The Mets have yet to figure out how to escape the Dodgers’ shadow
NY Post
The Mets, much like every team in the majors, have a Dodgers problem.
For them, though, it comes with a runner-up syndrome.
You may remember that in March 2012, Guggenheim Partners circumvented a final bidding process by buying the Dodgers for a then-MLB record $2.15 billion. The runner-up was Steve Cohen.
The two teams have since been the last main bidders on four huge free agents. The Dodgers have won each — Trevor Bauer, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Edwin Díaz and Kyle Tucker. The Dodgers were interested in Juan Soto, but were not fighting mano a mano in the end with the Mets — the Yankees were.
It’s the existential question that will hover over the Knicks until proven otherwise.
Josh Allen fumbled away his clearest path to the Super Bowl.
CALGARY, Alberta — Go figure: after squeezing out a win in which they were badly outchanced in Edmonton, the Islanders went to Calgary, won the advanced stats competition and lost the game.
Forty-one down. Forty-one to go.
The Blue Jays were willing to go to 10 years for free-agent outfielder Kyle Tucker, but they fell far short on the average annual value that he ultimately received from the Dodgers.
SEATTLE — You may not care much about the 49ers.
The Rangers have been here before. For the second time in eight years, the team has issued a letter declaring the season dead, the Stanley Cup window closed, and announcing the commencement of a partial teardown they hope will someday lead to the Canyon of Heroes.
Sean McVay doesn’t fear the cold.
Rangers president and general manager Chris Drury made his intentions known to the team, the fan base and the rest of the National Hockey League on Friday afternoon.
Add another Yankee to the World Baseball Classic mix.
It wasn’t perfect. Or even pretty.
With the Memphis Grizzlies open to trading Ja Morant, his camp should be focused on one thing if they have any say in the situation, as oftentimes stars do.
In an ideal world, Jaxson Dart would have an SEC get-together of sorts in the Big Apple.