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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...
Toss the Linen
July 06, 2009 by
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Let's run down what the New York Mets accomplished today.
1. They didn't commit a shocking mental or physical error.
2. Daniel Murphy gritted his way through one very good at-bat.
3. Johan Santana was terrific in a terrifying hitter's park.
But the first is...
We May Stay Forever Numb
July 04, 2009 by
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After a game like Saturday's, in which the Mets fell behind and settled in comfortably from there, it felt fair if they ever planned to mount a comeback again. Then I remembered it was barely 48 hours ago that they indeed came from five runs behind to eventually won a ballgame...
Agnostic at Best
July 04, 2009 by
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I was supposed to be home in time for the game.
Instead, the flight back from Boston was delayed by the Northeast's daily apparently rain showers. The plane didn't take off until 6:30 or so, and it was after 7:30 when I was able to get MLB At Bat up and running. I navigated...
Dykstra & McDowell for Samuel
July 03, 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'...
Ohmigod, Wasn't That Not Awful?
July 02, 2009 by
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Wednesday they rode the bus. Thursday they broke the Bucs. This weekend?
First place or bust!
Let's get a little giddy for the giddy-up the Mets showed after falling behind 5-0, shedding Tim Redding, shredding almost their entire roster and blowing a ninth-inning lead that...
No Horseplay
July 01, 2009 by
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Jerry Manuel somehow fails to consult with me, but I could have told him taking the bus to Miller Park was an excellent idea. Stephanie and I did exactly that less than two years ago. We were staying downtown, so it was simple. The express rolled right by our Wisconsin Avenue hotel...
Insults to Injuries
June 30, 2009 by
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A grim exercise, for posterity: With one out in the Brewers' fourth, Johan Santana walked a 29-year-old journeyman starting pitcher. He got Corey Hart to fly to center, but Fernando Martinez fell down, literally landing on his face to put runners on second and third. Santana walked...
Yes Virginia, There Are Worse Things Than Grand Slams
June 30, 2009 by
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Oh my ******* God, y'all.
This Is A Dark Ride
June 30, 2009 by
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It was a perfectly admissible argument that Howard Beale advanced in the days that followed. It was, however, also a very depressing one. Nobody particularly cared to hear his life was utterly valueless.
—Narrator, Network
Goddammit, this is a dark ******* period.
—Dewey Cox...
The Way We'll Remember This One
June 29, 2009 by
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Truth be told, I never had any use for "Friends." It just didn't work for me -- I found the characters dull or actually irritating, and so never cared what happened to them. But I did think the method for naming the shows -- each show is formally known as "The One...
Single Met Hit Seeks Companions
June 28, 2009 by
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This season is 45% complete and not 1 Met has a home run total as high as his uniform number. It's not like we were counting on Elmer Dessens to lead the way either.
Gary Sheffield wears 10; he has 9.
David Wright wears 5; he has 4.
Luis Castillo wears 1; he has 0.
The...
Taste the Tour
June 27, 2009 by
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Try to catch or record SNY's Mets Weekly this week during one of its scheduled reairings: Monday at 1:00 PM; Tuesday at 6:30 PM; Thursday at 6:30 PM. The extraordinary New York baseball historian I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Peter Laskowich, is featured, giving a mini-tour...
Friday Night Vitriol
June 26, 2009 by
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Two weeks ago we could debate and decide which was the greater of two evils: a game disgracefully booted when the pressure was on or a game all but forfeited from the word go. Tonight, provided the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup of answers.
You got your slipshod defense in my pathetic...
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
June 26, 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'...
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
June 26, 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'...
The Boys Go See the Man
June 25, 2009 by
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When you get a ticket plan, the tickets from later in the schedule seem like the stuff of science fiction: Amid the chill of February, who can imagine June 25, 2009? For all we knew back then, we might spend the evening mourning Michael Jackson, waiting for the latest news out of Iran...
The Life You Were Meant to Live
June 25, 2009 by
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And you may find yourself without your star players.
And you may find yourself barely over .500.
And you may find yourself losing far more often than you win this month.
And you may find yourself on the upside of an 11-0 romp that you view from Excelsior level infield seats that...
Myths, Realities and Joel Piñeiro
June 24, 2009 by
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A team that had Yadier Molina didn't need Joel Piñeiro. Molina did us in on one swing so infamous a book I know made it the photographic representation of Mets fans' sense of Fear. But it is Piñeiro who has been the most vile of St. Louis villains since then. (FYI, Albert...
Myths, Realities and Joel Piñeiro
June 24, 2009 by
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A team that had Yadier Molina didn't need Joel Piñeiro. Molina did us in on one swing so infamous a book I know made it the photographic representation of Mets fans' sense of Fear. But it is Piñeiro who has been the most vile of St. Louis villains since then. (FYI, Albert...
The $140 Million Underdogs
June 22, 2009 by
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It's long been my contention (though not my co-blogger's) that Mets fans have never been comfortable with hegemony. Our history is one of miracles and belief; our flirtations with dynasty have generally ended with the amassed firepower aimed at our own feet. Even the '86...
Swoon for the Mischbegotten
June 22, 2009 by
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Roster update, per Mr. Rubin of the News and the Mets' dumb luck:
• Righties Pat Misch and Elmer Dessens are mounting their white steeds and heroically galloping to the rescue of an overworked bullpen. They could contribute most effectively by tying Bobby Parnell to his locker...
A Brooklyn Tale
June 22, 2009 by
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A couple of weeks ago Prospect Park's ballfields were too soaked for Little League play, and so Joshua's game was relocated to Washington Park, a place Emily and I had never heard of. It turned out to be at Fourth Avenue and 3rd Street, a couple of blocks from the Gowanus Canal...
The GB Column Doesn't Quite Lie
June 21, 2009 by
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It's getting so bad that I'm beginning to think Brian Schneider deserves to be traded to a contender.
Strangely enough, our lone power bat of the weekend actually is on a contender, through no fault of his teammates. Your depleted, disabled, demoralized, depressing New York...
The Road Not Travelled
June 21, 2009 by
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We were supposed to go to the game.
That was the plan: meet up with a gang of Met-minded folks for our inaugural viewing of the Mets from the Pepsi Porch. And it seemed like a sound enough one: Joshua's Little League team started the morning and ended their season with a win...
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