The Mets looked listless in dropping the second game of Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Dodgers, and that limp display was the highlight of the day. Certainly it was better than the first game, in which a terrific start by Tylor Megill went down the toilet when his teammates couldn’t field, pitch or manage to hit […]
 
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 11 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Angel Hernandez, bad, Bad Fielding, Bad Fundies, Bad Hitting, Bad Relief Pitching, Chase Field, Diamondbacks, Dodgers, Doubleheader Sweeps, Marlins, Michael Tucker, Mike Piazza, So Bad, So Fucking Bad, So So Fucking Bad, So So So Fucking Bad, Tylor Megill Whether it was out of quaint National League loyalty, appreciation for vanquishing the Phillies, or a fleeting fancy born of the whims of October, I was an Arizona Diamondbacks fan for five nights in the World Series, extending the quick hop I made aboard their slithering bandwagon during the NLCS. An interim fan, you might […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 2023 Postseason, Bruce Bochy, Carlos Mendoza, Coaches, Craig Swan, Davey Johnson, Diamondbacks, Frank Howard, Hall of Fame, Mets Managers, Moment of Silence, Rangers, Tim Bogar, Washington Senators, World Series, World Series Ending For the second World Series in a row, the Mets can take satisfaction in knowing they dominated their season series with the National League champions, and that if baseball ran along the lines of college football, that might be worth a few points in the coaches’ or writers’ poll. Baseball running as baseball does, this provincially […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Postseason, Bill Almon, Commercials, Diamondbacks, Gabriel Moreno, Kyle Schwarber, Mike Schmidt, Old Friends, Paul Sewald, Phillies Who are these Mets, anyway? Joey Lucchesi was terrific, Mark Vientos homered, Pete Alonso drove in three on a homerless night and — in the most astonishing development of all — Trevor Gott and Drew Smith were allowed to pitch and didn’t fall apart like cheap watches. There was a nifty flying slide home by Jeff […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brandon Nimmo, David Wright, Diamondbacks, DJ Stewart, Drew Smith, Francisco Lindor, Jeff McNeil, Joey Lucchesi, Keith Hernandez, Mark Vientos, Marty Noble, Pete Alonso, Trevor Gott I watched the victorious Jets quarterback stand before the football press late Monday night and extol the virtues of never getting too high or too low, which I’m pretty sure I’ve heard an athlete or two or two-million mention before, but since the victorious Jets quarterback Monday night was Zach Wilson rather than Aaron Rodgers, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Caps, Diamondbacks, Drew Smith, Football, Highs, Jeff McNeil, Jose Quintana, Lows, Paul Sewald, Ronny Mauricio, Tommy Pham, Trevor Gott Who are these guys and what have they done with the 2023 Mets? Actually, don’t answer that, because who cares? And don’t look for them, because this is fine. Unlike Wednesday’s heroic, up-off-the-mat victory, there wasn’t a lot of sweat expended Thursday in urging the Mets across the finish line. The game was essentially over in the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Carrasco, Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso, Todd Zeile A late night West Coast game is a late night West Coast game under any guise, whether the coast is relatively ballpark-adjacent or an entire state over. Arizona’s oceanic only in that it chooses to not spring its clocks forward for Daylight Saving Time, meaning that for all intents and purposes from a New Yorker’s […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andrew Chafin, Brett Baty, Chase Field, Christian Walker, Citi Kids, Comebacks, David Robertson, Desert, Diamondbacks, Dillon Gee, Francisco Alvarez, Kodai Senga, Late Night West Coast Games, Mark Canha, Oasis, Tommy Henry, Triples The Mets have spent the better part of the 2023 season thralls to disappointment, mostly of their own making. Yet they’d somehow won two in a row, a modest accomplishment except that June was such a horror show that two in a row seemed like ascending a fair-sized mountain. They didn’t play Monday, leaving their winning […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Corbin Carroll, Diamondbacks, Francisco Alvarez, Happy Holidays, Max Scherzer, Miguel Castro, Radio We’ve been where the Diamondbacks are now — a team with hope for the future that’s trying to remind itself that future can’t be hurried. The guys who could be a part of it need to get there at their own pace, with all the growing pains implied; the caretaker players are important as teachers […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Buck Showalter, Christian Walker, Dallas Green, Diamondbacks, Francisco Lindor, J.D. Davis, James McCann, Nick Ahmed, Pavin Smith, Sergio Alcantara, Seth Beer, Starling Marte, Torey Lovullo, Tylor Megill Jeff McNeil lay face down in the Arizona turf, the last out of a 6-5 Mets win safely in his glove. He wasn’t hurt; he just needed a minute. At that point, we all did. The Mets moved to 11-4 on the season, which I will use bleeding-edge analytics to categorize as pretty damn good. But it […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Armando Benitez, Braden Looper, Christian Walker, Closers, David Peterson, Diamondbacks, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Jesse Orosco, Jeurys Familia, John Franco, Late Night West Coast Games, Matt Davidson, Pete Alonso, Randy Myers, Seth Lugo, Starling Marte, Tug McGraw, Zac Gallen |
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