Comedian Jim Breuer may be best known for playing a stoner icon in the cult classic “Half Baked” or for his role as Goat Boy on “Saturday Night Live,” but among New York Mets fans he’s just as recognizable as one of the most vociferous members of the Flushing faithful. A Long Island native with […]
Tag: Matt Harvey
Matt Harvey was a true Met
Baseball is hard. I know that without taking ground balls on the Citi Field dirt. I know that without even picking up a bat. I know that because so few people are stupid enough to try it and even fewer people are stupid enough to keep trying it. Making it to the majors isn’t easy. Matt […]
Matt Harvey, from the operating table to the opera: NLCS Game 1
This article originally ran on October 18, 2015. Forget all that you know and all you have heard. Specifically, forget any talk of shutdowns and innings limits, ignore any hastily thrown together PR rehab, pretend you don’t know about his Tommy John surgery or his agent and push off any conversations about trade rumors or […]
Matt Harvey was the King of New York… until he wasn’t
“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” It has to be fate. It’s simply the only explanation as to how the best way to describe Matt Harvey’s Mets career in one sentence is a quote from the movie where: a) he earned his nickname from and b) […]
2015 World Series, Game 5: A retrospective
In times of darkness and trouble, a leader steps up and becomes the hero society needs. In movies and comics books, it’s Batman who swoops in and saves the city of Gotham from the Joker. For the New York Mets, they needed a hero to rise during Game 5 of the 2015 World Series. That […]
Game recap May 3: That sinking feeling
Braves 11, Mets 0 The Mets were not no-hit yesterday; when you’re in this kind of organizational drift, the avoidance of abject humiliation is a victory of sorts. And when you’re the Mets, an 11-0 drubbing is not going to be the most humiliating part of your day. The dog days of May are here, […]
Game recap April 27: deGrom plays stopper
After dropping three of their previous four contests, including a gut-wrenching defeat in the rubber game in St. Louis Thursday, Jacob deGrom was exactly the man the Mets wanted on the mound Friday night. The team needed a stopper and the ace right-hander delivered in spades as New York topped the Padres 5-1 in the series opener. For […]
BP Mets Unfiltered: Matt Harvey is a sympathetic character in an increasingly complicated story
What a long, strange trip it’s been. After a brief stint as a rookie with the club in the second half of the 2012 season, Matt Harvey set the world on fire the following year, pitching to a 2.27 ERA with a 2.01 FIP, 0.931 WHIP and 191 strikeouts, officially becoming The Dark Knight. That is, of course, […]
How well have the Mets drafted in recent years?
Tonight, At&T Stadium in Dallas will play host to the NFL draft, easily the most publicized draft of all of the major sports. All 32 professional football teams will be looking to add players who can make an immediate impact, which got me thinking about how different things work in Major League Baseball. The MLB draft […]
Game recap April 24: They’re saying Bruuuuuuuuuce
Primer Rain mercifully cut short the Mets’ time in Atlanta, saving our ears and our sanity from any more Tomahawk Chops until [checks schedule] ugh, late May. Instead, the team headed off to St. Louis to face the less-auditory-but-still-rage-inducing Cardinals with Luke Weaver on the mound. Zack Wheeler took the hill for the Mets, and […]