Go figure. After somehow overcoming their own lack of hitting and boneheadedness afield to take two from the Yankees at Citi Field, the Mets made the very short trip north to resume hostilities in the Bronx with the likable but generally luckless Jeremy Hefner on the mound. So of course they leaped on David Phelps [...]
 
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We’re stuck in a season that’s either overdue to be part of a transition or is just a discouraging checkpoint amid an ongoing demolition. (Perhaps you’ve noticed.) It’s been wearying, and after watching the Mets get swept by the Reds and mostly missing them nearly getting swept by the Braves, the last thing I wanted [...] If you’ve been with us a while, you’ve probably noticed that I hate the Marlins. As in, I really, really, really hate the Marlins. Every three months or so, I have a frothing-at-the-mouth tantrum about them. Since this will be the third of 2012, I’ll keep it fairly short. To review, though: Back in April I [...]  30 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bud Selig, Expos, Hatred, Jeffrey Loria, Marlins, Nihilism, Yankees Some days you have to go to the ‘pen and go with the arm that feels it most — feels it as a fan and feels it as a writer. When we talk about Rivera’s pitching motion, his mulish imperturbability, his athletic grace under pressure, we think of artists not ball players: Buster Keaton, Fred Astaire, Al [...] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Belth, Injuries, Mariano Rivera, Relief Pitching, Yankees Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past. In all likelihood this will be the offseason in which we face the grim reality that our broke, troubled, outclassed team has become the Baltimore Orioles of the National League. We [...] We don’t much like to admit it, but during Joe Torre’s long, successful tenure as the Yankees’ manager, most of us developed a deep respect for him. He was calm amid the typical Yankee typhoons of drama, deflected nonsense from his players consistently and gracefully, and rarely let the media hype around a moment change [...] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Derek Jeter, Eduardo Nunez, Hatred, Jerry Layne, Joe Girardi, Yankees Bottom of the 7th B Gardner singled to center. Ivan Nova was quietly terrible, short-arming the ball and giving up hit after hit after hit. But after their early flurry of singles, the Mets (stop me if you’ve heard this one before) couldn’t seem to get the big hit that would put him away. Games like that [...] Ladies and gentlemen, your 2011 New York Mets, just a bump here and a dip there from being the most average team in existence. They’re 22-22. They’ve scored 180 runs and given up 180 runs, making their Expected Win-Loss record 22-22. They’re 10-12 at home, 12-10 on the road. They’re 9-8 during the day, 13-14 at [...] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Generation K, Jason Isringhausen, Justin Turner, Mark Teixeira, New Yankee Stadium, R.A. Dickey, Subway Series, Yankees All longtime Yankee icons are equally detestable, but some are less equally detestable than others. That’s my grudging way of expressing a Mets fan’s appreciation for Andy Pettitte, the longtime Yankees icon I detested marginally less than the others, on the occasion of his departure from baseball. This is detesting less, not not detesting. A Mets [...] Hate to break it to any of you who were keeping your October clear, but my co-blogger’s scenario has been thwarted, and the Mets have been eliminated from postseason play. It’s fitting, somehow, that we’d be eliminated in a game that descended from taut but aggravating (rejuvenated Lucas Duda hitting an artillery shell of a home [...] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Disappointment, Fans, Marlins, New Yankee Stadium, Yankees |
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