Hubie Brooks is on the phone talking about one of his favorite memories from his baseball career, the day he flew to New York after signing his first pro contract with the Mets after the 1978 draft ...
To read more about today’s win against the Dodgers, check out post-game write ups from the New York Times, Amazin Avenue, the Real Dirty, and the Ropolitans.To watch highlights from the game, to hear from Jerry Manuel, Rod Barajas and John Maine, and to get commentary and analysis from Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez, watch Lincoln Mercury’s Post Game [ ... ] ...
With their first three games against the Phillies this season slated to kick off Friday at Citizens Bank Park, the NL East-leading Mets completed their second consecutive series sweep with a 7-3 victory over Joe Torre and the Dodgers ...
Dodgers Manager Joe Torre, reintroduced to horse racing by Don Zimmer years ago, is a co-owner of Homeboykris, a long shot in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby ...
After last night’s rain out I was watching highlights of other games and saw a flashback of something I haven’t seen since the late 80s/early 90s. In the game between the Brewers and Pirates Milwaukee catcher Gregg Zaun appeared to do his best Mackey Sasser impression by mis-throwing when he tried to return the ball [ ... ] ...
If nothing else, Monday's rainout provided Joe Torre a welcome reprieve to talk about more pleasant topics than his starting rotation or his error-prone infield. Topics like his thoroughbred, Home Boy Chris, who will be running in Saturday's Kentucky Derby and his Core Four Yankees ...
Joe Torre sat in the third-base dugout at Citi Field watching the rain fall. As much as he was looking forward to another three-game series in New York, he was thinking ahead to the Kentucky Derby this weekend. Someone asked him about Homeboykris, suggesting he was a 50-1 choice. "My horse? 72-1," Torre quickly corrected, reminding everyone that odds on Homeboykris had risen from 40-1 in ...
It’s time for another installment of “Playing for Peanuts,” starring current Brooklyn Cyclones manager Wally Backman. Of course, “Playing for Peanuts” is a TV show about Wally’s team in 2007 – the South Georgia Peanuts. It’s a quirky, crazy story about Wally’s attempted comeback as a professional manager. In retrospect, it was a pretty good [ ... ] ...
A new season is upon us and another opening day is here. Tomorrow's opener marks the first in Citi Field history. Below is a brief almanac of every Mets opener ever played, 48 in all. Some were memorable, some were not. The two predominant pitchers on opening day were Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden who won almost every time they took the mound for game one. And something only the Mets could do, they won a World Series before they ever won an opening day. As Casey used to say ... "You can
Last night on SNY’s Mets Hot Stove, which airs every Thursday night at 7 pm, Keith Hernandez said Daniel Murphy needs to get more help from Luis Castillo.Hernandez explained, when he played first base and a left-handed hitter would be up, Wally Backman and Tim Tueful would signal to him if an off-speed pitch was about [ ... ] ...