The Royals’ 7-2 victory in Wednesday night’s Game Two provided a healthy reminder that there are two league champions vying in this World Series. Or, more cynically, the Giants’ 7-2 defeat in Wednesday night’s Game Two provided a pointed reminder that an 89-win team is playing an 88-win team for the championship of the world. […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  1998 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2014 Postseason, Bruce Chen, Dennis Cook, Ed Lynch, Jose Reyes, Julio Franco, Last Met Standing, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Luis Lopez, Marco Scutaro, Masato Yoshii, Mike Glavine, Mike Piazza, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Rigo Beltran, Scott Strickland, Team History, Tony Phillips, Turk Wendell, Ty Wigginton, Willie Blair If four things don’t go exactly right Sunday, a team called the Giants will be done being defending champions. I’ll be sorry if/when they are eliminated from playoff contention, though mostly because a Super Bowl run is a great way to kill time en route to Spring Training. But while the halo above the New […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Football, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Odd Man Out Hindsight alert: The Mets should’ve held onto Marco Scutaro. Or they shouldn’t have let him go so soon. Certainly not for so little, which is to say for absolutely nothing. As sketchy as my recollections of Scutaro’s 75 games hitting .216 in a Mets uniform are, I do recall clearly his beginning and his end. He […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2002 Mets, 2003 Mets, 2012 Postseason, hindsight, Jim Duquette, Marco Scutaro You could’ve used the phrase, “The Tigers will meet the Giants in the World Series” in 1908, but Fred Merkle didn’t touch second, Johnny Evers pulled some shenanigans with the first baseball handy and the powers that be got suckered into calling a Giants win over the Cubs a tie, thereby compelling a makeup game […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Giants, Marco Scutaro, The Shawshank Redemption, Tigers, World Series And then there was one. Or there appears to be. With Jason Isringhausen’s reiteration of his intention to retire after putting in a yeoman year’s worth of work with the L.A. Angels — though he left the door open a crack in case “some GM is dumb enough to want to sign me” — it means […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2001 Mets, 2012 Postseason, Armando Benitez, Bruce Chen, C.J. Nitkowski, Jason Isringhausen, Last Met Standing, Long Island Ducks, Longest Ago Met Still Active, Marco Scutaro, Melvin Mora, Octavio Dotel, Pedro Feliciano, Team History, Timo Perez, Ty Wigginton I’ve mostly followed the ongoing National League Championship Series via peripheral vision, not having fully sat down to gaze directly upon the Giants and Cardinals very much given that for their first five games I’ve mostly been doing something else, thinking about something else or literally mostly watching something else (the full power of P-I-P […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Barry Zito, Cardinals, Carlos Beltran, Giants, Hunter Pence, Marco Scutaro, Pablo Sandoval The beginning of a postseason series, when your team isn’t involved and you feel no automatic rooting interest, is a baseball fan’s awkward professional networking cocktail party. You show up out of obligation, you don’t really feel as if you belong, you scan the room for any familiar face and you overcompensate for your discomfort […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2012 Postseason, Angel Pagan, Bruce Bochy, Giants, Joaquin Arias, Marco Scutaro, Xavier Nady Word is it was 99 in the shade at Citi Field Sunday, yet right here, it feels a bit like ’99 in the Shea: The Mets are hot on the Braves’ heels, Bobby Valentine is basking in the media’s glare and the Mets’ infield has been warming to its task with uncommon aplomb. Highly uncommon, but […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1999 Mets, Al Moran, Amos Otis, Anderson Hernandez, Argenis Reyes, Best Infield Ever, Bobby Heise, Bobby Pfeil, Bud Harrelson, Casey Stengel, Craig Brazell, David Wright, Dick Smith, Ed Kranepool, Edgardo Alfonzo, Expectations, Gary Rajsich, Homegrown Mets, Hope, Hubie Brooks, Ike Davis, Jason Hartdke, Jeff Gardner, Jim Hickman, Joe Moock, John Olerud, Jose Reyes, Kaz Matsui, Ken Boswell, Kevin Collins, Marco Scutaro, Nick Evans, Rey Ordonez, Rich Puig, Robin Ventura, Rod Kanehl, Ron Hunt, Ruben Tejada, Salty Parker, Shawn Gilbert, Team History, Teddy Martinez, Tim Foli, Ty Wigginton, Wayne Garrett, Wes Westrum |
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