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Imagine trying to forecast a season when you can’t even, well, forecast a season. Will this major league schedule start, continue, finish? Those are mysteries that dominate 2020 more than who will win a division or an award. But for the purposes of sanity and normalcy, let us go through the exercise and appreciate that …

The Mets got good and hammered Saturday night at Citi Field, the Yankees handing them a 9-3 loss thanks in large part to a ninth inning that looked an awful lot like the fever dreams that haunted their fans most of last year. It was exactly the kind of game we’ve seen at Citi Field …

It took longer than most people expected, but baseball was back in New York on Saturday night. And though it was an exhibition game with no fans at Citi Field, that was fine with Pete Alonso. “This is one of the days we were wishing and waiting for during the second offseason,’’ Alonso said before …

If you could tweet a beanball, it would look like this. Former Mets reliever Jerry Blevins went at Alex Rodriguez without any restraint, leveling the former Yankees great and ESPN announcer for seemingly suggesting MLB adopt a salary cap system. “What a hypocrite @Arod,” he tweeted. “Take your steroids and make your millions THEN tell …

Despite a report Joe Tsai is part of Alex Rodriguez’s bid to buy the Mets, the Nets and Liberty owner said he is not in the mix. “Sorry Twitter, it is not true,” Tsai tweeted Saturday of the rumor. “I grew up as a Mets fan and I have a lot of respect for Alex …

With the Mets and Yanks planning to pipe in old crowd noise during their home games — fabricated excitement that should only inspire ridicule — I wonder if players will be called out of the dugout to tip their caps to cardboard cutouts. And how about recorded “Boston Bleeps!” chants? Anyway, these are a few …

Alex Rodriguez was the wrong messenger. In a conference call Thursday, Rodriguez recommended players accept a revenue-sharing plan before attempting a clarifying tweet Friday that he “never mentioned the word salary cap.” A-Rod often has trouble with words, including that salary cap is not a “word,” but two of them. He also has difficulty with …

Mets fans may not be able to attend any games this year, but they can still have a presence once the season kicks off next Friday at Citi Field. The team is selling cardboard cutouts of fans in the stands for $86 each, and a significant amount of them have taken the Mets up on …

Jacob deGrom’s pursuit of his scheduled Opening Day start won’t include an exhibition tune-up against the Yankees. The Mets ace, who was removed from his last start in an intrasquad scrimmage after only one inning because of back discomfort, threw 17 pitches in a bullpen session Friday and indicated he felt strong physically, according to …

A #MeToo activist who says she was targeted by disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein told the a court Friday she was “misquoted” in a newspaper article that’s at the center of Johnny Depp’s explosive libel trial. Actress Katherine Kendall — who was quoted in an article in The Sun calling Depp “wife beater” in 2018 …