John Jastremski

1 month ago | rockawave.com | John Jastremski

It’s playoff time once again for the New York Knicks. Third straight playoff appearance, and second straight 50-win season, so one would think the vibes would be immaculate around the franchise. Not necessarily the case if you have been following the team all year. The Knicks’ narrative when it comes to beating the best teams in the league is well documented. It’s been a massive failure.

1 month ago | rockawave.com | John Jastremski

Since the start of 2025, some Mets fans and media members shifted their attention to another big star about to hit the free agent market, Vlad Guerrero Jr.Yes, the Mets in January were dealing with the daily Pete Alonso update, and at the time his status was very much up in the air. It led to a segment of fans and yes some members of the media suggesting the Mets abandon Alonso and focus on signing the Toronto Blue Jays slugger in the winter of 2025.

2 months ago | rockawave.com | John Jastremski

There is a delicate balance between beauty and agony when it comes to the college basketball season and specifically the NCAA Tournament. Unless you are the last team to cut down the nets at the National Championship, there is a real sense of finality to the end of your season. That sense of finality hit the St Johns Red Storm especially hard this past Saturday in the round of 32 against Arkansas.

2 months ago | queensledger.com | John Jastremski

By John JastremskiLet’s be real about something right out of the gate. There haven’t been a whole lot of great coaching performances by the coaches of our teams over the past decade plus. Yeah I can give you Tom Coughlin in 2011 leading the Giants to a Super Bowl or Tom Thibodeau resurrecting a dead Knicks franchise, but the examples aren’t littered with great examples in this town since 2010.

2 months ago | rockawave.com | John Jastremski

After a picturesque March day, the feeling of Spring and the Baseball season is most certainly in the air. The feeling of optimism that is usually shared by this team of the year has been turned to downright rotten, justified negativity in Yankees land. It’s impossible to have a worse Spring Training than the 2025 New York Yankees. The official feeling of rock bottom spring culminated with the sobering news regarding ace pitcher Gerrit Cole.