As Sam Elliott’s character imparted in The Big Lebowski, “Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.” In a similar vein, sometimes a guy surfaces with the unfortunate name of “J.J. Putz” and sometimes J.J. Putz gets traded to the city with a larger Jewish population than Jerusalem.
The Mets continued wheeling and [...]

As FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal reports, the Metropolitans have expressed interest in trading for Dodgers outfielder and multimillionaire Juan Pierre. The idea that anyone wants Juan Pierre at all is a funny enough concept on its own, which is why this column ends here.
Nah, there’s more.
Even better than the possibility of the Mets expressing interest [...]

David Cross favorite and sometime Oakland Athletics left fielder Rickey Henderson is finally on the ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, contingent on his not randomly being picked up by a Major League team sometime between now and the vote in July. Rickey will clearly be elected on the first ballot, but probably not [...]

ESPN reported on Sunday that the Yankees will not pursue a trade for Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, who is apparently being dangled as trade bait this offseason, due to “the eventual need to keep first base open for Derek Jeter.”
First base has been a trouble spot for the Bombers in recent years, with 25 [...]

The Mets’ playoff run may have ended on a down note, but Minor League relief pitcher Ambiorix Burgos wasted no time murdering people this offseason. Coming off a solid 2008 campaign in which he pitched a total of ten innings, striking out two and walking three over three levels of class-A ball, the 24-year old [...]

It is a banner year for the West Coast base ball clubs,
as the mighty Yankees and the talented upstart Metropolitans have
stepped out of the spotlight and allowed the city of Los Angeles to
demonstrate to the sporting world that it has arrived as a world-class
athletic power.
The Dodgers, led by a Dominican named Ramirez, and the Angels, [...]

In the coming weeks, Mets fans will endure what may be the greatest threat to the team’s postseason chances this season. This monster is more menacing than Chase Utley, Willie Randolph, Al Qaeda, and an alternate-reality, slick-fielding Bill Buckner put together, and could single-handed derail everything that David Wright, Johan Santana, and Argenis Reyes have [...]

Well, the Yankees have done it again. Friday’s trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates is just another piece of indisputable evidence in the airtight case that baseball’s ‘Evil Empire’ has an unfair advantage and must be stopped. How can anyone else expect to compete with an organization that, even with a $200 million payroll, can still [...]

The Mets’ official website reports today that six weeks ago, utility outfielder and suspected amputee Marlon Anderson hopped up on the soapbox and delivered an inspiring address in which he estimated that the team would require 92 wins in order to earn a postseason berth. Professor Anderson’s presentation included written material that was distributed among [...]

It has been three and a half months since he first burst onto the scene, hand-in-hand with screen legend Gary Busey and promising the “greatest product ever” in between innings of New York Mets baseball games, and I have had enough. I simply must know more about the elusive Giuseppe Franco.
Unfortunately, my cursory research has [...]