What a welcome sight Wednesday. Dan Norman, getting another of his intermittent shots at starting, hit a big home run in the first and went 3-for-4. Lee Mazzilli went deep, too, while Joel Youngblood scored a couple of runs. Pete Falcone struggled with his command but hung in there better than we’ve seen in quite [...]
 
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 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1980 Mets, Bill Almon, Mario Ramirez, Mets Fan Perspective Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season that includes the “best” 82nd game in any Mets season, the “best” 83rd game in any Mets season, [...] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1968 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1996 Mets, Alex Ochoa, Fiftieth Anniversary, Lee Mazzilli, Team History, The Happiest Recap, Tom Seaver Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream season consisting of the “best” 55th game in any Mets season, the “best” 56th game in any Mets season, [...] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, 1980 Mets, 1990 Mets, Bud Harrelson, Doug Flynn, Fiftieth Anniversary, Steve Henderson, Team History, The Happiest Recap My sister gave me the news thirty years ago this morning: John Lennon was murdered last night. My first thought was the next thing Suzan said: “Now they’ll never get back together.” Lennon’s assassination (which always sounded strange, in that politicians got “assassinated,” but what else could you call it?) was one of those events that just [...] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, 1981 Mets, 2011 Mets, Anniversaries, Boof Bonser, D.J. Carrasco, Dave Winfield, Frank Cashen, Free Agents, John Lennon, Patience, Ronny Paulino, Sandy Alderson Time to forget the current plight of 2010 for a moment and cheer up. Travel via the magic of video to the heart of The Magic Being Back in 1980. If you’ve never seen it in its full context, here it is, the most talked about home run ever hit by a member of a team [...] Aw, how can you get mad at these Mets for being, per coach Dennis Green, who we thought they were? We thought they were going to be not very good and now we are beginning to be proven fairly prescient. It was a heckuva first half. There may be some heck left in the second half. [...] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, 1984 Mets, 2010 Mets, Alex Tevino, Cal Koonce, Craig Swan, Darryl Strawberry, Doug Flynn, Dwight Gooden, Ed Glynn, Ed Lynch, Elliott Maddox, Expectations, Frank Taveras, Gary Carter, George Foster, Hope, Hubie Brooks, Jeff Reardon, Jesse Orosco, Joe Torre, Joel Youngblood, John Pacella, John Stearns, Keith Hernandez, Kevin Kobel, Lee Mazzilli, Magic, Mark Bomback, Mike Jorgensen, Mookie Wilson, Neil Allen, Pat Zachry, Ray Burris, Ray Knight, Roy Lee Jackson, Steve Henderson, Tom Hausman, Wally Backman Before you head over to Two Boots tomorrow night for AMAZIN’ TUESDAY, be sure to program your DVR to record Mets Yearbook: 1980 on SNY at 6:30 PM. It was, of course, the year The Magic Was Back at Shea Stadium, though only a real time comparison between 63-99 1979 and 67-95 1980 would truly [...] A winter’s night like this one? Twenty-five or so years ago? I would be dying for Mets news. I’d surely have checked my favorite blogs, except there were no blogs. I’d have watched MLB Network or SNY in hopes they had some information on their crawls, but there was neither an MLB nor an SNY. [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, Art Rust, Doug Flynn, Moment of Silence, Neil Allen, Radio, Steve Albert The year was 1980. I was 17 years old. I learned the truth at 17. I learned that advertising slogans are come-ons, not guarantees. I learned that a few dozen wins in the middle of summer does not mean a pennant is in the offing. I learned that every promising story doesn’t have a happy ending, just [...] When Fantasy Park at Delusional Place is finally built, I imagine the Mets will copy what the Phillies did and what the Cardinals are doing by having somebody reasonably appropriate go out to right field and remove a number from the wall to count down how many games remain at Shea in its final season. [...] |
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