With one swing, Jay Bruce saved and screwed us all Thursday night. The National League RBI leader — with three crucial Met runs batted in on top of eighty from Cincinnati that do us no good whatsoever — blasted a three-run homer over Yankee Stadium’s center field fence to ensure Bartolo Colon’s vintage pitching performance […]
 
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 14 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2016 Mets, Alejandro De Aza, Bartolo Colon, Hope, Jay Bruce, Jeurys Familia, Kelly Johnson, Rudy, Styx, Subway Series On Saturday, before I slipped into my beloved PIAZZA 31 in order to pay tribute to our beloved Piazza’s 31, I dressed as a mild-mannered reporter at Citi Field. It doesn’t take much to dress like a mild-mannered reporter at Citi Field. You just wear what you’d wear to go out and get the mail, […] 42 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Curtis Granderson, Jay Bruce, Jon Niese, Justin Ruggiano, Neil Walker, Seth Lugo, Subway Series, Terry Collins, Travis d'Arnaud Saturday’s was one of those games in which you tend to focus on one key element that went awry until you realize the other key element never went anywhere and thus rendered the first key element’s awryness moot. Noah Syndergaard, Terry Collins said, threw two bad pitches. Your impulse will be to obsess on those two […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Autumnal Anxieties, Logan Verrett, Noah Syndergaard, Starting Pitching, Subway Series, The Sopranos I’d love to tell you I just got around to writing this after staying out all night partying because there’s nothing like the Mets beating the Yankees in the first game of a Subway Series…WOO! But, honestly, I fell asleep not long after Friday night’s contest ended and couldn’t get myself going early this morning. Nevertheless, […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Armour Hot Dogs, Daniel Murphy, Juan Uribe, Lovin' Spoonful, Lucas Duda, Steven Matz, Subway Series Thanks for coming along. I know you hate when I drag you shopping, especially when there’s been so much riveting local sports on TV, but with all I needed to pick up for my Saturday night paragraph, I needed somebody’s opinion on how it all goes together. I’m gonna try all these facts on for size. […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Eric Campbell, Hockey, Juan Lagares, Kevin Plawecki, Lucas Duda, Matt Harvey, Subway Series, Wilmer Flores Winning streaks end, from the innumerable one-gamers to the historic 11-gamers. One day we’ll have an even longer one. It’ll end too. There are all sorts of ways to lose a ballgame — insane Gotterdammerungs that end with one team barely standing, nail-biters that don’t go your way, slothful snoozefests that never get started, relievers-hiding-under-the-stands fiascos […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rodriguez, Bernie Williams, Jacob deGrom, Kevin Plawecki, Mark Teixeira, Michael Pineda, Subway Series, Willie Mays, Yankees Subway Series wins used to exhilarate me to a 52 on a scale from 1 to 10. The wins from this past Monday and Tuesday rated a 9.8 and a solid 7, respectively. Not bad, but not Matt Franco. Subway Series losses, when the Subway Series was new, cast black clouds all about me. From […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Derek Jeter, Jacob deGrom, Subway Series There are nights when you love how much you love sports. And then there are nights like Wednesday when you prefer to drown your sporting sorrows in prime time soap operas. The Nets, who occasionally lift my spirits in spite of my knowing that eventually they will find a way to pull them down, mishandle them […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Basketball, Dillon Gee, Josh Edgin, Kyle Farnsworth, Masahiro Tanaka, Nashville, Rafael Montero, Relief Pitching, Subway Series GAME NOTES: The Mets scored nine runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … The Mets belted four home runs Monday night at Yankee Stadium, defeating the Yankees, 9-7 … Curtis Granderson, Eric Young and Travis d’Arnaud all took advantage of Yankee Stadium’s extremely generous right field dimensions, each hitting a short-porch […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Young, Curtis Granderson, David Wright, Eric Campbell, Eric Young Jr., Jacob deGrom, Jenrry Mejia, Lucas Duda, Mets Win, Rafael Montero, Saul Katz, Subway Series, The 7 Line, Travis d'Arnaud, Yankees Lose After more than a year-and-a-half in dental denial that those random pains in my mouth were nothing that couldn’t be artfully ignored, I submitted to inevitable oral surgery this past Tuesday. Though I wouldn’t recommend it for a lark, I put myself in the hands of capable, caring professionals who made it nothing like the […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Dillon Gee, PItching, Scott Rice, Subway Series, Subway Series Sweep |
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