Do you recognize the baseball player in the photograph to the left? No? Then welcome to the club. The man in the Padres hat is San Diego’s backup centerfielder Chris Denorfia, and he just became the latest player to keep the Mets from finally recording their first no-hitter. Last night, during the second game of the day-night doubleheader between the Mets and the Padres, Chris Denorfia...
Read MoreI’m a fan of history. Whether it be baseball or Mets history or the history of our nation, I love how history provides us with a template for the future. We tend to have short attention spans in this new media digital age. We tweet, surf the web and instant message while texting all at once. We Hulu a show that we could’ve easily watched a few nights before but our DVR was already...
Read MoreCiti Field, aged two, already has a past. Last year when we first saw the place, there were a lot of Brooklyn memorabilia and exhibits there. We knew that the Dodgers had moved to LA in the long ago fifties, so many of the visitors thought that something was wrong. And it was. Fred Wilpon, the owner of the Mets, was having flashbacks about his days as a Brooklyn fan, watching his old schoolmate...
Read MoreLast night while Jon Niese was throwing a complete game shutout against the San Diego Padres, another young southpaw was doing the same thing for the Mets Single-A affiliate, the Savannah Sand Gnats. Starting pitcher Mark Cohoon tossed his second consecutive complete game shutout on Thursday night to beat the Greensboro Grasshoppers 7-0. Cohoon allowed just three hits and a walk over nine...
Read MoreBorn on the same day the Mets won their second World Series title, Jonathon Niese pitched like a champion last night against the San Diego Padres. In shutting out the Padres, he allowed only one man to reach base all game, a double to centerfielder Chris Denorfia to lead off the third inning. Niese became the 34th pitcher in Mets history to throw a one-hitter, joining greats such as Nolan Ryan,...
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