As we all know Gil Hodges, the skipper of the 1969 world champion Mets, was chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame in December. Even though his plaque will undoubtedly show him with a Brooklyn Dodger cap, he was a vitally important member of the Mets family as well. Perhaps when the Golden Days committee [...]
In the absence of actual baseball news of any sort, the combination of the Olympics and Premier League Football in full swing makes it difficult to find any new lanes of interesting things to write about for me. The truth is, the MLBPA and the MLB/owners are miles away from resolution if the “breaking news” [...]
My mind today has been on former Boston Globe sportswriter Bob Ryan. The Globe used to have perhaps the finest sports section in the nation. The day that Ryan started working there as an intern, another guy you might have heard of, too, also started there – Peter Gammons. Anyway, Ryan’s forte was basketball and [...]
As the lockout drags on, slowly but surely moving in the direction of a delayed start to the season, it has provided some time to reflect on the moves Mets GM Billy Eppler made before Baseball shut down. They were exciting moves. They were the types of signings that Mets fans have been begging to [...]