Felipe got the managing career, Matty got the batting title. Jesús Alou got two World Series rings, one summer at Shea — and a Bob Murphy legend.

Day 9 — Saturday, November 7, 2026: A quiet Saturday on the stove — SNY's dark day leads the edition, the Stock signing gets its fine print, and the Fall Stars Game and GM meetings are on deck.

Day 8 — Friday, November 6, 2026: The Mets make their first signing of the winter, bringing back Robert Stock on a one-year split deal, Heyman says Skubal could come off the board early, and Blake Snell recruits his friend to stay a Dodger.

The Straw Man himself talks about the father who never hugged him, the season he nearly quit at 19, the brawling '86 Mets, addiction, faith, and the long way home. Saturday Sounds No. 4.

Three months after buying the Mets, Fred Wilpon took Ralph Kiner's guest chair between games of a Shea doubleheader — May 4, 1980. The real show.

April 11, 1962 — Bob Murphy, Lindsey Nelson and Ralph Kiner call the first game in Mets history: a rained-out opener, a Rheingold on ice, Gil Hodges' first Mets homer, and an 11–4 loss that started it all.

Day 7 — Thursday, November 5, 2026: Bowden says Skubal is Steve Cohen's No. 1 priority, the Post prices the King and Holmes consolation prizes, the Mets hire Johnny Washington and meet 18-year-old phenom Shoki Oda, and Puerto Rico joins the winter ball watch.

Day 6 — Wednesday, November 4, 2026: the Athletic says the Mets' money is earmarked for starting pitching and a big Sato splash is unlikely, Heyman calls the Skubal race a Mets-Dodgers feeding frenzy, Olney floats six years at $60 million a year, and Ronny Mauricio homers in his winter debut.

May 13, 2006. New York Mets 9, Milwaukee Brewers 8 Before the 2006 Mets ran away with the National League East title, their relentless offense proved it could out-slug anyone anywhere. On May 13, that explosive lineup landed in Milwaukee, 20 years before Yelich, Contreras, Turang, and Chourio showed the baseball world you could win with small ball. Leading early and weathering a late Brewers rally, the Mets leaned into their core superstar lineup - Carlos Beltran, Carlos Delg

Stop me if you've heard this before — Meta Muse, Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT walk into a bar. It's the Rheingold Rest, a neighborhood joint just off the Deegan, and this week the regulars are fighting over the ninth inning. Four stools, four machines, one question that has followed this franchise from the Polo Grounds to Citi Field. There is no host, and there will be no referee. The readers settle it. One piece of bar honesty before the first word: this debate is the real th

Tom Seaver's return to Shea: six scoreless innings, a 2-0 win over Carlton's Phillies, and the real Kiner's Korner after — April 5, 1983.

Day 5 — Tuesday, November 3, 2026: no blockbuster yet on day one of free agency, but the Skubal price meets his medical file, the Mets designate Paris and Cairo in a sign-and-pass gambit, the qualifying offers are final, and Carson Benge is a Rookie of the Year finalist.

The games are over. The hot stove hasn't lit yet. This is the part of the year when a Mets fan's mind wanders — to the shoebox in the closet. Last week we opened 1964, the first year at Shea. This week it's 1965 — the year Casey Stengel managed his last game, the year two of the greatest Yankees and Braves who ever lived put on a Mets uniform for their farewell summer, and, if you look in the high numbers, the year the Miracle started quietly arriving, four faces at a time. E

Day 4 — Monday, November 2, 2026: the market is open, ESPN tabs the Mets as the favorites for Tarik Skubal, and the 40-man shuffle lands — outrights, reinstatements, two waiver claims and a re-signing, plus a Gold Glove for Nolan McLean.

Welcome to the Kiners Korner Chronicles. This site is dedicated to Ralph Kiner and the legacy of the greatest sports postgame show ever, Kiner's Korner. While researching our book, Down on the Korner, my co-author Howie Karpin and I tracked down as many surviving episodes of Kiner's Korner as we could find. Now, you can watch those treasured broadcasts right here on this site and relive the conversations, the characters, and the unforgettable moments that made Ralph's show so

Day 3 — Sunday, November 1, 2026: Sato and Taira are officially posted, Tampa Bay exercises Rasmussen's $20M option, and Pivetta, Pagán and Luis Robert Jr. join the free-agent pile — with the market opening tomorrow.

Some of these are harder than others. This one is the hardest. Jerry Koosman — Kooz — the big left-hander who won the two biggest games in Mets history and then, eight years later, sat in a television studio and confessed to the greatest practical joke ever pulled in a major league clubhouse, died this morning in Osceola, Wisconsin, surrounded by his family, after battling multiple illnesses. He was 83. Jay Horwitz, who knew him as well as anyone, wrote the Mets' announcement

Greg Maddux got 355 wins and Cooperstown. His older brother Mike got 15 seasons, nine teams, two summers at Shea — and a second career that outlasted the Hall of Famer's.

Day 2, evening refresh — Saturday, October 31, 2026: Japanese ace Kaima Taira is being posted and the Mets scouted him, Alcantara comes off the trade board, plus SNY's Harper prediction (King, Holmes, Sato — no Skubal) at the Speculation Desk.

Saturday Sounds No. 3: Lenny Dykstra — the 1986 NLCS walk-off, the Game 6 triple with Mike Scott looming, Rod Carew and the fans, and the Matt Harvey verdict eight days before the trade. From the SPORTSTALKNY vault, April 2018.