Tag: Max Scherzer

ALCS Game 3: Twitter Reacts To Houston Astros Handling Texas Rangers, Powering Way Back Into MLB Playoff Series
Texas Rangers entered Wendsday with a 2-0 ALCS series advantage and had future Hall-of-Fame pitcher Max Scherzer returning from a…
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New York Mets’ 2023 Season In Review: Starting Pitching
Updated:Now that the 2023 season is over for the New York Mets, we will spend the next several weeks taking…
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Ring The Bell That Tolls For Thee
Updated:The Mets were eliminated from playoff contention on Friday. Perhaps you could say that the Mets were eliminated from playoff…
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We Paid Chris Flexen For That
Jose Butto deserved better than that nonsense. Butto, the latest entrant in the “wheel of starting pitching doom” pitched very…
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8/28/23 Game Preview: Texas Rangers at New York Mets
The beginning of a nine-game stretch against the American League West didn’t go too well for the New York Mets…
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Two In A Row? Yo, No Way?
Updated:After the latest edition of “Because The Schedule Says So”, it would be disingenous of me to say “well, nice…
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Raise That Hunk Of Metal
I mean, this was our World Series, right? If baseball had an in-season tournament for teams where all they needed…
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The Dark Backstreets Of Rebuilding
Updated:In retrospect, I should have known this day was coming when I played my morning six letter Wordle: In what…
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New York Mets Wave White Flag on 2023 Despite Successful July
After a disastrous June that was historically bad for the New York Mets, there was pretty much nowhere to go…
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The Reboot Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Justin Verlander won his 250th career game on Sunday. In a perfect world, not only does he do this about…
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Scherzer, Texas Ranger
Things are changing quickly for the New York Mets. Just 24 hours after questioning the team’s decision to trade David…
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Your Win Is A Thin Disguise
Pete Alonso seems to be over that month long odyssey that he was on since getting hit by Charlie Morton…
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7/28/23 Game Preview: Washington Nationals at New York Mets
A win over the Washington Nationals (43-60) last night wasn’t the main storyline for the New York Mets (48-54) after…
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A Sweet Day Followed By Nighttime Lollipops
Updated:If we’re being honesty with ourselves, the Mets should be 0-for-2 in Beantown. After Brandon Nimmo and Daniel Vogelbach hit…
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7/22/23 Game Preview: New York Mets At Boston Red Sox (One And A Half Games Edition)
You have a full day of baseball ahead of you. The Mets and Red Sox were suspended at 4-3 in…
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Games Like These …
In a different time, whether it be a different season or a different universe, I would be saying that games…
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7/16/23 Game Preview: Los Angeles Dodgers at New York Mets
Few games were more emblematic of what has gone wrong for the New York Mets (42-50) in 2023 than the…
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I Know How Tom Glavine Feels Now
Well that’s no way to go into an All Star Break. It’s sad to see Max Scherzer morph into Aaron…
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7/9/23 Game Preview: New York Mets at San Diego Padres
The winning streak had to end eventually for the New York Mets (42-47) but last night’s loss was hard to…
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Francisco Alvarez Has Valley Fever!!! (Oh Wait I Didn’t Mean It Like That, Sorry Ike)
Updated:The way Francisco Alvarez’s at-bat started against Miguel Castro, you would have never guessed that it would have ended the…
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7/4/23 Game Preview: New York Mets At Arizona Diamondbacks
The month of July is off to a good start for the New York Mets (38-46), who have won their…
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Lost In The Smoke
Updated:New York– For the first time this season, the New York Mets got to experience some of the poor air…
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6/29/23 Game Preview: Milwaukee Brewers at New York Mets
June is almost over and the New York Mets (36-44) are getting closer to an unexpected deadline sale than anyone…
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Baseball Can Be Beautiful
Updated:We’ve probably forgotten this, but baseball can be beautiful. When you take out the context of the season as a…
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6/24/2022 Game Preview: New York Mets At Philadelphia Phillies
Updated:As the Mets continue their descent into irrelevancy, they also continue their series against the Phillies in Citizens Bank Park…
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Cowboy Up
Updated:We had Casey Stern on our Down on the Korner zoom cast before tonight’s game. The common theme of the…
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6/19/23 Game Preview: New York Mets at Houston Astros
Updated:It’s getting late early for the New York Mets (33-38), who appear to be writing an unwanted sequel to “The…
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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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6/13/23 Game Preview: New York Yankees at New York Mets
The month of June has not been kind to the New York Mets (31-35), who are coming off a disastrous…
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