Pleasantly Warm in Cleveland
I was checking my trusty 2010 Mets pocket schedule and every single last one of the boxes — be it orange, bronze, silver, gold, platinum or road gray — indicates we play OPP. Naughty By Nature...
View ArticleA Happy Recap We Can All Use
You could have colored me the whitest shade of pale orange and blue when I saw Frankie “Release K-Rod Now” Rodriguez return to the mound in the bottom of the tenth inning to attempt to do with a...
View ArticleNo Way! This Ends Well!
Help! I’m being held prisoner inside a Mets-Marlins series! —Fortune cookie opened at Marlins Park this week, according to totally reputable urban legend The Marlins were one of the two worst baseball...
View ArticleOne in a Thousand
Like the names of Yoenis Cespedes and Neil Walker, this won’t show up in Sunday’s box score, but the Mets’ 5-1 loss to the Phillies was my thousandth game in a row. Not playing, but witnessing. I’ve...
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Oh Yes, We Call it the Streak
The Mets winning 11 games in a row. Dwight Gooden winning 14 games in a row in one season. Tom Seaver winning 16 games in a row over two seasons. Tom Seaver striking out 200+ batters a year 9 years in...
View ArticleAll ’Grom Things Must End
I really wanted Jacob deGrom to set the Mets record for most consecutive starts with a win, especially once I discovered that such a record exists and that Jake had tied it. I’m keenly aware of many...
View ArticleGreat Isringhausen’s Ghost!
You don’t have to be from east of Queens to know Long Island’s Own Steven Matz can do only so much for us. Tuesday night in Philadelphia, LIOSM did more than Mets fans from Montauk to Great Neck (and...
View ArticleQuality Stops
The 25-minute sogginess delay at the outset. The third starting catcher in three starts. The unfamiliar opponent from the uninvited league. The ballpark and broadcast advertisements for a namesake...
View ArticleJust Call It Peteco Park
Pete Alonso was National League Rookie of the Month for April and National League Rookie of the Night on Tuesday. He is a veteran in kid’s clothing any time you hear him speak. He is a franchise player...
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Inadvertent Design of a Decade
A few years ago, Howie Rose suggested to Josh Lewin that if they were to go down to the field from the broadcast booth at Citi Field and ask the players warming up for that night’s game if they knew...
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