On October 16th, 1969 at Shea Stadium, in front of 57,367 hysterical fans the New York Mets wrote the final chapter of what is still today one of the most compelling “rags-to-riches” stories in Major League Baseball history. A team that for the first seven seasons of their existence had been a laughingstock and the brunt of countless jokes, was suddenly and inexplicably sitting on...
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During last night’s ESPN telecast of the Mets victory over the Braves, the announcers mentioned that the Mets have several “building blocks” but also several “question marks.” At this point, the question marks far outweigh the building blocks, which is why the team has had moments of mediocrity this season. There is still a month and half to play, but barring a miracle, the Mets would be wise to...
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Adam Rubin of ESPN New York, had a nice piece on Mets catching prospect Camden Maron. The Long Island native grew up a big Mets fan who rooted hard for Mike Piazza. “Piazza was my guy. I used to love watching him. I liked watching Jose Reyes, too, when I was younger. When he was coming up, he was always exciting. David [Wright] came up around the same time as well. I remember ’99 and 2000 a lot....
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After an off day on Monday, the Binghamton Mets travelled to Manchester, New Hampshire for game one of a three game series against the Fisher Cats on Tuesday night. The B-Mets were unfortunately on the losing end of the decision, dropping game one by a score of 5-2. Jeff Kaplan relieved Germen in the sixth, and over the next one and two thirds innings allowed only one hit and kept New Hampshire...
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The Mets (55-61) lost to the Reds (70-46) by the score of 3-0 tonight at the Great American Ball Park. I know that not everybody out there is a fan of a good pitching duel and games like these can be boring. As much as I found myself frustrated tonight, it was a pretty good game all around, and our offense just could not pull through in the clutch. Chris Young was the designated starter for this...
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