Tag: Max Scherzer
ALCS Game 3: Twitter Reacts To Houston Astros Handling Texas Rangers, Powering Way Back Into MLB Playoff Series
Texas Rangers entered Wendsday with a 2-0 ALCS series advantage and had future Hall-of-Fame pitcher Max Scherzer returning from a…
Read more »New York Mets’ 2023 Season In Review: Starting Pitching
Updated:Now that the 2023 season is over for the New York Mets, we will spend the next several weeks taking…
Read more »Ring The Bell That Tolls For Thee
Updated:The Mets were eliminated from playoff contention on Friday. Perhaps you could say that the Mets were eliminated from playoff…
Read more »We Paid Chris Flexen For That
Jose Butto deserved better than that nonsense. Butto, the latest entrant in the “wheel of starting pitching doom” pitched very…
Read more »8/28/23 Game Preview: Texas Rangers at New York Mets
The beginning of a nine-game stretch against the American League West didn’t go too well for the New York Mets…
Read more »Two In A Row? Yo, No Way?
Updated:After the latest edition of “Because The Schedule Says So”, it would be disingenous of me to say “well, nice…
Read more »Raise That Hunk Of Metal
I mean, this was our World Series, right? If baseball had an in-season tournament for teams where all they needed…
Read more »The Dark Backstreets Of Rebuilding
Updated:In retrospect, I should have known this day was coming when I played my morning six letter Wordle: In what…
Read more »New York Mets Wave White Flag on 2023 Despite Successful July
After a disastrous June that was historically bad for the New York Mets, there was pretty much nowhere to go…
Read more »The Reboot Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Justin Verlander won his 250th career game on Sunday. In a perfect world, not only does he do this about…
Read more »Scherzer, Texas Ranger
Things are changing quickly for the New York Mets. Just 24 hours after questioning the team’s decision to trade David…
Read more »Your Win Is A Thin Disguise
Pete Alonso seems to be over that month long odyssey that he was on since getting hit by Charlie Morton…
Read more »7/28/23 Game Preview: Washington Nationals at New York Mets
A win over the Washington Nationals (43-60) last night wasn’t the main storyline for the New York Mets (48-54) after…
Read more »A Sweet Day Followed By Nighttime Lollipops
Updated:If we’re being honesty with ourselves, the Mets should be 0-for-2 in Beantown. After Brandon Nimmo and Daniel Vogelbach hit…
Read more »7/22/23 Game Preview: New York Mets At Boston Red Sox (One And A Half Games Edition)
You have a full day of baseball ahead of you. The Mets and Red Sox were suspended at 4-3 in…
Read more »Games Like These …
In a different time, whether it be a different season or a different universe, I would be saying that games…
Read more »7/16/23 Game Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Mets
Few games were more emblematic of what has gone wrong for the New York Mets (42-50) in 2023 than the…
Read more »I Know How Tom Glavine Feels Now
Well that’s no way to go into an All Star Break. It’s sad to see Max Scherzer morph into Aaron…
Read more »7/9/23 Game Preview: New York Mets at San Diego Padres
The winning streak had to end eventually for the New York Mets (42-47) but last night’s loss was hard to…
Read more »Francisco Alvarez Has Valley Fever!!! (Oh Wait I Didn’t Mean It Like That, Sorry Ike)
Updated:The way Francisco Alvarez’s at-bat started against Miguel Castro, you would have never guessed that it would have ended the…
Read more »7/4/23 Game Preview: New York Mets At Arizona Diamondbacks
The month of July is off to a good start for the New York Mets (38-46), who have won their…
Read more »Lost In The Smoke
Updated:New York– For the first time this season, the New York Mets got to experience some of the poor air…
Read more »6/29/23 Game Preview: Milwaukee Brewers at New York Mets
June is almost over and the New York Mets (36-44) are getting closer to an unexpected deadline sale than anyone…
Read more »Baseball Can Be Beautiful
Updated:We’ve probably forgotten this, but baseball can be beautiful. When you take out the context of the season as a…
Read more »6/24/2022 Game Preview: New York Mets At Philadelphia Phillies
Updated:As the Mets continue their descent into irrelevancy, they also continue their series against the Phillies in Citizens Bank Park…
Read more »Cowboy Up
Updated:We had Casey Stern on our Down on the Korner zoom cast before tonight’s game. The common theme of the…
Read more »6/19/23 Game Preview: New York Mets at Houston Astros
Updated:It’s getting late early for the New York Mets (33-38), who appear to be writing an unwanted sequel to “The…
Read more »Maybe It Wasn’t All Vogelbach’s Fault
Updated:Ironic that multiple starting pitchers from Mets’ past made their way to Citi Field for Tuesday night’s Subway Series game…
Read more »6/13/23 Game Preview: New York Yankees at New York Mets
The month of June has not been kind to the New York Mets (31-35), who are coming off a disastrous…
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