“He touched the bag!”
“He interfered!”
“He touched the bag!”
“He interfered!”
“Well I say he’s safe!”
“Well I say he’s out!”
“He’s safe!”
“He’s out!”
“He’s safe!”
“He’s out!”
“Have it your way, Doc. He’s out.”
“Oh no ya don’t. He’s safe! Game’s tied 3-3.”

If only it worked that way in real life. Though I do think Joe West and C.B. Bucknor are, along the […]

If everything goes right for the next two months and change, Jeff Conine will have the opportunity to take part in a New York City event that he took so much pride in helping put the kibosh on four Octobers ago.

Tell me boy, now wouldn’t that be sweet?

Ya gotta love this guy! Look how happy he […]

Unless his mom Sharon keeps a green screen handy, it appears there’s no doubt that Ross Chapman has taken his well-traveled Faith and Fear t-shirt to Maryland, the eleventh state (plus D.C. and Switzerland) for which we have photographic evidence of The Numbers in action. You’ll note the Ocean City footprint just a little above Ross’ […]

Greetings from the second smallest state in the Union, an endless plastics and nylon plantation, controlled by giant chemical corporations.

So wrote Joyce Brabner to Harvey Pekar in American Splendor. She was writing from Delaware, where there are apparently no obvious signature landmarks, save for perhaps a stray du Pont family yacht floating toward Maryland, to readily […]

Mets fans liven up every gathering, so much so that the dullest of affairs (a nondescript Washington Nationals victory, for example, for example) can become a mob scene when one of us is spotted. That’s how it went for Matt Murphy of Queens, a Mets fan who presumably couldn’t get a ticket for the big […]

Ernie Banks became famous at Wrigley Field for, among 512 other things, suggesting, “Let’s Play Two!” Dave Murray doubled up on Mr. Cub by heading to the North Side of Chicago on Saturday and wearing four…the four retired Mets numbers featured on the now classic Faith and Fear in Flushing t-shirt.

As Dave recounts at the […]

Things I already admired about Tom Glavine the Met (really).

A one-hit shutout of the Rockies that sounded as close to the real thing as I’ve ever heard.

Two legitimate All-Star berths.

Eight innings, two hits and no walks to win one for Ralph Kiner.

Domination of the Dodgers and the Cardinals when it counted most.

At least 15 decisions […]