Don’t know how the last season of Shea Stadium will end, but it could do worse than to replicate what happened when Tug McGraw, Ron Swoboda and Tommie Agee got together for a little bubbly 39 years ago. Thanks to FAFIF reader Joey79 for sending along this shot. What do you suppose they’re going […]

Somewhere near this blog, I don’t know how many people are rooting for the Mets, but I think all of us could use a toast. To a past that gets more glorious as the years go by… To a future that will always be bright… To the present and its impending 162 games… To […]

I don’t know who this guy is, but I’ve seen him repeatedly since last September 30. This Reuters photo was used over and over last fall to illustrate the state of the Mets fan in the wake of the end of the 2007 season. At the risk of trivializing tragedy, he is our napalm girl, our Kent […]

It’s still Spring in St. Lucie, it’s still cold in New York, but out in Northern California kids are playing ball in shirtsleeves. Batter up! Max Lugo is obviously ready for the real Mets season to start…and if it won’t, he’ll start his own.

Jason’s revelations regarding the uncalled for printing of a Mets card for Johnny Estrada included a callback to the Mystery Mets of yore, baseball players given baseball cards in which they were identified as Amazin’, Amazin’, Amazin’ Mets but somehow escaped the actual burden/honor of performing in orange and blue. The last such identity-theft perpetrator (or victim), […]

At this stage of Spring Training, every team faces a numbers game in terms of finalizing its roster. As our favorite world traveler Ross Chapman can tell you, the numbers that worked best in St. Lucie this past weekend were the ones on his Faith and Fear t-shirt. They certainly did better than El Duque or […]

First they say they’ll demolish my stadium. Then they issue a slew of apparel commemorating their act of destruction.

Amazin’. And lucrative. I shudder to estimate the over/under on how much I spend on stuff like this between now and October.

(Thanks to Dave Murray at Mets Guy In Michigan for motivating me to look at shirts like these. […]

Two pillars of Long Island life in the 1970s were the ABA’s New York Nets and our very own Dairy Barn. Once in a while, they came together for a late-night quart of milk. The ABA is history and the Nets are elsewhere, but you can still drive through 48 Dairy Barns on our otherwise uncivilized island.

Moises Alou is out four to six weeks (probably months, maybe years) in deference to the removal of and recovery from a hernia. We wish him well even as we wish he hadn’t been counted on to such absurd lengths. We liked his September plenty, mind you. We just didn’t think he had another one in him, […]

The periodical to have on tap as you gear up for the coming dream season/injury-riddled debacle is Meet the Mets 2008, 112 pages crammed with “the most in-depth coverage you can get on the Mets”. It offers articles on what went wrong last year, what might go right this year, what awaits down the road in […]