Eleven runs in one inning.

Two grand slams in one inning.

Seven walkoff wins in one month.

A nine-game road winning streak.

An inside-the-park home run.

A cycle.

A homer hit by the oldest man ever to homer.

A 200th career victory.

A 300th career save.

Eleven pitchers start.

Two stud prospects debut.

Eight outfield assists by a fourth outfielder.

Twenty-one consecutive scoreless innings by one reliever.

Nine […]

With the Mets up 7-5, I began to think in terms of The Record, the one that had stood unsurpassed for 27 seasons. It's so rare you get to see that kind of history made. We're still waiting on a 12-game winning streak to say nothing of a hitless shutout victory. Yes, we saw the […]

June 30, 2000: I remember. You remember. The night before we'd come up short in John Rocker's return to Shea after running his mouth about the 7 train and its various inhabitants. We were out in force the next night, too — you, me, Emily and Danielle down the right-field line in the mezzanine, my […]

Call it evidence of adolescence either delayed or hopelessly extended, but Stephanie and I remain aficionados of the totally awesome high school movie of the '80s and '90s. The market was flooded by the teen genre for more than two decades, yet only every few years did a really great one come along. This is […]

As Saturday morning is traditionally Schoolhouse Rock time, 61 is a magic number — our magic number. Any combination of Mets wins and somebody else's losses adding up to 61 makes us division champs.

The Phillies have the fewest losses in the East among teams that aren't us, so they're the still the bottom half […]

And I don't say that to taunt them — the juice has slowly gone out of our once-great rivalry since they left the NL East, and the Bartman Etc. collapse was crueler than anything I'd wish on the fans of any baseball team. OK, 29 baseball teams.

As a lifelong Met fan, I know bad. […]

At last at last at last.

The All-Star break is over and the Mets are returning. Though it feels like they never went away, between my co-blogger's tireless efforts (thanks for making Maine feel a bit less far away), the adventures of David Wright and Carlos Beltran and Paul Lo Duca in Pittsburgh, Wright on Letterman […]

Everything I needed to know I learned on the backs of my baseball cards…

• Tom established himself as one of baseball's premier pitchers as he led the Mets to their amazing pennant and World Series triumphs.

• Won first game the Mets ever defeated Sandy Koufax, led I.L. in ERA in 1967, and also set strikeout […]