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Sometimes, Mother Nature takes pity upon us. It rained enough in Washington D.C. that the Mets didn’t have a chance…

I held on with the slightest bit of belief for as long as I could. Really, I did. The 1-7…

Not that it’s a full proof plan to predict baseball outcomes based on starting pitching matchups, but Matz vs. Strasburg…

Two years to the day of Terry Collins suggesting human sacrifice as a way to get out of the dog…

Saturday’s Phillies/Mets affair was as wacky as you would expect in a game and a day that was befitting these…

Sandy Alderson is obviously making a run at being a standup comedian. First he told an inside joke about giving…

This mini-resurgence (and sorry, it’s still a mini-resurgence) is a battle of math vs. eyes. The math tells you that…

Starting pitching has been such a key to the past few seasons. Unfortunately, it’s been on the negative side this…

If Dwight Gooden was the symbol of the Mets prosperity of the 80’s, the can’t miss pitcher with the golden…

At a certain point, all of these Mets injuries have to make one think that something more is going on…

The Mets have bounced back nicely from their debacle in Los Angeles by completing a sweep of the awful San…

So it looks like we have our first bit of Mets dissention … really in Terry Collins’ tenure, when you…

I was away for most of the Mets’ 6-3 loss to the Dodgers. While it seemed like one of those…

Monday night, Terry Collins watched as the first five hitters Wheeler faced hit nice fat fastballs that sat right over…

It’s 12-0 Dodgers in this stupid game right now. Robert Gsellman’s mammaries have been lit. Corey Seager has hit a…

It’s never good when, in the realm of Mets history, there’s a statement about you that ends: “… for the…

The Nationals scored in the first inning in three of the first four games during this weekend series including Sunday,…

It was already 1-0 on Saturday when Wilmer Flores had Stephen Strasburg on the ropes in the first inning after…

First Apology: I’m sorry I didn’t blog after Thursday night’s 8-3 loss to the Nationals. Usually I would go for…

Returning to the old baseball axiom of “you’re going to win 54, you’re going to lose 54, it’s what you…

I was all set to go in depth about how Juan Lagares’ stolen base in the first was smart baseball,…

You really didn’t think Jacob deGrom was going to bomb three times in a row, did ya? You probably also…

One of the reasons I love doing road trips is the slight chance that you could travel a long way…

Yu Darvish is one of those pitchers I would pay to see live. The guy has 47 pitches from all…

The Mets lost a wild 10-8 game to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday. They left a ton of runners on…

If, as Alfred, Lord Tennyson said, “In the spring, a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love,” then…

So I see the Mets have thrown back to 2016 for Saturday’s 4-2 win over Pittsburgh: Get good pitching, and…

Our bi-weekly podcast that we recorded this morning was very timely. Take a listen if you get a chance. We…

I’m a dinosaur at this writing thing. So I’m not one for ignoring the nuts and bolts of a game…