Getting swept by the Marlins following a series loss to the Nationals at home has been frustrating to say the least. Two weeks ago this team was overachieving and in sole possession of first place. Now the team’s starting pitching is in it’s regression swing, Jerry Manuel is making absurd managerial decisions (more of a [...]

For one day, at least one day, hope sprung eternal in Flushing. I walked off of the Main Street bound Local 7 and onto the Mets – Willets Point platform around 11:30am. There was a relatively surprising reticence amongst those walking down the platform stairs and through the tunnel with me. No “Let’s go Mets” [...]

Baseball can be a game of almost neurotic tradition. The rules have gone largely unchanged over the last century or so, and most avid baseball fans agree that with the exception of a few relatively inconsequential matters, baseball is an almost perfectly constructed game. That being said, some of its subcomponents have become so accepted and dogmatic that even the game’s most innovative minds have remained stuck in their ways. One of baseball’s oldest and most outdated traditions is the way that teams construct their batting lineups and the faulty rationale behind it.

We have less than two weeks until opening day, which means it is still spring training and the Grapefruit and Cactus League races are coming down to the wire. But more importantly it means that every team, no matter how Jeteresque or wretched or extinct, can dream about the World Series…except for the Mets. The [...]

This off-season, like any other, has me feeling schizophrenic. I want to punish the Mets, dislike them for all the pain they’ve caused me, and find another team to root for. But I am bound by something bigger than myself, and after a long winter, I find myself embracing the same cautious, irrational optimism that [...]