Saturday Means Story Time
Despite what you might think, and what’s popularly held to be our birthright, the Mets do not actually spend every day under a little black cloud. It’s always useful to think of a conflict from the...
View ArticleRecord Scratch
Collecting the first 23 outs went well enough. Yes, Bryce Harper hit a broken-bat home run that you’ll see forever and/or will go down in infamy as an emblem of this new juiced-ball era. I’ve seen...
View ArticleThe Late, Great Buy-In of 2018
All right, who’s in for the Mets to become buyers? We’re talking about a team that has won seven of thirteen, producing its best extended stretch since Mickey Callaway’s managerial acumen was...
View ArticleThe (Last) Rites of Winter
Winter does what it can to get us through itself. Every year it pounds signposts into the frozen tundra so we understand what feels like it will last forever doesn’t. We don’t anticipate the baseball...
View ArticleVarious Injustices
Bryce Harper arranged his own early exit. Steven Matz decided to stay a while longer this time. And Mark Carlson … well, he didn’t know if pitches were coming or going. For the Mets, Matz was the happy...
View ArticleSometimes Boring’s Not So Bad
Sometimes, it turns out, a dull baseball game is better without a little injection of excitement. Wednesday night’s series finale between the Mets and Phillies started off glacial and boring and then...
View ArticleSilent Movie
Sometimes life — by which I mean, “that stuff scheduled around baseball games” — gets in the way. First there was dinner, then a podcast interview. I moved what I could thanks to the kindness of other...
View ArticleAn Unfair Game, for the Millionth Time
The Phillies played the first half of Friday night’s game like they were recreating a Benny Hill skit. The Mets once again showed resilience, losing a lead and promptly regaining it on back-to-back...
View ArticleThat Familiar Feeling
Well, those were some complicated feelings to open with. Your capsule summary: Jacob deGrom was terrific, the Mets’ offense looked like the kind of patient, relentless machine that will chew opponents...
View ArticleHoskins Defeats Diaz
The Mets won the damn thing, by a score of 8-7. Those of you with enough years of scar tissue will remember that as channeling Bob Murphy’s judgment after the Mets held off the Phils at the Vet in the...
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