Welcome back, Mets Hysteria. To the faithful who never left, hugs and kisses. To the perennially disenchanted, welcome back; there’s room to spare. With an off day Thursday, August 8 and the dawning of the ensuing gauntlet of the forthcoming schedule, let us breath once again and soak in this magical return to relevance we’ve all found surreal since the Mets were 40-50 at the All-Star...
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A MMO Fan Shot by Cesar Montenegro My story begins in 1985 (I was 5-years old), when my dad taught me to play baseball and told me that he had been a long time fan Yankee fan. In my country we could only watch some games on TV, so on his birthday, June 27th 1985, the newspaper announced the sports schedule, New York vs. Chicago, but to his surprise and dismay it was the Mets playing the Cubs and...
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In Wednesday afternoon’s game against the Marlins, Mets outfielder Michael Conforto had a huge game in which he mashed two home runs, the first of which was his 100th career home run. His 100th career home run was also the shortest, traveling 333 feet as he tucked it just inside the right field foul pole. Number 101 was a little more typical of the 2017 All Star, traveling 368 feet to the...
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The Chicago Black — I mean the White Sox announced Thursday that they will be playing a Major League game at the Field of Dreams in Iowa next year. The game will be played on August 13, 2020 against the New York Yankees and will count as a home game for the Sox. It is fitting that the White Sox and Yankees will be playing this game, as the two most important players in the movie, Shoeless...
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3 UP 1. Young Power Hitters With the Mets trailing 4-2 in the second game of the doubleheader against the Marlins, the Mets winning streak was in jeopardy, and with the hole the Mets have dug themselves in the first half, they cannot blow games like these. Due to the young hot hitting bats in the Mets lineup, they wouldn’t. The first blast came off the bat of J.D. Davis. That homer from...
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The Mets gave Venezuelan catcher Francisco Alvarez a new franchise record $2.7 million bonus for an International signee last July surpassing the record amounts given to Ronny Mauricio (a top 100 prospect) and Amed Rosario. With or without the record bonus, despite having never played in a professional game, the 17-year-old catcher was one of the players who stood out most during Spring...
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