Prior to the All-Star Game, I heard and read that Citi Field was about to have its first “signature moment,” which I thought was a pretty misguided assessment, considering HELLO! NO-HITTER! on June 1, 2012. I’d also throw in a “hey” to that 20th win at the end of last year. I get what those takes […]
 
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 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  2013 Mets, Citi Field, Extra Innings, Marlins, Ruben Tejada, Rupert Holmes, Signature Moments The 2013 All-Star Game is barely over and I’ve already forgotten all but its most salient details: • Tom Seaver threw out the first pitch, looking as robust as ever. • Matt Harvey went two scoreless, settling down after two shaky batters, no thanks to his catcher Yadier Molina who’s supposed to be so valuable at that […] 20 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Game, Billy Wagner, Citi Field, David Wright, Matt Harvey, Tom Seaver Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny. Getting off my train after witnessing a 13-2 Mets loss in person — my personal-worst ninth consecutive loss at any of the ballparks the Mets have called home — I noticed a few people were arriving back on Long Island from New York’s […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Anthony Recker, Blowouts, Brandon Lyon, Citi Field, Home Debuts, John Buck, John Thomson, Leonard Shecter, Matt Harvey, Position Players Pitching, The Jazz Singer, Zack Wheeler Maybe there’s another world in which tonight’s game went down in history as the Juan Lagares game — the contest in which our young centerfielder hit a game-tying home run off Addison Reed, which led to the Mets winning the game in extras, Lagares securing a job with the Mets he’d never surrender, multiple World […] Matt Harvey was not the only man in a Mets jersey to have the whole world in his back pocket Tuesday night. It could have been more perfect, I guess. There could have been a little less hole for Alex Rios’s seventh-inning two-out grounder to edge into. Ruben Tejada could have been overcome by […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Rios, Bobby Parnell, Citi Field, Harveysteria, Hector Santiago, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mike Baxter, One-Hitters, Perfect Game, Ruben Tejada, White Sox Even great baseball teams lose an annoying number of games. The runaway-train teams — your ’86 Mets and ’98 Yankees and ’01 Mariners — are still going to lose 15 or 20 games that make you want to lie down in the road. Which means 45 to 60 hours of your time will be dedicated to […] 16 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Fans, Hope, Jerry Hairston Jr., Jordany Valdespin, Matt Harvey Harvey’s better. And we’re not so bad ourselves. The pitcher you may have caught on TV, and if you can’t be John Buck, that’s not a bad way to catch him. Certainly you have the benefit of helpful camera angles, possibly pause and rewind buttons and all the concentration you care to muster. You could see […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Harvey's Better, Harveysteria, Matt Harvey, Stephen Strasburg We may lose and we may win And I said to myself, this is the business we’ve chosen. If you told me I was going to three games in a four-day span in the middle of the season, I’d say, […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Citi Field, Collin Cowgill, Dillon Gee, Goodfellas, John Buck, Jon Niese, Matt Harvey, Mets Fans, Mets Opening Day, Opening Week, Scott Rice, Soup I’m happy on a Monday from attending two Mets-Marlins games Saturday and Sunday, I’m pretty sure, because the act of Mets baseball — seeking it out, absorbing it fully and wrapping up the leftovers to go — still fulfills me. The lousy record, the murky future, the uninspiring ownership and the dozens of obvious letdowns […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Torres, Choo Choo Coleman, Chris Young, Citi Field, Coldplay, Dana Brand, David Wright, Donald Fagen, Ed Kranepool, Fourth Place, Frank Thomas, Fred Lewis, Fred Merkle, John Buck, John Maine, Jon Rauch, Jordany Valdespin, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey, Ruben Tejada, Scott Hairston, September, Shea Stadium, Team History, Willie Mays …well, you know the rest of the line. On Wednesday night I walked down the stairs through the rotunda, but before proceeding out of the gates with their NYs, I looked briefly behind me. I had two reasons for doing so. 1) I wanted to see what oversized faux-Topps baseball card they’d created for Matt Harvey. It looked […] |
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