Author Archives: Dan Capwell

…Daniel Murphy and Wilmer Flores play league-average defense. Y’know, if you had told me at the beginning of Spring Training that Sandy Alderson’s failure to land a bona-fide major league shortstop wouldn’t be an issue until the World Series, I … Continue reading →

It won’t go down in history as one of their better-played games, but the New York Mets outscored the Chicago Cubs 8-3 last night in Wrigley Field to win their fourth consecutive game of the National League Championship Series, securing … Continue reading →

2015 NL East Champs. Let that sink in for a moment. Sounds good, doesn’t it? Remember, it was called here first. Little known fact: this is only the second time in their history that the Mets went from below .500 … Continue reading →

Well, now it’s official: the 2015 Mets have entered that rarefied air that only a handful of previous Mets teams have ever experienced. They are an “it” team, on one of those magical runs that comes along all too infrequently in … Continue reading →

Maybe there was a plan after all. Last night 2014’s top draft pick Michael Conforto combined with Curtis Granderson and Bartolo Colon, the Mets two 2014 Free Agent pickups to give the Mets a 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies … Continue reading →

Boy,  it was a lot easier to write copy for this blog when there was something to complain about! How about this: the Mets are causing me to lose sleep. I rise at 4:30 AM most days, so these late … Continue reading →

My life was much different back in 1988. I wouldn’t meet my wife-to-be for another year and while I dated, I had no serious relationships going on. I had an entry level job with the organization I eventually would spend … Continue reading →

…but washed down with a tall glass of “well, they finally listened to us.” The past ten or so days in Mets history have been well-chronicled elsewhere, so there is no need to re-hash them again here. Suffice to say that as … Continue reading →