Month: December 2008

Although it is hard to break concentration from our new amazing back end of the bullpen, we have to take time to look at the Mets Rule V picks so far. According the Metsblog.com, at this time the Mets have selected Darren O’Day and Rocky Cherry in the MLB Rounds. Then they selected Carl Codenthal and John Madden so far in the AAA round. No one has selected Mets players at this time....

In the heat of the moment, I’ve written some horrible things about Aaron Heilman over the years. However, the truth is that he was a very decent guy. Even when he had his worst moments, you could always find him sitting at his locker and ready to face the music with a very testy media. He really never fit in with this team in my opinion. It seemed like every Spring Training we had to have...

They just wrapped up the short press conference at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, where Omar Minaya, Mark Shapiro (Indians), and Jack Zduriencik (Mariners) addressed the media. Zduriencik, led things off and basically complimented Omar and revealed this was the first trade he ever made. Omar, took the mic next and after a bunch of thanks to go around for everyone, basically said the trade was an...

Of course not… K-Rod is the undisputed closer on this team, but will the addition of J.J. Putz create any friction? Putz has been the Seattle Mariners closer for the last three seasons, and he fully expected to be the Mariners closer in 2009. One has to wonder if there was any communication with Putz before the deal, to see how he felt about the situation and if he was fine knowing that he...

The Mets, like any other team, have had periods of success and periods of down years. From 1969-1976, the Mets averaged 84 wins, only finished lower than third once and those 7 years earned us 1 World Championship and 2 Pennants. For the glory days of 1984-1990, we averaged an impressive 95 wins, never finished lower than 2nd place, won 1 Championship and 2 pennants. From 1997-2001, the Mets...