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Morning Briefing: Giants Fire Gabe Kapler

Good morning, Mets fans! On Friday, the San Francisco Giants fired Gabe Kapler after four years as the team’s manager. The highlight of Kapler’s tenure was an out-of-nowhere 107-win season in 2021, but the results in his other three years as the team’s leader were underwhelming. The Giants are officially eliminated from playoff contention after having a dreadful second half of...

Morning Briefing: Mets Post Worst Record in Calendar Month Since 2018

Good morning, Mets fans. The Mets lost 5-4 to the Giants on Friday night after the bullpen blew yet another late lead. The loss gave the Mets a record of 7-19 for the month of June, marking the worst record in any calendar month for the team since June 2018 when they went 5-21. It was also the second-worst record of any MLB team in the month of June, only in front of the 23-59 Royals. The loss...

Robertson Gives Up Three-Run Homer, Mets Lose 5-4 to Giants

The Mets hosted the Giants for the first game of a three-game set on Friday night. The game officially marked the beginning of the second half of the season for the Mets, and if this game is a sign of things to come, the team will only continue to disappoint. After a five-iinning start by Carlos Carrasco was followed up by two solid combined innings from Jeff Brigham and Brooks Raley, David...

Joey Lucchesi Shines as Mets Silence Giants 7-0

The Mets played their second game of a four-game series against the San Francisco Giants late Friday night. Joey Lucchesi, who hadn’t pitched in a major league game since the 2021 season, got the start for the Mets in place of the injured Carlos Carrasco. Meanwhile, starting for the Giants was Anthony DeSclafani, who had been pitching excellently through his first three starts of the...

Much Ado About Three-Homer Games At Home

“You know, Keith, no Met has ever hit three home runs in a game at home.” If you’ve watched as many Mets games as I have over the years, then you’ve undoubtedly heard Gary Cohen make this statement whenever a Met has come up to the plate after hitting two home runs in a home game. It’s true.  Nine Mets players have hit three home runs in a game.  But Jim Hickman,...

Robin Williams Dead Of Apparent Suicide

Beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams is dead at the age of 63. The apparent cause of death was suicide by asphyxiation, according to police who found Williams unconscious at his home in nearby San Francisco, California. He had been battling severe depression and spent time in rehab for it as recently as July, his publicist said in a statement. Williams was best known for his starring roles...

Prediction Audit: Hits and Misses…Mostly Misses

So here we are, 40% of the season is done and the Mets are 61 games away from the 90 win bar set by GM Sandy Alderson before the season started. So the Mets only need to play .628 ball the rest of the way to achieve their 90 wins, totally do-able (crickets). So, Sandy wasn’t the only one who swung and missed on his 2014 prediction, before the season started I gave you my predictions too. Let’s...

MMO Game Thread: Brewers vs Mets, 7:10 PM

The Mets are hoping that a return to Citi Field can end their current 6-game losing streak.  The Milwaukee Brewers come to town for a three-game series starting this evening at 7:10 PM. Daisuke Matsuzaka (2-0, 3.09 ERA) will make his third start this season and is tasked with ending the skid.  He will face Marco Estrada (5-2, 4.19 ERA). Matsuzaka, who replaced Rafael Montero in the Mets...

MMO Game Thread: Mets vs Giants, 4:05 PM

The Mets will try to halt five game losing streak when they take on the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park this evening at 4:05 PM. Zack Wheeler (2-5, 3.89 ERA) gets tasked with being the Mets stopper and will oppose right-hander Tim Lincecum (4-4, 5.01) for the Giants. Wheeler, who is facing the team that originally drafted him, tossed 6.2 scoreless innings with seven strikeouts in his last...

MMO Game Recap: Giants 4, Mets 2

The Mets (28-33), who hoped to bounce back after being swept by the Chicago Cubs, lost 4-2 to the Giants (40-21) to drop their fourth game in a row and are now 4-5 on their current 11 game road trip. Jon Niese, who faced off against Matt Cain, matched zeros with the Giants starter until the fifth inning when Niese gave a one-out triple to Brandon Hicks and then a sac fly by Brandon Crawford...

Opinion: Where’s Our Tom Seaver Statue?

In an interview on Friday morning with Boomer and Carton on WFAN, Tom Seaver said that the Mets have never approached him about erecting a statue or monument in his honor at Citi Field. “I understand that I’m a part of the history of the game of baseball, it is going to be what it is,” Seaver said, when asked about his legacy. “The wonderful thing are the memories that I have about...

Alderson and Warthen Apologize For Ethnic Slur

The Mets issued statements on behalf of Sandy Alderson and pitching coach Dan Warthen, who used an ethnic slur while conversing with Daisuke Matsuzaka’s interpreter, Jeff Cutler, according to the Wall Street Journal. Here’s what occurred: “Jeff!” Cutler and I turned around. It was Dan Warthen, the Mets pitching coach. “I’m sorry I called you a ‘Chinaman’ yesterday,” Warthen told Cutler....

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