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So Easy a National Can Do It
July 21, 2009 by
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Preoccupied by the goings-on at the first Amazin' Tuesday (thanks to all FAFIF readers who joined in the fun), I can't say I really watched the Mets-Nationals game, but I did look up at the Two Boots screen now and then.
I looked up and there was Nyjer Morgan, who has become...
The Metness Protection Program
July 21, 2009 by
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REMINDER: TONIGHT IS AMAZIN' TUESDAY AT TWO BOOTS TAVERN. BRING A METS BASEBALL CARD, GET A FREE BEER. HEAR FROM SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE METS WRITERS. WATCH THE METS MAYBE BEAT THE NATIONALS TWICE IN A ROW. Full details HERE.
I'm already worried about how the Mets will blow...
Never Waste a Good Crisis
July 21, 2009 by
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REMINDER: TONIGHT, 7:00 PM, IS AMAZIN' TUESDAY AT TWO BOOTS TAVERN. BRING A METS BASEBALL CARD, GET A FREE BEER. HEAR FROM SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE METS WRITERS. WATCH THE METS MAYBE BEAT THE NATIONALS TWICE IN A ROW. Full details HERE.
Even by 2009 Mets standards, yesterday was...
The Mets and the Moon
July 20, 2009 by
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Forty years ago today, Neil Armstrong -- a 38-year-old former naval aviator and test pilot from Wapakoneta, Ohio -- stepped off a ladder and into the charcoal-colored powder of the Sea of Tranquility. Watching on a little TV in an airport lounge in Montreal were the 1969 New York Mets...
They Call This Tim 'Pariah'
July 19, 2009 by
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Thanks to the Cubs' vigilance on our incidental behalf since the All-Star break, the Mets have picked up ground on the Nationals, so we go to Washington holding a 17-game lead in the only race in which we are likely to participate for some time to come. I'd say we have a real...
It Takes a Bullpen of Millions to Hold Braves Back
July 19, 2009 by
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It's fairly standard procedure for Jerry Manuel to go through as many as a half-dozen pitchers to cover one regulation game. It's a union rule, I think. Thus, I suppose it doesn't necessarily matter if he wants to spread members of his eight-man bullpen out per usual, like...
It Takes a Bullpen of Millions to Hold Braves Back
July 19, 2009 by
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It's fairly standard procedure for Jerry Manuel to go through as many as a half-dozen pitchers to cover one regulation game. It's a union rule, I think. Thus, I suppose it doesn't necessarily matter if he wants to spread members of his eight-man bullpen out per usual, like...
Enough
July 17, 2009 by
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Dozing in front of a game is generally an excellent way to lose track of what's happening. But sometimes one sense is sufficient.
For example, with Brian McCann at the plate I had my eyes shut and was lying in bed, drifting somewhere between a coma and mere snoozing. The second...
Enough
July 17, 2009 by
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Dozing in front of a game is generally an excellent way to lose track of what's happening. But sometimes one sense is sufficient.
For example, with Brian McCann at the plate I had my eyes shut and was lying in bed, drifting somewhere between a coma and mere snoozing. The second...
Dock Ellis to Doc Gooden
July 17, 2009 by
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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'...
Dock Ellis to Doc Gooden
July 17, 2009 by
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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'...
Expectations, Meet Reality
July 16, 2009 by
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I think I started getting excited around 3 p.m. -- the Mets are playing tonight! Weirdly, it was almost like Opening Day II -- no, I didn't have particularly high hopes, not after the torrent of injuries and bad luck and craptacular baseball that was the first half of 2009, and...
Oh The Bell With It
July 15, 2009 by
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I'd be a lot more miffed about the National League's umpteenth consecutive All-Star defeat if...
A) The Mets and hosting duties for a portion of the 2009 World Series weren't looming so definitively as mutually exclusive propositions.
B) The lack of National League...
All-Star Selection Show
July 13, 2009 by
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Once a year I forget how much I hate every player on 15 rival rosters and root for the National League All-Stars. But every year, given the shark-infested waters under the various bridges we've burned ('06 NLCS, '07/'08 collapses), it gets harder to muster that ol&...
Driving Slow on Sunday Morning
July 13, 2009 by
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There's a sliver of my baseball season, one I tend to forget about as soon as it's over, which is too bad. It's the great underreported gem of any year. I don't think I truly noticed it myself until today.
Let's say it's a Sunday morning and I've made...
Francoeur Era Raging Success
July 11, 2009 by
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Jeff Francoeur is the best thing to happen to this ballclub of ours since the butcher and the baker and the people down the street gathered to make an appointment to get acquainted with the Mets of New York town.
Jeff Francoeur is the rising tide that lifts all boats: Johan Santana...
The Panic in Needless Park
July 11, 2009 by
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What's the big deal about Jonathan Sanchez? We have no hitters in our lineup all the time.
On the Friday night the Mets traded Church, their offense may as well have stayed in temple. Then again, every night is the Sabbath for these bats. A day of rest...a week of rest...a month...
Church Predictably Traded
July 10, 2009 by
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You read it here first on February 24: Ryan Church would not last the season as the Mets' primary starting rightfielder because nobody lasts the season as the Mets' primary starting rightfielder two seasons running. Well, maybe Jeff Francoeur will. The ex-Brave with the great...
Born Again
July 10, 2009 by
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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'...
July 10, 1999
July 09, 2009 by
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Now Rivera brings the hands together...
Runners take a lead at all three bases.
One-two to Franco...
LINE DRIVE base hit into right field!
Henderson scores!
Here comes Alfonzo...
Here comes O'Neill's throw to the plate...
Alfonzo slides...
He's safe, the Mets...
Endless Sleep
July 09, 2009 by
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Livan Hernandez, being a student of baseball history, was not going to let the 40th anniversary of Tom Seaver's fateful encounter with Jimmy Qualls go by unheralded. No, Livan Lacking offered Tom Terrific a ballfield tribute: To celebrate Seaver recording 25 outs before Qualls...
Cover One Eye & Things Look Fine
July 09, 2009 by
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The Mets have won their last four one-run games. In fact their last four wins have all been of the one-run variety. They beat the best team in baseball Wednesday night. They stayed close to each of their rivals in the N.L. East. Oliver Perez is 1-0 since early May.
See what happens...
Omar, Let's Discuss 2010
July 07, 2009 by
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Reality can be a plunge into a cold bath, or it can just be reality. Tonight I watched the Mets lose by a pair of grand slams to the Dodgers and didn't even flinch.
What good would flinching have done? I figured the Mets would lose, and just hoped it would be dull and pitiable...
AMAZIN' TUESDAYS are Comin'
July 07, 2009 by
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You might find yourself aggravated this summer, but you won't find yourself alone. Not when there are other Mets fans like you just waiting to keep you company on three very special evenings.
Two weeks from tonight — July 21 at 7:00 PM while the Mets' bats are getting...
Just So Many Summers, Babe
July 06, 2009 by
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There're just so many summers, babe. And just so many springs.
Don Henley's lyrics came to me early in the 1993 season. Too early. 1993 wasn't, sadly, the last worthless season that we'd have to spend, but damn if it wasn't over fast. The Mets were 12-25 after...
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