“There’s a kitty! There’s a kitty!” somebody watching far from Citi Field yelled with delight last night. No need to identify who it was (ahem).

As one who has herded cats and moved them into a new home, I can tell you they get even more disoriented than longtime fans trying to find their way around unfamiliar […]

New schedule, new workplace, new bullpen, new park, new season. Let’s see what happens. (Snapped with my iPhone, which as a camera is a heck of a phone.)

With Citi Field sadly lacking an explicit tribute to half of the Mets’ forebears, I installed my own New York Giants homage atop my noggin for the day.

FYI, in the interest of old-timey accuracy, the Dodgers didn’t wear white jerseys that said Brooklyn. That’s something you do in your road grays.

The 126th Street side of Citi Field can’t possibly go very long without a strike zone box painted on one of its walls. It’s too perfect a place for stickball not to. Any ball that bounces into the chop shops is a triple.

Our brick, in the foreground. It’s the one with a date and a score.

Sports Illustrated just picked us to win the World Series, yet failed to place David Wright prominently on its cover. Perhaps we should be grateful that the mythic jinx has been averted, though SI granted Diamond Dave an upper right corner snipe (CC Sabathia took up most of the rest of the space…which is a true-to-life […]

Citi Field offered Jason and family a bit of bad and a lot of good, as discussed in these first impressions, but on the good side of the ledger it was hard to top this double helping of Awesome.

I loved this patio from the first time I saw it in 2007. It was built by the First Family of Mets Fandom, the Chapmans of Central Jersey, to accommodate Wiffle Ball, the sport of kings and Mets Guys everywhere. The hard infield made Baltimore chops a specialty. The outfield fence marked 69 feet from home plate. […]

Let the celebration commence: the last of the at-large Mets are coming home from their baseman’s holiday, a.k.a. the World Baseball Classic. They can get back to being the team they’re paid to be, the one we’ll care about in two weeks when whatever happened in the WBC is tucked away in memory’s recesses for […]

Not much of a picture, but a pretty pleasing sight to this first-time author. From the baseball section at the Carle Place Barnes & Noble on Old Country Road, Saturday night. There was also another nice stack on a display table.

Great to see them on the shelves. Will be even greater when they’re flying off.

Faith and […]