Articles by metstradamus (1419)

A Cornucopia Of Suck
Updated:When someone inevitably asks me to tell them the story of the 2023 Mets (which will come in the form…
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Close Enough To See How Far You Are Away
Updated:Framber Valdez was absolutely amazing tonight. He had a perfect game through five anad a third. He gave up one…
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Loose Translation: The Season (Gourmands) Is Over (Fins) For The Mets (Mets)
Updated:Anything can happen. I realize that. But the Mets have dropped two games out of three to the worst team…
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Farewell, Waino … And Never Darken Our Doorstep Again
Updated:An entire generation has gone by since Adam Wainwright struck out Carlos Beltran on “The Curveball.” So I don’t expect…
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Call Me Petty
Updated:I thought how joyous it was that the Mets were pummeling Miles Mikolas tonight because I vaguely remembered him being…
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Miss Dior Poured On A Skunk
I’m tired. This team exhausts me. It looks like nothing but peaches and cream (and bubble gum) in the screen…
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Maybe It Wasn’t All Vogelbach’s Fault
Updated:Ironic that multiple starting pitchers from Mets’ past made their way to Citi Field for Tuesday night’s Subway Series game…
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It Only Felt Like A Shutout
Updated:You probably went to bed early because the game started so late due to the threat of rain (no actual…
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Road Fork Approaching
Updated:When the Mets bounced back to tie the game at 4-4 with four solo homers after Kodai Senga’s horrendous start,…
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Wings Of A Blue Jay
Updated:This was a crushing loss. I understand sometimes you lose games on special occasions. The Giants retired Lawrence Taylor’s number…
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How Baseball Works
Thursday was Camp Day. I was embedded in a section that had a camp sitting there. One of the teachers/counselors…
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Wild Men Brag About Anything They Want
Updated:A friend of mine told me that I should brag more than I do. Well, yeah. He’s right, because I’m…
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One For The Vets
I’m rooting for the kids. I want the kids to have long and prosperous careers, and I want those careers…
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Kodai’s Comin’ Yo …
Kodai Senga is starting to get it. I looked at what Senga has done in his first nine starts compared…
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Coors Field Two: Far From Home
Updated:Saturday’s looney toon loss to the Rockies made barely a blip on my annoyance radar. Sunday’s loss was even wackier,…
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Coors Field Typical
Updated:This one hurt because of the job that the Mets did to come back from 6-0 down with a five…
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The Max We Know And Love
There were two things that Max Scherzer battled with early this season: Getting swings and misses, and pitch sequencing that…
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Laughs For, And From, Everyone
I had a premonition that Tommy Hunter would make an appearance on Thursday night. Now before you call me a…
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Steve Trachsel Foretold This
We had Steve Trachsel on the new Kiner’s Korner show on Monday. I don’t mention that to plug the website…
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A Loss In Plain Sight
This one was easy to dissect. Starting pitching? Not good. Tylor Megill did not carry any momentum from his last…
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Babies And Vets Co-Existing to Keep The Roller Coaster Going
You would think last season would have taught me not to get too high or too low with my emotions,…
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Sure, Baseball Makes Sense
Updated:So after getting swept by the Tigers, losing series to the Rockies and Reds, and splitting four against the Nationals,…
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Bombs, More Bombs, and F-Bombs
2023 has its first fantastic finish. There was a tweet directed at me recently that read to the effect of…
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Kneel Before Isaac
It was the top of the 8th inning. The Mets had just given up a run to make it 8-3…
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Happy Peterson Day, Sorry For Your … Loss
Updated:I had mentioned at the beginning of the season that I thought the Mets were going to expand the rotation…
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