If you think Rubin is "fair", you probably think the Mets should sign every single player mentioned on Sportscenter because "ya gotta spend big ta win big in new yawwk". You probably also think every prospect should be traded for a big-name high price mercenary because "Rememba Generation K!!?!??!?!" Adam caters to… Read more

I think I largely agree with the consensus that Kilgore is the best and that Ladson is the worst. Read more

In this era, everyone pretty much has the same news. But Carig is the most entertaining on Twitter, which actually matters to a lot of fans (me included) who use a second screen while watching games on TV. Read more

Kilgore, Comak, and Wagner are definitely my favorites (probably in that order too), and Zuckerman is a solid 4th. Ladson is, indeed, terrible. Read more

Bowman is hands down the best. Insight on the team, humor, and precision. McAlpin is solid but doesn't have the brevity/connection. DOB is a pile of crap who spends 90% time talking about BBQ and stupid trade proposals. Read more

Carig by a long shot. Most of the beat writers and bloggers get the information out at about the same time with Rubin being the fastest a lot of the time. Carig is the funniest and understands mets twitter best Read more

Bowman is the best, hands down. O'Brien tweets the play by play from every game, so needless to say I hate him. Read more

DOB is an arrogant, hipster jackass. He live tweets the game well but his "scoopage" and writing ability is awful. Read more

Ok, now that Deitch is officially included in the mix, I'm voting for him as #1 Phillies beat writer. Read more

Like Kilgore a lot, but in my head, Svrluga will always be the best beat reporter for this incarnation of the team. Christ, now I'm getting all nostalgic for his reports from Panera in 2005. It felt like we went through the trenches with that guy. Read more

I followed Ladson on twitter for a while...he kept going off on other beat writers without any context. Not to mention he was far too positive. He really came of as a lunatic. Read more

I get my good stuff from Zuckerman and Comak. Read more

Rubin by default. The Wilpon- SNY owned MetsBlog.com owes its very existence to Rubin's comprehensive reporting, as they, ahem, (steal with credit) aggregate so much content from it. ESPN should get royalties. Read more

Kilgore's great. His stories are always a good read. Zuckerman's my number 2 followed closely by Comak and Kolko. I can't say that I have an opinion on McNally, but as everyone else here has said, Bill Ladson is awful. He's a homer in the worst kind of way. The team just came off of a 57-105 season? 90 wins next year!! Read more

Rubin is the best. Timely, accurate, fair, and good at being unbiased. But also becoming a bit of a sellout lately! Gets offended a little easily too but I guess that doesn't matter as far as reporting quality. Shoutout to Carig who is also good, and the funniest of the bunch.

Worst is Martino. Too often tries to take… Read more

Agree, Rubin gets the info, but his writing is joyless and always looking to highlight the negative and downplay the positive. His Twitter acct. is classic trolling. Read more

If you really want to see what a gifted writer Kilgore is, read one of his running game stories online before he has a chance to get quotes. The way he's able to tie it all together instead of it just being a sloppy mess of play by play is incredible. Read more

Dave O'Brien is easily the worst in Atlanta. In the offseason he wrote about Evan Gattis' story and didn't shut up about it until a month into the season. Literally, in every notebook, spring training gamer, regular season gamer or anything else, DOB could not mention Gattis' name without telling Gattis' story over… Read more

DOB (dave o' brien) is just flat out awful. Starts shit between players, often gets in game stats and reports wrong, and also creeps on twitter women. Read more

• Adam Rubin (ESPN New York)