Well, rats.

It's a funny game — you go from marveling at being behind in exactly two innings to wondering how on earth the team got beat by the likes of Tomo Ohka. Stifled, in fact. Well, so it goes. I'll take 8-2 for the next 10 games with nary a complaint. Meanwhile, some thoughts:

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No, not a fantasy of 8-1 or 21-1 or 161-1, though I'm happy to indulge in those. And no, we're not talking about '80s cheese-rock hits, though if you now have Aldo Nova stuck in your head, I apologize. (Unless you're now air-guitaring up a storm, in which case you're welcome. And I'll now avert […]

“Happy baseball teams are all alike; every unhappy baseball team is unhappy in its own way.”

The noted baseball scribe Tolstoy wrote those words sometime back, long before the DH, and they're as true for bloggers now as they were for newspaper men with lots of agate to fill with minute analysis then. (Anna Karenina also […]

No matter which team was your team today, you came back with a DWI — intoxicated by the performance of Dontrelle Willis or David Wright.

Yes, we finally beat the D-Train (8-1, 1.85, in case you missed it). Or, more properly, we no-decisioned him to irrelevance in the final accounting. Of course Dontrelle wasn't exactly starting […]

Before we get to tonight's game, a few more words about the never-to-be-called-that Mets Ballpark. I know you and I pretty much agree on Shea at this point — it's crumbling, rusty, spills strange substances on you, the escalators don't work, the plumbing backs up, the batter's eye breaks between innings, fuses blow and knock […]

It's a crack, I'm back yeah

I'm standing on the rooftops shouting out

Baby I'm ready to go

Tonight two long-awaited things will finally happen:

1. It will be light for a respectable amount of time into the evening.

2. There will be a baseball game that means something.

The fact that these two marvels fall on the same day this […]

A whirlwind tour of Winter League 2005-06….

PARKS DEPT.

What It Should Look Like

What It Should Sound Like

What It Might Be Like

PLAYERS TO BE NAMED

Final Exam

Extra Help

Final Answers

Better Know A Blogger

MEET MORE METS

Xavier Nady

Carlos Delgado

Billy Wagner

Paul Lo Duca

Julio Franco

Duaner Sanchez

Jorge Julio

The Met Effect

What Are Their Names Again?

OUTTA HERE

Gary On The FAN

John Olerud

Anna Benson

Fran Healy

Mike Piazza

Bret Boone

Al Leiter

FAN […]

In mid-March you’re struck by your annual worry: that this year’s Mets don’t seem to hold the same power over you as all the previous years’ did.

In late March I’m struck by my annual grumble: that spring training is just too long.

Oh, spring training. You wait for it forever, the first spark of anticipation appearing […]