He teases us with his speed, dazzles us with his defense, and sometimes astounds us with his power this season. And he hasn’t even gotten warmed up yet. Carlos Beltran’s recovery from off-season knee surgery hasn’t gone as quickly as all of us have hoped, but signs of his return to form are suddenly evident. The Mets anxiously await the arrival of the one player on their roster who can virtually carry this team much like he [...]

Welcome back to the third installment of Hot or Not, the only list where you want to be in the hot seat. This week, I’ve had to consider many things besides from a player’s performance; otherwise the whole team would be Cold As Ice. Hot as FireMike Pelfrey: El Duque can take as long as he wants to recover thanks to Pelfrey. Although his record doesn’t reflect it, the Big Pelf has pitched some of [...]

I’m not going to try and write another blog about the struggles of the Mets. Keeping track of the wins and losses on my pocket schedule is painful enough. Clearly, something is "up" because of oh-too-familiar win one, lose one pattern of this entire month. I’m not going to go on about Mike Pelfrey’s gem of a loss, because we all know what happened. I’m not going to write about our inability to keep a winning [...]

Before todays rained out contest, Omar Minaya reiterated his support for Willie Randolph during SNY’s pre game coverage. When asked if Randolph’s job was on the line he replied,  “Absolutely not, I am very supportive and will continue to support Willie Randolph.” Meanwhile, back at the ranch… Today we ran a poll to record our readers feelings on the matter of Willie Randolph. The results were shocking to say the least. I expected Willie’s approval rating to [...]

The cool winter air brought the Evil Empire a glaring, once in a lifetime opportunity. A chance was at the forefront to acquire arguably the greatest starting pitcher to come along in the last decade was balked at by general manager Brian Cashman. Weeks later, the Mets decided to part with a large collection of promising youth to land Johan Santana. Friday evening when the Mets travel across town to do battle with the Yankees, [...]

The Mets are floundering. They are a team that intimidates nobody. They are laughed at, joked about, pushed around, and chanted at by even the worst teams in the league. How can they possibly believe they can win a division title under these circumstances?   Yesterday, another great pitching performance was squandered and wasted by an offense that is mediocre at best and inept, inadequate and incredibly incompetent at worst. Actually check that… the latter [...]

Willie has it all wrong… He needs to wake up and smell the coffee… Yesterday, his excuse for bringing in Aaron Heilman, a move that cost the Mets a win, was that he wanted to get a couple of innings out of him, so the bullpen would be rested for the weekend. What’s he thinking? Why not worry about winning the game at hand first? Isn’t that the way it oughta’ be? To make matters [...]

I have to. I just have to. I couldn’t sleep all night thinking about the mess that happened last night.  True, with few minor exceptions, the Mets bats were not awake until the latter part of the game, but the end result would have been enough to win or at least force extra innings and have a shot at winning had Heilman not loused things up again.  I blame Heilman for not pitching well.  But I [...]

Willie Randolph inherited the wrath of the fans tonight when he came out to take the ball from Aaron Heilman who had just allowed four Nationals to cross the plate and take the lead in the seventh inning. The boos were twice as loud and twice as thunderous than the ones that greeted Heilman as he walked back to the dugout. For some reason Willie keeps sending Heilman out in close games, only to take [...]

What the hell was with the Nationals Monday night, specifically, Elijah Dukes and Lenny Harris?  It was like little league out there. A last place team chanting in the dugout, during a meaningless game, as each player stepped into the batter’s box.  Were they that bored? That cold?  Figueroa had the perfect response, if you were observant enough to read his lips as he walked off the mound at the end of the inning.  But [...]