The story before Monday night’s game in Atlanta was discerning what the hell Robinson Cano was doing in a Braves uniform, in the Braves lineup, in the Braves infield. Wasn’t Robinson Cano, having washed out with the San Diego Padres, an El Paso Chihuahua literally the day before? Did the surging Atlanta Braves really need […]
 
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 15 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Adam Ottavino, Edwin Diaz, Jacob deGrom, Luis Guillorme, Max Scherzer, Psyche-Outs, Robinson Cano, The Odd Couple So maybe it won’t be a runaway, a rout, a ravaging of the National League East. Maybe things are about to get real. Real challenging. The Mets are in Atlanta for the next three games. The Mets are also on top of Atlanta by a game-and-a-half, which looks precarious from any angle, especially from the […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Stars, Braves, Challenges, Ed Bauta, Jeff McNeil, Moment of Silence, Paternity List The temperature was in the 80s. The energy was out of the ’80s. I needed neither a weatherman nor a meter reader to know which way the wind was blowing or how much the juice was flowing. It didn’t take a meteorology degree to discern it was a warm summer day. You didn’t have to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, Ceremony, Keith Hernandez, Mets Fans, Retired Numbers 1. The Mets ran this ticket special in the 1980s that was incredibly successful. For the price of one admission, you could see the most fearsome competitor in the game, a peerless clutch hitter and first base play that was as revolutionary as it was nonpareil. They were also willing into throw in for that […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | An Appreciation, Keith Hernandez, Ralph Kiner, Retired Numbers, Seinfeld, Team History When cleaning up after dinner, I gather momentum. It doesn’t matter that the Mets are playing. It doesn’t matter that the Mets are batting. If I have the garbage together, I want to tie it up and take it to the Dumpster. Might I miss something momentous? Probably. My non-Elias statistics tell me approximately 70% […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Cleaning Up, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Momentum, Trevor Williams You’d prefer a win. No doubt about it, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you’d look at a 1-0 loss and gnash your teeth. The hundredth, you’d gnash a little, then grit them, then take a deep breath, then rub your eyes, then take in the image at the center of the bigger picture. Max Scherzer […] Jacob deGrom pitched to six minor league batters on Sunday night. Five of them turned into smoldering holes in the dirt adjacent to home plate. I didn’t notice what became of the sixth. As far as we can tell, nobody was actually harmed, neither the young Jupiter Hammerheads whose future still remains ahead of them […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Eduardo Escobar, Edwin Diaz, Interleague Play, Jeff McNeil, Jonah Heim, Rangers, Starling Marte, Trumpets The Mets are 3-0 in games streamed by Apple TV+. If the only way we can have wins is by exclusivity that’s wrong, then as Luther Ingram declared in 1972, I don’t want to be right. But it was just one night…on top of two other nights…on top of the Peacock wagging its tail this […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Eduardo Escobar, Luther Ingram, Stove Top Stuffing, Streaming It was tight. It was tense. It was pitched the way you would swear under oath you prefer your games to be pitched. It was the kind of game you could really enjoy for the sake of sublime baseball until you remembered you had a rooting interest. To be fair, if your rooting interest emanated from […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Astros, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jason Castro, Justin Verlander, Luis Guillorme, Pitchers' Duels, Taijuan Walker, Tom Seaver There’s a Met Yeah this Met The metrics say |
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