Regular Ol’ Jimmy Durante Over Here
The Mets had other plans for me attending Banner Day. Originally scheduled for the Sunday before Memorial Day, ESPN took that option away by scheduling that game to be […]
Tag Archives: Carlos Beltran
Contemplating the IFs: What If The SF Scenario Occurs?
By Taryn “The Coop” Cooper On my semi-regular non-series “Contemplating The IFs,” I have brought up some topics to discuss on the near-term future for the Mets. Mostly pertaining to […]
Potential Expanded Playoffs Factor into Trade Deadline
Mike Silva of NYBaseballDigest.com brought up a great point in his post yesterday seeing where the Mets would fit in a playoff race under a potential expanded format. Prior to […]
Scapegoatism
By Taryn “The Coop” Cooper The idea of a scapegoat is a loaded one, a deeply symbolic one with biblical meanings surrounding it. In sports, it has its own special […]
Coop’s Crystal Ball: 2011 Edition
By Taryn “The Coop” Cooper Good afternoon everyone (although by the time you will be reading this, it will be the evening). After I retired my old blog, My Summer […]
Should Carlos Beltran Retire In 2012?
By Taryn “The Coop” Cooper I’ve had a contentious relationship with Carlos Beltran. Not that he would know it personally, but I’ve swung the pendulum in the duration of his […]
What Scares Me in 2011
There hasn’t been a lot of news this offseason, save the change in management and organizational/philosophical changes with the Mets. So creative Mets bloggers have to get creative with the […]
Word Association, Mets-Style
If you listened to the debut Kiner’s Korner: Kult of Mets Personalities podcast last Tuesday (and if you didn’t, well, why haven’t you?), I mentioned that I was out at […]
Why Do Mets Fans Dislike Carlos Beltran So Much?
When Carlos Beltran came to the Mets in 2005, he spent the season hearing more boos than cheers. This was because fans thought they were getting the best centerfielder in […]
Hamlet
So today was D-Day for the Mets and the first significant decision made by the Sandy Alderson All-Star Team, having announced that the Extreme Makeover: Mets Edition was complete, agreeing […]
A Case for Trading Angel Pagan
Good evening, everyone. The handle is Taryn, but you may know me from my works at such websites as My Summer Family and Metsmerized Online as The Coop. So please, […]
