PEDs – Major League Baseball’s Incurable Disease

With two player’s testing positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs in the past two weeks, it is as clear as ever that PEDs are still an issue with Major League Baseball. Nobody should be surprised about the two latest positive test results. I listened to an interview of a player not too long ago (the player’s name slips my mind right now), but he said at one point he believed that 90% of players...

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Mazzoni Shelled As B-Mets Lose In 14-9 Slugfest

The Binghamton Mets and Portland Sea Dogs pounded out a total of thirty one hits and scored twenty three runs between the two teams in game one of their four games series at Hadlock Field on Thursday night.  In the end the B-Mets were on the losing end of a fourteen to nine decision. Binghamton starter Cory Mazzoni lasted all of three innings in the game, making his shortest appearance as a...

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Niese Looks To Shut Down The Astros In Series Opener

Friday, August 24, 2012 • 7:10 p.m. Citi Field • Flushing, NY LHP Jordan Lyles (2-10, 5.70) vs. LHP Jon Niese (10-6, 3.49) Starting Lineup Ruben Tejada – SS Mike Baxter – RF David Wright – 3B Ike Davis – 1B Justin Turner – 2B Jordany Valdespin – LF Andres Torres – CF Josh Thole – C Jon Niese – P Well that last series wasn’t fun. There...

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A Quick Glance At Mets Offseason Needs

How could anybody be anything but enthused about the Mets for 2013? With GA Sandy Alderson telling us the budget hasn’t been set but don’t expect it to be much higher than it is now. Then he said trades might be the way to go. But, if the Mets aren’t willing to part with Matt Harvey or Zach Wheeler, will they purge the rest of their farm system? History says it isn’t likely. A quick glance at...

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A Smashing Debut For Collin McHugh!

This is why we’ve been downplaying all these insane notions of bringing up Zack Wheeler in the last few months. As I said before, Collin McHugh is more deserving and more polished, and his debut today has validated everything we’ve been saying about him all season long. McHugh won’t figure into the decision, but his performance today was definitely deserving of a win as the...

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