New York Mets

Banged-Up Mets Having Trouble Fielding a Team

​The frickin' Mets are so banged up with 13 players on the DL, the Jersey Star-Ledger says they hardly have enough minor leaguers to keep the team stocked with players. "The team looks more like the Buffalo Bisons than the New York Mets," says the paper, "with Nick Evans, Cory Sullivan, Wilson ... More >>

Jockbeat: It Must Be September in Queens

​Back on February 25, Philadelphia's City Paper declared war on our National League team in an article entitled "An Incomplete List of Reasons Mets Fans are Douchebags." (Grudgingly, we admit to our favorite, "All Mets fans break out their Yankees caps in October.") In their August 6-13 issue ... More >>

Free Ferry Rides to U.S. Open Can Also Take You to View Mets' Collapse

How about a free boat ride to Mets games over the next two weeks? Yes, New York Water Taxi says they're for the U.S. Open in Flushing, but if you don't mind a bit of a walk that's still a free boat (and bus!) ride to the near vicinity of Citi Field, and it only takes 35 minutes. Then, for their nex ... More >>

Mets Exec Removes Shirt, Challenges Double-A Team to Fistfight

Last night, as the New York Yankees took sole possession of first place in the AL East with a win over the Orioles, the New York Mets (44-49) were trying to laugh off the unusually violent motivational tactics of one of their staff in Binghamton, New York. The Daily News reports that a few weeks ba ... More >>

Mets Keep Manuel, Minaya; Said to Refuse Halladay

Mets general manager Omar Minaya (pictured) confirms that both he and manager Jerry Manuel have been told they'll keep their jobs next year. Maybe that big win over the mighty Nationals last night clinched the deal. Or maybe no one else wants their jobs. Faith and Fear in Flushing calls this good ... More >>

Jockbeat: The Mets at Midseason

The Mets aren't going to win anything this year. That's what you really want to know, so we'll give it to you right off.  They're only four games under .500, but the problem now isn't just that the Phillies appear much stronger, but that Florida and Atlanta are in front of them in the NL East. ... More >>

Marist Poll: Yankees Fans Consider Yankees Better Team -- And So Do Mets Fans

This week's Marist poll on local baseball (!) found that 51 percent of New York City registered voters consider themselves baseball fans, and of those fans 53 percent favor the Yankees, and "a little over a third" are true to the orange and blue. This is no shock, as New York is overrun by noobs who ... More >>

Mets Swept in Philly

Perhaps it's appropriate you hear it from the Lansdowne, PA Reporter: "The Phillies were a dead team walking. They were in a tailspin... But the perfect remedy for the Phillies, as has been the case in each of the last two Septembers, is a stumbling, fumbling New York Mets team in worse shape." The ... More >>

Jockbeat: The Mets are in Worse Shape Than You Think

As the Mets prepare for what looks like a rough seven game road trip -- starting tonight with the first of three games against the NL Central-leading Milwaukee Brewers and ending with three against the NL East-leading Philadelphia Phillies over the Fourth of July weekend -- it's time to face up to s ... More >>

Oh No, Another Mets-Yankees Series

This three-game Citi Field series actually could be interesting rather than depressing. Despite the collapse of Johan Santana and the glove-hole of Luis Castillo in the last subway series, the Mets have gained three and a half games on the Phillies since then (though the faltering Phils have helped) ... More >>

Our Subway Series Prediction: Yankees, Yankees, Mets

It isn't just the economy and the ticket prices that will produce all those empty seats at Yankee Stadium tonight. The Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies have taken much of the wind out of this season's first Subway Series. As we go to press, you can still go to the Yankees web site and g ... More >>

Swine Flu Kills 2, Maybe, in NY; "Underlying" Factors Again Cited; Mets Deny Infection

The Department of Health says two more New Yorkers may have died from swine flu. As usual, they're being tight with info, telling Reuters the unnamed victims "were in the 25-64 age range." Fox News, with its more aggressive reporters, nails that down to "mid-40s," but as with most of the local swin ... More >>

PLAY BALL!

The Mets prepare to clobber the Nationals

Citi Field Bonds on Verge of Junk Status

The Yankees may be having trouble filling seats in their ballpark (exacerbated, no doubt, by the shitty way they treat their fans), but at least the bonds on their new stadium aren't quite junk yet (though at BBB they're close). The municipal bonds on the Mets' Citi Field, on the other hand, may bea ... More >>

Mets, Yanks Fans Not Filling Up Their New Ballparks

Apparently not even the prospect of starring in baseball's new umpire replay videos is enough to induce New Yorkers to shell out $300 for tickets to the new Yankee Stadium. After River Avenue Blues ran photos of entire empty sections during Friday's matinee, things got even worse yesterday, when ... More >>

THE FANTASTIC FOUR

The Washington Nationals take on the Mets’ fearsome foursome

Mets Open "Tomb," Play Badly for Rich People

The Mets opened their new stadium last night, with much the same enthusastic response as before from the sort of people who can afford to go there (including the guy who bought Bernie Madoff's tickets for $7,500). The verdict was not unanimous -- spoilsport Wallace Matthews of Newsday said, "when Me ... More >>

Sheffield to the Mets?

On Tuesday the Tigers cut 40-year-old Gary Sheffield, and the Times went into valedictory mode, wondering if his 499 home runs would get the presumably finished slugger, best known for days of glory with the Yankees, into the Hall of Fame. Well, maybe he'll get 500 after all with the New York Mets. ... More >>

Jockbeat: Will the Mets have the best bats in baseball this year?

As usual, the New York Mets ignored my advice and didn't sign Manny Ramirez. They could have done it, you know. If the Dodgers talked him into a two-year deal, the Mets could have done it, too. I know a lot of you disagree with me, but my point is this: with Manny in the batting order, the Mets woul ... More >>

Jockbeat: A Look at Mets Pitching for 2009

Here's an incredible thought. If the 2009 Mets play like they did through 145 games in each of the last two seasons, they could win the National League's Eastern Division title -- or at least make the playoffs -- by simply going 9-8 over their last 17 games. That would be a two-game improvement over ... More >>

Fans Fleeing High-Priced Mets Tickets, Too?

Mets tickets for April and May went on "presale" today to the lucky few — that is, anyone on the Mets email list — allowing the great unwashed to get their first look at what it'll be like to get into the team's new, downsized home. Let's roll the dice and play Mets ticket roulette: & ... More >>

Could the Feds Cash In on Citi's Mets Stadium Deal?

Given that construction of the Mets' new stadium began under a cloud of controversy about its name, it's probably fitting that that's all anyone can talk about as its first Opening Day approaches. So far, we've had Congressmen and newspaper columnists demanding that the Treasury Department force C ... More >>

The stadium-naming deal? Make Citigroup and the New York Mets bail the public out for a change.

In what's obviously a P.R. move, Citigroup says it's looking into pulling out of a $400 million marketing deal with the New York Mets. Here's the current situation: Citigroup is supposedly on the hook to pay $400 million to the Mets for the naming rights to the unwarranted new stadium. Meanwhile, ... More >>

Perez Re-Ups with Mets

The Mets have been so busy signing relievers that they almost forgot to re-sign Oliver Perez. It's good news for Mets fans that today they reportedly locked the starter into a 3-year, potentially $36 million contract. In 2006 the Mets brought Perez on as a 2-10 washout from Pittsburgh, and he manne ... More >>

Jockbeat: Where's the Met Interest in Manny?

Where are the stories in the local press urging the New York Mets to grab Manny Ramirez?  So far Filip Bondy in the Jan 24 Daily News is the only one to jump on the story in a big way. The head and subhead say it all:  "A Manny Deal Is A No-Brainer - Minaya and Wilpons Must Put their Think ... More >>

City Releases 116-Page Obfuscation of Stadium Deals

photo by Shelley Panzarella (cc) Amid today's hoopla over the Bloomberg administration's decision to give back its free luxury boxes at the Mets' and Yanks' new stadiums - about which it's probably best said that the city decided that partying it up in a suite while the great unwashed paid through ... More >>

Mets Obtain Putz

K-Rod to Mets; Fans Sorta Happy

Goodbye Shea, '08 Mets Season: "They Booed Mr. Met"

The Strange History of Final Games in Stadiums Slated for Demolition

Loot, loot, loot for the home team

Mets Pitchers, Scared of Bullpen, Refuse to Leave Mound

Q. Why Is Mr. Met So Sad? A. They Fired Willie Randolph

Always a Bridesmaid: Mets Opening Day

The Mets and Yankees Seek an Armed Revolution

How Joba Chamberlain and Johan Santana will make us forget last year's miserable baseball legacy

Play Ball! Baseball is Back in the City.

Yankee and Shea Stadium Sell-Off!

Phillie Phanatic Shoots Mister Met

Son of a Pitch!

Looking for answers about the pathetic Mets' collapse

A Darling of Jazz

Who knew the Mets announcer could tell bebop from bunting?

Arms and the Men

Two rightys may have the fate of the Mets and Yankees in their formidable hands

Mets Fan Murdered Mom After Loss: Queens DA

Brickbats and Baseballs

Hey, Mets fan, spare a few dimes?

Bandwagon, Anyone?

It's time New York got more excited about the Mets

Stealing Mickey's Mantle

José Reyes could be the greatest—if he doesn't figure out just how much Mets fans want from him

Every Pitcher Tells a Story

Reyes anointed, Schilling bloated, and the Keyser Soze of baseball: Notes from spring training

New Yorkers Get Zip From New Mets Park

Seven Days in Shea

Why do the Mets keep torturing us?

Mets and Yankees: If Neither One Wins It's a Shame

Peering into the dugouts of the hometown heroes

A Queens Ransom

The Mets are in and the Jets are out, but where do the taxpayers fit in?

A League of Their Own

New York baseball clubs' spate of superstar signings is all about the best offer on the table