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Despite coming off a disastrous 1996 season where they finished 71-91 and were 25 games out of first place and 19 games out of a wild card spot, the Mets became one of the surprise teams and challenged for a playoff spot in 1997. Manager Bobby Valentine replaced Dallas Green and was heading into his first full season as the “dugout general.” During the off season, the Mets made a very shrewd trade when they sent pitcher Robert Person to the Toronto Blue Jays in exchange for f

The Mets began 1996 with great anticipation. They ended it with another year of disappointment.                In-between saw one of their players hit for the cycle, another break the record for home runs by a catcher and a managerial change that probably came too late.                “We expect to be there,” general manager Joe McIlvaine said when asked about the postseason, just as spring training was about to begin.                “I’d be disappointed if we didn’t do well,

The 1995 baseball season began with a hangover from 1994: the labor dispute that cut short that season and carried over into the next, prompting major league owners to begin spring training with replacement players – a move the owners hoped would bring the “real” major leaguers back to the bargaining table and result in a settlement.                It only made things messier. The players’ union said it wouldn’t settle the strike if replacement players were used in regular se

If the 1994 Mets were a metaphor, they’d be a white Ford Bronco lumbering down the Long Island Expressway with the hazards on. Everyone in New York knew it wasn’t going to end well — but we couldn’t stop watching. While O.J. Simpson’s real-life slow-speed chase captivated the country that summer, the Mets were running their own version in Queens: a low-drama, low-speed pursuit of competence that ended in surrender long before the season did. You could almost hear the crowd at

If 1992 was “The Worst Team Money Could Buy,” then 1993 was the Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice. a straight-to-video disaster that made Toe Blake spin in his grave and the Hanson Brothers beg for a line change. This was supposed to be a bounce-back year, the baseball version of a redemption tour. A new shortstop (Tony Fernández), a few veteran arms, and the faint hope that all that expensive talent might actually act like, well, talent. Instead, what we got was 59 wins, 103 los

If you were a Mets fan in 1992, you probably remember two things: You had to blow into your Super Nintendo cartridge to make Super Mario Cart work, and you had to do the same thing to your TV remote just to get through a Mets game. This was supposed to be a bounce back year for the Mets’ as we added A Few Good Men . But instead we got The Crying Game  .When the big reveal came, we couldn’t handle the truth and much like The Crying Game,  we were left blinking in disbelief, a

The 1991 season marked a return to the bad old days for the New York Mets: their first losing record since 1983, the departure of a hero,...

If you’re a Mets fan who remembers 1990, first of all — congratulations on surviving parachute pants, Crystal Pepsi, and your mom yelling...

If you’re a Mets fan of a certain age (translation: you still have VHS tapes labeled “Family BBQ” that are actually Game 6 of the ’86...

The 1988 Mets were the baseball equivalent of the financial advertising disclaimer that past performance is not a guarantee of future...

If you’re a Mets fan of a certain age (read: old enough to know that “streaming” isn’t Netflix, it’s what happens when your doctor frowns...

If you’re a Mets fan, you already know how 1986 ends: a team that manager Davey Johnson declared during spring training would dominate...

There was much optimism in the air around Shea Stadium when the 1985 season began. The expectations had risen after a 1984 season that...

In 1984, the Chicago Cubs got back at the Mets for what the Flushing squad did to them in 1969.                Both teams were awful in...

The 1982 season that began with much optimism ended in another disastrous finish: the sixth consecutive season that the team finished...

In 1982, the Mets decided to let George do it.                Two of them, actually.                And neither one did.               ...

The final record of the 1980 Mets did not tell the whole story. Despite ultimately finishing in fifth place and losing 95 games, there...

A lot of good things happened to the Mets in 1980. Almost none of them occurred on the field. The team lost 95 games and finished in...

The decade of the Seventies ended in the same manner that the decade of the Sixties ended. With champagne flowing in the locker room...

With the conclusion of the first season under the new realities of free agency and how the game was impacted, the results for Mets fans...