Hey now and forever, Michael Conforto, you’re an All-Star, no matter how your league got its game on, no matter that there was a decent case to be made for at least two other players from your team getting your spot. But never mind that Jacob deGrom was the most stellar Met of the first […]
 
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 8 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  All-Star Game, All-Star Team, All-Stars, Bobby Bonilla, Bud Harrelson, Carlos Beltran, Cleon Jones, Darryl Strawberry, Dave Kingman, David Wright, Duke Snider, Dwight Gooden, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, Jerry Koosman, Joel Youngblood, John Stearns, Jon Matlack, Keith Hernandez, Lance Johnson, Lee Mazzilli, Mets Who've Won All-Star Games, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Ron Hunt, Sid Fernandez, Team History, Todd Hundley, Tom Seaver, Tug McGraw, Willie Mays Watching baseball is a fine way to spend an afternoon, but not quite as fine as watching the Mets finish taking three of four from the Braves with another fine pitching performance and relief that makes you exhale instead of rolling into a ball and the only sighting of Freddie Freeman one that involved Steve Gelbs and […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Asdrubal Cabrera, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Neil Walker, Seth Lugo, Terry Collins, Yoenis Cespedes What an impressive young man, that Dansby Swanson. The cut of his jib is first-rate, tip-top, simply splendid. Let me show you a few choice selections from his defensive portfolio Friday night… Hmm, I can’t seem to find any of them. Why, that Dansby Swanson seems to have leapt as from out of nowhere and snatched […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Curtis Granderson, Dansby Swanson, Impressive, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald, Young Joe Posnanski, who writes lyrically and frequently about baseball, published a breezy piece last week titled “Ranking the Stadiums,” in which he identified Citi Field as one of the majors’ “Underrated Ballparks,” alongside Comerica Park and Angel Stadium. He elaborated, “I actually don’t know if Citi Field is underrated — I suspect most people who […] 14 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Citi Field, Gary Cohen, Joe Posnanski, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Padres, Warner Wolf Here’s a new proposal for shortening the length of baseball games: shorten the length of baseball games. Or shorten the length of one baseball game in particular by one inning. Let us retroactively by 24 hours implement such a rule so it is applicable only to Saturday evening Interleague contests conducted in facilities constructed after […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Alex Meyer, Angels, Angst, Danny Espinosa, Eight-Inning Games, Fernando Salas, Jose Reyes, Michael Conforto, Mike Trout, Milestones, Neil Ramirez, Robert Gsellman, Terry Collins, Zack Wheeler The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the Mets give up today?” The person working the desk reported, “None.” The caller had a followup: “Did they win?” Yes, […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1964 Mets, Addison Reed, Andrelton Simmons, Angels, Ben Revere, Cameron Maybin, Damn Yankees, Danny Espinosa, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Jimmy Breslin, Joan Payson, Jose Reyes, Losing Streaks, Michael Conforto, Mike Scioscia, Mike Trout, Paul Sewald, Rene Rivera, Ricky Nolasco, The Americans, The Waltons, The West Wing, Welcome Back Kotter So who was betting on “Rafael Montero blows it almost immediately” when pondering how Wednesday’s game was going to end? And how many of you astute folks were brave enough to put $100 down on that in Vegas? If you did, I know you’re swaggering around wearing the grin of a person who’s got, say, $105. This is what things have […] Comments closed | | Print This Post | Hopelessness, Jose Reyes, Let's All Play Suck Bingo, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Paul Sewald The question was posed by a classmate in AP History in twelfth grade: how did the United States did lose China? Our teacher, an affable sort named Mr. Friend, answered that the United States did not lose China, for China was never the United States’s to begin with. I’ve tried to remember that Friendly analysis […] 1 comment - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Bad Relief Pitching, Blown Leads, Brewers, Brockmire, Internal Affairs, Jacob deGrom, Michael Conforto It was supposed to be one of the seminal moments in the revival of a franchise that was taking its sweet time returning to life. Tuesday, June 18, 2013, a day-night doubleheader in Atlanta. The afternoon portion would be pitched by baseball’s hottest star, the evening’s focused on the premiere of potentially its next one. […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2013 Mets, Concern, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, Pathos, Rene Rivera, T.J. Rivera, The Lost Weekend, Winning, Zack Wheeler Win or lose, the 2017 Mets are exhausting. They didn’t win tonight — Matt Harvey‘s poor location, lousy relief, Freddie Freeman‘s ubiquitous bat and annoyingly good baseball played by Ender Inciarte, Brandon Phillips and Nick Markakis took care of that — but they made it interesting, with Jay Bruce‘s grand slam making it 9-7. Dare I […] 34 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Braves, Freddie Freeman, Jay Bruce, Larry Vanover, Matt Harvey, Michael Conforto, R.A. Dickey, Replay, Umpiring |
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