Thursday night (12/17) at 7:30 marks the fifth and oldest to date installment of Mets Yearbook on SNY. It’s 1963 and, based on my previous viewing of this particular highlight film, it promises to be a gem among gems. That’s sayin’ something considering the channel has batted 4-for-4 with a quartet home runs thus far. I hope you saw 1968, which was as trippy as any acid dropped at the Chicago Democratic Convention that August. I hope you’ve seen them all. These are the best half-hours you’ll enjoy all offseason, save perhaps for the impending Ryota Igarashi introductory press conference.
Nah, these are better.
Image courtesy of kcmets.com.
[...] and it was 2009 on SNY. Then the rain got to be too much and they put a tarp on the field and the 1963 Yearbook on the air. It cheered me up. That team won 51 games and was a signpost of progress relative to [...]