Yeah, OK. I don’t want to do this and you don’t want me to do this either, because today’s game was unpleasant and relentless. The only saving grace was Gary and Ron, long after any sensible person had fled for other channels, showing off their knowledge of former presidents: Ronnie went for William Taft’s post-White […]
 
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Saturday was just mild disgust, the kind that’s been de rigueur in Metsopotamia since 2009. You know how it goes: our starting pitcher is taken early and often into distant seating sections, our lineup falls easy prey to his opposite number and it rains before it can end. The Mets indeed played one of their […] Some Met — I can’t remember whom and it’s resisting my Googling skills, so let’s just say it was Ron Swoboda — once noted that fans have it tougher than the players, because the players can do something, while the fans have to sit there and watch. Is it so? I’ve seen the photo of […]  12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Daniel Murphy, Fans, Jayson Werth, Juan Lagares, Justin Turner, Matt Harvey, Ross Ohlendorf I will not read too much into this afternoon’s Mets’ 11-0 thrashing of the Nationals. 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, Bob Gibson, Daniel Murphy, Ike Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Juan Lagares, Sequestration It was Camp Day at Citi Field Thursday, where I don’t know how many thousands of kids were getting their first live exposure to Mets baseball the way I did 40 years ago this month on my Camp Day. Given that these outings cast a dragnet over the lot of a camp’s participants and not […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Camp Day, Ground-Rule Triple, LOBs, Noise Meters Strange how one minute Wednesday night’s game was all about Tim Hudson and the next minute Wednesday night’s game was all about Tim Hudson, yet in a totally different realm come that critical second minute. First Hudson’s impenetrable to every orange-jerseyed Mets batter. Then he’s vulnerable to one Mets runner, and the next thing you […] Answers already? Yup. Sharp-eyed readers Chris D’Orso of Sound Beach and Walter Harvey of Highland Mills are our winners of the 1986 World Series Game Six DVD quiz, brought to us by MLB Productions. They knew: 1) The three former Mets who became All-Stars with the Red Sox were Felix Mantilla (1965), Jeff Reardon (1991) and […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Carl Everett, Eddie Bressoud, Felix Mantilla, Jason Bay, Jeff Reardon, Jimmy Piersall, Jose Offerman, Mo Vaughn, Pedro Martinez, Red Sox ***WE HAVE OUR WINNERS. THANKS FOR PLAYING.*** One of the defining moments of the 1986 World Series occurred almost a year before the Fall Classic to end all Fall Classics was played. On November 13, 1985, the Mets sent John Christnesen, Calvin Schiraldi, Wes Gardner and LaSchelle Tarver to the Red Sox in exchange for Bobby […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Bobby Ojeda, Calvin Schiraldi, John Christensen, John Mitchell, MLB Productions, Red Sox, Wes Gardner First off, no, I wasn’t at Star Wars Night — to the shock of people belonging to two fanbases for which I am a rare Venn diagram overlap. Why not? I don’t really have a good reason beyond being busy and tired. Besides, I have the memory of being a stormtrooper for an evening at […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Carlos Torres, Hope, Ike Davis, PEDs, Ryan Braun, Star Wars When my son was four years old, we went to Shea one horrifically hot day, watched the Mets fall behind, watched them try to catch up in the ninth, watched Carlos Delgado hit a long drive that was headed out of the park … and saw Willie Harris, that bringer of Metsian misery, leap impossibly […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Craig Kimbrel, Jason Heyward, Willie Harris |
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