New York's premier baseball journalist acknowledges the existence of the Mets.

"The Mets go into their first series with the Phillies closer to the Washington Nationals, who have a worse record than anybody, than they are to first place in the NL East. Or to resembling any kind of elite team."

"Or to resembling any kind of elite team"?

That's a standalone sentence? Is there even a subject to that sentence?

For future reference, the punctuation mark you'd want to go with there is the comma.

Actually, the more I look at it, the more I realize a comma wouldn't help. It's just a terrible, redundant, useless sentence.


"Look at it another way: The Yankees at least have Mr. Fun, Alex Rodriguez, coming over the hill soon."

Look at it another way: You can't write five sentences without bringing up ARod, the best baseball player you've ever seen.


"Last Saturday the Red Sox - who spend the same amount of money on baseball players that the Mets do, the two of them would be at the top of the charts without the Steinbrenner boys spending like drunk sailors on leave - were down 6-0 to the Yankees at Fenway and came back and won. On Wednesday night the Red Sox were down 5-0 against the Indians at Progressive Field and came back and won."

Yesterday, the Red Sox got one hit and lost 13-0 to a team whose total payroll is less than Brian Rose's signing bonus.

Beckett stunk again, but I know you've still got an erection from a World Series game he pitched in 2003.

"The shortstop, Jose Reyes, sometimes seems to be on automatic pilot. Or cruise control. It seems like a long time ago that we were calling him one of the best players in the game."

"We" were calling him one of the best players in the game?

Is that the same "we" who compared Brett Gardner to Dustin Pedroia?