
Mets 3 Cardinals 1
(18 innings)
Well, at least now you’ve experienced what it’s like for me to watch or play cricket.
There was plenty to be discouraged about on Thursday–Michael Cuddyer‘s on-going delay to the DL, The Fraud’s Worst Press Conference Ever, an historically bad batting order and of course Clayton Kershaw’s 9-inning suffocation of the Mets on the field. With all of this going on, it is pretty easy to overlook probably the worst news of … Read more

(18 innings)
Well, at least now you’ve experienced what it’s like for me to watch or play cricket.
Author’s Note: I fully expect the Mets to be quiet at the trade deadline this year, as I have already posted here and here. That being said, ‘tis the season for this type of speculation. In order to keep the advertisers happy with our site traffic , here is Mets Today’s contribution to the stone soup of trade … Read more

Doing its best impersonation of The Little Engine That Could, the understrength Mets have almost chuffed their way to the top of the hill. Of the back of their (unlikely) 7 wins out of 9, the Mets have hit a bunch of (unlikely) home runs and are within two games of catching up with the Nats in the NL East (won’t happen) and one game back from the Cubs for the second wild card (hmm… check out the Cubbie’s schedule).
What has happened?
“If the guys take care of their business, then we will need less help than they think. We got to get the middle of our lineup going, then all of a sudden that extra piece is all you need. Right now it looks like we need several, we need to get our guys going. ’’ … Read more
Way to go Jon! In a season where very little has gone right for him, Jon Niese shut the slumping San Francisco Giants out for 8 innings and the Mets somnambulant offense suddenly woke up in the ninth inning for three runs, as the Mets topped the defending champs, 3-0 on Monday Night. Johnny Monell … Read more
Mets Ø (sorry, 8) Dodgers 0 Much as it’s tempting to glance at the box score and assume the Mets played out a 0-0 draw over 20 innings before everyone passed out through sheer boredom, that isn’t a funky European Ø with a slash through it. It’s an eight. I had forgotten what they looked … Read more
One of the earliest mass media PR gaffes was made in 1883 by railroad baron William Henry Vanderbilt when he supposedly uttered “the public be damned” to a Chicago reporter who questioned him about his passenger trains. The first mass media PR slip also spawned the first mass media PR spin. After those remarks appeared in … Read more