I won’t be at Game Seven tonight, but my stomach is already on a train and my heart is running on the express track.

Next stop…well, we’ll find out pretty soon, won’t we?

I like Willie Randolph. He said the extent of his pre-Game Six pep talk was to go over travel plans for Detroit. Nice. Willie’s […]

As we endeavor to complete our 62nd two-game winning streak — and execute our 104th one-game winning streak — of 2006, I think I’ve finally figured out the deal with this team, specifically why every win has us staking out prime viewing spots on Lower Broadway and every loss has us dissecting traffic patterns on […]

Wow.

It’s possible I’ve never been so tired.

The email came this morning: Two tickets for tonight’s game. $150 each. By the time it got to me it was a decent-length chain of emails, no guarantee the tickets were even still around. And then there was that shocking price tag.

But still.

Emily said she thought I should go. […]

The next time I look at this page, I’ll know how much our collective faith this season and this day has paid off. Whatever happens at Shea Stadium tonight, it hasn’t been for naught.

Until I see you again, Let’s Go Mets.

Something has changed within me

Something is not the same

I’m through with playing by the […]

Great news! We’ve already done what we need to do tonight and tomorrow night 61* times in 2006.

1. April 6 and 7.

2. April 7 and 9.

3. April 9 and 11.

4. April 11 and 12.

5. April 12 and 13.

6. April 13 and 14.

7. April 16 and 17.

8. April 25 and 26.

9. April 26 and 28.

10. April […]

There was a GM in Gotham who sent his manager to the Midwest to win two out of three, and in a little while the manager came back, pale and trembling, and said, “Omar, just now when I was in the Midwest I was jostled by a man wearing red in the stadium and when […]