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 […]
 
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 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 Wonderful profile from Brian Costa of the Star-Ledger on the more than humble background of dream closer (or perhaps starter) Jenrry Mejia: Six years ago, Jenrry Mejia did not own a glove. He did not have a bat. He had no use for a ball. The tools of his trade were a brush, a piece of cloth […] This talk of Jenrry Mejia starting the season as the setup man for K-Rod is ridiculous. If the season starts today, Mejia’s my closer. Oh, if talent only made it so. It won’t happen that way, but Jenrry is looking inevitable. It will take a bad case of evitablity — or yet another wave of Prevention & […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Hope, Jenrry Mejia, Josias Manzanillo, Julio Machado The 2010 Citi Field promotional date that has me most excited? It’s gotta be the retiring of 76 and 78. Sure, we’ll be disappointed to learn that Ike Davis and Jenrry Mejia have bowed to the world-wide clamor and agreed to curtail their electrifying rookie seasons and report for immediate induction to Cooperstown, but we’ve known […] Next week the clocks spring ahead. Silly clocks — we’re already there. We’re running on Jenrry Mejia Daylight Savings Time. Mejia was so lights out in his exhibition debut Friday that the umps called the game on account of darkness. This is a great time to be a Mets fan if you ignore thyroids, pink eyes […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amazin' Avenue Annual, Fernando Martinez, Hope, Ike Davis, Jason Pridie, Jenrry Mejia, Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Maple Street Mets Annual, Mike Cervenak, Mike Hessman, Pink Eye, Spring Training, Thyroid Continuing the recent theme of leaning forward into the schedule of meaningless exhibitions until we are so close to Tradition Field that we’ll be called out for fan’s interference, there’s a game today. Today has a game. A baseball game. A Mets game. It’s Today’s Game. Today’s Game is scheduled to start at 1:10. Today’s Game will air on […] The Department of Sudden Realization is reporting the New York Mets will play the Atlanta Braves in two days. Well, it’ll essentially be random fellows wearing Mets uniforms versus unknown guys wearing Braves uniforms after the third or so inning, and it won’t count in any serious standings, and the outcome will be forgotten minutes […] Back in 2007, the Mets brought up a young man named Carlos Gomez. Gomez could burn — he and Jose Reyes used to race each other out to their positions, which I thought was adorable. He was just 21, but pretty big — the kind of guy you see as a doubles and triples hitter […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Gomez, Hope, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Prospects, Shawn Green Tomorrow pitchers and catchers officially report, and I will breathe a small but real sigh of relief. Depending on what’s going on in the winter, the lack of baseball is somewhere between an itch and an ache, but it’s always there somewhere. Tomorrow, we get to scratch. There will still be an agonizingly long stretch […] Emily saw the note a couple of weeks ago: Sesame Street characters at Shea, a 12:10 start, finale of a three-game set against the Braves. Noting that I had more vacation days than I likely would be able to use, she suggested what should have been obvious to me: Take Joshua. Well, of course. A father-son […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Carlos Delgado, Disappointment, Fathers and Sons, Hope, Willie Harris |
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