Mets drop twinbill to the Braves (8/12/23)

The Mets got demolished two times on Saturday, as they got swept by the Braves by a combined 27-3 score. It’s not a big surprise, given how good the Braves’ lineup is, combined with how rotten what the Mets are sending out. It’s still tough to watch. Both the Mets and Braves sent out a [...]

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Is Steve Cohen a bad owner?

Five years. The guy said five years. Five years to a World Series championship. Well, we’re now in year three and the distance between where this team is and a World Series championship is about as far as between now and 1986. Steve Cohen is – purportedly: some opinions differ – a lifelong Mets fan. [...]

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Gut Reaction: Braves 7, Mets 0 (8/11/23)

The depleted Mets threw Tylor Megill against the hard-hitting Braves. No one should have expected a win. And sure enough, the Braves emerged with a 7-0 victory. But in a year where we’ve seen a bunch of crummy baseball, this was as an exasperating loss as we’ve seen all season. The Mets haven’t made pitchers [...]

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The Mets bend over backwards to disprove the ‘blind squirrel’ theory

There’s an old saying that even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while. If you’ve never heard that one before, it means that you can be incompetent and sometimes be right just by chance. If only that idiom applied to the Mets. With trades and such, they’ve had to promote a bunch [...]

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A different midseason top 10 list for the Mets

Numbered prospect lists aren’t really my thing anymore, as the past two years my preseason top 50 has been in tiers. But with all of the activity that has gone on with the club trading MLB players for prospects, and my belief about those prospects, it seemed like a good time to journey to the [...]

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Gut Reaction: Cubs 3, Mets 2 (8/8/23)

Pete Alonso hit a two-run homer in the first inning but the Mets’ offense could muster nothing after that, as they fell to the Cubs, 3-2, Tuesday night at Citi Field. After the first inning troubles, Jameson Taillon settled down and pitched a great game, with the Mets unable to do much at all against [...]

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