White Flight Stadium has been a house of horrors for the Mets for some time now, but the home of the Braves outdid itself Tuesday night, first with a rain delay that didn’t actually feature rain — they watered the goddamn infield when guys could have been playing on it — and then with horrible […]
 
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 7 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Braves, Carlos Carrasco, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Pitchers This recap begins with a confession. Emily and I had tickets for Thursday night’s game, obtained weeks ago in exchange for a smallish charitable contribution. My 2023 debut at Citi Field was nigh, and with it the chance to demonstrate that I was not, in fact, jinxed despite having gone 0 for 2022 as an attendee, […] 3 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brett Baty, Brooks Raley, C.J. Abrams, David Robertson, Jeff McNeil, Jinxes, Joey Lucchesi, Mason Thompson, Nats, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte, Tommy Hunter Six months and one day after it would have done the most good, the Mets beat the Padres at Citi Field. It didn’t tie up last October’s National League Wild Card Series at two apiece, because that was a best-of-three set. Noted baseball analyst Carole King says it’s too late, baby, to do anything about […] This is the time of firsts, of course. First appearances for Mets old and new. First hits, home runs, stolen bases and, alas, first errors and strikeouts and big chances not converted. First wins — the Mets took care of that category Thursday afternoon — and, nowadays, new additions to the menagerie such as first […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Peterson, Garrett Cooper, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jeff McNeil, John Curtiss, Jorge Soler, Marlins, Pete Alonso, Starling Marte Baseball’s nothing without poetic license, whether or not Rob Manfred wishes to notarize said document. The Commissioner is intent on engineering a game built for speed. Get it over with already yet seemed the Manfred mandate for Opening Day. Start the pitch timer, throw the ball, quit yer lollygagging. It sounds reasonable in concept. It […] 13 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2023 Mets, Brandon Nimmo, Brooks Raley, Daniel Vogelbach, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jacob Stallings, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Jeff McNeil, Justin Verlander, Marlins, Max Scherzer, Omar Narvaez, Opening Day, Pace of Play, Pitch Clock, Sandy Alcantara, Steve Carlton, T#m Gl@v!ne, The Paper Chase, Time of Game, Wacky Races, Yogi Berra It is the late winter of Tommy Pham, described far and wide as a fourth outfielder when the Mets signed him for the upcoming season. Unnerving spate of rules changes aside, the outfield still contains only three positions. Nobody is every described as a fifth infielder. And second catchers are usually referred to as backup […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Baseball Movies, Carlos Beltran, Darin Ruf, Howie Rose, Jeff McNeil, Keith Raad, Late Winter, Matt Allan, Pat McCarthy, T-shirts, Tommy Pham, Wayne Randazzo According to mathematics from whichever grade I learned percentages, three is fifty percent greater than two. According to how I felt waking up this morning to the knowledge the Mets would have a Game Three in the Wild Card Series versus how I felt yesterday morning when Game Two loomed as the conclusion to our […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2022 Postseason, Adam Ottavino, Basketball, Continuity, Edwin Diaz, Fatalism, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Mets Fan Philosophy, PitchCom, Seth Lugo, Tomas Nido I packed an asterisk and a caveat as I set out for my 27th consecutive Closing Day. Unlike water bottles whose caps aren’t fully sealed, security waved them right through. A rain delay nudged Closing Day into Closing Night. Closing Night closed only so much. The door to Citi Field and the Mets’ ultimate 2022 fortunes […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Batting Crown, Closing Day, Closing Night, Francisco Lindor, James McCann, Jeff McNeil, Mark Canha, Mychal Givens, Rain Delays, Trevor Williams On Tuesday morning, pulling up my email in an idle moment at work, I noted that Mets postseason tickets were on sale — and then I deleted the email that had told me that and went back to work. It wasn’t until an hour or so later that what I’d done — or rather, what […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Acceptance, Brandon Nimmo, Braves, Disappointment, Francisco Alvarez, Hope, Jeff McNeil, Jordan Groshans, Mathematically Eliminated, Nationals, Paolo Espino, Wild Card Brandon Nimmo finally remembers how to steal bases and in activating his dormant skill aggravates a quad that merits exiting the game early, receiving imaging later and monitoring on a day-to-day basis. But I don’t want to talk about that. Jeff McNeil throws his body into every possible defensive play and has trouble getting up a couple […] 18 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 200 Wins, 2022 Mets, Bartolo Colon, Brandon Nimmo, Brewers, David Peterson, Drew Smith, Endurance, Francisco Lindor, Gratification, Hit By Pitch, Injuries, Jeff McNeil, Kevin Tapani, Mark Canha, Max Scherzer, Orel Hershiser, Pedro Martinez, Pete Alonso, Rick Porcello, Taijuan Walker, Team History, Tomas Nido, Willie Mays |
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