Author: Vinny Messana

by David Moskowitz Old Westbury is always a competitive team. Problem is, they have not been able to overcome Farmingdale State for the past six years. Year after year, they appear to have a shot, only to lose in dramatic fashion in the final round. They will most likely find themselves face to face against Keith Osik’s squad, and they must find a way to get it done.    The team must cope wi...

Hoftra Athletic Communications Like Stony Brook, Hofstra had their first series cancelled last weekend. They will begin their 2014 campaign in Arizona this weekend against Grand Canyon University. The Pride finished the 2013 season with an overall record of 26-27, 11-16 within the Colonial Athletic Associate (CAA). The team will be playing for Head Coach John Russo in his sixth season. The offense...

Photo Credit: Mets Blog Way back in 2009, Steve Matz made a name for himself when he was selected with the 72nd overall pick by the New York Mets out of Ward Melville HS. After waiting until the very last minute of the negotiation window (August 15th midnight), Matz came to terms on an $800,000 contract which convinced him not to attend Coastal Carolina. At the time, I was pretty surprised the Met...

Photo is credited to GoSeawolves.Org The Seawolves of Stony Brook had their first series of the season cancelled due to inclement weather. They will take on Florida International this Friday in Miami, Fl. Last season the Seawolves were defeated in the America East conference tournament by Maine, after they had beaten Albany to stay alive. The team will be led by staff ace Frankie Vanderka, who com...

Photo is credited to Wikipedia If you are anything like me and love the game of baseball, you appreciate the intricacies of the game that make it so unique than any other game. For purposes of brevity, I will focus on one aspect; the stadiums. No other sport–aside from maybe golf–offers such a diverse experience for the fans on a stadium to stadium basis. No two fields are created equa...

               For baseball fans on Long Island who are not interested in sitting in NYC traffic to get to a Major League game, there may be some good news on the horizon. According to Dan Malley, vice president of the Independent Professional Baseball League (IBL), the non-affiliated league is looking to add a team in Garden City.                 “Market research over the past year has led us to ...

I’ve always said there’s two seasons in the year; football and baseball. Once the Super Bowl is over, I shift gears to focusing on prospect lists, season previews and looking forward to Opening Day. This year is a little different. Long Island, never known to be a popular winter vacation spot, is looking more like Sochi, Russia. Unless you are training to fight Ivan Drago, there’...

Photo Credit: Recruiting Cycle I have been posting thoughts on this site about various topics in Major League Baseball. As you can see, I am a huge Mets fan. But now that the college season is right around the corner you will not be seeing any talk about the Mets or the Hall of Fame voting.  The season will be starting at the end of the month. There are plenty of significant players ready to make ...

There are very few things in this world that can withstand the inevitable dilution upon aging. Everything has an expiration date and–aside from the Great Pyramids of Giza–nothing remains unscathed over time. With that being  the case, it is no wonder that Baseball’s Hall of Fame is not the mystical place it was when it was founded in 1936 and continued to be for many decades. It ...

Last time I checked in, I criticized the Mets for consistently finding reasons to not sign free agents. At the time it was warranted; GM Sandy Alderson would set a figure that he was comfortable with signing a player for, and he would not budge from that figure. From the outside, it was unclear whether he was given orders to not overpay for any player. They finally showed that they were willing to...

Even the captain is getting impatientPhoto is credited to Corey Sipkin/Daily News “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mets fans have been forced to remain patient over the past five seasons in which they have faded as the second half has begun. The one silver lining was always the company line of, “once we have money coming off the books we w...

Photo credit: Kelly O Connor Keith Couch, a 24-yard old pitching prospect for the Boston Red Sox is putting himself on the national scene  for his increasingly dominant performances on the mound. He is coming off a tremendous season in which he compiled a record of 11-3 with a 3.47 ERA. He threw 129 innings, walked only 3.0/9 IP and struck out 6.4/9 IP. Despite the Red Sox being loaded with pitchi...