35 Years of Misery & Counting
Gotta love how driven Alvarez is and his defense as well as handling of the pitching staff is above par. Now if he can hit about .240 to .250, cut down on the strikeouts and hit 30 HRs, he’ll give the Mets a shot at a wildcard berth this year.
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Honestly, I don’t think this is as a big deal as SAS and others are making it out to be. Because, simply put, not everything is about race–which is what SAS tried to attach to Bieniemy in the first place. And that’s certainly not the coach’s fault. Bieniemy, for whatever reason, could be such a bad interviewee that he decided to quit attempting to get head coaching jobs, stick it out as an offensive coordinator instead, still get paid handsomely and take the OC job that best fits him, whether that’s in the NFL or college football. Shoot, as we’ve seen time and time again, some coordinators are just meant to be coordinators.
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A few days ago the Boston Red Sox announced that they’d be wearing a patch this season to honor Tim Wakefield, the longtime Sox knuckleballer who passed away this offseason. Yet, the Mets haven’t said a word about honoring former player, coach and manager Bud Harrelson, who passed away last month. Is something amiss here? Granted, Harrelson wasn’t as beloved a Met as say a Gary Carter or Tom Seaver. But he did spend 13 years in NY, was a 2x champ (as player and coach) and was a 2x All-Star who spent a majority of his professional career with the club in a variety of capacities. Owner, Steve Cohen came to the Mets stating that he wants to embrace the team’s past and he’s done a pretty good job with that so far. Now he needs to do the right thing and honor Harrelson.
As their roster stands right now, I think the 2024 Mets will win at most 70 games. That said, it’s still nice to see Edwin Diaz back and healthy again as I expect our closer to perform at his usual sublime level and save 30 to 35 games this season.
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At this point it’s not even about Tylor getting another shot at the rotation. It’s about Tylor finally stepping up and taking advantage of the many chances he’s been given over the years.
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Brandon Nimmo is proud of his work as a center fielder but understood there was an opportunity for the Mets over the winter to get even stronger at the position.
So when president of baseball operations David Stearns contacted him in November about potentially moving to left field, Nimmo said he didn’t protest.
“I told him, ‘Honestly, my goal at this point in my career is to win a World Series,’ ” Nimmo said Monday after the Mets’ initial full-squad workout of spring training. “If you think that creating the better outfield defense or adding these guys to our roster is going to help our chances of winning the World Series then I will do that.
“I’m a good center fielder, but if you bring someone else in, we’re going to have a really dang good outfield. That is what I was trying to convey to him is that I’m definitely willing and available to do whatever is best for us to win the World Series.”
This is such a bad move imo. Nimmo is a really good CF’er and has proven himself in the field for years. And now he’s gotta move over to Left for some new guy named Harrison Bader?! I know Nimmo’s humility won’t allow him to care, but how disrespectful on the Mets part.
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So tragic. So reprehensible. So extremely telling when it comes to we a society that you can’t even feel safe at a parade.
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NYPost.com:
Former major league outfielder Lenny Dykstra had a stroke this week and is recovering at a Los Angeles hospital, the New York Post reported Thursday.
The Post reported that Darryl Strawberry and Kevin Mitchell, teammates of Dykstra on the New York Mets, said Dykstra was in good spirits and set to undergo further evaluation at UCLA Medical Center.
The former players said Dykstra had been moved out of intensive care. Mitchell told the Post that Dykstra would likely be hospitalized into next week.
“He’s laying down, but he is being Lenny,” Mitchell told the Post. “We get to an age now where we have got to take care of ourselves. I told him he has to take more care of himself. You can’t let stress bother you. He’s been through a lot. I love him with all my heart.”
Hope for a speedy recovery.
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Pete might have a big year due to his impending free agency, but the way this team is currently constructed…I say 70 wins at most.
Some NFL players talking about ‘If it was me’ so-and-so would’ve happened might be correct. But that’s still a hypothetical and doesn’t change the fact that this incident is still overblown imo. Kelce is a passionate guy who wants to win and be in the damn game. Sure it looked bad on TV, but I like the professional athlete who plays with passion. Because to me it shows you care and aren’t just playing for a paycheck and Kelce, who is a huge part of the KC offense, had only one catch for one yard up until that point, so he had a right to be upset. Either way the Chiefs won the damn game, Reid and Kelce expressed love for each other after the game and I’m all for a 3-peat.
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Notwithstanding the hostility a bunch of ex-NBA players seem to have for his father Doc Rivers. Taking it out on Austin for a comment he made about LeBron James and his son Bronny wanting to play together in the NBA was asinine when you consider that the younger Rivers clearly went out of his way to not bash LeBron’s son. Austin simply said that he didn’t want to see Bronny play with ‘Bron because people will discredit anything the son does that doesn’t live up to the high standard his dad has set. Rivers didn’t say anything wrong and Jackson should apologize for his idiot response.
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This guy is hard not to like.
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This is his 3rd DWI offense which is a third degree felony, meaning he spend 10 years in jail. Granted, he’s a grown-ass man, but if I’m his uber-rich son I’d insist on paying for a car and driver so he’s never behind the wheel again…seriously. Of course too, it’s extra sad that this happens as Patrick Jr. prepares to play in another Super Bowl in a week.
