Willie Mays showed up at the ballpark this week. It doesn’t matter which ballpark, but for the record, it was Oracle Park in San Francisco, convenient in that Willie lives near San Francisco, appropriate because for those privileged to be in his presence, he is baseball’s oracle. Willie has been a regular at Giant games […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Brett Baty, Darin Ruf, Debuts, Francisco Alvarez, Jay Payton, Mark Vientos, New York Giants, Ray Dandridge, Willie Mays, Youth When last we were being clever about Metropolitan math, right around the beginning of this month, the Mets had just taken two out of three from the Dodgers, constituting their 30th series win of the season against 8 series losses and 3 series ties. Up ahead on the schedule were cushions, marshmallows and Milwaukee. Competition […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, September, Winning Series Carlos Carrasco was bad, inexplicable Mets punching bag Pablo Lopez was good, the Marlins were pesky even by their loathsome standards and the Mets lost a game that had a queasy, out-of-sorts feeling to it from the get-go. And yes, down in D.C. the Braves smacked the crap out of the Nats, and so now […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Frustration, Jacob Stallings, James McCann, Jerry Blevins, JJ Bleday, Marlins, Mr. Met, Pablo Lopez, Pete Alonso, Richard Bleier, Ties, Trevor Williams, Weather Those graphing skills you may have retained from geometry class will finally come in handy if you are yearning to illustrate the upward trajectory of the Mets’ single-season runs batted in record. 1962: 94 — Frank Thomas 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Graphing Skills, Pete Alonso, Runs Batted In, Team History, Team Records “Gary Apple back in our New York studio, following the Worst Game Ever, as the Mets lose, 10-4, to the Oakland Athletics, though mentioning just the score and the opponent doesn’t do it justice, does it, Todd Zeile?” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 World Series, Acres of Foul Territory, Angel Hernandez, Blinding Sun, Clubhouse Celebrations We’d Like to See, Darin Ruf, Gary Apple, Horribleness, Jacob deGrom, Karma, Oakland Coliseum, Presumptuous Thinking, Steve Gelbs, Todd Zeile, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra To get us rolling, a sample of my strongly held opinions that make people either smile politely until I shut up or quietly back away from me when they think I’m not noticing: The American League is a jumped-up beer league, the National League should never have agreed to treat it as an equal, and John […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 World Series, A's, American League, Ballparks, Braves, Chris Bassitt, Gambling, John McGraw, Las Vegas, Laughers, Magic Numbers, Mark Canha, MLB, Onslaught of Gambling Commercials, SNY, Stephen Vogt, Whitey Herzog, Yogi Berra How is it possible Maury Wills stole only 22 bases at Shea Stadium? In watching a montage of the thievery that made him famous, it seemed every third clip was Maury swiping second at Shea. That probably owes to the Mets recording and preserving on film more of their game footage than those franchises outside media […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Joan Hodges, Maury Wills, Moment of Silence, Ted Schreiber Brandon Nimmo finally remembers how to steal bases and in activating his dormant skill aggravates a quad that merits exiting the game early, receiving imaging later and monitoring on a day-to-day basis. But I don’t want to talk about that. Jeff McNeil throws his body into every possible defensive play and has trouble getting up a couple […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 200 Wins, 2022 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Nimmo, Brewers, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Endurance, Francisco Lindor, Gratification, Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Tapani, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Taijuan Walker, Team History, Tomas Nido, Willie Mays Pete Alonso grabbed his lumber When Francisco Lindor That’s basically the story of how the Mets employed a Lizzie Borden-style attack in Milwaukee Tuesday night to hack their way to a 7-5 victory in the penultimate game of their series […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anxiety, Brewers, Dread, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Grand Slams, Penultimate Day, Pete Alonso, Streaks The Mets said all the right things after taking apart the Brewers Monday night — how they’d picked each other up all year, how it was a great bunch of guys, how this was just a first step, how they had other goals. All the stuff a team that’s clinched October plans but nothing more specific […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Brewers, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso |
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