We have been told, many times before, about Terry Collins’ clubhouse presence. About how the skipper has changed his ways since the mutiny in Anaheim, about how he listens and respects and does all the behind-the-scenes things he’s supposed to do to maintain control. None of those matter, though, if he can’t handle the product on […]
Author: Kate Feldman
BP Mets Unfiltered: Mr. Met, a dildo, and the fake seriousness of baseball
I don’t blame Mr. Met for snapping. This season, which is somehow only two months old, has been draining, full of nightmares and suffering. Everyone is hurt and bad and sad. Nothing has gone right. The kid inside the suit was fired for flipping off a fan. We got to forgot about a blowout loss […]
BP Mets meet-up
If, for whatever reason, you want to hang out with your favorite BP Mets writers, here’s your chance. After the official Baseball Prospectus Citi Field event on July 1, we’ll be continuing the party post-game, likely at Maggie Mae’s just off the 7 Line. You don’t have to go to the game if you don’t […]
Game recap May 14: Rock bottom bottoms out
I don’t know what happened yesterday. I really don’t. I left the house when it was 5-1. I got to work and it was 8-6. Then it was 11-9 and the game was over. I looked at the box score. I saw the tweets. My coworkers oh so kindly filled me in on the play-by-play. I […]
Matt Harvey and the Metsiest Metsing the Mets ever Metsed
The Metsing has gotten exhausting. Keeping up with the Metsing this week took too much effort, too much time. There was too much Metsing, too fast and too absurd to comprehend before, without time to prepare, there was more Metsing. Wave after wave of Metsing, each update more ridiculous than the last. Entirely too much Metsing. […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: How to love a game that doesn’t love you back
I turn 25 today. It’s an arbitrary birthday at this point; it’s a quarter of a century, sure, but it’s not like any of us are surviving until 100. The only thing that changes is the cost to rent a car. But it feels important. When I was young, I thought I’d have it all […]
Game recap April 28: The streak always breaks
You get a sense sometimes, or, at least, I do, that things won’t get better. That this bad weather or bad mood or string of bad luck will never end. That you’re stuck in this state of despair forever. The Mets felt like that. Everything had gone wrong: the slumps and the injuries were relentless […]
New York Mets Opening Day 2017: On losing hope, and then gaining it back
Despair is comforting. There’s an ease, a simplicity, a beauty in never expecting much. You can’t be disappointed if you never expected anything in the first place. It’s hard to not expect anything. We innately want. Food. Air. To have someone to say good morning and good night to and to text when you’re sad or […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: 40 Questions About “The Four Horsemen”
Last week, a 30-second MLB.com commercial–starring Steven Matz, Jacob deGrom, Noah Syndergaard, and Matt Harvey–began circulating on Twitter. I have no idea where it came from, or where it’s being aired. Honestly, I know absolutely nothing about this ad. But I would like to know more. Here’s what I’d like to know: What was the […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: In Defense of Tim Tebow
Full disclosure, I have an orange and blue bias here: I went to the University of Florida.* Tim Tebow graduated in December 2009; I started in August 2010. We never crossed paths–never had a Rocks for Jocks class together or bumped into each other in the student union–but that’s not to say Tebow wasn’t part […]