With the Mets heading to Philly last weekend, I could not help but miss the once-great rivalry the two teams had. Gone are the days of the smack talk between Jimmy Rollins and Carlos Beltran, gone are the days of crucial series in September and certainly gone are the days of Pat Burrell unleashing terror [...]
Category: "Meet the Mess"
A Glimpse Into 2012
Is there anything better than the first innings of baseball each year? From the depths of the chilly and mundane sports period that runs from the last minutes of the Super Bowl until the first minutes of Spring Training that are littered with Sports Center highlights that can only be described as downright boring, comes [...]
The Pelfrey Problem
The honeymoon period for Mike Pelfrey should officially be declared over. ‘Big Pelf’ has been a mainstay in the Mets rotation for half of a decade now, and besides two serviceable seasons in 2008 and 2010, he has not reached the plateau Mets brass envisioned him on when he was drafted. The fact of the [...]
