Late on a Sunday night in 1975, I’m watching Sammy & Company on Channel 4 because I’m up, it’s on, and nothing else is. The Sammy in question is Sammy Davis, Jr. He’s done it all in show business and now he’s hosting this syndicated not quite talk show, not quite variety show. It’s got […]
 
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 19 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2002 Mets, 2024 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Clinchings, Closing Day, Edwin Diaz, Francisco Lindor, Hollering, Hooting, Jarred Kelenic, Joey Lucchesi, Karma, Mets Pop Culture, Old Friends, Pete Alonso, Redemption, Sammy Davis, Screaming, Shouting, Spencer Schwellenbach, Travis d'Arnaud, Tylor Megill, Tyrone Taylor It’s the time of year when someone asks you how you are, and you tell them the Mets have been rained out not only today but tomorrow, and they have to get out of Atlanta, which is about to be hit by a hurricane, which you care about in the abstract as a human being, […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1973 Mets, 1999 Mets, Braves, Brewers, Chaos, Pennant Race, Pulp Fiction, Rainouts, Sleepy Rob Manfred, The Music Man, Travel, Up In The Air Fair warning that you’re not getting much of a recap. But then you didn’t get much of a game. You’re not getting much of a recap because I want this game out of my brain as quickly as possible, and sulking about the outcome for an hour or three or six will neither help with that […] 27 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Disappointment, Ghosts, Jay Payton, Jose Iglesias, Luis Severino, Ramon Laureano, Spencer Schwellenbach, Starling Marte, Vexing Losses, Weather I suppose every good party is followed by a helluva hangover. The Mets drew within half a game of the Braves with an unlikely victory Thursday night, passed them in the standings with an absolute beatdown on Friday … and then reality set in. Saturday was Spencer Schwellenbach muzzling them, whoever he was. And Sunday … […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Ben Gamel, Braves, David Peterson, Jesse Winker, Lack of Hitting, Ramon Laureano, Ryne Stanek, Tyrone Taylor I’d like the bottom of the third inning from Friday night’s game bottled, if you please. Seriously, that was a high ABV brew to settle even the most high-strung Mets fan’s nerves. Down 2-0 against Charlie Morton — one of the few remaining big leaguers with sufficient tenure to have appeared at Shea — the Mets […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adam Duvall, Adam Ottavino, Braves, Charlie Morton, Eric Orze, Francisco Alvarez, Howie Rose, J.D. Martinez, Jake Diekman, Jose Iglesias, Keith Raad, Lino Urdaneta, Marcell Ozuna, Mark Vientos, Ryne Stanek, Tylor Megill, Wild Card Dull and dreary turned to bright and shiny in an instant — the very last instant. If you’re gonna make such a switch, latest inevitably proves better than never. Had Brandon Nimmo not swung and connected for the walkoff two-run homer that transformed a 3-2 deficit into a 4-3 victory, dull and dreary was prepared to […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Bright, Dreary, Dull, Ed Kranepool, Edwin Diaz, Esix Snead, ESPN, Jarred Kelenic, Jeff McNeil, John Bateman, Luis Severino, Mother’s Day, Old Friends, Pinch-Runners Who Homer, Pinch-Running, Ray Sadecki, Ronald Acuna Jr., Shiny, The Shawshank Redemption, Zack Short There’s honestly not a lot of insight to be had comparing a mediocre baseball team with a very good one. Very good teams make plays and get hits when it matters; mediocre ones sometimes do and sometimes don’t. Christian Scott, forced to cosplay as a chimney sweep for his first-ever Citi Field start, was pretty […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Brett Baty, Christian Scott, Futility, Humiliation, J.D. Martinez, Joe Jimenez, Max Fried, No-Hit Bids, Raisel Iglesias The season began with plenty of warning, yet I found myself scrambling in the hours before and after Opening Day to update all the things I keep track of once the season is underway. The files I maintain for my and occasionally your amusement/edification looked like the aftermath of a party nobody had bother cleaning […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Allan Winans, Braves, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Jose Quintana, Keeping Track, Luis Guillorme, Tyler Jay, Tyrone Taylor It’s a tenet of our blog that there are no moral victories in baseball — the loss column comes without asterisks, parentheses or stuff in superscript. Moral victories are losses. Well, except when one of us declares that moral victories do too exist. Maybe I was just in a good mood: Monday night’s game found me and […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Adrian Houser, Braves, Dedniel Nunez, Harrison Bader, Julio Teheran, Omar Narvaez, Pete Alonso, Raisel Iglesias, Reynaldo Lopez, Tommy Milone “The moon belongs to everyone,” a wise man once informed a hallucinating man, though the subject could have been the playoffs, and that would have been wise, too. They’re here for all of us every October that isn’t October 1994, even if the best things in life include the Mets playing in them, and that’s […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Postseason, Braves, Bryce Harper, Hated Foes, Mad Men, Orlando Arcia, Phillies, Travis d'Arnaud, Zack Wheeler |
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