The $57 million renovations of Clover Park, the Mets Spring Training facility and home to the St. Lucie Mets, are far behind schedule. Worse yet, due to cost overruns, some of the plans have been altered. The 360-degree concourse is gone. Worse yet, the Little League fields have been scrapped. What did remain was a beautiful state-of-the-art clubhouse for the Mets’ Major Leaguers. With...
Mets left fielder Yoenis Cespedes hadn’t hit a home run in over a month – until last night. He started the night off with a bang with a towering home run to left field, giving the Mets a 1-0 lead. He would later hit a double before an exciting “Little League home run” which went in the book as a triple. After rounding the bases and looking noticeably sluggish between...
If John Stephenson is remembered at all by fans of the early Mets, it’s as the last out of Jim Bunning’s perfect game. He was so overmatched in striking out, the Mets might as well have plucked a fan out of the stands at random and asked him to get a hit off Bunning. At the time, if I remember correctly, Stephenson was hitting a feeble .149 and it didn’t get much better for...
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If an incompetent team loses in an empty stadium, but nobody is there to see it… do the anguished cries of Mets Fans everywhere make a sound? The Mets (64-81) lost to the Nationals (77-69) by a score of 7-2 Thursday afternoon, sealing a 4-game sweep for Washington on the road. Aaron Harang started for the Mets and was solid, going 6 innings and giving up 3 runs. Harang only gave up 4 hits,...
It’s that dreaded time of the summer; the All-Star game is over, and major league baseball is taking a break from their schedule until tomorrow. As if it wasn’t already bad enough that there aren’t a full slate of games on at the beginning of the week, there is nothing now. A lost art in the information age today is looking at the box scores from games the night before. With...
Please, join me as I throw a handful of dirt on the coffin of Jordany Valdespin’s career as a New York Met. The one I used to call El Dramático for his ability to spark rallies and hit long home runs is getting playing time for one reason: he’s being shopped. Don’t expect him to be with the Mets past the trade deadline. I’ve been a staunch defender of Valdespin since the Mets’ first...
I became a Mets fan on Memorial Day 1981. My father wasn’t feeling well that day so we had to cancel our annual Memorial Day barbecue, leaving eight-year-old me to find something to do since I was home from school that day. My ill father was in bed all day, so I decided to lay back on his comfortable-beyond-words recliner and watch TV. The last person who watched the tube had left it on...
One of my greatest wishes as a relatively young Mets fan is wanting to have seen Tom Seaver pitch. Sure, I’ve seen the highlight videos and World Series tapes that portrayed his dominance, but it’s still not the same as seeing the best pitcher in Mets’ history actually toe the rubber. However, albeit still very early, we younger Mets fans are seeing firsthand what it was like when Seaver took...
Before I begin, I’d like to thank my colleague, Rob (Tie Dyed) for writing an exceptional piece on Tom Seaver and for inspiring me to write this blog. I’d like to consider it a companion piece to his blog. Thanks, Rob! June 15. It’s a date that many Mets fans will remember as the day the Franchise was traded to the Cincinnati Reds. Tom Seaver’s trade was the beginning...
It’s a Little League parents worst nightmare. Their child being hurt during a game that is… Torn between jumping the fence to coddle their precious child, or let them take their lumps and learn to pick themselves back up. Within an instant a wild pitch hitting them in the back, an outfield collision or even a line drive to the pitchers mound can pierce even the hardest...
