Having grown up with Tom Seaver as a mortal lock to take the ball Opening Day after Opening Day, I always took it on faith that the other team was sending out to face us the closest thing they had to Tom Seaver…with the caveat that there’s only one Tom Seaver. Some opponents understood the […]
 
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 6 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Mark Hendrickson, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Opening Day Starters, Steve Carlton, Team History Without a baseball season starting, we don’t know precisely what we’ll be missing. Some things, however, we do know. We do know our familiar rhythms will be off from being on collective hiatus, as what was going to be Opening Day dawns as just another weekday. We do know what waking up on Opening Day is like […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Mets Who Change Everything Immediately, Opening Day, Pete Alonso Had baseball been proceeding as planned, the Mets and Orioles would have been completing their Spring Training schedule with an exhibition game at the Naval Academy in Annapolis on Tuesday. We know baseball — and everything else — isn’t proceeding as planned these days, but the time frame we’ve likely lost track of is instructive. […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2021 Mets, Noah Syndergaard, Tommy John Surgery Somehow even people who aren’t baseball fans know that spring is about renewal. Bare tree branches begin sprouting tender green buds. Flowers and bright shoots of grass poke out of the earth. The sun’s around a little longer and starts to feel a little warmer. Everything feels fragile, but with the promise of heat and […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Cards, Dominic Smith, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Marcus Stroman, Michael Wacha, Mrs. Met, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Unforeseen Interruptions There is no such thing as a bad Opening Day win. More to the point, there’s no such thing as an Opening Day win that’s “worse” than any other. I guess that’s all self-evident, but there’s nothing run-of-the-mill about winning on Opening Day. There are no also-rans. Every Opening Day win is, at the moment […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Gary Carter, Home Opener, Home Openers, Mets Home Opener, Mets Opening Day, Opening Day, Team History, Tom Seaver It didn’t fully hit me what a void we’re staring into until early Friday morning when I went through my weekly ritual of checking the forthcoming C-Span2 (Book TV) and C-Span3 (American History TV) listings to record any programming I might find worthwhile, choosing among classroom lectures, author discussions, unearthed newsreels…yes, my weekends do rock. […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Adonis Uceta, Basketball, Chasms, Edgardo Fermin, Eduardo Nunez, Jake Hager, Jarrett Parker, Joe Zanghi, Johneshwy Fargas, Ryley Gilliam, Spring Training, Unforeseen Interruptions, Voids On the last day of Eastern Standard Time in the spring of 2020, I found myself in a Wendy’s. It was a throwback visit of sorts. I hadn’t been in this Wendy’s or any Wendy’s since early in 2012. The Giants were finishing beating up the Falcons in the first playoff game ever hosted at […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1990 Mets, Bait & Switch, Fast Food, Frank Viola, George Foster, John Franco, John Stearns, Long Memories, Long Waits, Proustian Burgers, The National |
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