0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/12/2016
I know that Yankee ticket sales are down this year, so I was curious to see what the demand would be for Old Timers’ Day. After all, there are two games that you can always figure will be sellouts: that and Opening Day. It used to be that I wouldn’t even try to get OTD […]
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0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/8/2016
Don’t be fooled by the Yankees winning against the Angels, one of the worst teams in baseball. The Bronx Bombers are just not a good team this year. And, as I’ve been saying for the last year, the Mets are poised to take over this town. Writer and Yankee fan Christopher Dale has a great piece […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/7/2016
Rest in peace Muhammad Ali, a huge influence to this Squawker! No, not the boxing stuff. The sass! I was too young to remember most of his most famous fights (I remember Leon Spinks and Larry Holmes more than I do Joe Frazier or George Foreman.) But I do remember him giving great interviews, and […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 6/6/2016
For the past year, I have written multiple times about how the Mets were gaining in popularity, while the Yankees were losing in popularity. And I repeatedly said that the team from Flushing was poised to take over this town from the Bronx Bombers. And I got a lot of grief for saying so — […]
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0 comments by Jon Lewin on 6/4/2016
David Wright is out indefinitely. According to Buster Olney, there is no guarantee that he’ll ever play again. It’s a sad time for the franchise and the fans, but a critical time for Sandy Alderson to plan for the present and for the future. Squawker Lisa, you’ll be pleased to know that local media outlets […]
0 comments by Jon Lewin on 5/28/2016
The 1986 Mets were a 108-win team best remembered not for dominance, but for stirring comebacks when all seemed lost. On the first night of the 1986 anniversary weekend, the 2016 Mets dominated the Dodgers for eight innings, only to need a walk-0ff homer to avoid a disturbing loss. I was at the game with […]
0 comments by Jon Lewin on 5/24/2016
Eric Campbell in the starting lineup? A Met team in desperate need of offense turning to Kelly Johnson? It could be deja vu all over again! Johnson is one of the players mentioned by ESPN’s Adam Rubin and others as a potential replacement for the injured Lucas Duda. Campbell is playing first right now, but […]
0 comments by Lisa Swan on 5/22/2016
Back in February, the day after I froze my tuchis off running a 10-mile race in Prospect Park, I froze my tuchis off again waiting two hours in the cold with Squawker Jon on Presidents’ Day to get free Mets tickets at the team’s Spring Training Sendoff at Citi Field. So Tuesday night, Squawker Jon and […]
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You know it’s an eventful week when I saw both Mariah Carey and a wild turkey walking down the street (although not together). And I also got my first cover story published in Guideposts Magazine, about Andrew McCutchen, who I interviewed last summer. Yet those items are not the biggest things that happened to me […]
0 comments by Jon Lewin on 5/20/2016
Three years ago, Squawker Lisa and I were at the first matchup of Matt Harvey vs. Stephen Strasburg. Met fans chanted “Harvey’s better,” and he was that night. Last night, we were there again as Met fans gave Harvey a new serenade – boos. Only two days ago, I wrote that it was Murphy’s Law […]
0 comments by Jon Lewin on 5/18/2016
Murphy’s Law states that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. But when Daniel Murphy returned to Citi Field for the first time since joining the Nationals, everything went right. The Mets beat the Nationals, 2-0, Noah Syndergaard outdueled Max Scherzer, Murphy got a well-deserved standing ovation his first time up, and Squawker Lisa […]
0 comments by Jon Lewin on 5/16/2016
Finally, the battle for first place is here, except the Mets somehow find themselves in third place, half a game behind the supposedly rebuilding Phillies. And the Mets are actually closer to the fourth-place Marlins (one game behind) than the first-place Nationals. But at a game and a half out, even after the lost weekend […]
