Author: Michelle Ioannou

Today Is About Mike Piazza

Mets fans, sports media, and anyone who enjoys sports – today is about Mike Piazza. Let’s not take that away from him. Everyone has been talking about the cheating scandal since punishment was announced on Monday. During these past few days, two managers involved in the scandal, AJ Hinch and Alex Cora, have been fired by their organizations. Is Carlos Beltran next? He shouldn’t...

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Mesmerized by the Mets: What Does Baseball Mean to You?

Any baseball fans knows that it is more than a game. It is not just America’s pastime for us. In some way, shape, or form, baseball has had an impact on our lives, making it better. I have already written about what baseball means to me and what it meant for my brother. It gave us hope in a dark time. It gave us a distraction. It made us even closer. Baseball fans everywhere have their own...

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Boar With Me: Cause of Cespedes Ranch Injury Revealed

Yoenis Cespedes’s contract was restructured last month,  which is how we knew there was some sort of contract infraction when it came to the injury. But, we didn’t know exactly what it was. Now we do. And it involved a wild boar. Mike Puma, Joel Sherman, and Ken Davidoff of the New York Post set out to give us the answers we were looking for. We knew that the injury was caused by...

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Hope Emerges With Addition of Dellin Betances

Not even 48 hours into 2020 and the Mets have gotten us all even more excited for this season by holding their Dellin Betances introductory news conference on Thursday. Did it get you pumped? It got me pumped. And from the looks of Twitter, it got most fans pumped, too. Betances said all of the right things – but there’s more to it than just that. Any player can be prepped on what to...

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MLB Sets Record with $10.7 Billion In Revenue For 2019

It is the 17th year in a row that MLB has seen a record increase in revenue, according to Forbes. MLB has been seeing gross revenue above $10 billion since 2017. Last year it was at $10.3 billion. This year saw an increase to $10.7 billion, setting the new record. Is this because the price of tickets, beer, and food keep going up? No, but that did cross my mind, too. A lot of this is thanks to...

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