Yesterday I promised to provide more thoughts about Daniel Murphy and his role with the Mets moving forward, but I got busy with actual work.
My apologies.
Murphy may have been trumped by Jeff Francoeur as the most divisive Met, but the young first baseman still inspires tons of debate among the Shea Faithful.
Here’s what we know: [...]

When someone is out in public handing something out to passersby, there’s about a 99.99% chance you don’t want that thing.
It’s a real shame, but it is a very rare occasion that someone is just standing on the corner distributing diamonds or nachos or iPhones.
More likely, he’s handing out flyers for something you’re not at [...]

Every time a media fallacy is exposed, I think, “Maybe this will be the time they get it!”
I hope it’s a teachable moment, to borrow a phrase from my days as an educator, and that sports journalists will recognize the mistakes of their past and learn not to repeat them.
And every time, I’m disappointed.
So now [...]

In a Daily News column that may have been deemed too dumb to publish online, John Harper explains how the “gritty, gutty” Phillies suddenly “don’t appear to be so tough-minded after all,” which, he notes, is exactly what happened to the similarly gritty and gutty Twins and Angels when they faced a superior Yankee team. [...]