Mid-Season Report Cards
Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we? Forty-one-ish games into the season and the Mets have had an up-and-down three months to say the least. Things could be a whole lot worse, though, even if ...
Mid-Season Replacements
I don't think anyone was particularly happy with the manner in which Willie Randolph was ultimately deposed as manager of the Mets, but it was hardly the first time a franchise's skipper was sent pack...
That Was Unexpected
Trailing after eight innings: Willie Randolph's Mets: 1-30 Jerry Manuel's Mets: 1-1 I had a perfectly good unhappy recap half-written before the Mets went and ruined it by astonishingly sco...
Have We Settled Anything?
Much like each successive episode of Lost, the Mets' own sci-fi melodramatic love story has left us with more questions than answers after Wille Randolph, Rick Peterson and Tom Nieto were canned in th...
Woe Is Willie
I'm swamped at work so I can't write anything substantial right now. Willie Randolph is day-to-day with regards to his current employment, and everyone involved -- the players, Willie, the fans -- jus...
For Those About To Rock
I guess because they think I'm some kind of expert on the Mets, people keep asking me what I think is going to happen with Willie Randolph. Or, what I want to happen. What's clear is that Randolph's g...
Aftermath: Game 12 - Mets vs Nationals
The Pelf One word to describe Mike Pelfrey's performance last night? Splendiferous. That makes two straight extremely encouraging starts from the former number-nine overall pick. Last week he looke...
Aftermath: Game 4 - Mets vs Braves
The list of things that went wrong for the Mets on Saturday against the Braves is lengthy and wide-ranging: The hitting wasn't very clutch Clutch hitters may not actually exist, but clutch hitti...
