With his third home run Tuesday night, Robinson Cano assured himself of qualifying into perpetuity for a conversation that isn’t about disappointing veteran acquisitions that cost us the potential inherent in promising youth. For an evening, our new pal Robbie didn’t need to be lumped in with every wayward American League expatriate from Joe Foy […]
 
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 3 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Acquisitions of Infamy, Joe Foy, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Robinson Cano, Team History, Three Homer Club Ol’ No. 48 had been there before, so he knew how it goes. He’d pitch well, his team wouldn’t score for him and they’d go on to lose. Jacob deGrom practices the whole season ’round for All-Star Games. He seemed happy to have been there nonetheless. Ol’ No. 20 was no longer new to the spotlight, […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 6, Al Weis, All-Star Game, Jeff McNeil, Melvin Mora, Pat Roessler, Six, Team History, Timo Perez, Uncle Floyd, Uniform Numbers, Wally Backman It is one of baseball’s great curiosities that your sub-.500 team can leave its home park, whip a first-place opponent in its home park by a fairly uncommon score on a Tuesday and do the exact same thing four days later to another first-place opponent in its home park. This particular phenomenon may not quite […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Porn, Jeff McNeil, Pete Alonso, Picket Fence, Replay Review, Team History, Uncommon Scores Occurring in Proximity, Zack Wheeler A leading candidate to be rerun into perpetuity by SNY during future rain delays as part of Abysmal Finishes: 2019 has received a reprieve, having been suspended in damp midair by the powers that be wanting to get to bed at a decent hour. Thus, Edwin Diaz did not blow Thursday night’s game against the […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Abysmal Finishes Held in Abeyance, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Rain, Suspended Games, Team History When you play in a bandbox, strike up the band nice and loud. The Mets hit only one home run on Tuesday afternoon at Yankee Stadium and lost by seven. The Mets hit three home runs on Tuesday night in the same selectively diminutive venue — brothers […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1962 Mets, 1976 Mets, 90th Birthdays, At This Pace, Carlos Beltran, Contemporary Bobby Riggs Reference, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, Doris Day, Frank Thomas, Hack Wilson, Home Runs, Marlon Byrd, Mickey Mantle, Pete Alonso, Roger Maris, Subway Series, Team History, Todd Hundley Vargy! Vargy baby! Where ya goin’? C’mon, have a seat. Lemme buy ya a cold one. Barkeep — anything my man Vargy wants, it’s on me. My man worked up quite a sweat out there tonight. Listen, Vargy, that was some game […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Citi Field, Complete Games, Jason Vargas, No Really A Sincere Appreciation of Jason Vargas, Shutouts, Team History Zack Wheeler, in his fifth major league season of actually pitching as opposed to healing, has never pitched for a Mets team that finished with a winning record. The only two good seasons during his injury-interrupted tenure were the seasons he missed with Tommy John surgery and […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1987 Mets, 1990 Mets, 1999 Mets, Adeiny Hechavarria, Carlos Gomez, Over .500, Robert Gsellman, Seth Lugo, Team History, Wilmer Flores, Zack Wheeler They called him Sudden Sam McDowell because he threw fast, not because he tended to put his team in the deepest hole imaginable as quickly as possible, but that’s what the hard-throwing lefty the Giants obtained from Cleveland did to his new team on May 14, 1972. […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1972 Mets, 47th Anniversaries, Digital Synchronicity, Don Carrithers, Grand Slams, Jeremy Hellickson, M*A*S*H, Noah Syndergaard, Rusty Staub, Sam McDowell, Team History, Uniform Numbers, Willie Mays, Wilson Ramos Zachary Wheeler gets his pitch count risin’ Jason Vargas sees the order twice ‘n’ Jake deGrom is a Cy Young winner 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1-0 wins, Buzz Capra, Don Cardwell, Jerry Koosman, Jesse Winker, Maude, Nino Espinosa, Noah Syndergaard, Pitchers Hitting, Ray Sadecki, Singular Feats, Team History, Tyler Mahle, Zack Wheeler The Mets lost to the Brewers at Citi Field on Saturday night, 8-6, in an ugly game made briefly attractive before it reverted to hideous. Noah Syndergaard pitched badly, Travis d’Arnaud caught badly and Jeurys Familia thought badly. In between, Pete Alonso provided a powerful antidote to the mounting blahs, but nothing anybody did well could overcome […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | .500, 1969 Mets, 2019 Mets, Brewers, Internal Affairs, Jeurys Familia, Noah Syndergaard, Pete Alonso, Team History, Travis d'Arnaud |
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