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Amazin' Medley

Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin'...
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Sorry Is the Second-Hardest Part

As the fires of the season from Hell cool to a low, smoldering pain, I’ve caught myself thinking about what the most agonizing part was, and I've figured it out. It was the anticipation of disaster. As the season wore wearily on, we were a beaten people by the middle innings...
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He Got His Man

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Too bad the story is apocryphal. Too bad lefty Giant reliever Don Liddle — after retiring lefty Vic Wertz in Game One of the 1954 World Series with two on and none out — didn't actually declare to his teammates upon being pulled in favor of righty Marv Grissom, "I got...
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The Return of Wally Backman

Part of being a modern baseball fan is learning to be rational. Instead of instinctively praising grit and hustle and a dirty uniform, you look at the numbers behind the cloud of dust. Instead of automatically praising or bemoaning a move on the field or in the dugout or in the front...
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What the Breakfast Chicken Hatched

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Athletes have been known be implored to attend Bar Mitzvahs. Sometimes it's because a particular athlete is Jewish; there's a great bit in a movie called Keeping Up With The Steins about an extraordinarily competitive L.A. family trying to get then-Dodger Shawn Green to show...
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The 83-79 Way

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Rarely has anything I've anticipated surpassed my expectations the way SNY's Mets Yearbook did Thursday night. The 1971 highlight film immediately became the second-best thing ever aired on the channel, behind only the 2006 division clincher. The film was titled The Winning...
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Helping Dave Howard Hear the Outrage

Today the New York Post has a brief item about Mets fans who were expecting a 10% cut in ticket prices, but are seeing reductions that are basically a rounding error. Bart Hubbach and Jeremy Olshan quote the ever-reliable Dave Howard, who defends the apparent discrepancy as follows...
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The Days After

Welcome to a special Tuesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20...
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Hell is Out of Session

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After the events of the past few days — the Yankees winning their 27th World Series and being feted for it; the Mets doing no such thing — perhaps you wonder, what's the point? I'd love to tell you what it is, but I have no real clue. But I do have a correction to offer...
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SNY Prepares to Do Right By Us

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As trophies and t-shirts were being passed around Wednesday night on five different channels, I flipped to SNY out of curiosity. Would they be taking their New York sports mandate seriously and covering the grim doings at Yankee Stadium? Would they have something special on to cheer...
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Flash-Forward Friday: I Saw Everything End

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"Welcome, Mr. Fry. If you'll just follow me this way, I'll show you your suite." "OK. This is kind of a weird experience. Can you tell me ..." "It's an adjustment for everybody, sir. We've found that it's best if you take things in...
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If You Still Love Baseball

Let Manhattan clear out Friday, let the authorities spray downtown full of disinfectant Saturday and then reaffirm your love of baseball Sunday by taking Peter Laskowich's Baseball Evolution Tour from 10 AM to 1 PM. Lovely weather is forecast, and I can vouch that what Peter will...
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April 5, 2010

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Mike Burke was president of New York's American League entry in 1969. When its National League counterpart clinched its first division title, he sent this telegram to M. Donald Grant: Congratulations on being number one. Am rooting for you to hang in there and take all the marbles...
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The First Wednesday After the First Tuesday

The President returned to the White House late that night to cope with history. History...would not care at all that the Cards won the World Series that day by 4 to 3. —Theodore White, Making of the President 1964, regarding the events of 10/15/64 On December 15, 1991, six Democratic...
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Dark Side's Callin' Now

Flipping over from the encore presentation of perhaps the best episode ever of Mad Men and glimpsing the Yankees' ninth-inning rally in Game Four — the one that has all but buried the Phillies' hopes of successfully defending their 2008 championship — I thought of Luis...
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Reinstate Melvin Mora

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In February 1998, Al Leiter became a Met. He couldn't have been happier to join the team he said he rooted hard for during his childhood, which he once referred to as "the Mike Vail years". This is really exciting for me. I feel like a little kid. All it took was...
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Easy Enough

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During the World Series player introductions Wednesday night, I wanted to figuratively shoot everybody (figuratively, of course, because I'm not nearly as violent as my baseball tendencies of late would indicate). By the ninth inning, though, I had consolidated my hatred. This...
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A Beautiful Ride

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Welcome to a special Wednesday World Series-distracting edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the...
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You Never Forget Your Second

Twenty-three years ago tonight I got to do something I haven't done since. I got to watch my team become champions of baseball. I didn't know it would be the last time I'd have that pleasure for at least twenty-four years. I wasn't thinking about what the future...
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And So It Blows

Congratulations to the 2009 American League champions. They invested well and they followed through. They made the Twins and Angels look like the Nationals and Mets. They earned what they've achieved to date. That said, both World Series teams, particularly their fan bases,...
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'79 or '93: <i>¿Cuál es Mas Mal?</i>

Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin'...
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Tragedy Tomorrow, Anaheim Tonight

For a fan base that fancies itself the carriers of the You Gotta Believe legacy, we are making me sick. Yankees? Phillies? Yeech. Phooey. You gotta believe in something better than the infinitesimal lesser of two enormous evils. You gotta believe, if only for another night...
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Address to Reluctant Mets Fans

My fellow Mets fans, Tonight we gather not in triumph, nor in joy. Rather, we have assembled out of necessity, driven by the need to combat a deep-seated evil. Tonight we must make choices that will not sit well with any of us. Tonight we must make choices between unpalatable courses...
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As Mookies Go & Eras End

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Welcome to a special Wednesday edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20...
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Welcome, THB Class of 2009

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People who think computers play baseball will say the Angels are down 2 games to 1. But computers don't play baseball. And when you have a teammate like Derek Jeter, and you see the way he goes about his business and how calm he is after a game like that, it's like you'...
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