Articles by metstradamus (1419)
All Things Mets (And Dominic Smith): By Nelson Figueroa
Nelson Figueroa was a guest on Sports Talk NY Live on WLIE 540 and discussed everything from player value to…
Read moreOffseason Creativity
All 30 teams should express a willingness to post the money necessary to sign Ohtani, because first- and second year…
Read moreMr. Right? Or Mr. Not Wrong?
I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I know a whole lot about Mickey Callaway besides the fact…
Read moreWe Should All Quit Like This
I don’t know how he did it, but Terry Collins saved his best double switch for last. The season ended…
Read moreWrap It Up
Pete Mackanin isn’t coming back as the Phillies manager next season, and I’ll miss him. With Saturday’s slog in the…
Read moreThis Team Prays For Death But Death Won’t Come
Because this final weekend just won’t happen quietly, Jacob deGrom’s gastroenteritis has forced him to skip his last start of…
Read moreDysfunction, Thy Name Is Sterling Mets … Let Us Pray
It comes, but once a year. No, not Christmas. It’s the day each year where we hear the story about…
Read moreThe End Is Here, The End Is Near
All things must end. That sad feeling you get when you check StubHub for tickets to future Mets games and…
Read moreA Disharmonic Convergence
Some pitches are hard to understand. Some pitchers are hard to understand. Tuesday’s Braves/Mets game was a collision between the…
Read moreDouble The Nonsense
Game 1 of the Mets doubleheader against the Braves featured Atlanta manager Brian Snitker challenging a play at first base…
Read moreFinding The Words To Say The Same Thing (And Hoping For Lance Lynn?)
Jacob deGrom reached a milestone that meant something to him. His six innings on Sunday against the Nationals in a…
Read moreFirst Five
In his return from exile, Noah Syndergaard threw one slider, then four fastballs, and got three outs. And as far…
Read moreSwitching Genres And Switching Closers (But There’s No Switching Universes)
Gary, Keith and Ron called Friday’s game against the Nationals from the Citi Perk seats just below the Shea Bridge. They…
Read moreRiding To The Rescue
Saturday’s game just got a wee bit interesting. Noah Syndergaard will start tomorrow's game, and Matt Harvey will enter in…
Read moreThis Season Finally Made Jacob deGrom Sick
Amed Rosario recently went through a case of gastroenteritis. Now, whatever the hell he ate must have been shared with Jacob…
Read moreBroken News: More Tea Leaves For Terry
More speculation on the future of Terry Collins, from Kristie Ackert of the Daily News: Team sources said privately they…
Read moreWell, It Was On The Schedule
September wins against similarly bad teams? Not sure you can parse anything from it. Robert Gsellman went seven strong innings…
Read moreGrabbed By Ghosts
It wasn’t at all surprising to be reminded that the Mets had never lost to R.A. Dickey. The fun started…
Read moreThe Final Indignity Is Yet To Come
When we last left Rafael Montero, he was struggling to barely get to five innings without going over 100 pitches….
Read moreYou Don’t Know What You Have Until …
There’s a movie called “It’s Complicated”, where Alec Baldwin tries to have an affair with his ex-wife Meryl Streep and…
Read moreSo That Was Weird (A Photo Essay)
If you’ve read me for a while, you know that I’m all about baseball adventures. I once attended four major…
Read moreFrom Poetry To Prose In Twenty Years
On September 13th, 1997, Carl Everett hit a ninth inning game tying grand slam that brought about words of inspiration…
Read more“Can You Believe This?”
I said it five days ago, I’ll say it today, and I’ll continue to say it every time he starts…
Read moreRafael Montero’s Cavalcade of Changeups
Rafael Montero is better than he’s been, which isn’t saying much considering where he was earlier this season. He’s gone…
Read moreThe Last Ride
In a game that featured Travis Taijeron’s first major league home run, a diving catch by Brandon Nimmo on the first play…
Read moreSunshine And Diluted Vinegar
It’s tough to pinpoint a “high point” this season. The two I have are Asdrubal Cabrera’s home run against the…
Read moreDeeper Meaning
As if we needed any more hints as to what a fantastically terrible season this has been, Travis d’Arnaud was…
Read moreLaborious Indeed
Oh there was some laboring happening at Citi Field on Monday. To begin, it’s a sobering thought that the lineup…
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