We’re almost three full months into the season and the Mets find themselves in an interesting situation – just 2.5 games out of first place in the NL East. Not many people predicted that the Mets would be in this position – maybe the hardest of the die hard fans, but that’s about it.  It’s time to start believing the

As pitchers make higher and higher salaries as the years go by, they also throw less pitches.  Whose idea was it anyway that 100 pitches was going to be the limit for starting pitchers?  I wonder if the person that thought of this great idea also realizes that this idea of limiting starting pitchers to 100 pitches may also have led

Congratulations Mets fans.  The wait is finally over, and it feels good.  It was great to be able to see some Mets history being made, but I couldn’t help noticing how much attention there was surrounding Johan Santana’s pitch count.  I know he’s coming off a serious shoulder surgery, but was there ever really a question about whether he would

The Big Apple Sports Talk Network was created by a group of sports fans that were tired of the limited social networking options for sports fans.  This social network is designed specifically for New York sports fans to talk specifically about sports.  No more timelines.  No more annoying and meaningless status updates to read through.  Just sports. We wanted a

Only the good die young. We hear that saying all the time, but for a man that carried the nickname “the Kid,” it couldn’t be truer.  As I sit here and reflect on one of my childhood heroes, it’s hard to envision the 1986 Mets team that we hold so dear in our hearts, ever reaching the heights they did