Now it’s getting serious, to the extent that anything can be serious after fourteen games. The Mets are off to a seriously good start and maybe then some. I’m not sure when a start just becomes the season, but fourteen games will do for our purposes. A seven-game road trip with five wins, a seven-game […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1010 WINS, C.W. McCall, Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Francisco Lindor, Great Starts, Mark Canha The game was lost when balls off the bats of Giants fell in and the balls off the bats of Mets didn’t. The game was lost was when the Mets pitcher who’d previously given up almost nothing gave up a bunch. The game was lost when the only Belt in the game delivered the only belt of […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Bassitt, Dick Scott, Eric Chavez, Gilligan's Island, Inevitability, Jeremy Hefner, Nets, Starling Marte, Wilmer Flores Three paces that would be nice to keep up: 1) If the Mets go 7-3 fifteen more times (105-45) and they’ll be 112-48 with two games to go — and I probably won’t sweat the final two games too much. 2) If Pete Alonso matches his career total of 109 home runs six more times (654), he’ll […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aggressiveness, At This Pace, Buck Showalter, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Oliver Perez, Pete Alonso, The Buck Rule, Trevor Williams, Wind Technically, the win in the game that commenced the National League season in New York went to Chris Bassitt. Not so technically, actually. Chris, No. 40 in the common guise of No. 42, gave the Mets six superb innings, and when a Mets starting pitcher is backed by sufficient offense, that generally means the starting […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Home Opener, Jackie Robinson, Nancy Seaver, Nick Plummer, Steve Cohen, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver Statue, Travis Jankowski, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms “You gotta believe,” you may have heard once or twice in your life over these past 49 years. And you really do, especially in April. If you’re giving up this soon, it’s a long May through September in front of you. Yet here in the early won-lost portion of the season, when records are instantly […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Mets, Expectations, Good Starts, Max Scherzer, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, The Sopranos “Hit it to Alec Bohm” shaped us as the winning formula in Philadelphia Monday night. The Mets kept beleaguering the Phillies’ third baseman, grounding balls in his direction; compelling him to pick them up; and forcing him to do something with them. Errant throws ensued in such volume that he was henceforth to be known […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alec Bohm, David Peterson, Eighth Innings, Injures, James McCann, Joely Rodriguez, Seth Lugo, Spit Takes, Taijuan Walker, Trevor May Nationals Park was a little dim, I heard over the car radio. The stadium bulbs weren’t firing as intended, so Friday night’s game wasn’t commencing when intended. Fine by me, having mistimed my errands and running late toward what I’d looked forward to both all day and since late November. Now I’d get to hear […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Hit By Pitch, Howie Rose, Jeff McNeil, Light, Managing, Max Scherzer, Radio, Robinson Cano, Sean Reid-Foley, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Steve Cishek, Streaming, Wayne Randazzo Wait. Wait a little more. Wait just a little more. Now. Now you can have your Opening Day. I mean Opening Night. I mean Opening Night win. It’s yours. No strings. No hamstrings even, as far as we know. It arrived in our laps a little bruised, a little soggy and a little too late to […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Ottavino, Buck Showalter, Designated Hitter, Eduardo Escobar, Gambling, Hit By Pitch, Jerome Hruska, Long Waits, Mark Canha, Mets Opening Day, Mets Third Basemen, Nationals, Opening Day, Opening Night, Replay Review, Robinson Cano, Starling Marte, Travis Jankowski, Tylor Megill Steve Martin as Navin R. Johnson exclaiming, “The new phone book’s here!” in The Jerk has nothing on us in terms of ginning up excitement over the mundane, which is to say, the new roster’s here! Specifically, the active roster of 28 players the Mets will carry into battle (or the first baseball game of the […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Adam Ottavino, Chris Bassitt, Eduardo Escobar, Joely Rodriguez, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Opening Day, Opening Night, Rosters, Starling Marte, Steve Martin, Travis Jankowski Baseball said goodbye this week to 83-year-old Tommy Davis, the two-time National League batting champ, the RBI king whose 153 in 1962 were the most in the NL in 25 years and would be the most in the NL for another 36 years, and the first American League hitter to make the most out of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1967 Mets, Baseball Cards, Moment of Silence, One-Year Wonders, Tommy Davis |
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