Whatever hopes we had of catching the Braves (and somewhere in our Ya Gotta Believe hearts we all had them) have melted away over the last two weeks. At the end of July, you may remember, the Mets took four in a row from the Reds; since then, we’ve won a grand total of four […]
 
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 5 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Cody Ransom, Dillon Gee, Ian Kennedy, Paul Goldschmidt, Stupid Rules, Yadier Molina Let’s revisit two days ago’s rather optimistic Mets recap post, shall we? (You don’t want to? Tough. I don’t particularly want to either, but I’m driving this train.) Bobby Parnell may be learning to be successful without his best slider, but nothing a pitcher can learn will get him through days when all he has is his […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bobby Parnell, Daniel Murphy, David Wright, Dillon Gee, Soilmaster Stadium Greg Gibson is bad. That’s all there is to it. Clayton Kershaw is spectacular. That, too, is all there is to it. If the Dodgers wanted to beat the Mets every game ever, they’d start Hong Chih-Kuo each time and never take him out. The Mets can’t afford to play shoddy defense. Nobody can, obviously, but there’s a […] 24 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1979 Mets, Alex Trevino, Dillon Gee, Dodgers, Nick Evans, Umpiring, West Coast Trips OK, actually half-bad is exactly what we are. But compared to what we were not so long ago…. It turns out nothing can stop Dillon Gee except thunder, lightning, lunatic gales and cruel but sensible precautions related to long rain delays and surgically repaired labrums. Our favorite advanced-stats conundrum mowed down the Braves for four innings, […] 5 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Chipper Jones, Dillon Gee, Fans, Rain Delays, Stats, Storytelling Kinda busy, kinda distracted. Mets score a run in the top of the first on no hits, I hear out of one ear. That’s nice, I think. But why didn’t we get any hits? Three straight Pirate hits and the tying run right after, it is mentioned while I’m still doing something else. Damn, I think, […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Charlie Morton, Dillon Gee, Jack Fisher, Luis Rivera, Manny Acosta, Pirates, Ruben Tejada, Tim Bogar, Tim Byrdak Dillon Gee wasn’t supposed to be here. Neither was Justin Turner. Or Jason Pridie. Or Ruben Tejada. Willie Harris wasn’t supposed to start. Daniel Murphy wasn’t supposed to play first. Yet the Mets still won, beating the surprising Charlie Morton and the relatively surprising Pittsburgh Pirates with a flurry of singles and overcoming their usual woes […] 12 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Dillon Gee, Greg Maddux, Pirates, Rick Reed, Stats As baseball fans, we have a lot of phrases we repeat to ourselves to keep watching after things have gone to hell. As Mets fans, I’d wager we have even more of them. Down 8-1 8-0 [sorry, was apparently huffing paint thinner] after the top of the first? You never know how the other starter will […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Beltran, Cubs, Dillon Gee, Fans, Fred Wilpon, Justin Berg, Keith Hernandez, Rain, Wrigley Field The 2011 New York Mets are the best thing to come out of Buffalo since Scott Norwood’s penchant for kicking wide right. How many Mets were playing in the vicinity of Lake Erie when the major league season commenced? Half of them? Most of them? However you do the Bison-slicin’, what counts is these Erie Couny […] Remember Angel Pagan? Me neither. Just kidding. Of course I remember Angel Pagan. Angel Pagan was the Mets’ center fielder before Jason Pridie. Pagan was pretty good at one point, I vaguely recall. Finished in the Top 10 in triples among National League batters two years in a row. You know who else hit a lot of […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Angel Pagan, Chris Young, Dillon Gee, Jason Pridie, Justin Turner, Mike O'Connor, Ronny Paulino, Wally Pipp Who can identify the last time or place anyone took a gold eagle or sovereign from his purse and slapped it on the table to pay for dinner? Who can identify the last company of archers sent into battle by a captain who still believed a well-drawn flight of arrows could overmatch a volley of […] |
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