My father was born in 1919 and grew up in the Bronx. In a neighborhood filled almost exclusively with Yankees’ fans he became a New York Giants fan. In introducing me to baseball in the mid 1950’s and specifically to Giants’ history he often cited the accomplishment of Carl Hubbell who in the 1934 All-Star [...]
We heard so much about the Cubs hitting six home runs in Game 3 of the NLDS and 10 homers overall in their 3-1 win over the Cardinals. If the Mets were to win this series, their young pitchers were going to have to limit the long ball or else the Cubs would run away [...]
The Mets received a stellar pitching performance from Matt Harvey and jumped out to the early lead in the NLCS with a 4-2 victory over the Cubs Saturday night in Citi Field. Harvey allowed two runs over 7.2 innings but just as importantly, he established dominance early, as he struck out five of the first [...]
Lucas Duda is certainly not the only Mets player that has struggled at the plate so far this postseason. Travis d'Arnaud has an OPS under .500 and David Wright has a batting average and slugging percentage of .063, for example. Both of these players contributed, however, to the Mets' Division Series victory against the Dodgers [...]
Well look at us fellow Mets fans. While most major league players have packed up and headed home our team is still in the tournament with a chance to go the World Series. Let’s look at what we’ve learned so far. Murphy is money in more than ways than one No one is a bigger [...]
Yes, I'm still bitter about Rick Sutcliffe and 1984 - why do you ask?
This writer has been a diehard, bleeding orange and blue Mets fan for nearly 40 years. Many of you reading this can relate. Running lineups and trades through your head as you go to bed every night, only dreaming of moments like this. We freakin’ did it and hot damn, does it feel good! No [...]
In 1969, after the Mets won the World Series a fan stood on the rapidly disappearing Shea Stadium grass with a sign thet read "There Are No Words." Words are failing me right now. Oh, wait, I thought of one: guts. The Mets have won the 2015 NLDS and will now face the Chicago Cubs [...]
The playoffs landed at La Guardia for the first time since 2006. To say that Mets fans the world over were thrilled about this might be the understatement of the year. A hard fought 162-game regular season – which began with an 11-game winning streak and culminated with the dispatch of the Washington Nationals with [...]
Are the Dodgers Punting the NLCS? We weren’t going to be lucky enough to get the Dodgers to not start both Clayton Kershaw and Zack Greinke starting twice in the five game series. What you have to realize is that if the Dodgers do beat the Mets tonight they are severely handicapped against the Cubs [...]