It sure is fun to watch games like last night or Friday and Saturday’s finishes against the Giants, or even the way the team battled back on Sunday against Tim Lincecum.  But some of the Mets are striking out at an alarming rate (ahem, David Wright…ahem, Jason Bay).  Even Ike Davis, who has been the spark that fired up the team the past few weeks, has 19 strikeouts in 66 at-bats.  I heard Keith Hernandez [...]

A few weeks ago, I suggested that the Mets pitching staff’s overperformance could result in a hat-tipping to Dan Warthen, who may be deceivingly quiet. By “deceiving,” I mean he is not a flashy pitching coach, people rarely ever heard of him before he came to the Mets although he does have a bit of a distinguished and respectable career as a pitching coach. His pitching staff is very formidable. Johan Santana is who he [...]

In a game that was looking like the Nationals would take it, the Mets worked around a bad outing from Jon Niese to stage an 8th inning comeback and win 8-6 Game Notes Jonathon Niese went out today, and was in trouble from the get-go. He would only finish the day going 4 1/3 innings, giving up 6 hits, 5 walks and 3 strikeouts – one of his hits going to Adam Dunn. Niese recovered [...]

One of the positive things that I have been seeing from this team in the past few weeks is the way they seem to always fight. At times a hit with a runner on base seems to be too tall of an order and it can be very frustrating for a fan. However, when at the times when the team is backed into a corner they seem to not lay down and die like we [...]

In another time, perhaps 50 years from now, the Mets will get the opportunity to tear down Citifield, and build a new stadium for their fans and team. The life cycle of Citifield will have reached it’s end. The Stadium will have hosted multiple championship teams and hosted All Star, playoff, and World Series games. We all will have had our fill of Shake Shack, McFaddens and Blue Smoke. Enough to last a lifetime. Citi [...]

AAA International League: Buffalo 0/5/3, Louisville 11/16/0 cf Jason Pridie 1 for 4, K, .291 rf Jesus Feliciano 0 for 2, BB, .341 1b Mike Jacobs 0 for 3, BB, K, .258 3b Mike Hessman 1 for 3, 2b, BB, K, .299 2b Alex Cintron 0 for 3, BB, K, .200 lf Andy Green 0 for 4, .303 ss Ruben Tejada 0 for 4, 2 Ks, .296 c Jean Luc Blaquiere 2 for 4, 2 [...]

There are many question marks surrounding the Mets’ offense this season. Why isn’t Jose Reyes hitting? Why is David Wright striking out so much? Why can’t Jason Bay get a clutch hit? Where did Jeff Francoeur’s bat disappear to? Why isn’t Luis Castillo on crutches yet? It’s enough to make a Mets fan go crazy when the team puts men on base only to strand them by striking out, popping up or grounding into a [...]

I wanted to post something before the game and I had a choice to either write something about the trash at Citi Field or some non Mets news that smelled very Phishy. What a choice, huh? I decided to go with the latter, but before I do, I wanted to thank our friends at the uber-cool Real Dirty Mets Blog. for pointing me toward this phoul stench of a story. GravediggerHebner explains: According to many reports, including this one [...]

I’m tired of it. Sitting here and reading this site on a daily basis, I’ve had enough of the people calling each other racist and making comments about gender and anything else that falls into that category. I understand that everyone is allowed their own opinion, but I guess jokingly or not, the comments have become a little too much. I can take a joke and I don’t take offense to much, because nobody has [...]