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In today's podcast, I recap a wild week for the New York Mets that started off with the team getting one-hit by the Marlins, and ended with New York sweeping the Washington Nationals. In between manager Mickey Callaway was on the way to being fired in the eyes of Mets fans, while the front office had other ideas.

YANKEES 11 - ORIOLES 4  The First place New York Yankees destroyed the Baltimore Orioles yet again in Camden Yards as Clint Fraizer went yard twice and drove in five as the Bombers won 11-4. New York is now at 30 wins on the season and two games ahead of Tampa Bay in the AL East. Not bad for a team with more than a dozen key injuries, and started the season under .500. While the month of May has been cold this year, the Yankees have been anything but. They have been hotter than a firecracker. Against the American League's worst team, the Yankees put the game away in the first inning. Yes, I said that, the game ended in the first inning. Gary Sanchez's three-run bomb to left put the Yankees up fat 3-0 and they never looked back. The homer was Sanchez's 14th of year as he has starting to look like the guy who was a Rookie of the Year candidate three years ago. The Yankees piled on the O's in the third when Gio Urshela double in Aaron Hicks to make it 4-0, and Fr...

It was easily the wildest 24 hours the New York Mets have experienced in years, and that is saying something. Let’s quickly recap. ·       The Mets were held to three hits over the final two games of a three-game sweep at the hands of the Miami Marlins. By Sunday afternoon the calls for Manager Mickey Callaway to be fired only grew louder by each out. ·       On Monday afternoon, General Manager Brodie Van Wagenen endorsed Callaway and said he would remain manager for “the foreseeable future.” ·       In the same press conference, Van Wagenen announced Yoenis Cespedes, who just recently began running, fractured his right ankle during a fall at a Port St. Lucie Ranch. (Did he fall of a horse? Fall into a giant hole? Nobody really knows). ·       Robbinson Cano was benched for not hustling in Miami. ·       The Mets got blasted by fans and t...

Mikey Callaway's hot seat is boiling over. The Mets manager may soon be the former manager if New York does not show any punch,  effort and a will to win on Sunday in Miami. Why? Because on Saturday afternoon the Mets were not only held to just one hit offensively, they were one-hit by a pitcher, Pablo Lopez, whom they tattooed for 10 runs a week ago, as the Marlins beat the Mets 2-0 in South Beach.  New York fell to a season-worse four games under .500 at 20-24. Food for thought, Saturday's game represented only the second time this season the god-awful Marlins won a series. If the Marlins win Sunday, it will be the first time the Marlins swept a series from an opponent since September 18-20 of 2017. That opponent? You guessed it: the New York Mets. Saturday's one-hit loss follows a disheartening 8-6 loss to Miami on Friday, where Jacob deGrom surrendered nine hits and six earned runs over five innings -- easily his worst outing of the season. In a stretch where th...

Is New York City big enough for two Mannings?  While the  New York Jets  look like a complete dumpster fire right now after the way ownership dismissed  Mike Maccagnan  as General Manager, and head coach  Adam Gase  is doing his darnedest to be the next  Bill Belichick  by threatening to trade  Le'Veon Bell ,  rumors are flying that the Jets could look to former  Indianapolis Colts  and  Denver Broncos  quarterback  Peyton Manning as the next leader of the franchise.  This is all speculation of course. But the biggest link to a Manning-Jets marriage would be Gase, himself. Gase and Manning worked together in Denver in 2013 and 2014 when Gase was offensive coordinator. While Manning was tearing apart defenses, Gase basked in the glow and took credit; Manning was willing to give it to him. The two have been friends for a long time since. Manning even called befuddled Jets CEO...

Miguel Andujar's season is over. The Yankees third baseman will have surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder, after trying to comeback from the injury earlier this year. Since coming off the Injured List on May 3, Andujar struggled , going 3-for-34 and watching his batting average plummet to .128 with no homers and one RBI. He was a shell of the man the Yankees saw last year win AL Rookie of the Year honors. While the news is sobering, it is certainly not the end of the line here for the Yankees. New York has moved on nicely without Andjuar even before this news ever dropped. Rookie Gio Urshela has lit things up at third base, hitting .341 while driving in 17. The 27-year old Urshela even went 2-for-8 with 2 RBI in the Yankees double-header sweep of the Orioles on Wednesday. At the very least the news assures the Yankees won't have to wonder what to do with Urshela if Andujar were healthy. Urshela will keep playing third base as long as he hits, and the ac...

The New York Jets proved one thing on Wednesday morning. They proved they are an incompetently  run organization, that has absolutely no clue about what it is doing. The firing of Mike Maccagnan as General Manager stinks on so many levels, but the timing could not be any worse. The Jets fired Maccagnan after he just led the franchise through an entire off-season, signed a number of key free agents including Le'Veon Bell and CJ Mosley, drafted Quinine Williams, and now ... NOW ... the Jets decide it was a good time to pull the rug out from underneath him. Clearly the rumors of a power struggle between Maccagnan and head coach Adam Gase indeed existed. Gase blew off the rumors during the Jets voluntary workouts, but clearly a rift existed. The rift was apparently too much for owner Chris Johnson to bare that he decided to fire Maccagnan now, rather than wait six months to do after the 2019 season. If the Jets were so much on the fence with Maccagnan they should have fired hi...

YANKEES 7 - RAYS 1 This wasn't supposed to happen. When the Yankees lost Aaron Judge on April 20 to an oblique injury, joining a list of All Stars like Giancarlo Stanton, Didi Gregorius, and Miguel Andujar on the Injury List, it didn't look good for New York. Not for a team that was struggling to get back to .500, and along with the Red Sox, looked the biggest disappointment of the early season. But this why the Yankees are the Yankees. They have as good, if not better depth in the minors than any team in baseball. They scout better than anyone, and they have put to rest the notion that the Yankees have no time for analytics. What the Yankees have done over the last four weeks is anything short of a miracle. A team that was 6-9 after losing two of three to the Chicago White Sox at home, no less on April 14 has gone 18-7 since. They are 24-16, and are only a half game out of first in the AL East. How did they do it? Relying on guys like Luke Voit, DJ LaMahieu, Gio Ursh...

As Seen on Amazin Clubhouse on May 9, 2019.  The  New York Mets  are 17-20. Having just completed a disappointing 1-5 road-trip through Milwaukee and San Diego, the Mets find themselves at a crossroads in 2019. With the next two weeks dedicated exclusively to divisional play against the  Miami Marlins  and  Washington Nationals , it is an understatement to say the next 13 games are pivotal to the Mets season. Because the rumors are already starting that manager  Mickey Callaway  is on the hot seat, and an in-season firing could be in the offing very soon. The  New York Post  reported earlier this week that Callaway had the dreaded vote of confidence from COO Jeff Wilpon and General Manager  Brodie VanWagenen , believing that the Mets will eventually get out of their offensive doldrums. Earlier this year, the Mets biggest issue was its starting rotation and bullpen that for a better part of the month of April was at or n...

First off the bat let me say that I am not by any stretch of the imagination an expert on horse racing. You won't find me at Santa Anita, or Saratoga (although I would like to go to Saratoga one of these summers). Although I throughly enjoy watching the Triple Crown every summer, and enjoy putting down a few bucks on the biggest horse races of the year.  Kentucky Derby.  Preakness Stakes.  Belmont. I am there.  Glued to my seat at 6:35 p.m. ET, waiting to see two minutes of sports action. I remember  Silver Charm's magical run in 1997. Real Quiet's near miss the following year in 1998. Was upset when Charasmatic injured his leg at the stretch of Belmont in 1999. I missed American Pharoah's Triple Crown achievement at Belmont in 2015 because I was up in Trois Rivieres broadcasting baseball, but I did watch Justify's run through the Triple Crown a year ago.   But on Saturday, May 4, 2019, it will be a day -- at least in my opinion -- th...

BREWERS 4 - METS 3  18 INNINGS  It took 18 innings, and at the end of the day the New York Mets are now under .500 for the first time this season following a heartbreaking 4-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, Saturday night. Having taken a 3-2 lead in the top of the 18 th on Jeff McNeil’s single to left that scored Andy Hechavarria from second base, reliever Chris Flexen, with an assist from home plate umpire Angel Hernandez, gave it right back to Milwaukee. On a night where the Mets bullpen was truly phenomenal, Flexen was the last guy out of the Mets bullpen as the game reached the 17 th and 18 th innings. Blame Manager Mickey Callaway all you want, but there was nowhere else to go, unless he was willing to warm up a starting pitcher.   With the game still tied at two, Flexen impressively got out of trouble in the 17 th inning when he worked around a leadoff double by Ryan Braun and an intentional walk to Ben Gamel. However in the 18 th , he com...