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Thursday Trade Tracker: Seattle Mariners. Butch, Putz, and Timmy Trumpet

Super Bowl Sunday marks the end of the football season, and more importantly, the start of spring training. Just seeing simple video of the Mets walking from their cars, maybe they are wearing headphones, maybe they are in sweats, and maybe their thoughts are a million miles away. Baseball is back. Bring it on. Honoring the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, 14-2 in the regular seaon, seems warranted. Their Seattle brethren, the Mariners, have had many little uninteresting

Mitch Green

Feb 127 min read

Stearns, Cohen, Freddy Peralta, Tobias Myers,and the Mets Hedge Fund Approach to Building a Winner

There are two truths in life: The sun rises in the east. Mets fandom much like today's political climate is a house divided, with the dividing line usually running straight through Thanksgiving dinner. I know this because I run KinersKorner.com, a digital family room where Mets fans gather daily to agree on one thing that everyone else is wrong. Which brings us to David Stearns. Let me preface this by saying I have been a believer in David Stearns’ long-term vision for this

Mark Rosenman

Jan 2210 min read

Breaking News: The Mets Have Two Hall of Famers and Mets Fans are Complaining

Hey Mets fans, consider this a reality check. A wake-up call. A figurative slap across the cheek designed to snap us out of our collective, group-text-level despair. Edwin Díaz is gone. Pete Alonso is gone. Brandon Nimmo is gone. And for good measure, let’s toss Jeff McNeil into the emotional blender as well. These were real Mets. Long term Mets. Homegrown Mets. “They were here when times were bad” Mets. The kind of guys you don’t just watch—you invest in. Jerseys were purcha

Mark Rosenman

Jan 205 min read

Franchise Fridays: All-Time Mets Greats Get in Win Column with 7-5 Thriller against the All-Time Giants Greats at the Stick.

Week 5 of Franchise Fridays brought the All-Time Mets Greats back into action, this time facing the All-Time Giants at the breezy confines of virtual Candlestick Park. After dropping their first four games—three to their Dodgers cousins and one to the Giants—the Mets were desperate to get off the schnied and remind everyone that New York baseball can, in fact, be victorious. As always, these games are more than just numbers on a Strat-O-Matic board. By pitting all-time greats

Mark Rosenman

Dec 19, 20252 min read

Two Guys Talking Mets: From "Narco" to Narcolepsy

It's been a while since our resident curmudgeons awoke from their afternoon naps and weighed in on the latest in Mets land. But the events of the past few days got their juices flowing. So pull up a stool to the hot stove near the cracker barrel and join the conversation: A.J. Carter: The sun came out this morning, and my electricity still works, so I guess the world didn’t end last night because the Mets lost Edwin Diaz and Pete Alonso. And I’m not willing to keep on wringin

A.J. Carter

Dec 11, 20256 min read

Mets Offseason Fallout: Alonso, Díaz, the Departures, the Backlash, They have “Some ’Splaining to Do”

Let’s be honest, Mets fans: if 2024 ended on the magical, delirious high of the “OMG Run,” and the following offseason delivered the jaw-dropping addition of Juan Soto, you would’ve thought the Mets were building toward a baseball utopia. Instead, the collapse of the 2025 offseason and the events of the past two days have felt more like waking up the next morning, looking around your house, only to realize someone took the TV, the couch, and half the kitchen appliances. The

Mark Rosenman

Dec 10, 20255 min read

Devin Williams Breaks Down His Airbender, Closer Mindset, and Decision to Join the Mets in First New York Presser

If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when a former Rookie of the Year, two-time Reliever of the Year, and owner of a pitch that defies both gravity and the Department of Transportation’s approved flight patterns officially becomes a New York Met, Devin Williams gave us the full show in his introductory presser today. Calm, candid, and sounding suspiciously like a man who’s already figured out how to get from Queens to Citi Field without Waze, Williams laid out exactly w

Mark Rosenman

Dec 5, 20254 min read

Dominican Republic All-Stars Top Puerto Rico 6–2 at Citi Field — but It Felt Like a Mets Game Wrapped in a Caribbean Street Festival

By the time the conga lines hit the third-base line, the flags were waving like a United Nations parade on double espresso, and the temperature dipped to a wind-chill-enhanced 47 degrees, Citi Field felt less like early-winter Queens and more like a giant Caribbean block party sponsored by LIDOM, the LBPRC, and maybe a little by the New York Mets themselves. And yes — this was absolutely a Dominican Republic vs. Puerto Rico showdown. But make no mistake: it also had a tremend

Mark Rosenman

Nov 16, 20255 min read