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Is Curtis Granderson the Mets MVP?

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Perhaps, says USA Today.

Hat Tip: William Wallace

NEW YORK –  The Terry Collins press conference has been a highlight of this 2015 postseason, the Mets manager presiding over a realm that so often in the club’s past has been little more than strategically explaining futility.

But even within this new world, Collins visibly brightens when Curtis Granderson comes up. It happens infrequently, and Collins appreciates the chance to sing the virtues of a steady performer often overshadowed by the powerful Yoenis Cespedes or folk hero Wilmer Flores or all those Mets pitchers with their flying fastballs.

“Curtis Granderson, he’s just one of those quiet guys that goes about his job,” Collins said Sunday, prior to Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. “I tell all the young players that come up here: ‘If you handle the game like Curtis Granderson does because you’re talented, you’re going to be successful, because he never has a bad day.’

Sark, I hope you’re wrong about he Mets’ long layoff but I was thinking the same thing.  This looks a lot like what happened to the Tigers in 2006 and 2012, as you said in your comment.

We shall see.

David Wright | Flashin’ Leather

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10/21/2015 – David Wright flashes leather at third to snuff out any thoughts of a Cubs rally in game four of the National League Championship Series.

So far I got half of my World Series prediction right and I’m hoping I get the other half wrong.  I’m pulling for a Mets-Royals World Series.  The more I see of the Blue Jays the more I can’t stand them.  They whine and complain about every strike called against them.

Disgusting…

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and horrible and any other negative adjective you can think of is the only way to describe the Dodgers’ win over the Mets tonight.  I don’t care what the television commentators say, Chase Utley’s take out of Rueben Tejada was a nasty play by a nasty player.

As far as I’m concerned the Dodgers are a team of jackasses managed by jackass.

Rueben Tejada has a broken leg. His season is over. Who do the Mets see about that?

Calling Utley’s undercut a “hard slide” is an insult to the game of baseball.  If that slide had won the Tigers the World Series it would have ruined if for me.  I don’t believe in winning at any cost or the ends justifying the means. The next time that turd Utley steps to plate in this series the Mets pitcher, whoever it is, should give him some high heat and then drill him.  I can’t believe the umpires let that puke and the Dodgers get away with that.

Speaking of the umpires, the balls and strikes calling, in the entire postseason has been an abomination.  This is the best that MLB can come up with? Geez!!

Stephen Piscotty | Conniption Shot

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10/9/2015 – Cardinals’, rookie, first baseman, Stephen Piscotty hit this Pedro Strop pitch into a conniption for a two-run homer to put the finishing touches on the first game of the Cards/Cubs series.  The Cubs threatened with two out in the ninth against Trevor Rosenthal but couldn’t push a run across,