So perhaps I’ve been unfair, and the Mets had a Plan B for their starting pitching all along: “If, somehow, John Maine’s chronic injuries don’t disappear and Oliver Perez doesn’t stop pitching like Oliver Perez, we’ll just substitute a knuckleballer who’s a dead ringer for the Cowardly Lion and a 35-year-old who had a good […]
 
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 17 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Grover Powell, Hisanori Takahashi, Hope, Plan B Well, that wasn’t so bad. I mean, the Mets lost. To the Yankees. Because Alex Cora inexplicably threw a ball to Jose Reyes’s invisible twin brother on the edge of the outfield grass, and because Elmer Dessens was Elmer Dessens. And because they couldn’t hit, not even against Javier Vazquez. How is that not so bad? Because I’d […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Alex Cora, Disappointment, Hisanori Takahashi, Subway Series, Yankees That was the coldest doubleheader in the history of Citi Field. Granted, it was the first doubleheader in the history of Citi Field: the first one that required only one admission, the first one that left you doubting whether you’d leave with all the fingers and toes you brought and the first one that led us […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, David Wright, Doubleheaders, First Place, Guest Relations, Hisanori Takahashi, Jason Bay, Johan Santana, Oliver Perez “Citi Field,” according to the 2010 Mets Media Guide, is “home to one of the longest ribbon boards in baseball.” That is most definitely not one of the Top 1,000 most interesting facts to be found in this otherwise indispensable publication. For that matter, the ribbon boards, when they’re flashing advertisements that have zero to […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2008 Mets, Angel Pagan, Bill Shea Bridge, Braves, Citi Field, David Wright, Frankie Rodriguez, Hisanori Takahashi, Ike Davis, Infield Fly Rule, Jason Bay, Joe Christopher, John Maine, Jose Reyes, Nagging Regret, Opportunity, Ribbon Boards, Ron Hunt, Sacrifice Flies, Steve Trachsel, Triples After Sean Green — who elicited the first visceral couch-to-TV reaction of 2010: “Get Sean Green the fuck off my team!” — gave up the laser shot home run to Dan Uggla in the seventh, building the Marlin lead to 6-1, I filed Tuesday night’s game in that one third you’re going to lose, per […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 Mets, 1991 Mets, 2006 Mets, Brian Giles, Fernando Tatis, First Loss of the Season After a Win, Gary Sheffield, Hisanori Takahashi, Jenrry Mejia, John Maine, Marlins, Ruben Tejada, Sean Green, Team History In Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend by James Hirsch (which I’m about 130 pages from finishing, which is too bad, because I don’t want it to end), Willie tells a pack of reporters inquiring about the Giants’ pennant chances during Spring Training of 1961, “There’s a feel in the air.” One of his confidantes […] 11 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2010 Mets, Fernando Martinez, Hisanori Takahashi, Hope, Ike Davis, James Hirsch, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, Jenrry Mejia, Mike Pelfrey, Spring Training, Willie Mays |
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