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Roll With It, Baby
Hosmer the Cat (a.k.a. Hozzie) rightfully turns his back on Hosmer the first baseman (a.k.a. the enemy). As we approach the never previously calculated New York Mets Championship Equinox — Saturday at...
View ArticleAll The Analysis You Need
There are many previews of the 2015 World Series that pits the New York Mets against the Kansas City Royals floating around. I’ll go with Rob Emproto’s. Rob (Rob E. in the comments section) is my...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Since
Happy anniversary to the Mets’ most recent world championship. May we never commemorate it as such again. I love the 1986 Mets. You love the 1986 Mets. We all love the 1986 Mets. But we need them to...
View ArticleThe Tradition Continues
What used to be trivia is now widely disseminated fact, so there’ll be no wowing you with the historical nugget that the Mets have never won the first game of a World Series. Don Buford, Ken Holtzman,...
View ArticleThose Guys!
I love the way the Kansas City Royals play baseball. They’re impossible to strike out, they pressure defenses on the basepaths, and they play a wild-eyed, high-stepping game. Which is pretty much the...
View ArticleThe Spirit of ’86
The Spirit of 1986 called. It sounded a lot like Lenny Dykstra. I think it was chewing tobacco. Here is the gist of what the Spirit had to say: • It, too, is sick of being the most recent Met world...
View ArticleImages to Last a Lifetime
I just got my mental images developed from the World Series. Wanna see ’em? They’re right here in this envelope. This is one of me all excited to realize I’m going to a World Series game for the first...
View ArticleThe Murph Game
Daniel Murphy made an error. You probably noticed. Murph’s error came in a house-of-horrors eighth inning at Citi Field, a frame that’s an excellent candidate to take up residence in the recesses of...
View ArticleA New Standard
I straggled home from Game Four of the World Series Sunday at 2:00 AM EDT, which in the instant it took me to look up at the clock, became Sunday at 1:00 AM EST. Standard Time had returned and the Mets...
View ArticleOur Brand Is Pennant
They played cricket at Citi Field on Saturday afternoon. I tuned in to ESPN3 to watch. It was only for a few minutes, but when I learned it was being aired somewhere, I had to look. I had to look at...
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