I don’t consider myself particularly prescient, but I did have three recent thoughts that perhaps indicate I have a knack for sniffing out certain strands of Met debacle before they unspool.
1) “Miller Park is a stealth Mets disaster zone,” […]
 
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 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Asdrubal Cabrera, Debacle, Disaster Zone, Jerry Blevins, Miller Park, Paul Sewald, Prescience, Rob Drake, Robert Gsellman, Sausage Race, Zack Wheeler The deal came together with startling speed – in far less time than even one of today’s foot-on-the-accelerator news cycles, Jose Bautista went from possible New York Mets target to likely signee to announced acquisition to standing on the field wearing No. 11. No day or two to get his affairs in order, no needing to […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caleb Smith, Jose Bautista, Jose Reyes, Recidivist Mets, Zack Wheeler Absent a perfect, um, storm of unfortunate factors, Wednesday’s matinee would never have been played. It was a miserable day in New York, a gloomy, continuous soak. But the Mets and Blue Jays had only two scheduled meetings here, and while the Mets had an off-day Thursday, the Jays did not. That left both clubs out […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Absurdity, Blue Jays, Buddy Baumann, J.A. Happ, Juan Lagares, Kevin Pillar, Rain, Zack Wheeler With a one-and-a-half game lead over two rivals and an off day today, the Mets are guaranteed go into the books as the kings of April 2018, provided there are books devoted to April kings in any year. At most, there’s maybe a pamphlet.
The good news, such as it is: Tuesday night’s loss to the Nationals was just a loss. No record scratch, no talk-radio meltdown, no requirement to sit in a dark room and ponder. It was an annoying yet pretty interesting slow drip of a game, won by a team that slapped and blooped singles, worked out […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jose Reyes, Mickey Callaway, Nationals, Todd Frazier, Zack Wheeler We begin, as we apparently sometimes do, in June 2014 in Miami. Zack Wheeler‘s best career start remains the one he turned in against these same Marlins that June 19. (Though we really are talking laundry: Justin Bour is the lone holdover from that squad.) In that game Wheeler faced the minimum 24 batters over the […] 23 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Heaney, Don Mattingly, Injuries, Jarlin Garcia, Marlins, Pitchers, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler Spring Training games so brim with pointlessness that my subconscious had to invent a meaningful game to fill the pre-March 29 void. Actually, I don’t know what meaning there was in this baseball game of which I dreamt earlier this week, but it did happen. In my […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dreams, R.A. Dickey, Starting Pitching, Zack Wheeler The Mets don’t actually travel the earth with a black cloud over their heads, but it sure does seem that way sometimes. From Zack Wheeler to Hansel Robles to Yoenis Cespedes, Monday night’s game was one stomach punch after the other, almost as if baseball was trying to point out the folly of continuing to subject ourselves […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hansel Robles, Michael Conforto, Paul DeJong, Yoenis Cespedes, Zack Wheeler It hit me one March day, when they were apart, how long they’d been together. Yadier Molina was captaining Puerto Rico to the finals of the WBC. Adam Wainwright was working out his kinks against the Mets on the East Coast of Florida. Soon enough, they’d reunite, accomplished battery, same team, another year. Two baseball […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2006 Mets, 2006 NLCS, Adam Wainwright, An Appreciation, Billy Joel, Cardinals, Longevity, Yadier Molina, Zack Wheeler So the Mets played an amazing game Saturday afternoon, with Asdrubal Cabrera hitting the go-ahead home run on the same day fans took home a bobblehead of him connecting for a walkoff home run against the same team last year, and — Wait a second. I’m afraid this post has been flagged for review. Because what you’ve written […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Altherr, Asdrubal Cabrera, Lucas Duda, Phillies, Strange Events, Ty Kelly, Zack Wheeler |
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