Mark McGwire says he wishes he didn’t play in the Steroid Era. I have the same wish to a certain degree. From 1997 to 2001, McGwire hit 13 home runs against the Mets, batting .280 and getting on base in almost 39% of his plate appearances. Beating the Cardinals on any given day or night […]
 
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 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1996 Mets, 1998 Mets, 2001 Mets, Alibis, Barry Bonds, Ken Caminiti, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Steroids From noon to midnight today, MLB Network will be showing Games Three, Five and Six of the 1986 National League Championship Series. That’s (spoiler alert!) the Mets beating the Astros on Lenny Dykstra’s walkoff ninth-inning home run; the Mets beating the Astros on Gary Carter’s walkoff twelfth-inning single; and the Mets beating the Astros on […] Andre Dawson’s election to the Hall of Fame conjures up a most frightening vision of a very scary slugger with a terribly lethal bat ready to destroy the next innocent baseball a New York Mets pitcher throws his way. I’ve read grumbles and snorts that Dawson’s career on-base percentage is too low to be worthy […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andre Dawson, Clint Everts, Craig Brazell, Endy Chavez, Expos, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Jason Bay, Jeff Kent, Jeff Keppinger, Mr. Met, Olympic Stadium, Omar Minaya, Rookie Hazing, Youppi One of your Mets trivia staples is, “Name the Mets players who have been inducted into the Hall of Fame.” For the longest time, you had but four names to memorize if you wanted to answer in full: • Yogi Berra, inducted 1972 You understood each of these […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, Duke Snider, Eddie Murray, Gary Carter, Hall of Fame, Nolan Ryan, Richie Ashburn, Rickey Henderson, Roberto Alomar, Tom Seaver, Warren Spahn, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra Six years ago today, the world became deprived of Tug McGraw. The prevailing emotion among Mets fans, baseball fans and humanity fans was sadness, which seemed not quite right since I can’t think of a ballplayer who more personified Joy with a capital J, to say nothing of Belief with a capital B. […] Happy Baseball Equinox! We are now closer to the start of the 2010 Mets season than we are to the end of the 2009 Mets season, and I think we can all agree we’d rather have next season than last season any day. May Jason Bay’s impending physical move us that much closer to Spring. In […] Move over, Joe Carter. The University of South Florida Bulls’ 27-3 romp over the Northern Illinois Huskies in the 2010 International Bowl has supplanted the 1993 Toronto Blue Jays’ walkoff World Series win as the greatest moment in SkyDome/Rogers Centre history. Why, it’s even better than the time Ken Huckaby took out Derek Jeter at third […] Tomorrow, Saturday, January 2, looms as one of the finest days and happiest New Year’s greetings in sports broadcasting history. After your USF Bulls gore the Northern Illinois Huskies in the much-awaited International Bowl at noon on ESPN2 (it’s on ESPN2 because it’s twice as big a deal as any bowl on ESPN), switch to […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Equinox, Football, Mets Yearbook, SNY, USF Bulls How appropriate for a person who sees almost everything through Mets-tinted lenses that on the final day of this decade I turn 47. When I see 47, of course, I see not so much a chronological measurement but a uniform number. And when I see that uniform number at the end of this decade, I […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2007 Mets, Birthdays, Jesse Orosco, Joe McEwing, Mardie Cornejo, T#m Gl@v!ne, The 2000s, Tom Glavine Matt Lawton hit 3 home runs during his brief 2001 term as a Met, each of them prior to the bottom of the eighth of the game of September 21, an inning he happened to lead off by grounding out to Braves shortstop Rey Sanchez. Edgardo Alfonzo swatted 15 from Opening Day until he was […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Met of the Decade, Mike Piazza, The 2000s |
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