They didn’t much hype The First Home Start In The New York Mets Career Of Noah Syndergaard, did they? Just as well. When they hype that sort of thing, it seems to implode. They hyped Matt Harvey’s Citi Field debut in 2012 and it was one of the worst outings he’s ever thrown. They hyped […]
 
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 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Darin, Carlos Gomez, Citi Field, Myths, New York, Noah Syndergaard Precedents don’t necessarily prove anything. All they tell us is whether something happened before, and it’s up to us if we want to take our clues from there. Here’s the precedent that’s gonna kill us: If we fall out of first place — and, based on the results from Chicago and everything that’s been going on […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, First Place, Precedent, Sweeps, Team History “It was a start. I believe in starts. Once you have the start, the rest is inevitable.” Presumably somebody somewhere waited breathlessly for Bob Moorhead to make his major league debut, but it seems safe to say he didn’t carry quite the cachet to his impending initiation that Noah Syndergaard did […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, Bob Moorhead, Met Debuts, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, The Commitments “I hit behind Yogi in one ballgame […] somebody threw him a fastball up in his eyes and Yogi banged it up the middle for a single and I was sitting there on deck going, ‘This is not a game for which I’m familiar…good god.’ To bat behind Yogi Berra, that was awesome.” It wasn’t […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1965 Mets, Al Jackson, An Appreciation, Jim Bethke, Johnny Monell, Mets Catchers, Noah Syndergaard, Team History, Yogi Berra Many of you will probably tire of seeing it before long, but for those of you not in the New York market, we’ve obtained the script for the “Niese On Nissan” commercial that will be airing incessantly during Mets games for the next several months. The ad was shot late Saturday night outside Citizens Bank […] When you’re sending your ace of aces out to face the dregs of the dregs, you can’t help but have high hopes…high in the sky apple pie hopes. In this corner, we had the undefeated Matt Harvey, author of the best day (sometimes two days) of every week. In the other corner, there sat the […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, 2002 Mets, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels, Dillon Gee, Freddie Galvis, Hansel Robles, Injuries, Jonathan Papelbon, Matt Harvey, Mets Fan Instinct, Monty Python, Noah Syndergaard, Phillies, Ryan Howard Not many books draw attention more for their subtitle than their title, but Baseball Maverick’s most striking come-on clearly sits below the marquee: “How Sandy Alderson Revolutionized Baseball and Revived the Mets” The unaffiliated reader might arch an eyebrow at the part in which one man is claimed to have transformed an entire sport, but that pales […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library, Sandy Alderson, Scott Kazmir, Steve Kettmann, Zack Wheeler What the hell’s so funny about Bartolo Colon? After a year and a month of watching him practically every fifth day, I have to admit I don’t get the joke. He’s older than everybody. He’s rounder than everybody. He says less than anybody. He swings through almost everything. His batting helmet flies off with little provocation. Yeah? […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Bartolo Colon, Eddie Murray, Juan Lagares, Orioles, Sandy Koufax, Steve Carlton Of the 25 fine reasons to read Game Of My Life: New York Mets, perhaps the one that comes out of the farthest reaches of left field is the best. That’s the chapter author Michael Garry devotes to Eric Hillman. Eric Hillman you probably remember if you were an active Mets fan between 1992 and 1994. […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Eric Hillman, Excellent Addition to Your Baseball Library The other day I visited my ophthamologist for one of those comprehensive examinations that includes drops in both eyes. Once it’s over and you step outside, you basically enter a Soundgarden video. Everything is ridiculously bright and slightly surreal. It’s why, in the event that you don’t carry shades, they give you a Rollens, not […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bandwagons, Gratuitous Shot at Jimmy Rollins, Jayson Werth, Jeurys Familia, Juan Lagares, Matt Harvey, Max Scherzer, Opthamalogists, Soundgarden |
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