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The Letter They Should've Sent
October 02, 2009 by
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Dear Mets Fan:
As we come to the close of a very disappointing season, I wanted to reach out to you on behalf of the entire New York Mets organization and tell you a few things.
First off, we're sorry. We're extremely sorry for how the 2009 season unfolded. We're...
Baseball's Least Magical Date
September 30, 2009 by
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What better way to commemorate the second anniversary of Collapse Day than by folding, crumpling, blowing away and being kicked in the collective groin by the Washington Nationals?
This was the first time we'd played on September 30 since the September 30 that has come to define...
Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)
September 29, 2009 by
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Maybe I'd just gone numb, but a couple of weeks ago it seemed to me that the Mets at least stopped losing in horrifying ways and began losing in quiet, mundane ways. Not that it ultimately mattered to the bottom line -- for we the faithful it was kind of like being a lobster placed...
I Wouldn't Recommend This
September 29, 2009 by
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Those who aren't baseball fans...I don't get them. They can be polite about how it's just not their thing or they can be virulent to the point of obnoxious over "it's so boring" and "who cares about millionaires trying to hit a ball with a stick?"...
The Things I Miss the Most
September 28, 2009 by
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Exactly one year after we left it for the last time, I think I miss the enormity of the place most of all. It was big. I don't think I realized how big until I noticed how relatively small the new place is. You wouldn't think a humongous stadium would be something you'd...
The Last Lap
September 27, 2009 by
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I confess that I turned on the TV this afternoon more from duty than devotion. There were things to do, the memory of Saturday night's game was freshly dispiriting, and to my surprise I was curious to see what the transformed Jets were all about. Watching Pat Misch trying to escape...
Editing the Lowlight Reel
September 27, 2009 by
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You'd figure everybody had all the evidence they needed to prove just how inept the 2009 Mets were. They've filled gag reels and faux Monopoly boards with pops that were dropped, fielders who fell and everything that went comically wrong — right?
But wait! Another clip...
Hate Is for Hanley
September 25, 2009 by
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I got in a fair amount of trouble earlier this summer for admitting I don't hate the Phillies. (Link omitted on purpose.) It only took me about half an inning tonight to remember how much I hate the Marlins.
I hate their horrible stadium, with its sacks of Soilmaster, acres...
Evidence of Things Seen
September 24, 2009 by
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Winter Training shifts into high gear with an exhibition of nothingness tonight, one more a week from tonight and then, starting the following Monday, we have nothing for real.
I'm picking the Mets to go 0-0 starting October 5, but I don't want to be overconfident.
Until...
No News Is Bad News
September 24, 2009 by
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Well, good morning everybody.
No, your bloggers have not taken a page from the New York Times and decided that watching the Mets play out a frayed string isn't always worthy of coverage. The problem, rather, was your correspondent putting his head down for what he presumed would...
Nine Will Do, Thank You
September 23, 2009 by
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The Mets are baseball's ShamWow! (with an offense that is little more than Slap Chop). Night after night, they soak up the spillage of their crummy season and...voila! All gone. They're more efficient than paper towels.
Went to last night's quick and tidy no-muss, no...
Baseball's Most Magical Date
September 22, 2009 by
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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...
Mercy!
September 22, 2009 by
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The oft-scapegoated World Baseball Classic has a slaughter rule that would have been valuable to invoke last night, as first Pat Misch and then Lance Broadway proved they have excellent career prospects should teams need someone to throw BP. But alas, this wasn't a WBC game (there...
Faith and Fear: The Survey
September 21, 2009 by
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Greg and I would like to ask for your help in finding out what we're doing well at our little blog, what we could do better, and to get some opinions about things we might do in the future.
Please help us out by taking a couple of minutes to complete this survey. It's completely...
Someone to Watch Under We
September 20, 2009 by
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Now go on, boy, and pay attention. Because if you do, someday, you may achieve something that we Simpsons have dreamed about for generations: You may outsmart someone.
—Homer Simpson's advice to Bart upon his entering the Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children
I'...
Let's Get Home Early, Tim Redding's Pitching
September 19, 2009 by
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Shortly before 1 today Joshua and I headed out to get some lunch and run some errands. (Digression: Kids would learn the value of saving better if passbook savings accounts offered interest that wasn't microscopic.) Yes, I knew there was a Mets game imminent. No, I hadn't forgotten...
Postage Due
September 18, 2009 by
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I was at the post office Friday afternoon and stood in line behind somebody who looked very familiar. It was driving me crazy, so I tapped him on the shoulder to ask if he was who I thought he was.
"Excuse me, aren't you the 2009 Mets?"
"Yes. Yes, I am."...
Is This the Most Disappointing Season in Mets History?
September 18, 2009 by
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Shockingly enough, the Mets lost. They started feebly, offered a little spurt of purposefulness, then rolled over and died.
Which was actually an improvement from the night before, when they expired in a fashion that should have been gut-wrenching but instead was just numbing. Not...
Dumb and Dumber
September 17, 2009 by
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"If he's so dumb, how come he's president?"
—Gerald Ford's campaign slogan, as reported by Chevy Chase on Weekend Update, 1975
Those who cut the Mets miles and miles of slack for sucking as badly as they do point to the injuries. How could have we expected...
4th and 6
September 16, 2009 by
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The New York Mets whittled their magic number to clinch 4th place in the National League East to 6 when the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Washington Nationals 5-0. The Mets, however, continued to imbue the Battle for the Upper Basement with tension, strategically configuring a...
Magic Number to the 4th Power: 7
September 15, 2009 by
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For those of you following the most underreported race in baseball, the New York Mets' magic number to clinch 4th place in the National League East is 7. Any combination of Met wins and Washington National losses totaling 7 will give the Mets their third full-season fourth-place...
No Hearts Were Broken in the Elimination of This Team
September 14, 2009 by
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How different. How incredibly different. For two years in a row, I was a first-hand witness to history, sitting slumped over and dejected in the highest tier of an enormous stadium. On a Sunday afternoon in September 2007 and on another Sunday afternoon in September 2008, I watched...
Wicked Gravity
September 13, 2009 by
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I want a world without gravity
It could be just what I need
I'd watch the stars move close
I'd watch the earth recede
-- Jim Carroll (R.I.P.)
This may come as shocking news, so please sit down.
The 2009 New York Mets are not going to the playoffs.
The inevitable...
One More AMAZIN' TUESDAY
September 13, 2009 by
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Free and clear of pennant race stress, join us at Two Boots Tavern on the Lower East Side for the final AMAZIN' TUESDAY of the season, September 15 at 7:00 PM. If the Mets had been good as this reading and discussion series, we'd be looking at playoffs right now.
The final...
Fun While It Lasted
September 13, 2009 by
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The never-say-die Mets didn't say die until the ninth in the afternoon portion of Sunday's quasi-doubleheader. But their offense failed to come to life in any tangible way until the eighth, so the late-inning heroics effect that proved so popular the day before was kind of...
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