Thomas Friedman’s Mets Spring Training Preview
By: Sean Pidgeon | February 17, 2011
One thing I can tell you about Port St. Lucie: It is not Las Vegas. What happens in Port St. Lucie does not stay in Port St. Lucie. Thanks to the Internet, news from Mets spring training camp can be viewed all over the world, even from call centers in India…oh, did I tell you [...]
Read more →Hall of Fame 2011 Election and Holier Than Thou Baseball Writers
By: Sean Pidgeon | January 12, 2011
I’m sick of those obnoxious holier-than-thou baseball writers who voted to keep guys like Jeff Bagwell and Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro out of the Hall of Fame with the bullshit pretense that they’re taking a stand against cheating. News flash! Cheating’s been in baseball for a long effing time. In the ‘50s and ‘60’s, [...]
Read more →Good Riddance Jeff Francoeur
By: Sean Pidgeon | September 4, 2010
In the very first article on this site, Sabometrics wrote Why Jeff Francoeur Could (But Probably Won’t) Walk 60 Times. This site opened with hope that certain Mets players could play above and beyond their track records and maybe, just maybe, the Mets could contend. Yet, sadly, we know what is happening to this Mets [...]
Read more →100 Reasons The Mets Make Me Miserable
By: robertjames | August 18, 2010
F@#* it. I mean really. I’ve been apathetic about this team for quite some time. Part of it is the mongo fans who have bought into the Kool Aid the cheap or insolvent ownership is selling. But the greater part of it is the cheap or insolvent ownership, and their puppet, Omar Minaya, and manager, [...]
Read more →Mets Get Responsible When It Doesn’t Matter, or The Trade that Wasn’t
By: robertjames | July 27, 2010
According to Ken Rosenthal, the Mets had the opportunity to deal the increasingly redundant Rod Barajas, but the trade went DOA when the team placed Barajas on the DL with an oblique strain. This is extremely puzzling. Barajas hasn’t been a power threat since May and should unquestionably be hitting 9th in the lineup, if [...]
Read more →Around the Blogosphere
By: Sean Pidgeon | June 22, 2010
While we at Surviving the Citi have been relaxing, the Mets have put together a nice little month of June. They’ve rode an eight game winning streak on the way to a 13-4 record. The foundation of Wright and Reyes, thought to be shaky after last season’s fiasco, is not cracked, says Tyler Kepner of [...]
Read more →Mike Hessman, the Mets Bad-Ass Buffalo Bison Slugger
By: Sean Pidgeon | June 3, 2010
Today’s an off-day for the Mets, but SNY is not devoid of baseball. This afternoon SNY aired a Triple-A game between the Buffalo Bisons, New York’s AAA affiliate, and the Syracuse Chiefs, Stephen Strasburg’s practice buddies. Strasburg pitched his final tune-up before his highly anticipated Major League debut for the Nationals sometime next week. Strasburg [...]
Read more →Tim McCarver’s Subway Series Summary
By: TimMcCarver | May 24, 2010
Saturday night, Joe and I had the privilege of announcing the Yankees vs. Mets Subway Series game from Citi Field on Fox Sports. It’s always exciting when me and Joe get to offer some unbiased Yankee/DJ♥ analysis and pious commentary, respectively. When I saw the umpiring crew, I did not know what to expect, and [...]
Read more →Do You Smell What The Rod Is Cookin’?
By: Brendan Bilko | May 22, 2010
Rod Roddy Piper, Bod Rarajas, Baja Fresh, In Rod We Trust, Inanimate Carbon Rod, Rod the Bod. You may have stumbled across some of the aforementioned nicknames in this early season to describe none other than Mets catcher Rod Barajas. In his brief tenure with the Mets, his penchant for getting some big time hits [...]
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