So sayeth Mr. Wilpon: Mets owner Fred Wilpon broke his extended silence yesterday, just long enough to take one question from The Post, and indicated he already has his general manager in place for 2010. “Am I going to bring Omar back next year?” Wilpon said. “Absolutely. That’s a fact.” You can take that at […]

That’s not me saying it, though. It’s the WaPo’s Gene Weingarten: Here I am at the annual convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, or SABR, an acronym the group wisely chose over SWORD, for Statistics-Worshiping White Old Retired Dudes. This room is definitely pale and male and pretty long in the tooth, but […]

Phillies 9, Mets 7: Unassisted triple plays are cool and all, but they’re really more about luck than anything else, aren’t they? You hit the ball to just the wrong place at just the wrong time and bam-bam-bam it’s over. Oftentimes the middle infielder who turns the thing isn’t even 100% sure he’s done it […]

Tigers 7, Mariners 6: A game-winning RBI single for Clete Thomas in the ninth got Jarrod Washburn off the hook after yet another dismal post-trade performance. Thomas had hit a walk-off homer earlier this season, and after game said this: “It’s not as good as the homer, but any walk-off is awesome.” Yeah, just ask […]

Sorry, but once again the legal world is dominating my day. I wish I could say today will be the last day of this, but tomorrow looks pretty ugly too. There are some CTB posts up (drafted early this morning before the law got hold of me), but that’s likely it for the day. There […]

Regrettable, but it’s right there in the unwritten rules. You can find it unwritten right below that business about not stealing a base with a big lead.

Braves 15, Mets 2: Brian McCann hit a three-run homer in the second inning after five runs had already scored. And guess what: THE BRAVES DIDN’T SCORE ANOTHER RUN IN THAT INNING AFTER THE HOMER. They’re rally-killers, dude. Avoid the home run at all costs. Bright side for Mets fans: Bobby Parnell didn’t get near […]

Sorry so quiet today, but I’ve been buried in legal work, and will continue to be for the next hour or two. I’m hoping to get a few things up yet this afternoon, but I can’t make any promises. In the meantime, I wrote six things over at CTB this morning, and they’re at lease […]

“That was a lot of fun. You just keep pounding balls into the gap. The one thing you don’t want to do is hit a home run. That’s a rally-killer.” — Jeff Francoeur, following the Mets big win over the Braves, continuing to fail to understand even the basic rudiments of baseball.

Marlins 6, Astros 2: Two teams that, one day, we’ll all sit around and say “yeah, I totally forgot that Pudge played for those guys.” Stellar game for Ricky Nolasco (CG, 3 H, 2 ER, 10K). Three more hits for Hanley. Mets 9, Braves 4: Derek Lowe’s worst outing of the season (3.2 IP, 11 […]