By Tim Ryder The 2000s saw a little bit of everything here in Queens. The New York Mets were, for a time, the best team in baseball — heck, the decade started off with a World Series berth. They were also the laughingstock of the game for a while, too. Ebbs and flows, right? Shea Stadium saw its gates pulled down for the final time in 2008, but the three years leading up to that...
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According to Joel Sherman of the New York Post, New York Mets brass plans on bringing in Minnesota Twins bench coach Derek Shelton for a third managerial interview. As of Monday afternoon, four candidates are known to have reached the third round of interviews: Shelton, Yankees special adviser Carlos Beltran, Nationals first-base coach Tim Bogar, and ESPN analyst Eduardo Perez. As per Sherman,...
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By Tim Ryder The Boston Red Sox made a direction-changing addition on Friday in the hire of former Tampa Bay Rays vice president of baseball operations, Chaim Bloom, as the organization’s chief baseball officer. Bloom, 36, took over as the Rays’ director of baseball operations in 2011, moving into the vice president position in 2014 following Andrew Friedman’s departure for Los...
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In this week’s episode of Simply Amazin’, Tim Ryder is joined by MMO’s Josh Finkelstein. The guys discuss the Nats taking a surprising 2-0 lead in the World Series, as well as the black cloud following the Fall Classic off the field. Joe Girardi’s taken the job in Philadelphia, leaving the Mets on the clock. Will Carlos Beltran get his first managerial gig? Brodie &...
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As per a team announcement, the Houston Astros have terminated assistant general manager Brandon Taubman in light of his remarks following the team’s walk-off, pennant-clinching win over the New York Yankees last weekend. According to Stephanie Apstein of Sports Illustrated, following the Astros’ thrilling 6-4 win on Saturday courtesy of Jose Altuve’s two-run homer in the...
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