Whoever decided to release Jason Vargas and replace him with this new dynamic starting pitcher VARGY deserves the full-time GM job. VARGY was NOT AT ALL VARGAS as he tamed the Phillies for five innings and lasted well into the sixth on Sunday night, providing all the pitching required […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Dom Smith, Ike Davis, Jahn's, Jason Vargas, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Plawecki, Little League Classic, Michael Conforto, Reluctant Youth Movements, Vargy, Williamsport Perhaps the reason the Mets seem on their way to their worst season since 1993 is they have too many Mets born in 1993. I wouldn’t expect a Major League Baseball team to discriminate on the basis of anything other […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1993 Mets, 2018 Mets, Birth Years, Branon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Drew Smith, Gabriel Ynoa, Jacob Rhame, Karma, Michael Conforto, P.J. Conlon, Robert Gsellman, Tyler Bashlor The essential kindness of baseball is that even a 51-111 team — which Greg noted is what the Mets have been since their 11-1 head fake — will give you more than half a hundred days and nights that end with a fist pump, a satisfied nod or at least a sigh of relief. The […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Brooklyn Cyclones, Injuries, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz At least the Mets are shaking things up. You no longer tune in guaranteed to see a valiant starting pitcher labor in futility with zero run support, waiting for the one slip-up that will prove fatal. Oh, that possibility’s still front and center, but the Mets have expanded their repertoire. You might also get an acceptable, […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Hopelessness, Jacob Rhame, Jason Vargas, Michael Conforto, Mickey Callaway The Mets who needed to hit hit Thursday night in Milwaukee. Every position player hit, actually, which is what the Mets needed most. The starting pitcher, Steven Matz, didn’t hit, but wasn’t hit. Steven went six innings, allowed no runs and handed the proceedings over to Paul Sewald […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Michael Conforto, Youth of America “Give it a listen. What do you hear?”
Earl Weaver, a wise man, once cracked that momentum is the next day’s starting pitcher. Games take the form of stories as they unfold, but all those stories start with the guy on the mound. If he’s got his full arsenal, recent frustrations and failures are likely to dissipate. If he’s got nothing, a run […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Diamondbacks, Ezequiel Carrera, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto, Paul Goldschmidt Choose one from among the applicable Met narratives: a) the Mets can never do anything right; b) the Mets rarely lose in Philadelphia. The latter is […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citizens Bank Park, Competing Narratives, Devin Mesoraco, Friday Night Lights, Michael Conforto, Steven Matz In the annals of New York Mets Squad Goals, none has loomed as more aspirational than Best Ten-Game Start in Franchise History, provided the Mets have tied their best nine-game start in franchise history, and the tenth game is the next to be played.
“If you believe you’re playing well because you’re getting laid, or because you’re not getting laid, or because you wear women’s underwear, then you are! And you should know that!” — Crash Davis I hate to say it, but the Mets aren’t this good. All too soon, they will provide evidence of that. They will lose. Maybe […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Hot Streaks, Juan Lagares, Luck, Michael Conforto, Mickey Callaway, Steven Matz |
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