New York – It’s over, boys and girls. If you are a New York Mets fan, there are many clichés you can come up to describe another season of great disappointment and futility for your men in orange and blue. You can kiss it goodbye. The ship be sinkin’. Wait till next year. Nice guys [...]
Published on: 11th July, 2010
Brooklyn – As the parent club New York Mets continues to struggle to score runs lately, perhaps they should look downward at their farm team out in Coney Island, where the Brooklyn Cyclones sport a lineup of offensive-minded young hitters who enjoy nothing more than hitting the ball as hard and as far as they [...]
Published on: 2nd July, 2010
Brooklyn – The Mets and Yankees are not the only winning teams in New York, these days. Out in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, the Mets affiliate single A team, the Cyclones have been tearing it up in the New York-Penn League this season with a 9-4 record and a solid grip on first [...]
Published on: 22nd June, 2010
Brooklyn – If ever there was a baseball player in New York over the past 25 years who baseball people would look at and view as a future big-league manager, it was Wally Backman. You remember Backman. The scrappy, hustling second baseman on the 1986 World Champion New York Mets. The little guy from Oregon [...]
Published on: 15th June, 2010
ATLANTA — Chipper Jones has hinted that he could retire at the end of this season. But it appears the veteran third baseman may now be even more serious about pursuing that option. Jones is expected to discuss his plans for the future with Braves general manager Frank Wren and manager Bobby Cox on Tuesday [...]
Published on: 13th June, 2010
Mets Could Be More Interesting Team To Watch Than YankeesNew York — The 2010 baseball season is still young, but not quite that young anymore. There remain over 100 games to play but from the first 60 or so, one unassailable fact has been yielded. This major league season is going to be an exciting one for fans here around New York City and its environs, but particularly so [...]
Published on: 17th May, 2010
New York – Everyone here in the New York market is screaming for Jerry Manuel’s head, in the midst of another season of bad baseball at the helm of the New York Mets. His team is now 38 games into the 2010 season, almost 25% of the games and it’s already begun to feel like [...]
Published on: 20th April, 2010
NEW YORK — The Mets told everyone how important it was that they get off to a good start. More than that, they gave everyone the impression that their manager’s job security depended on getting off to a good start. That said, Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya, both fully aware of how hot their seats [...]
Published on: 10th April, 2010
New York – It was a cold, dreary night for baseball in front of a sparse Mets home crowd with the teetering Mets facing the even worse Washington Nationals. Not a formula for a rip-roaring night of baseball, right? Instead, the Mets turned it into a night of home runs and line drives as they [...]
Published on: 15th January, 2010
New York – Carlos Beltran, the New York Mets star centerfielder, number three hitter, and highest-paid position player has just put a tremendous crimp in the team’s 2010 season hopes and dreams. And, the team isn’t happy about it. Beltran, without getting the team’s permission as required by his player contract, had surgery yesterday on [...]