Tag: Opening Day
On Baseball, NY Hockey, and March Mildness
MARLBORO, NY – This month of March can’t end soon enough for me as I have my head buried further up my ar$e than usual. Historically, this is the worst month for me on a personal level and the sports scene is not far behind, as Angry Ward pointed out earlier in the week. Here’s […]
MLB Opening Day Looming, March Madness in Full Swing, Rangers’ Smith Dilemma
NEW YORK – With winter refusing to die, it’s hard to believe that we’re less than a week away from MLB Opening Day… March Madness has been okay and the NY Rangers have less than ten games left before they start setting themselves up for a busy draft. And they’ll also have to figure out […]
Golden State Warriors, New York Knicks, New York Rangers, Opening Day
EL BARRIO, EL BRONX – I cannot guarantee the quality of today’s piece. Sure, I finished ahead of the midnight [or later] submission time but I had to fight being more drunk than usual as wrote (explanation below). Anyway, today’s topics with be the Golden State Warriors, the New York Knicks, the New York Rangers […]
Opening Day for deBaby deGrom and WrestleMania from Jerry’s World!
This article courtesy of Jackson Sternberg… FLUSHING, NY – It is Opening Day – and not just for the New York Mets. At press time, it remained a very real possibility that it was opening day for deBaby deGrom too. We here at MTM wish Jacob and his family nothing but the best of health for […]
David Wright, Wrestlemania! Oh, and ESPN Still Sucks
SANDS POINT, NY – Sunday night was sheer bedlam at The FSA Compound. The day started with hellacious winds that overwhelmed even the vaunted preparation of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA). The normally stalwart utility – that rose to fame during SuperStorm Sandy three plus years back – saw over 25,000 “customers” on Long […]
Opening Day! Time for Baseball Predictions re Cubs, Mets, Sabathia, Tanaka, Royals
CHAVEZ RAVINE – Another holiday Monday for me, and it’s my favorite one… Opening Day! It’s the time of year when lesser publications start publishing all sorts of predictions and prognostications and when I say lesser… I mean us! So here goes with our own official iron-clad, lock-of-the-shoe-in declarations of how this baseball season will […]
Mets Matt Harvey and The Angel of Death
RAY RAMIREZ RETIREMENT VILLAGE, HELL –Matt Harvey is in jeopardy of missing his Opening Day start this Sunday against the World Champion Kansas City Royals. Why? Who knows? The Mets aren’t saying-and that includes Manager Terry Collins and General Manager Real Sandy Alderson. The Mets were quick yesterday to diffuse and refute any potential arm […]
Flushing Roach Motel: Looking on Craigslist for David Wright and MIA Mets
DANNAMORA, NY – Opening Day of the 2010 season at Citifield was a blustery Monday in early April. The Mets were hosting the then Florida Marlins. As old warhorse Ed Lynch and I sat down in our seats, introductions began with the full pomp and circumstance that accompanies every opening day. For teams that never […]
Definition of Insanity: Opening Day Hopes, Rex Ryan Foot Fetish Redeux, Mets Fans and Michael Vick
EDISON, NJ – Ever wonder why sports fans obsess over their bad teams year after year? I do. In fact I obsess over it. Take the Mets fans right here on this site; a gaggle of waffle-eating, ex-jock, word exhibitionists. Like Emperor Penguins, every Spring they set off with a clean slate and some shiny […]
MLB Opening Day Is Here! Updates on Yankees, Mets and Houston Astros
SPANISH HARLEM – Finally. Today we get the first game in professional sports since March and baseball fans are excited to see what this weird and unusual MLB season will produce. Opening Day, just 4 months late… The New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers are still the favorites to make the World Series […]
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