Angry Ward Wednesday: Giants At the Plate, Running Backs Shunned, and You Should Go to the Movies
Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Running Backs. By now it’s old news that superstar running backs Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs were not…
Wilmer Flores
Is It OKAY To Root For Former Players Against Your Team?
SAN FRANSISCO, CA – When you are struggling to keep your eyes open after a hectic week and not enough sleep, you probably shouldn’t try […]
MLB Groundhog Day, Wilmer Flores, Crying In Sports
LOS ANGELES, CA – My last shred of a MLB post-season Metsiness thread disintegrated when Wilmer Flores was called out on a clear check-swing. After […]
MLB Wild Card Hunt: Manager Moves, Joe Girardi, Wally Backman, Mickey Callaway, Custer and Revere?
CHELSEA, NYC – Working on the set of a popular major network cop show last night as a Special Effects guy making smoke and wetting […]
Easter Rising: Resurrected Stars, Scapegoats, Surgery. Rocky, Tommy, OJ.
INDIANA, PA – You trivia buffs (Tall Matt, Mrs. Tall Matt, Replacement Matt) may note that this town is famous for two things: A) It’s […]
Baseball Mom’s Legacy: From Pavarotti and Domingo to Joltin’ Joe, The Splinter and David Wright
NOTE: The outpouring of support, particularly from the Meet The Matts team, has had this hardened sports gumshoe reduced to a teary-eyed mess… more than […]
Emergency Makeover Monday: Groundhog Day for Miserable Mets Madness. Yogi, Frazeir, Wilmer, Wright
FLUSHING, NY – If Yogi Berra were alive and had seen the Bill Murray classic with Punxsutawney Phil, he’d likely have a new iteration of […]
Rain Man Ramblings: Alabama = Patriots, Bills Fire Coordinator, Baseball Contracts, Song of the Week
EL BARRIO, EL FALLS – I knew what I wanted to talk about all week but couldn’t find the time to sit down and write […]
Trouble In Paradise? Mets Face Clubhouse Disintegration with Asdrúbal Cabrera
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – West Coast trips historically make or break the NY Mets… and the history hasn’t been good. Just ask Willie Randolph and […]
Sports Rain Man Damns Yankees, Gives Rosy Mets Season Preview
EL BARRIO, EL BRONX – If you regularly pinch-hit enough are you a pinch-hitter? That’s my tree-falling-with-nobody-around question. Mull that over while I dive into today’s piece. […]