Carlos Carrasco was bad, inexplicable Mets punching bag Pablo Lopez was good, the Marlins were pesky even by their loathsome standards and the Mets lost a game that had a queasy, out-of-sorts feeling to it from the get-go. And yes, down in D.C. the Braves smacked the crap out of the Nats, and so now […]
 
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 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Frustration, Jacob Stallings, James McCann, Jerry Blevins, JJ Bleday, Marlins, Mr. Met, Pablo Lopez, Pete Alonso, Richard Bleier, Ties, Trevor Williams, Weather The hardest-to-ignore streak extant in Metsdom met its most stubborn if most obscure in Milwaukee Saturday night. Both involved losing. The one you can’t miss measures five. For the fifth consecutive season, the New York Mets will not be going to the playoffs. They will not enter the postseason as a Wild Card and they will […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Javy Baez, Jerry Blevins, Mathematically Eliminated, Miller Park, Rich Hill, Streaks My usual approach to frustrating losses is to recap them as quickly as possible and have faith that the sun rising again will bring a little optimism back with it. But sometimes I can’t bring myself to do that and opt for a different strategy, which is basically to go to bed and hope it […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, Booing, David Peterson, Francisco Lindor, Garrett Richards, Jerry Blevins Welcome to the seventh chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Amed Rosario, Bobby Parnell, J.D. Davis, Jenrry Mejia, Jerry Blevins, LaTroy Hawkins, Marlon Byrd, Mets of the 2010s, Mike Pelfrey, Wilson Ramos If you’ve been reading us for the last two years (in which case thank you, by the way), you know that I think Mickey Callaway is a bit dim. That said, I have sympathy for him right now. A fair amount of it, in fact. He’s got a closer who can’t be relied on, a setup guy […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Bullpen, Edwin Diaz, Jerry Blevins, Jeurys Familia, Josh Donaldson, Managers, Mickey Callaway, Ruben Tejada, Seth Lugo, Steven Matz Bravo to all the stalwarts who came out to Citi Field on a night water droplets were falling from the sky, accompanied by hits sprinkling a perplexed Noah Syndergaard. Winter-hat night seemed perfectly well timed. Imagine the attendance if a certain third baseman who most definitely is not experiencing a rift with his employeers, no […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Jerry Blevins, Noah Syndergaard, Pennant Race, Phillies, Todd Frazier, Tomas Nido Joy of excess? Oh baby, we hadn’t seen anything yet. Game 1 of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Phils was a rain of records, superlatives and astonished exclamations. Twenty-four runs, a new club record. Twenty-five hits, a new club record for a nine-inning game. A 20-run margin of victory, also a new club record. Weirdly, the crazy 24-4 outburst […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armour Field, Ballparks, Brandon Nimmo, Camden Yards, Doubleheaders, Franchise Records, Guaranteed Rate Field, Janet Marie Smith, Jerry Blevins, Jose Bautista, Philip Bess, Phillies, Position Players Pitching, Ranger Suarez, Scott Kingery, Steven Matz, White Sox, Wrigley Field Moments after Jeff McNeil launched his first Citi Field home run to the branded soft drink pavilion overhanging right field, he was still giddy. Why wouldn’t he have been? McNeil joined the major leagues and the Mets on July 24. Almost everything is a first for him. […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2015 Mets, Austin Jackson, Brief Tribute Videos, Ed Kranepool, Forever, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Blevins, Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Prince, Robert Gsellman, Wilmer Flores The first half of the season, which is actually a bit more than half, ended Sunday with the 2018 Mets deciding to remind us that yes, they’re the 2018 Mets. Ya want yer solid starting pitching, zero offense and a bullpen from hell? Here ya go. Actually I don’t remember ordering that combination or asking for a […] Dom Smith pinch-hit for brand new major league pitcher Drew Smith in the ninth inning of Saturday night’s Mets loss to the Dodgers, which seemed appropriate given that you can pretty much replace one Mets game with another and not even the names changing makes a tangible difference, so why even […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1978 Mets, Caleb Ferguson, Clayton Kershaw, Craig Swan, Dom Smith, Drew Smith, Jacob deGrom, Jason Vargas, Jerry Blevins, John Franco, Matt Franco, Matt Kemp, More of the Same Nonsense, Seat Cushion Night, Willie Montanez |
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