In doing my nightly postgame statistical rounds, I noticed that the score by which the Mets beat the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, 11-6, had been gathering dust for quite some time. Until Wednesday, when the Mets exploded with practically unimaginable amounts of offense and it still seemed barely enough to fend off one particular precocious […]
 
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 1 comment - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Anibal Sanchez, Juan Soto, Keeping Count, Robert Gsellman, Ryder Chasin, Scores, Tradition The Tenth Annual Princes and Chasins Spend a Tuesday Night At Citi Field in August Game came with a surprise at the bottom of its Cracker Jack box: competitive implications beyond the bonhomie inherent in these get-togethers. Bonhomie is all the four of us were in it for when we settled on this date, same […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adeiny Hechavarria, Bonhomie, Luis Guillorme, Pete Alonso, Ryder Chasin, Tradition, Wilson Ramos, Zack Wheeler Nights like Tuesday, defined primarily by rain, futility and Jason Vargas, deserve to be evaluated not on how bad the Mets’ loss was mathematically, but how the elements that constitute the whole of the experience measure within the parameters of the carefully calibrated Jason Vargas Index. For those who […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dilson Herrera, Jason Vargas, Jason Vargas is an Awful Pitcher, Mets Hall of Fame, Rain Delays, Reds, Ryder Chasin, The Jason Vargas Index No matter how many ballgames you go to, it is often mentioned, you’ll see something you haven’t seen before. Sure enough, I experienced a plethora of firsts on Tuesday night, which was by no means my first ballgame. Let’s see what I saw that I hadn’t seen previously… • The pat-you-down security guy hassling me about my […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Beltre, AJ Ramos, Amed Rosario, Asdrubal Cabrera, Chris Flexen, LIRR, Mama's of Corona, Neil Walker, Rangers, Ryan Church, Ryder Chasin Happy one-month anniversary of when the Mets started playing games that didn’t count, don’t count and won’t count until April 3. Spring Training schedules don’t traditionally engender milestones while in progress, but this year, with the World Baseball Classic motivating early birds everywhere, what we call “spring” began in earnest amid the indisputable dead of […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Valentine, Connecticut, L.J. Mazzilli, Lee Mazzilli, Mad Men, Rico Brogna, Ryder Chasin, Spring Training, Staples High School Applause for Kelly Johnson, upon the ninth-inning, one-out, two-run home run that tied Wednesday night’s game, was hearty at schvitzy Citi Field but not universal. The Metsnoscenti recognized false hope as soon as they saw it. Huzzah, Kelly, for you did what you were supposed to do, what none of your teammates managed to do […] 71 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bartolo Colon, Craig Counsell, Diamondbacks, Erubiel Durazo, Extra Innings, Hopelessness, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Lorinda de Roulet, Mets Third Basemen, Oscar Hernandez, Robbie Ray, Ryder Chasin, T.J. Rivera Welcome to Tuesday night, Citi Field, Flushing, New York, August, the 2010s. It is not by chance we are here. We make a date. We make this date. August 10, 2010 Did we ever have a meeting to decide? Did it go through committee? Did we take […] 35 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | First Place, Jose Reyes, Matt Harvey, Rockies, Ryder Chasin, Shake Shack, Tradition Tuesday night in August means Chasin Time at Citi Field for the Princes. For the Chasins, it means Prince Time. It’s a good time for all every year for five years suddenly, as time lives up to its reputation and flies. Stephanie and I have been meeting up with erstwhile Bar Mitzvah boy/sharp-eyed sleepover correspondent […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Torres, Citi Field, Nationals, Rafael Montero, Ryder Chasin, Tradition Like the swallows that return to Capistrano every March, Mets fans dependably make the pilgrimage to Port St. Lucie every spring. It’s not so much what they see that spurs them onto southbound flights but what they feel. And what Ryder Chasin felt when he was treated to a longer than expected weekend in the […] Considering the surfeit of extra-inning affairs the Mets have brought us in 2013, you might think something called the Citi Field Sleepover would seem superfluous. Yet the Mets scheduled one (as you may have picked up on from the handful of commercials they ran for it every five minutes), and a hardy band of Mets […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field Sleepover, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Ryder Chasin |
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