Generally, when a batter goes 0-for-4 in a game, or a team gets swept four games by an opponent, it is hardly the time for praise and accomplishment. With Trevor Bauer announcing on Friday afternoon he is returning to his roots in Southern California, the Mets lost out on the final big name free agent of the winter. DJ LeMahieu, J.T. Realmuto, George Springer, along with Bauer will be plying...
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The Major League Baseball Players Association late Monday rejected a proposal by Major League Baseball to delay the start of the 2021 season for about a month. MLB wanted to begin spring training in late March in hopes for a late April start to the regular season. MLB was further asking for a 154-game season, with more doubleheaders and expansion of the playoffs, along with the designated...
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“Through his long career, Hank Aaron has been a model of humility, dignity, and quiet competence. He did not seek the adoration that is accorded to other national athletic heroes, yet he has now earned it.” – Andrew Young Henry Aaron passed away peacefully in his sleep at age 86 on Friday. Known almost as much for his modesty, humility and grace as his propensity for the long...
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Monday, January 18, 2021. At about 11:00 PM, this is the time the New York Mets entered more than a Twilight Zone, they entered the Forbidden Zone. An area where an employee of the team, a front office honcho, is accused and later admitted to sending graphic photos to a female reporter in 2016. The ugly, and all too frequent, aura of sexism and harassment had engulfed the Mets, courtesy of their...
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On October 30, 2020, Major League Baseball owners took a vote. It was a vote that would potentially shift the balance of power in baseball for decades to come. This fact was not lost on the owners who gathered to consider the purchase of the New York Mets by Steve Cohen. But when the votes were tallied, Cohen received 26 ayes and only four nays. A new era in baseball and sports as a whole, thus...
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