That Sunday was Closing Day, an inescapable fact of the schedule, was never far from my consciousness. Yet it wasn’t until I was on the outbound 7 Super Express, rushing away from Citi Field, that it fully hit me that the Mets’ 2013 season was over. Perhaps I was lost in the kind of series-finale […]
 
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 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Closing Day, Harry Minor, Larry Sanders, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Piazza, WFAN Forty years ago today, the Mets were visiting Chicago, sitting in first place, 1½ games ahead of the second-place Cardinals in the N.L. East with a record of 80-78…and they were about to post one of the 500 most Amazin’ wins of their first 50 years. From The Happiest Recap (First Base: 1962-1973)… *** For a pennant race […] I’m going to deal with the lousy part of the day first, because I don’t want it to be the last thing on the page when you’re done reading. Frank Francisco got a called strike three, the Mets shook hands and then threw their hats into the crowd, and the video board started replaying the highlights […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, David Wright, Eric Young Jr., Fans, Juan Centeno, Mike Piazza It’s a cheap and easy bit for writers to place somebody’s longevity within the context of some long-ago president’s term of office. The device is losing a bit of its oomph as a marker of time in this electoral era of two-term chief executives — two decades ago only takes you back two presidencies — […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2005 Mets, Closing Day, Mets Hall of Fame, Mike Piazza The Mets on Saturday lost their third dull game in a row by the same dull score to the same dull opponent. With a win Sunday, they can forge the same dull 74-88 record they compiled last year. They still have a chance to finish in third place, which would be a step up from […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, 2014 Mets, Cult of Mediocrity, Sandy Alderson, Terry Collins Y’know that saying about how you have to be a pretty good pitcher to lose 20 games? Well, if I can take the liberty of substituting that supposition with “supporter,” I think I’ve proven myself one of the better Mets fans of 2013. I am Jerry Koosman, 1977. 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 20 Losses, Al Jackson, Carlos Gomez, Carlos Torres, Daniel Murphy, Jack Fisher, Jerry Koosman, Oktoberfest, Roger Craig, Tracy Stallard Would it have disturbed some grand plan to have allowed Dillon Gee to pitch the seventh inning Thursday night? The man threw 193 innings entering his final start of the season after missing almost three months in 2012. He’s been our only starter to take the ball every turn of the rotation from the first […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brewers, David Aardsma, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Johnny Hellweg, Josh Satin, The Book, The Code American League update: Yankees. Carry on, October. You know why you should pay attention to your Metsies 162 times a year, even between 12:35 and 3:26 in the afternoon of the 158th time they play in a lost year like 2013? Because if you do, you might find yourself immersed in the unlikeliest of debates, such as the one my friend and […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Billy Hamilton, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Day Games, Juan Centeno, Midweek Afternoon Games, Reds, September Most indelible image ever. Vic Black’s my kind of Met. I haven’t felt this kind of simpatico with a September callup reliever since Julio Machado arrived 24 years ago and brushed back Tom Pagnozzi, his very first batter. True, things didn’t work out so well for Machado in the long term, but he knew […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cubs, Julio Machado, Reds, Rivalries, Vic Black |
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