Tag: Edwin Diaz
Streaks Are No Match For Slop And Superstition
Soaring with every win means paddle boarding in the mud with every loss. Today, we paddle board in the mud….
Read more »Scientific Proof Of a Special Season
Updated:Saturday was Friday-Lite. Same general script: Juan Soto hits an early home run, the Mets get multiple jacks to tie…
Read more »New York Mets need to pull Edwin Diaz from closer’s role
Updated:The New York Mets may have won last night, but they didn’t get much help from Edwin Diaz. Diaz was…
Read more »Not Just Huge, But Buffalo Sized
We’re at the point in the season where it’s no longer hyperbole to call it a “huge win”. Make no…
Read more »Figuring Things Out
Each passing win is a siren … one that calls out to re-join the fray and believe that the Mets…
Read more »Trade Me … I Dare You!
It’s not as romantic to say that Noah Syndergaard caught the White Sox at a bad time, or that he…
Read more »New York Mets’ strategy of reloading with trades doesn’t make sense
Updated:The New York Mets shouldn’t be faulted for listening to offers for players like Noah Syndergaard and Edwin Diaz. For…
Read more »Edwin Diaz is receiving heavy trade interest right now
The New York Mets are going to be a very active team over the next several days. With the trade…
Read more »Stellar Story Time
Just a few observations from being at the ballpark today: First, it’s always interesting to see how pitchers deal with…
Read more »Silly Season Is Here, And Boy Do We Have Something Silly For You!
Updated:I really try not to hyperventilate at these trade rumors. A lot of times when you wade through these, you…
Read more »The Alternate Universe
Each season is frustrating for different reasons. The frustration factor of 2019 is this: When this team is right, they…
Read more »The Tunnel Of Terror
Updated:Steven Matz was getting knocked around the ballyard in Minnesota tonight. His seemingly innocuous line of five hits and one…
Read more »Five storylines to watch for New York Mets in second half
Updated:The second half of the season begins tonight for the New York Mets, who are most likely missing the playoffs…
Read more »New York Mets at the All Star Break: Revisiting preseason predictions
Updated:Heading into the 2019 season, hopes were high for the New York Mets. The team had undergone a bold offseason,…
Read more »New York Mets wrap disastrous first half well out of contention
Updated:The New York Mets entered the season with high expectations, and General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen challenged the rest of…
Read more »Anyone Else Wanna Be Daniel Murphy Up In Here?
Of all the aspects of the Edwin Diaz trade that were poorly thought out, I didn’t foresee the part of…
Read more »Everybody Is Angry
Updated:So we’ve had Mickey calling a reporter a motherf***er. We’ve had Jason Vargas threatening to knock said motherf***er out ……
Read more »Brodie Throws Chair To Blame Coaches For His Own Acquisitions
Updated:NBA fans affectionately refer to free agency news as “Woj Bombs”, for Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski, who constantly breaks news in…
Read more »Bombed Out
Updated:Screw this, scorched earth tonight. First, I’m blaming Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah, I’m blaming Jerry. He threw the first pitch tonight….
Read more »Our World Series
Updated:One day there will be a season where a Subway Series game is just another game on the schedule for…
Read more »Deja June: New York Mets watch their season slip away in June once again
Last June was an absolute disaster for the New York Mets, who won just five games and fell completely into…
Read more »Winning Requires A Cavalcade Of (All) Stars
The romantic narrative to Sunday night’s slump busting victory was that the Mets were fired up by Robinson Cano getting…
Read more »Hopeless
Updated:Hello Friends. I don’t even know what to say anymore. There is so much wrong with this team, this organization,…
Read more »Compassion Before Hilarity
It’s like a Chuck Lorre sitcom at this point. Maybe Ashton Kutcher replaces Charlie Sheen. Maybe Robinson Cano replaces Jay…
Read more »Driven Into Darkness By A Caravan Of Clowns
Updated:I suppose we should go about this chronologically, shall we? First, the Mets trotted out a lineup on Sunday that…
Read more »Idealism Becomes Reality
I’ve had this thought about Jeff McNeil for a while now. But it really became crystal clear during today’s 5-4…
Read more »Luck Is The Residue Of A Pitcher Who Pinch Runs
Updated:So there’s three main points that I want to make about the Mets’ 8-7 victory on Saturday, a win where…
Read more »A Quick Finish Of 20 Hours
Updated:Chris Rose and Kevin Millar had a conversation on Intentional Talk today about how ill-timed the Mets’ Edwin Diaz Free…
Read more »Suspended In Incompletion
I’m never going to look to the umpires to give the Mets any outs here. Edwin Diaz did not get…
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