I took a fantastic pregame nap Saturday afternoon. It was fantastic because I awoke to the sound of David Wright playing, David Wright batting and David Wright going way deeper than I’d been sleeping.
No, Howie and Josh assured me, I wasn’t dreaming. David was not on the DL, despite what everybody and his Twitter account was insisting would be a sure and depressing thing as regarded our third baseman’s right pinky. Bison Josh Satin prowled the Met clubhouse, but was not activated. No need for his emergency services. David was able to grip everything he needed, so he grabbed a bat, gripped the hell out of it to homer some 428 feet from where he stood at Citizens Bank Park.
He was playing through the pain — he swore he could tolerate it — and he was putting the Mets into an early lead, one which increased as the day progressed. David kept playing and kept batting and kept getting hits. He even gripped the ball and threw it fine.
The Mets are 5-0 with Wright in the lineup. Wright is hitting .588. Hard to say how many more years he’ll be a Met, given all the usual folderol that surrounds the Mets and their franchise players, but he’s the Met of Mets right now, especially on Saturday.
The Mets look wide awake when that is so.
5-0 with Wright. 2-0 with Dickey. a little overlap.
You’re right about both, particularly the Wright stuff. Will change.
Unless you know something about Sunday that the rest of us only suspect.
Hold on a sec. I’m on the horn with my bookie…
Everything’s gonna be all Wright.
The other day you mentioned you have a magnetic schedule for every year since the Mets started them. What year did they begin? I have every year since 1994 (except 1995, which I can’t find anywhere).
I stand corrected but not enough to make a correction. My collection goes back to 1997, the first year I can remember them doing it. In a few instances, the magnets came to be seasons after the fact, once it became a thing and people were thoughtful enough to fill in the holes.
May not have been a ’95 because of the strike and the late start, though you’d think a magnetic schedule would have been more handy than ever that year.
Thanks. I have an extra 1996 which I can give you if you are interested.
Appreciate it very much, but I’m content to pretend magnetic time began in 1997. Thanks!
And the Mets took Jason Bay out of the lineup today because he also injured his finger going back to first? Haven’t they learned anything yet?
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