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The Mets Trade a Star and Embrace the Future The most expensive roster in major league history was a failure. The Mets’ superfan owner, Steven A. Cohen, committed nearly half a billion dollars this season to learn a timeless lesson easily forgotten when pursuing World Series glory: Money guarantees nothing. Early Friday morning, the Mets shipped the team’s closer, David Robertson, to the Miami Marlins for two teenage prospects. That deal signaled that the front office had lost hope, and the next one confirmed it: On Saturday, the team agreed to trade Max Scherzer, a starter destined for the Hall of Fame, to the Texas Rangers for Luisangel Acuña, the brother of Atlanta’s superstar outfielder, Ronald Acuña Jr. The agreement, which requires Scherzer to waive his no-trade clause, was confirmed on condition of anonymity by a person familiar with the negotiations who was not authorized to discuss them publicly. As part of the deal, Scherzer will exercise his $43.3 million player option for 2...

Sinéad O’Connor Passes Away At 56 Billy Corgan And Flea Bid Her Farewell Irish musician and singer Sinead O’Connor recently passed away at the age of 56. In a statement, her family members announced: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad. Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time.” Upon the announcement, musicians worldwide and from all genres paid her tribute. Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea tweeted, explaining how Sinead represented the ‘street kids’ and ‘wildlings’: “For all us street kids, for all us wildlings, when Sinead got huge, it felt like one of us made it. It was incredible. I’m not trying to compare myself or anyone else to Sinead, she is one of a kind, but that’s what it felt like to me. Like she was one of us. She was like Billie Holiday to me. All her pain, all her beauty, those incredible songs. She deserves sainthood.” Massive Attack mentioned the time they collaborated with...

Lionel Messi gets two goals assist in first Inter Miami start Lionel Messi scored two goals and added an assist in a 4-0 win over Atlanta United as he and Sergio Busquets were in Inter Miami CF's starting lineup Tuesday night at DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the first time since joining the MLS side. It didn't take long for the former Barcelona teammates to make an impact, with Busquets lofting a perfect ball over Atlanta's defense to Messi, who missed his first attempt but put back the rebound to give Miami a 1-0 lead in the eighth minute. Messi added another goal on a counterattack in the 22nd minute to double the margin with an assist from Robert Taylor, who scored Miami's third to give the team a 3-0 advantage at halftime of the Leagues Cup match. Taylor scored the final goal for Miami after the break with an assist from Messi, who was substituted in the 78th minute to a rousing ovation from the home crowd. Busquets left the game six minutes earli...

The Offspring’s Noodles On Getting Stabbed By A Fan During Live Show When a Twitter user recently recounted how The Offspring’s Noodles was once stabbed by a Nazi, the guitarist confirmed the incident with a tweet. Commenting on the matter, he wrote: “True story. It was at an anti-nuke benefit, 1989, in Hollywood. Stabbed me in the shoulder. No lasting damage. I already hated nazis. Still do.” When asked about the stabber’s reason for the action, Noodles explained: “There was a whole group of them who just decided to fuck with all the ‘peace punks.’ I went to the door to try & break up what I thought was a fight. Guy jumped at me, then jumped back when I didn’t even flinch. They were just out starting fights.” The scene took place while The Offspring was opening for Final Conflict during their ‘Ignition’ gigs. The band’s vocalist Dexter Holland talked about it in an interview with Louder in 2001. He recalled: “Some skinheads turned up to mess up their show – we were playing rig...

M Shadows Says Being An Atheist And A Believer Is Essentially Same Avenged Sevenfold released their latest album, ‘Life Is But A Dream…,’ on June 2. Recently, the band’s vocalist M. Shadows joined an interview with Rock Sound to talk about the record and discuss its religious themes while also admitting how he realized being an atheist and being a believer was essentially the same thing. During the chat, the singer said he came up with the album’s themes and title while thinking about life and what came after it. Upon that, the interviewer asked him whether the ellipsis at the end also had something to do with that thought. To answer the question, Shadows said: “Those three little dots always felt like they fit there to me, and, you know, I was one of those guys that – I’m an atheist, so I would argue with my religious friends all the time, and then, I had this 5-MeO-DMT experience, and it actually made me feel not that I was wrong or that I was right. It made me feel that it didn’t ...