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One Man's Frustration is Another Man's Happiness
Frustration is leaving your Connecticut apartment at 3:20 pm and returning to your Connecticut apartment at 3:20am.Walk-off number 350, aka "A long, ugly game that turned out pretty" (Willie Randolph's words) was the 2nd Mets walk-off win of the season and the 330th (includ...
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April 26, 2008
Discuss
10K: Rarer Than A Walk-Off Win
Didn't realize this until just a few moments ago (thanks, Baseball-Reference), but Johan Santana's 10+ strikeout game was the 300th REGULAR SEASON double-digit strikeout effort by a pitcher in franchise history. They've also had 3 such efforts in postseason. So we've had 47 fewer such games than we'v...
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April 25, 2008
You Are A Magnificent (Angel) Pagan Beast
I quote from the pilot episode of Cheers in this blog entry, hoping that walk-off win #349 will serve as the pilot episode for a better season ahead.For those curious, the quote originates from Diane taking a phone message for Sam. When she gets done, Sam asks for the message...
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April 20, 2008
Whoa Nellie!
Some minutiae on Friday's win ...* Nelson Figueroa is the 4th pitcher born in Brooklyn to start and win a game for the Mets, joining John Pacella, Ed Lynch, and Pete Falcone. He's the 5th Brooklyn native to be a Mets starting pitcher (the other is Frank Seminara). Note: John Franco never ...
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April 18, 2008
Fool Me Once, Shame on You, Fool Me Twice...
Memo to Matt Wise from Keith Herandez: Don't throw the high change twice in a row.* Walk-off loss number 372 is the earliest walk-off loss in Mets history BY DATE. The previous mark was held by the 6-5 12-inning walk-off loss against the Padres on April 2, 1997, when Chris Gomez beat Toby Borland wit...
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April 15, 2008
For The Money He's Making...
Can Johan "The best defensive pitcher the Mets have ever had" Santana play goalie for the New York Rangers?I think he would be pretty good actually, based on what I've seen from his first two starts.I have some slight concerns, both for the New York baseball team and the New York hockey team heading ...
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April 08, 2008
Twin Chilling
Johan Santana, you cost us the 2007 NL East.But we'll welcome you to New York anyway.My flawed logic is based on the idea that had the Mets beaten Santana, rather than suffered a rather humiliating, 9-0 defeat last June 19, they would have won 89 games, instead of 88, and thus finished in a first-pla...
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March 16, 2008
On Hiatus until something noteworthy happens
Sorry, got too many projects to deal with at the moment...will resume blogging in the near-future and will be back at it on full-time basis once we get closer to season...Keep checking back, and read the archives...there's good stuff there.
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March 02, 2008
Going, Going, Juan Gonzalez
Tony La Russa might want to keep Juan Gonzalez around, and not just for the swing that resulted in the mildly meaningless home run off Johan Santana at Tradition Field on Friday.Turns out that Msrs Gonzalez and Santana have a history, kind of like Chipper Jones/Pat Burrell against the Mets, all wrapp...
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March 01, 2008
Word To The Wise
Nate Robinson was on The Today Show this morning, playing basketball against Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson. True to form, he missed his first three shots.-- Me, 9:00 a.m.Can they add a Shea Stadium vandalism charge when they indict Clemens? Probably not, statute of limitations.-- My dad, 9:12 a.m....
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February 26, 2008
Its a Time of the Saenz
The nominee for this year's Jose Valentin reclamation project isn't Jose Valentin (who happens to be a non-roster invitee), but Olmedo Saenz.The Mets invited the 38-year-old Saenz to camp this year despite struggles that saw his batting average plummet from .296 in 2006 to .191 in 2007.Does anyone fi...
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February 25, 2008
Good as Gold
Kudos to David Wright and Carlos Beltran.Most Gold GlovesMets HistoryKeith Hernandez 6 (1B)Rey Ordonez 3 (SS)Carlos Beltran 2 (OF)Tommie Agee 1 (OF)David Wright 1 (3B)Bud Harrelson 1 (SS)Doug Flynn 1 (2B)Robin Ventura 1 (3B)Ron D...
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February 25, 2008
Full Nelson
If the battle for the last spot on the Mets Opening Day pitching staff comes down to Nelson Figueroa vs Tony Armas Jr. I know who I'm pulling for.Flash back to the 1986 postseason when both were young'uns with different interests. Figueroa, who grew up on Coney Island was my age, and though he was in...
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February 25, 2008
Gorge Bret
I refuse to get caught up in the excitement surrounding all the Johan Santana rumors.You can thank Bret Saberhagen for that.For the kids out there who are too young to remember, Saberhagen was Johan Santana, except he was righthanded and injury-prone, as opposed to lefty and injury free. Saberhagen w...
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February 20, 2008
RIP 'Champ
Not sure how many folks might have seen the obit for former Met Jim Beauchamp, who died earlier this week.Beauchamp holds a special place in our blogging hearts, as he's the only Met with a rather notable walk-off distinction- he hit a walk-off home run on his birthday. So feel free to check out the ...
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February 20, 2008
Is Yorvit Torre-able?
Forgive me if I'm not jumping up and down about the Yorvit Torrealba signing, as I'm generally resistant to change. My feeling was that if Jorge Posada wasn't signable, the next-best option was to Keep Paul Lo Duca. You'll recall that when I did an analysis of who could catch for the Mets in 2008, my...
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February 11, 2008
You gotta have a catcher...
So as I pick at the carcass that is Yankees defeat, I decided to endeavor an exercise. It occured to me that Jorge Posada (who has the ability to become a free agent if he chooses) would be a good option as far as being the Mets starting catcher next season.I think that determining who the starting c...
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February 10, 2008
Our Special Bonds: Perfection, Imperfection, and Johan (Questions)
We haven't done a quiz in awhile, so consider this one a tribute to the perfect (Ruddy Lugo), the imperfect (the Giants beating the Patriots), and the newest Mets ace (Johan Santana).Answers here:http://metswalkoffs.blogspot.com/2007/02/our-special-bonds-perfection.htmlLet's start with this: Since th...
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February 05, 2008
The Day After
"What did I do this weekend? On Sunday I had my heart taken out of my chest and eaten in front of me."-- Mets fan Jon Stewart in his opening monologue on "The Daily Show"After watching Monday's one-game playoff between the Rockies and Padres, I am reminded of another quote.I once covered a wrestling ...
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February 04, 2008
Taint That A Shame
The Mitchell Report as it pertains to Mets walk-off wins.* Len Dykstra had one walk-off home run for the Mets. It came in Game 3 of the 1986 NLCS against the Astros.* Todd Pratt had one walk-off home run for the Mets. It clinched Game 4 of the NLDS, thus winning the series, against the Diamondbacks.*...
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January 30, 2008
Church on Friday
And then suddenly, we had something to write about...New acquisitions Ryan Church and Brian Schneider have one walk-off RBI apiece, so there's not much to work with there. I'm more concerned at this point, with their abilities in the field of walk-off defense.I can forgive Church for his adoration of...
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January 29, 2008
Our Special Bonds: Most Mets Walk-Off HR
Got a request on Thursday from someone who was looking for a list of the Mets all-time leaders in walk-off home runs. I obliged with an answer, and it occurred to me how that query should be acknowledged among my most frequently asked questions.Rather than to provide the list in its simplest form, le...
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January 28, 2008
Hubie Doobie Doo
I went looking through my database for an instance in which a former Met significantly hurt the team, the year after he left them and found one reasonably decent example. And it came against the same franchise for which both Msrs Lo Duca and Milledge now toil The Mets were in the midst of a harm...
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January 28, 2008
Rock On
I haven't seen this kind of refuse to lose attitude (altitude?) from the Colorado Rockies since Opening Day 1995.Finally, the Rockies have a new signature moment to replace the Dante Bichette fist-pump that concluded that miserable evening of baseball, the play in which Matt Holliday scored the wild-...
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January 26, 2008
Walk-Off, Don't Run
Hockey season starts today and the Mets have already frightened me into refusing to believe that the Rangers could contend for a Stanley Cup (I'm having visions of a season-ending cruciate tear for Henrik Lundqvist). So I thank them for that, and send them my best wishes for the off-season within thi...
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January 25, 2008
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