It’s gonna get away, you tell yourself when an early 2-0 lead becomes a 2-2 tie. When the lead is rebuilt to 5-2, you figure maybe — maybe — the scenario developing won’t be worst-case. Then instead of remaining 5-2, the lead shrinks to 5-4, and you can sense where this is going. Yet when […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  David Peterson, Dedniel Nunez, Francisco Lindor, Harrison Bader, Lineups, Relaxation, Starling Marte, Todd Zeile, Tyrone Taylor, Zeile of Approval Who are these guys and what have they done with the 2023 Mets? Actually, don’t answer that, because who cares? And don’t look for them, because this is fine. Unlike Wednesday’s heroic, up-off-the-mat victory, there wasn’t a lot of sweat expended Thursday in urging the Mets across the finish line. The game was essentially over in the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, Todd Zeile When the Mets’ 5-0 loss at Cincinnati completed its appointed rounds on SNY Thursday afternoon, the postgame show came on, with Todd Zeile seated as the designated authority on all things disappointing. He was a good choice for the job, seeing as how Zeile was right in the middle of disappointment aplenty as the 2001 […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Incapable, Lifeless, The Five Stairsteps, Tim McCarver, Todd Zeile “Gary Apple back in our New York studio, following the Worst Game Ever, as the Mets lose, 10-4, to the Oakland Athletics, though mentioning just the score and the opponent doesn’t do it justice, does it, Todd Zeile?” 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 World Series, Acres of Foul Territory, Angel Hernandez, Blinding Sun, Clubhouse Celebrations We’d Like to See, Darin Ruf, Gary Apple, Horribleness, Jacob deGrom, Karma, Oakland Coliseum, Presumptuous Thinking, Steve Gelbs, Todd Zeile, Willie Mays, Yogi Berra Welcome to the ninth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans during the decade FAFIF came to be. In honor of the […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Benny Agbayani, Billy Wagner, Cliff Floyd, Endy Chavez, John Franco, Mets of the 2000s, Paul Lo Duca, Rick Reed, Robin Ventura, Todd Zeile 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’ve long had a soft spot for marginal Mets, the September call-ups and emergency starters you struggle to remember by season’s end, let alone years later. Part of that is because I love the […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, A Met for All Seasons, Art Howe, Bartolome Fortunato, Brad Wilkerson, Buddy Baumann, Dave Liddell, Endy Chavez, Francisco Estrada, Ghosts, Joe Hietpas, John Franco, Kenny Greer, Kevin Morgan, Matt Reynolds, Montreal Expos, Todd Zeile, Wilson Delgado Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game. It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2020 Mets, Al Leiter, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Art Shamsky, Articles of Confederation, Carlos Beltran, Dave Foley, Edwin Diaz, FanFest, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Ford, Jerry Maguire, John Hanson, Luis Rojas, Mad Men, Pete Alonso, Proximity, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Rainbows, Robinson Cano, Rod Stewart, Steven Matz, Todd Zeile, Truck Day, Turk Wendell Jose Bautista will make history when he enters a game for his new team, becoming the first player to play for three separate NL East franchises in the same season. He hooked on with the Braves early in 2018, brought his talents to the Mets in May […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bob McClure, Braves, Bruce Chen, Cardinals, Cubs, Expos, Jeff Francouer, Joe Orsulak, Jorge Sosa, Jose Bautista, Jose Cardenal, Livan Hernandez, Luis Ayala, Marlins, Miguel Batista, Moises Alou, Nationals, NL East Four-Timers Club, Phillies, Pirates, Players Who Get Around, Ray Burris, Richie Hebner, Team History, Todd Zeile, Willie Montanez, Yorkis Perez Have you ever seen anything like Jay Bruce? Once, maybe. Like most precedents, it’s inexact. Unlike most precedents, this one had physical proximity going for it. On Wednesday night — a night when the Mets’ starting pitcher pitched into the eighth instead of the fifth and the Mets’ manager used three relievers instead of all of […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2000 Mets, 2004 Mets, Jay Bruce, Precedent, SNY, Team History, Todd Zeile When they opened it in 2009, the Mets of Fred and Jeff Wilpon dedicated themselves to convincing potential patrons that Citi Field would present a premium ballpark experience because it would grant those with the right kind of ticket access to exclusive clubs. That first year, very specific castes were established in terms of who […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2001 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brad Penny, Bud Selig, Citi Field, Eerily Quiet, Milestones, Promenade, Timo Perez, Todd Zeile, Wilmer Flores |
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