A more consistently robust, perhaps less finicky team Hall of Fame — the kind of institution that steps to the forefront with some regularity before mysteriously fading from view between releasing its intermittent puffs of orange and blue smoke — would have already included the three members the Mets recently announced as their 2026 inductees. […]
 
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 10 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Bobby Valentine, Carlos Beltran, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Hall of Fame Symptomatic of the proliferation of Interleague scheduling, the Mets opened their home season against the Toronto Blue Jays this past April, winning three straight. It was fun in the moment, even if the moment didn’t portend anything special for the 2025 Mets in the long run. It also didn’t indicate there were any obstacles the […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1977 Mets, Andres Gimenez, Blue Jays, Bob L. Miller, Chris Bassitt, Dale Murray, Elimination Day, Expansion, Jackson Todd, Jerry Koosman, John Olerud, Juan Berenguer, Lee Mazzilli, Mark Bomback, Max Scherzer, Mookie Wilson, Nino Espinosa, Roy Lee Jackson, Team History They changed personnel. They changed locale. Their results didn’t much differ. The post-trade deadline New York Mets lost, 4-3, at Citi Field on Friday night to a San Francisco Giants team that looked familiar, and not just because they were who the Mets took on last weekend, the last time the Mets won a game. […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Brandon Nimmo, Brian McRae, Carlos Beltran, Cedric Mullins, Center Fielders, Cleon Jones, Darryl Hamilton, Del Unser, Don Bosch, Don Hahn, Jay Payton, Jeff McNeil, Jim Hickman, Juan Lagares, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Dykstra, Mike Cameron, Mookie Wilson, Richie Ashburn, Team History, Tommie Agee, Tyrone Taylor, Willie Mays I wish I had brought some string with me. An enormous spool of string. Had I, I could have offered some to each player I saw in the Shannon Forde Press Conference Room Sunday morning and asked him to align himself just so in order to form the most Amazin’ live-action Immaculate Grid you could […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Doc Gooden, Dwight Gooden, Francisco Lindor, Gary Carter, Harrison Bader, Jose Butto, Lee Mazzilli, Mike Torrez, Rafael Santana, Rain Delays, Retired Numbers, Roger McDowell, Royals, Teammates, Uniform Numbers Wayne Randazzo wasn’t wrong Tuesday when he outlined ways baseball could speed up its action. Specifically, he preached adoption of a pitch clock like that used in the minors to get games moving faster and, ultimately, over faster. But his partner du jour, Lee Mazzilli, wasn’t wrong, either, when he asked Wayne in apparent sincerity, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Mets, Doubleheader Sweeps, Doubleheaders, Ed Grimley, Lee Mazzilli, Marcus Stroman, Noah Syndergaard, September, Twilight Two people at Citi Field were proven wrong Wednesday night in the ninth inning. There was Braves third base coach Ron Washington and there was me, perched in the first row of Excelsior on the right field side. We were both off in our projection of what was about to happen after Ehire Adrianza lined […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Drury, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Jeurys Familia, Lee Mazzilli, Michael Conforto, Throws, Tom Jones, Tylor Megill Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. In the mid-80s, while I was off at boarding school, I got a letter from my mother. That wasn’t odd, but what was inside was. My mother had sent me a folded-up article […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1989 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Dwight Gooden, Frank Viola, Gary Carter, Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez, Lee Mazzilli, Noah Syndergaard, Roger Angell, Ron Darling, Smoky Joe Wood, SNY, Tim Burke Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. I’m solid gold In 1989’s Field of Dreams, the fresh-faced kid Ray Kinsella and Terence Mann picked up hitchhiking seemed to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1980 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Field Of Dreams, Lee Mazzilli, The Simpsons Here’s your “watch baseball all your life and see something you’ve never seen before” moment from Saturday night: the Mets won a game by recording exactly three hits while being hit by pitches twice. Ouch. Ouch. And yay! Necessarily in that order. The Mets’ victory over the Dodgers at Citi Field (itself a rarity, if not really […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | ABBA, Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Confidence, Dodgers, Hit By Pitch, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Jacob deGrom, Julo Urias, Justin Wilson, Lee Mazzilli, Pinch-Hitting, Rajai Davis, Sam Haggerty, Seth Lugo, Six-Out Seth Lugo, Team History, Todd Frazier, Veteran Presence Todd Frazier is officially a Met! Which means Mike Moustakas isn’t! News like this demands exclamation points late in an ellipsis kind of winter. Yet I am delighted enough to punctuate with enthusiasm, not so much because Frazier is a name-brand free agent who’s signed for only two years (I generally fall for those, regardless of […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1973 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1988 Mets, 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2006 Mets, 2015 Mets, 2015 World Series, 2016 Mets, A's, Adrian Gonzalez, Alejandro Pena, Astros, Austin Jackson, Bob Aspromonte, Braves, Cardinals, Chris Chambliss, Cubs, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Don Baylor, Eric Hosmer, Felix Millan, Fernando Tatis, Frank Cashen, George Bamberger, George Stone, Gerald Williams, Giants, James Loney, Jay Bell, Jesus Alou, Kelly Stinnett, Kevin Bass, Lee Mazzilli, Lenny Harris, Livan Hernandez, Lorenzo Cain, Marlon Anderson, Mike Marshall, Mike Moustakas, Mike Stanton, Orel Hershiser, Orioles, Orlando Hernandez, Postseason Grudges, Ramon Martinez, Red Sox, Reds, Rick Ankiel, Royals, Shawn Estes, T#m Gl@v!ne, Team History, The West Wing, Todd Frazier, Willie Randolph, Yankees |
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