Hopefully the Mets won't turn into pumpkins when the clock strikes midnight on Thursday night and the free-agent scavenger hunt begins in earnest for the 2010 season.
Former New York Mets star Wally Backman has been named the newest manager of the Brooklyn Cyclones, tabbed to lead the club in its tenth season of play.
I suppose when your two football teams have combined to lose 8 of their last 9 games after perfect starts, it's probably time for the Hot Stove to start heating up. Mets G.M. Omar Minaya has made no secret...
How to fix the 2010 New York Mets. A gargantuan task to say the least. Not an easy cure-all, but you have to start somewhere. For starters, they could use another solid starting pitcher. And a power hitter...
So it's not just the Mets who have perfected the art of blowing big leads late in September. The Tigers did them one big one better by proceeding to blow a 3-game cushion with just 4 games to play...
Anderson Hernandez hit the 6,000th home run in Mets' history in the first game of the day-night doubleheader in Philadelphia this past Sunday. Here are some of the other all-time milestone homers for the Mets:
Gary Sheffield begins September as the Mets home run leader with 10. Sheffield's total is the lowest by a Mets player heading into the season's final full month in club history.
Permit me this indulgence as I begin the post All Star break period. The tiny bit of vacation that I had adjacent to the break allowed for a brief vacation, and at my wife's behest we spent a few days in London.
Sitting here in a dank, bleak hotel room in Baltimore, watching the rain come down, makes me wonder just exactly why it is that we're here. That's WE, as in the entire Mets traveling party, not just me.
We interrupt this baseball season once again to bring you interleague play. This gimmick, which totally distorts what used to be known as pennant races...
In an interview, I once asked Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Buck what sport was his favorite to broadcast? Without any hesitiation he replied, " winning baseball". I asked the inevitable follow up question, which sport is your least favorite? Jack answered, " losing baseball".
Baseball isn't just about the games being played, scrutinized, argued, and judged.. It's about the people who play it. I learned a long time ago that criticism is as common an element to the game as a bat and a ball.
Rickey Henderson will get his coveted spot in Cooperstown later this summer. Voted in on the first ballot, Rickey, arguably, is baseball's greatest leadoff hitter.
