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According to Metsblog, Bill Maher has ponied up $20million to buy an interest in the New York Mets. Any Mets fans here, like myself, may be thrilled that Santana pitched that first Met no hitter before this news went public. Being a Mets fan just became infinitely difficult.

Their 25th anniversary seems to be more sober than an awful lot of the team was. But Allen Barra is right. Twenty-five years ago tonight launched the 1986 World Series, which the New York Mets would win in rather dramatic fashion. There was and remains nothing wrong with that. The 1986 Mets may have steamrolled the National League on the regular season, but there was nothing like a pair of hair-raising postseason sets to remind people that even teams as good as those Mets have to work, good and hard, for their prizes. Yet it seems as though even Met...

One of the more indelible images from the world of sport in the days following the 9/11 attacks came courtesy of the New York Mets. Wanting to find some way to honor the memory of the firefighters, police officers and paramedics who had died while evacuating the World Trade Center, the team took to the field for the first time after the attacks wearing baseball caps embossed with the logos of those first responders. Last night in New York, the Mets were scheduled to play on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Several months ahead of time, as part of a...

April 8, 2008 -- Despite being the victim of an on-line prank, the Mets are gonna give Rick Astley a chance. Thanks to a pair of humor sites, the cheesy 1980s pop singer and his hit "Never Gonna Give You Up" received more than 5 million write-in votes to be the Mets' permanent sing-along song in the eighth inning. The Mets are playing the top six vote-getters' songs in order during the eighth inning of their first six home games, starting with Astley's song today in the final Shea Stadium opener. The winner will then be decided by which song...

We've all seen it. You click a link expecting to go to an interesting news story, a picture of an adorable kitten or something you don't want the wife to know about, and, instead, you find yourself at YouTube watching Rick Astley sing "Never Gonna Give You Up". Well, now there is an effort to take this to a whole new level. The New York Mets decided that, in honor of the final season of Shea Stadium, they'd let the fans decide what music to play in the middle of the 8th inning. So a dedicated, and rapidly growing, movement...

Doesn't this seem more like something a Yankee fan would do? Or a Red Sox fan? Mets fans always appeared more suicidal than homicidal. In any event, it's awfully tragic. Michael Anthony—no relation to the former bassist of Van Halen—stabbed his mother in the head and beat her to death with a twenty-pound barbell on Saturday night after she tried to break up a fight between him and his father during a Mets game, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday. Anthony, 25, of Fresh Meadows, started pounding on the walls while watching the Mets play the Nationals, Brown said....

OP-ED COLUMNIST If you had chanced upon the front door of Grace Church School on lower Broadway on a sunny morning in the fall of 1969, you might have come upon a radiant boy clutching a brown paper bag that contained a piece of sacred turf harvested from Shea Stadium, where the New York Mets had recently won the world championship of baseball. That boy grew up, slightly, and in the early spring of 1986, he vowed that he would ask his girlfriend to marry him the day the Mets won their 30th game of the season. The Mets got...

The New York MessMarvelous Marv - Don't Phone Home (You Don't Want To Know...) by Jeff Kallman "To be a Met fan," wrote Rick Moody, leading off a 2000 World Series postmortem, "is to be preoccupied with underdogs, and therefore to love and doubt equally." Easy for him to say. But let's see what Moody has to say now, with our Mets deep enough in the tank to be unable to see the bottom of the water level ball without a telescope, and on their 40th anniversary to boot.The 2002 Mets seem bent on ending the season in fifth place, which translates today to...

Mets’ Trouble With the GrassSources: At least 7 players suspected of marijuana use By David Lennon and Jon Heyman Newsday Staff Writers September 20, 2002 At least seven Mets have been suspected of using marijuana this season, part of an alleged pattern of drug use that reaches from the team's minor league system right up to the major league roster, sources close to the team have told Newsday. Manager Bobby Valentine acknowleged he worried about the drug problem on his team as early as spring training and said he spoke to general manager Steve Phillips about his concerns, although Phillips...

Have You Heard The New Bill Buckner Joke? by Jeff Kallman "Mookie," the voice hailed the New York Mets' first base coach, "what do you say you hit me a few grounders?"Forgive Mookie Wilson if at first he had to retrieve his jaw from the Shea Stadium grass, before flashing his familiar, almost satchelmouthed grin. Not everyone gets the honour of hearing the newest Bill Buckner joke, especially when it's cracked by Bill Buckner himself. And especially when he cracks it at the bloody crossroads where Buckner and Wilson collided too profoundly to leave each other strangers.It was almost sixteen...

June 18, 2002 Call It Dodgers Lite, but Brooklyn Loves ItBy IRA BERKOW WO freshly minted Brooklyn Cyclones, members of this Class A baseball team that is more or less a wisp — less would be the key word here — of the late, loved and lamented Dodgers, were in this kaleidoscopic part of the universe for the first time yesterday, and feeling their way. One, a 22-year-old pitcher named Eric Templet, is from Gonzalez, La. The other, Kevin Deaton, a 20-year-old, also a right-handed pitcher, is from Cocoa Beach, Fla. They were sitting in a dugout at KeySpan...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla., March 1 #151; Playing in the dirt right outside the New York Mets#146; dugout, Brittney and Caitlyn Roy acted as if they didn#146;t have a care in the world. THEY WERE COMPLETELY oblivious to Mo Vaughn, Mike Piazza and Rey Ordonez walking to the batting rack behind them before Friday#146;s game. The little girls were too busy counting pebbles, burying a new baseball in a pile of gravel and writing their names in the ground. #147;Look mommy, I put hearts around mine,#148; 7-year-old Brittney proudly said. Stacey Roy smiled at her daughter, savoring the sweet moment...