Last week on Sunday School, Forgotten Faces of Flushing, we took a stroll back to 1978 and rediscovered Dal Maxvill, a longtime St. Louis Cardinal who found himself wearing orange and blue as Joe Torre's third-base coach. Maxvill spent one season in Flushing, helping a Mets team that finished sixth in the National League East before heading home to St. Louis, where his baseball journey eventually took him all the way to the Cardinals' general manager's office. And that, of co

Somewhere along the way, being a Mets fan on the internet started feeling like shouting into the void. Endless hot takes. Endless arguments. Endless algorithms deciding what you should see. And eventually every Mets fan starts looking into the screen like Travis Bickle: “You talkin’ to me?” So we decided to do something different. Talkin’ Mets on the Korner is the Kiner’s Korner community — a place for Mets fans who never really left. Live game threads, Mets history and memor

Sam McDowell died Monday at his home in The Villages, Florida. He was 84. If you're under 50, that name might not ring a bell, which is a crying shame, because for about a decade Sudden Sam McDowell threw a baseball harder than any living human, and he did it while essentially being a character from a movie. (In fact, he was partly a character from a TV show. We'll get to that.) They called him "Sudden Sam" because of exactly one spring training outing in 1961. A Cleveland sp

September 16, 1998. Mets 4, Astros 3 (11) It seems like every pitcher today can ramp it up close to 100 mph. The starter gives it everything he's got at 98 to get through 4.1 to 5 innings. The bullpen guys throw one inning each, with the fastest getting it past 100 to 104! But what seems to me like only a few years ago (Get off my lawn!), a starting pitcher would throw 8 or hopefully 9 innings, with your closer coming in late, often throwing his own brand of junk to fool the

Last week on Sunday School, Forgotten Faces of Flushing, we took a stroll down memory lane with Fran Healy — a guy whose Mets career was just one chapter in a baseball life that somehow managed to include playing, broadcasting, catching, clubhouse stories and enough interesting twists to make you wonder if somebody was writing his résumé after a few too many trips to the press box. And that, of course, is the whole point of Forgotten Faces of Flushing. Every Mets fan remember

April 4, 1988. Mets 10, Expos 6 The 1988 Mets were certainly aware of the shadow they were playing under. Two years removed from the chaotic, magical, and entirely unrepeatable 1986 World Championship. The 1980s Mets were a cultural phenomenon, with names like Hernandez, Strawberry, Carter, Gooden, and Darling all over your televisions and newspapers. They expected to dismantle the competition, and that's what they did in 1988, winning 100 games. They won their division by 1

There are end-of-season press conferences, and then there are end-of-September press conferences for a team that was supposed to be playing in October. David Stearns knows the difference. And he wasn't interested in pretending otherwise. “Anytime we're having an end of season press conference at the end of September, it's not where you want to be,” Stearns said as he opened his postseason autopsy of a Mets season that began with enormous expectations and ended with the organi

The final Met of the Month for the 2026 season goes to outfielder A.J. Ewing, who hit .309 with four home runs, 15 RBI and an .862 OPS in September.

Nationals 6 Mets 4 (Nationals Park, Washington, DC) Mets record: 74-88 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP - Will Dion (3-2) LP - Sean Manaea (6-8) S- Erik Tolman (5) Seats on the Korner: Andres Chaparro We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly present

Last week, “Sunday School” took a detour. Howie Rose wasn't a Forgotten Face of Flushing. He was a Never to be Forgotten Face. With Howie saying goodbye to the Mets after the 2026 season, it was only fitting that we devoted a special edition to the man whose voice has been part of the soundtrack of Mets baseball for nearly four decades. But this week, we return to our regularly scheduled programming. And we're staying behind the microphone. This week, it's Fran Healy. If you

Mets 7 Nationals 1 (Nationals Park, Washington, DC) Mets record: 74-87 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Dedniel Nunez (2-1) LP - Jake Irvin (2-10) Seats on the Korner: Carson Benge and Ronny Mauricio We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented

Nationals 7 Mets 6 (Nationals Park, Washington, D.C.) Mets record: 73-87 Mets streak: Lost 2 WP - Gus Varland (2-2) LP -Jonathan Pintaro (2-3) SV - Josiah Gray (1) Seat on the Korner: Dylan Crews We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly pre

Rangers 3 Mets 1 (Globe Life Field, Arlington, TX) Mets record: 73-86 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP - Rocker (6-11) LP - Thornton (5-6) SV - Montgomery (1) Seat on the Korner: Josh Jung We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Ma

If David Stearns is building the Mets' organization one piece at a time, the past few days have brought a few dominos tumbling into place. On Tuesday, the Mets removed the interim tag from Andy Green and gave him a three-year contract to remain the team's manager. Two days later, Stearns added another piece to the front office — actually, make that two. The first one happens to be named Derek. Derek Falvey, to be exact. The second is Kris Gross, who was promoted to Assistant

Certain Mets have had their one day in the sunshine. Some have had many. If I said "The Darryl Strawberry Game" you would have no idea as to what I was inferring. He had numerous. If I said "The Steve Henderson Game", if you are of a certain age, you know exactly what happened on June 14, 1980. You also know "The Matt Franco Game" and "The Todd Pratt Game." I'm guessing you could see those moments easily and quickly. Here is "The Omir Santos Game!" May 23, 2009. Mets 3, Bosto

Mets 7 Rangers 2 (Globe Life Field, Arlington, TX) Mets record: 73-85 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Nolan McLean (12-10) LP - Jacob Latz (3-4) SV - Seat on the Korner: Nolan McLean We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Eve

Mets 6 Rangers 3 (Globe Life Field, Arlington, TX) Mets record: 72-85 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Sean Manaea (6-7) LP - Nathan Eovaldi (11-10) SV - Kodai Senga (8) Seat on the Korner: Sean Manaea We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly present

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. Andy Green had the interim tag removed from his title as he has signed a three year deal to become the current and future manager of the New York Mets today. It comes as a mild surprise as Green has previously brought up the family concerns being a real thing regarding whether he wanted to manage full time again and return to the front office. But the deal must have been too good to pass up, and with core players like Juan Soto, Franci

Las Vegas has always been a city where bigger is better. Bigger hotels. Bigger shows. Bigger jackpots. Bigger buffets. Bigger promises that this time you are absolutely, positively going to beat the house. Now, apparently, bigger baseball. With the Athletics preparing to make Las Vegas their permanent home in 2028, Major League Baseball is about to become another attraction on a Strip that already has more sports and entertainment options than most cities could fit into a sma

This week's edition of Minor League Mondays takes a look at infield prospect Bruin Agbayani, who is the son of former Mets' outfielder Benny Agbayani.