My preferences have little impact on determining the outcome of baseball games I sit down to watch, or maybe you’ve noticed the unbroken winning streak the Mets haven’t been on for the past five decades. Nevertheless, I decided I was going to be reasonably content with a Mets loss Wednesday night provided Zack Wheeler and […]
 
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 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1974 Mets, Curtis Granderson, Elvis Andrus, Jay Bruce, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Matt Reynolds, Pitcher Wins, Rangers, Yu Darvish, Zack Wheeler Here’s a new proposal for shortening the length of baseball games: shorten the length of baseball games. Or shorten the length of one baseball game in particular by one inning. Let us retroactively by 24 hours implement such a rule so it is applicable only to Saturday evening Interleague contests conducted in facilities constructed after […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alex Meyer, Angels, Angst, Danny Espinosa, Eight-Inning Games, Fernando Salas, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Milestones, Neil Ramirez, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter So who was betting on “Rafael Montero blows it almost immediately” when pondering how Wednesday’s game was going to end? And how many of you astute folks were brave enough to put $100 down on that in Vegas? If you did, I know you’re swaggering around wearing the grin of a person who’s got, say, $105. This is what things have […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Hopelessness, Jose Reyes, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald Neil Walker apparently forgot how many outs there were. Jose Reyes ensured there were more outs than there should have been. Jacob deGrom walked five batters, gave up five runs and barely made it through five innings. Glenn Sherlock betrayed a fetishistic fondness for red lights when green would have been the stylish choice. Curtis […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Bartolo Colon, Blowouts, Curtis Granderson, Eric O'Flaherty, Glenn Sherlock, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Neil Walker, Rene Rivera, Travis d'Arnaud, Uniclone Scores A few weeks ago I came across an article previewing brand spanking new SunTrust Park. It said that Braves fans were certain to enjoy some fantastic feature or another, which caused me to chuckle internally, because nobody really has an inkling of what a ballpark is going to turn into until experience replaces expectation. After […] 25 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Rendon, Braves, Jerry Blevins, Jose Reyes, Julio Teheran, Kevin Plawecki, Leadoff Home Runs, Michael Conforto, Noah Syndergaard, Position Players Pitching, Relief Pitchers Hitting, Sean Gilmartin, SunTrust Park, Team History, Unknowables, Weathervane Rooting Justice Potter Stewart, who slipped his colleague Harry Blackmun the 1973 equivalent of a Breaking News text alert while the United States Supreme Court and National League Championship Series were simultaneously in session — “V.P. Agnew just resigned!! Mets 2 Reds 0” — is probably best remembered for his concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio, […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Baseball Porn, Bryce Harper, Jacob deGrom, Jose Reyes, Josh Edgin, Potter Stewart, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud Some games are burn-the-tape affairs. Brooding about them won’t help — you’d be better served casting them aside and taking yourself somewhere else as fast as possible. We do have historical obligations, so I’ll make this speedy: Zack Wheeler was pretty good but inefficient and still rebuilding his arm strength, so the Mets were forced to frog-march their […] 44 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Fernando Salas, Horribleness, Ineptitude, Jose Reyes When Yoenis Cespedes re-accommodated yet another baseball over a relatively distant fence five innings into Wednesday night’s beatdown of Philadelphia, I was quite pleased. Really, I was. I glanced up from my tablet, mentioned aloud, “Hey that’s his third,” and, I’m pretty sure, raised a fist slightly above my right ear to further signify my […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Citizens Bank Park, Home Runs, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Passover, Ray Ramirez, Ren & Stimpy, Travis d'Arnaud, Ty Kelly, Uniclone Scores, Unicorn Scores, Yoenis Cespedes Asdrubal knew it was OUTTA HERE! OUTTA HERE! as soon as he hit it. Eleven innings played. Twenty-seven home players used. Two-hundred fourteen home pitches thrown. Two-hundred sixty-three minutes consumed. Two arms raised skyward. One-hundred eighty emotional degrees traversed. And, in the final scene, the Three Amigos riding off into the sunrise, having rescued their […] 39 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Basket of Deployables, Brandon Nimmo, Chumbawamba, Jose Reyes, Lucas Duda, Magical Thinking, Milestones, Phillies, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz, The Three Amigos, Yoenis Cespedes |
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