Hey everyone, pitchers and catchers report to spring training this week! It’s the time of year when baseball fans start to wake from hibernation, players show up to Florida and Arizona in the best shape[…]
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Author: Shai Kushner
Monday Mets: Trying To Turn Next Year Into Next Year
“Wait ’til next year.” For Brooklyn Dodgers fans, the uttering of this phrase was an annual ritual. While it would often take place near the end of the regular season, there were plenty of times[…]
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Monday Mets: The Perfect GM
Amongst the litany of baseball’s unwritten rules is one that suggests that major team announcements should not be made during the World Series by teams other than those who are actually in the World Series.[…]
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Monday Mets: Mel & Ed Recap The Season
As Michael Conforto squeezed his glove around Peter O’Brien’s 9th inning line drive, it not only ended the game, it not only secured Noah Syndergaard’s first ever complete game shutout, it also put an end[…]
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Monday Mets: You Still Follow The Team?
Well folks, we’ve made it to the final week of the season. It’s now officially fall, and for two-thirds of the teams in the majors, the season will end on Sunday. For some Mets fans,[…]
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Knowing What We’ve Got Before It’s Gone
I never appropriately appreciated David Wright during his career. When he first came up, I was enamored with what I thought he could be, then I took him for granted instead of being wowed by[…]
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“Monday” Mets: Check Out The New Wheels
(Editor’s Note) The Tuesday after Labor Day is really a Monday, isn’t it? – MH) It’s been more than 7 years since the Mets traded Carlos Beltran for Zack Wheeler. I could write out a random[…]
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Monday Mets: Baseball Like It Should Have Been
The last three weeks have been more enjoyable than any other period of this Mets season since their hot start, and I don’t know how to feel about that. In a season wrought with misery,[…]
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Monday Mets: In Defense Of A Gold Glover
Last week, Mets announcer Keith Hernandez gave an honest, albeit unpopular, opinion that sparked more backlash than conversation. In spite of the criticism he received, he stood by his comments. So what if he was[…]
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Monday Mets: Delusions Of Mediocrity
With more than two-thirds of a lost season complete, what are we rooting for? This past weekend the Mets took two out of three games from the last place Miami Marlins. By the end of[…]
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