Good morning, Mets fans! Try not to roll your eyes if anyone wishes you a Happy Bobby Bonilla Day. Major League Baseball is tweaking the Home Run Derby rules. Eight hitters will start, with four advancing to the second round and ties will be broken by the longest home run. The semifinals will be bracket style with the top finisher of the first round facing the player with the fourth best first...
Good morning Mets fans! The San Diego Padres continued to rebuild their bullpen. With a number of their top relievers in free agency, San Diego is close to adding South Korean reliever Woo Suk Go, who could serve as the teams closer. The deal was first reported by Jon Heyman of the New York Post. The 25-year-old has pitched in parts of seven seasons with the Korean Baseball Organization. He...
Good morning, Mets fans! Wednesday night, the lone game on the docket was the Houston Astros going into Arlington to take on the Texas Rangers in Game 3 of the ALCS. The major headline heading into the game was the return of former Met Max Scherzer, who would make his postseason debut as a Ranger. The last time he was on the mound in October, it did not go well, to say the least, Scherzer went 4...
Good morning, Mets fans! The Mets started the month of July on the right foot and got back in the win column on Saturday defeating the Giants 4-1 on Saturday. Home runs and a great pitching performance by Justin Verlander led the Mets to the win. The Mets and Giants will conclude their three-game series on Sunday night baseball at 7:10 p.m. It will be David Peterson on the mound for the Mets in...
The Mets celebrated Bobby Bonilla Day in the best way possible by beating the Rangers on Friday, thanks to a starring role from Eduardo Escobar. July 1 is a big day in Mets land every single year given that it is the day Bonilla has collected a $1,193,248.20 check from the Mets since 2011, and he will continue to do so through 2035. It is a day fully celebrated in sports every year and it has...
July 1 has infamously become known as Bobby Bonilla Day, a narrative which has been popularized around baseball over the years. Mets owner Steve Cohen even tweeted his happy Bobby Bonilla Day wishes this morning. Bonilla gets paid his 12th installment of $1,193,248.20 today, with 13 years of deferments remaining. The Mets have paid him a total of $14,318,878.40, with $15,512,221.60 left, as...
People have been asking us all winter what we’ve been doing to pass the time during the MLB lockout. I’ll tell you what we do here at MMO — we come up with ideas that not only help us stay busy, but will help you all stay busy, too. Talking about the best teams and/or players in New York Mets history is always a good debate to have — especially during the cold winter...
It’s not often that a player like David Wright rolls around. Not just in regards to on field talent, but being a consummate professional off the field as well. But when they do, it comes with this overwhelming sense of comfort, security and excitement. Mets fans knew Wright was going to be special after his steady rise through the Mets’ system that plateaued with his Major League...
The 1993 Mets were a bad team, but their off-field troubles were worse than their on-field performance. The 1993 Mets finished 59-103. Manager Jeff Torborg was dismissed 38 games into the season, replaced by Dallas Green. The team was coming off a 1992 season where they posted a 72-90 record, which prompted reporters Bob Klapisch and John Harper to write the book “The Worst Team...
Here is proof that some good came out of the abominable 1992 season. Hoping to eradicate a disastrous conclusion to 1991, the Mets’ winter maneuvering was predicated upon acquiring proven veterans. Bret Saberhagen, Eddie Murray, and Willie Randolph were among the newcomers, joining Gooden and HoJo to help foster expectations of a division title. The initial test of this experiment came...
For all the Opening Day re-broadcasts shown by SNY yesterday, one which wasn’t shown, but can be found on YouTube, came in the afterglow of the Mets’ most recent World Series title. Following a pre-game ceremony in which the championship flag was raised and the players, coaches, and personnel received their jewelry, the Mets rung in the new year with a narrow victory over the...
As I sit here on this early but steamy bittersweet Sunday morning, sipping a more bitter than sweet cup of joe, perhaps it is fitting in the wake of yesterday’s experience at the ballpark, and most importantly, where we are as Mets fans. As the mornings of a summer-reluctant ’19 finally begin to warm, it is alas not even July and this season has gotten steamy early. As our ’73 Skip once said,...
