The Greatest Show on Murph continues. Every postseason night, a supremely credentialed starting pitcher faces the New York Mets and every postseason night, Daniel Murphy trumps that ace, converting him into just another overwhelmed spectator craning his neck in a venue jammed with gobsmacked gawkers. Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, Jon Lester and now Jake Arrieta […]
 
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 37 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2015 Postseason, Citi Field, Daniel Murphy, Jake Arrieta, Jeurys Familia, Let's Go Mets, Mets Fans, Noah Syndergaard It’s a small detail from a big night, no more than a leaf on a tree in the forest of delight that emanated from Chavez Ravine Thursday night as the New York Mets defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3-2, to advance to the National League Championship Series. But the detail tells us a little something. Get […] 60 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Daniel Murphy, Improvement, Jacob deGrom, Jeurys Familia, Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins, Zack Greinke One of the underrated facets of your team being in the postseason is the off day. Fans of the Nationals, the Braves and other N.L. East also-rans are long past the point of off days. Cardinals fans are plum out of them as are those who lived and, at last, died with the Rangers and […] Justin Arnold knows how to dress for a Mets playoff game. He and his dad know how to bring their team luck, too. Wanted to thank one of the 44,000 fans who made Citi Field a special place to be for Game Three, Justin Arnold. That’s him, between me on the right and his […] “Hello? Anyone still up?” “I’m not hungry. They’ve got great food at work. I’m still wired, though. I just had to drop by and tell somebody […] 32 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Citi Field, Coming of Age Moments, Gil Flores, Matt Harvey, Pete Rose, Ruben Tejada, Rusty Staub, Shea Stadium, Yoenis Cespedes I thought I’d be excited to be going to the first Mets’ postseason game ever at Citi Field. I am, but I have to confess that element of this Met October journey — our ballpark’s first BIG moment — is not quite registering with me. Utleygate is all I’ve been thinking about Metwise since Saturday night. […] 30 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Citi Field, Eff Chase Utley, Matt Harvey, Matt Reynolds, R.A. Dickey Good news for all you kids out there. You can now play baseball any way you like. The rules don’t apply. Just slam into middle infielders at will. You don’t even need to be on your way to second base. You do this, and you and your team shall be rewarded handsomely. That’s my takeaway after […] 76 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Chase Utley, Marlon Anderson, Noah Syndergaard, Ruben Tejada, Travesty, Umpires, Zack Greinke Every day between October 20, 2006, and October 8, 2015, had something in common. For those 3,276 consecutive days spanning exactly 468 weeks, the New York Mets did not play a postseason baseball game. The total is a little misleading since the vast majority of those days featured no postseason baseball games, but enough of […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, 2015 Postseason, Carlos Gomez, Chris Young, Collin McHugh, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez, R.A. Dickey Regardless of what the Trade Winds told us in the mid-1960s regarding the plight of displaced Southern California surfer boys, New York’s an awesome town when you’re the only baseball team around. Welcome to the autumn of our municipal content, the one featuring the Mets and, as of the completion of the Houston Astros’ shutout victory […] 28 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Postseason, Elimination Day, New York, New York Championships, Sheadenfreude, Team History Maybe all the Mets needed was a little sunshine. The sun makes living things grow. The Mets appeared to be the opposite of a living thing since departing Cincinnati with a division title stuffed in their luggage. Perhaps they were under the impression they had entered the afterlife. Not quite. They had only qualified for it. […] 43 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Bryce Harper, Closing Day, Jeurys Familia, Karma, Meaningful Gestures |
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