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Mets fans are an odd group of individuals that always seem to disagree, but when it comes to management there seems to be a universal agreement. This agreement is that two of the three levels of upper management are not living up to their expectations. These two levels are the owners (The Wilpons) and the [...]
Word keeps dribbling out that it’s all but official that the Mets will be extending Sandy Alderson’s contract. According to a source, owner and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Wilpon will confirm this worst-kept-secret quite soon. There are some among Mets’ fans who despair at this news. They’ll deride the Mets’ GM as “SMS: Small Market [...]
Eric Campbell has shown enormous flexibility on the field for the Mets in 2014. He has played everywhere except center, and catcher, and has a .698 OPS to show for very sporadic playing time. However, just last year his OPS stood at .910 for the entire season, and early this year, he posted a .967 [...]
The Mets have won 12 of their last 18 games, meaning there’s still a chance that my preseason prediction the club would play .700 ball over a 20-game stretch of the season can come true! Who says these games are meaningless? Of course, to do so the Mets will have to beat the Nationals the [...]
Terry Collins is a frustrating manager. He makes decisions that at times can be characterized as puzzling, head-scratching, and downright confusing. Fans have been calling for his head seemingly since the day he was hired, and at times I've joined those choruses, too. But with news of Collins likely sticking around for 2015, and a [...]
With a week remaining in the 2014 season, it is time to look back on another year of rebuilding for the Mets. Although the team was not in contention throughout the season, the team had a couple of bright spots along the way that we must remember as we approach the season’s finish 1. Sandy [...]
Following four dismal starts after the All-Star break, Jon Niese has given us exactly what we've come to expect over the past five years.
On Tuesday afternoon, outgoing Commissioner Bud Selig paid Citi Field a visit, and like his other stops on the farewell tour, he took questions from reporters. Friend of the site Howard Megdal got things off to a rollicking start, not beating around the bush when he asked the following: “In 2011, when denying the Fox [...]