The Mets jumped on top early in both games of the doubleheader against the Phillies Saturday night. They had to hold on for a 4-3 win in the opener but they had an 11-4 laugher in the nightcap. The Mets are now 6-6 versus the Phillies this season. The Mets scored three runs in the [...]
Buck Showalter won Manager of the Year in 2022 and big things were expected of him in 2023. We all know the Mets didn’t have a good season this year. The question now is: How much blame should Showalter get for the team’s poor results? Our pal Texas Gus recently posted that he didn’t think [...]
As sure as the day destroys the night and two follows one, if you write a column about the top 10 good things one day, a column on top 10 bad things will come next. And while there wasn’t much disagreement on the order of things with the good column, my guess is that people [...]
After making the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, the Mets haven’t had much sustained success. Shoot, if we’re being honest, they haven’t had much success at all. This year marks the fifth time in the last seven seasons that the club finished under .500 for the campaign. And this season started with such high hopes. Oh [...]
The Mets enjoyed a blowout in the first game, only to be unable to come up with any runs in the nightcap without a homer, as they split a pair with the Marlins Wednesday at Citi Field The opening game saw the Mets hit three 2-run homers and tack on five runs without a long [...]
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For at least two years now, everyone has assumed that Brett Baty was going to be the Mets' third baseman of the future and Mark Vientos was going to have to scrounge for playing time. And that may still be the way things play out in the long run. But Baty’s miserable 2023, combined with [...]
From September 15-22, I got to spend one week at Los Angeles for family vacation. As a baseball fan, one of the things that I did in LA, was to check out a baseball game for both the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Los Angeles Dodgers. It was my first time going to [...]