Great Weekend For the Yankees, Not For Giambi
Don’t look now but the Yankees have the best record in baseball with 69 wins and are 6 ½ games up on Boston in the AL East. The Bombers dropped the first eight games to the Red Sox this season and...
View ArticleBackman to Manage the Brooklyn Cyclones
After five years outside of affiliated baseball, Wally Backman is back where he belongs. The New York Mets are expected to announce next week that their former second baseman has been tapped to manage...
View ArticleBackman To Brooklyn Is The Smart Move
A small smart move is still a positive one. By the Mets welcoming one of their 1986 World Series champion heroes back into the organization, they will satisfy the nostalgia-hungry fan. When that person...
View ArticleBackman Back Where He Oughta Be
There have been few things in Wally Backman’s life that have come to him easily. Now that he’s finally gotten a second chance to resume his managing career in affiliated baseball, he welcomes both the...
View ArticleThe Return of WallyBall
This was where Wally Backman wants to be most. Where he “oughta be”, as the slogan used to go. Twenty-five years later, those simple words still hold true. Those old enough to remember New York’s...
View ArticleMets Rip Off Second In Row
Friday night in his fifth outing of the season Mike Pelfrey became the ace the New York Mets expected at Citi Field. Against the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he had an unsuccessful 0-5 career mark,...
View ArticleMets Sweep D-backs and Complete Successful Homestand
New York- So much for talk that the New York Mets could not hit the home run at Citi Field, or win many ballgames in their home park. After their 8-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Easter...
View ArticleSportsbeat – 9/19/11
Poppy Montgomery and Dylan Wash, the stars of the new CBS Tuesday night procedural drama Unforgettable, stopped by Citi Field for a promotional visit during the Mets’ penultimate homestand of 2011....
View ArticleSportsbeat – 7/28/2012
One game does not a career make, but much ballyhooed prospect Matt Harvey bolstered beleaguered Mets fans’ spirits by living up to the hype in his major league debut as he struck out eleven while...
View ArticleSports Beat – Defending Bobby V
Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine stirred things up when he complained that the Yankees did not reach out to their community in the days following September 11, 2001. There is little argument that...
View ArticleFigueroa Puts Mets One Step Back
NEW YORK – Nelson Figueroa on the mound for the New York Mets made it that more difficult Monday evening for his team to get one step closer to shaving their facial hair. Last week the Mets made a...
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