The Chicago Cubs have signed free agent pitchers Andy Sonnanstine and Manny Corpas to minor league contracts, inviting both to spring training.
While I don’t believe either of them would have turned the Mets into a contender, I’m mildly surprised that
This was a really close game until the Cubs scored six runs in the 11th. Talk about the dam bursting …
On the bright side, at least the Mets didn’t lose on 9/11; it was long after midnight, and already 9/12, when the final out was recorded.
Back in competition with other second-division clubs, the Mets re-assert their dominance as the elite among the mediocre. Thankfully, the Mets didn’t just trounce the Cubs, but instead let Chicago remain in the ballgame, allowing for a furiously exciting finish.
They may not be able to put many more fannies in the seats, but at least the Mets are keeping the fannies that are, at the edge of their seats.
An irrefutably solid 10-0 ass-kicking. Seven games below .500. Twenty-mother-slappin’-two games out of first place. So…snakebitten?
Admittedly, it’s looking pretty terrible. Hope slithered away a few weeks back. And if I’m positive of one fact, it’s that we can all agree there’s been
Like an overgrown 12-year-old on a little league team, Carlos Zambrano beat the Mets with his arm and his bat to take the rubber match in windy, wet, and chilly Chicago.
Here is the lineup the Mets will send to the plate against Cubs righthander Carlos Zambrano: Jose Reyes – SS Josh Thole – C Carlos Beltran – RF Jason Bay – LF Daniel Murphy – 1B Justin Turner – 3B Jason Pridie – CF Ruben Tejada – 2B R.A. Dickey – P Pretty much the … Read more
The Cubs looked so bad, the umpires called the game rather than put the Chicago fans through the misery of watching nine innings of ineptitude.
This was an overall sloppy, lackadaisical game by the Mets. Maybe Wilpongate had nothing to do with it, but it sure was an incredible coincidence that their worst-played game of the year followed Fred Wilpon’s public tongue-lashing.
