I’ve been trying to reconstruct how we got there. I remember we were in the car. I can see the shopping center parking lot where the exchange is taking place, a dreary Monday night as Monday nights are bound to be as January winds down. We’re turning into the lot from Long Beach’s main drag […]
 
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 16 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andres Gimenez, Birthdays, Chinese Food, Fathers and Sons, Milestones, Two-Lane State Roads So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded to botch, passing up perhaps the easiest path to the playoffs ever available. Even beyond that, though, 2020 was what we now know […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2020 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Ariel Jurado, Baseball Cards, Billy Hamilton, Brian Dozier, Chasen Shreve, David Peterson, Dellin Betances, Eduardo Nunez, Erasmo Ramirez, Franklyn Kilome, Guillermo Heredia, Hunter Strickland, Jake Marisnick, Jared Hughes, Michael Wacha, Miguel Castro, Rick Porcello, Robinson Chirinos, Ryan Cordell, The Holy Books It’s a world that could use Francisco Lindor, a guy called Mr. Smile. It’s a world that could use a reason to smile. From our parochial perspective, it’s a world that could use Mr. Smile ceremonially slipping into Mets jersey No. 12 and smiling like crazy as flashes pop inside whichever title-sponsored club remains as […] 22 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Bradford William Davis, Carlos Carrasco, Compartmentmalization, Francisco Lindor, Photo Ops, Sandy Alderson, Trades, Zoom You remember where you were for the truly big trades that reorder a franchise, the ones that you know are lines between before and after. The winter day when I saw in the newspaper that Gary Carter, the ebullient yet tough-as-nails All-Star catcher for the Montreal Expos, was coming to the Mets. The summer afternoon spent eyeing […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Carlos Carrasco, Francisco Lindor, Hope, Indians, Isaiah Greene, Josh Wolf, Ownership, Steve Cohen, Trades Jacob deGrom gets hit like Jacob deGrom never gets hit. Then Jacob deGrom leaves with an injury like Jacob deGrom does in our worst nightmares. Then the Mets, down by three in the third, turn to Michael Wacha, a lapsed starter the Mets resist turning to as a matter of course. Then the Mets run […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Injuries, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Michael Wacha, Robinson Cano, The Pinch-Running Files, Unlikely Events “Whoa, there he is! Whadda you doin’ around here?” 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Andres Gimenez, Brandon Nimmo, David Peterson, Dom Smith, Erasmo Ramirez, Jeff McNeil, Labor Day, Michael Conforto, Miguel Castro, Zack Wheeler It’s a point that arrives in every season. The game where… …your head and heart aren’t really in it. …you have a feeling that comeback you’re dreaming of is going to remain just a dream. …the loss, when it comes, feels both foreordained and like a herald of more to come. Turns out that point arrives in shortened little […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Jake Arietta, Luis Rojas, Michael Conforto, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Rick Porcello, Robinson Cano, Roman Quinn Shot. Chaser. If I were a kind recapper, this paragraph wouldn’t exist. All you need to know is right up there, and why do you want to get riled up all over again? Go outside. Pet your dog. Call your mom. Do something else. Do anything else. All right. The rest of you weird masochists can keep […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Aaron Hicks, Andres Gimenez, Deivi Garcia, Disasters, Doubleheaders, Drew Smith, Edwin Diaz, Jared Hughes, Luis Rojas, Luke Voit, Rick Porcello, Thairo Estrada, Wilson Ramos, Yankees If it had been at all delightful, Tuesday’s twi-night doubleheader at Citi Field could have been billed a Berra’s Delight. Anybody who could make sense of the nonsense at hand would have been admitted free. Or admitted at all. Nobody is admitted to baseball games in 2020, of course. After fourteen innings of futility, nobody who […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1975 Mets, Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Corey Oswalt, Doubleheaders, Home Teams Away, Jon Berti, Juan Lagares, Luis Rojas, Marlins, Mets Managers, Pandemics, Patrick Mazeika, Rick Porcello, Seth Lugo, Stealing Home, Team History, The Pinch-Running Files, Tomas Nido, Yogi Berra Perhaps I should put a SPOILER WARNING on this one, but I received a special media preview of the Mets’ 2020 highlights video, and it’s 23 minutes of Jeff McNeil screaming “FUCK!” after making an out and five minutes of Andres Gimenez smoothly fielding hard grounders. And you know what? I’m strangely OK with it. The Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ali Sanchez, Andres Gimenez, Jeff McNeil, Luis Guillorme, Marcus Stroman, Rick Porcello, Zack Wheeler |
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