Jacob deGrom gets hit like Jacob deGrom never gets hit. Then Jacob deGrom leaves with an injury like Jacob deGrom does in our worst nightmares. Then the Mets, down by three in the third, turn to Michael Wacha, a lapsed starter the Mets resist turning to as a matter of course. Then the Mets run […]
 
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 12 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Andres Gimenez, Injuries, J.D. Davis, Jacob deGrom, Michael Wacha, Robinson Cano, The Pinch-Running Files, Unlikely Events It’s a point that arrives in every season. The game where… …your head and heart aren’t really in it. …you have a feeling that comeback you’re dreaming of is going to remain just a dream. …the loss, when it comes, feels both foreordained and like a herald of more to come. Turns out that point arrives in shortened little […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Andres Gimenez, Jake Arietta, Luis Rojas, Michael Conforto, Phillies, Rhys Hoskins, Rick Porcello, Robinson Cano, Roman Quinn You know things have really taken a turn for the worse when even Jacob deGrom can’t save the Mets. The Mets and Marlins reported for makeup duty a little after 1 pm Monday, with Miami not particularly excited at having to fly up and back to New York in a single day, and presumably even less […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jacob deGrom, Marlins, Miguel Castro, Robinson Cano, Robinson Chirinos, Todd Frazier, Trades “Don’t hold the ball so hard, OK? It’s an egg. Hold it like an egg.” So says Crash Davis to Ebby Calvin LaLoosh. It’s good advice for us all. The Mets suddenly look … OKish? They’ve remembered how to hit, the defense has been reasonably sound, and the bullpen offers depth, and not just because of the […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Amed Rosario, Brandon Nimmo, Corey Oswalt, Hope, Robinson Cano A laugher is always welcome as a team trudges through the long march of a baseball season — and, as it turns out, as it sprints through an unexpectedly curtailed one. And a laugher is particularly welcome when that team has recently made you wonder if it will ever play sound baseball again. The Mets, after […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chasen Shreve, Franklyn Kilome, Logan Forsythe, Marlins, Pete Alonso, Robert Gsellman, Robinson Cano “Everywhere I went,” Marvin Gaye and, later, James Taylor sang, “it seems I’d been there before.” In that spirit of history either repeating or rhyming, I’d have to say that on Wednesday night, I kind of got what they were getting at. On October 25, 1986, though the result didn’t go final until the earliest hour […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1986 World Series, 2006 NLCS, Andres Gimenez, Blake Swihart, Christian Vazquez, Déjà Vu All Over Again, Frustration, Jacob deGrom, James Taylor, Jim Edmonds, John McNamara, Jose Reyes, Justin Wilson, Larry Gelbart, Marvin Gaye, Moment of Silence, Red Sox, Robinson Cano, Seth Lugo, Willie Randolph Outside it’s cold, misty, and it’s raining. We’ve got a FanFest; who right here’s complaining? Not anybody who thinks it’s sexy that the Mets opened Citi Field on the last Saturday in January for as much baseball as they could possibly produce without benefit of a baseball game. It was the first hopefully annual FanFest in […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1969 Mets, 1986 Mets, 2000 Mets, 2020 Mets, Al Leiter, Alan Suriel, Amed Rosario, Art Shamsky, Articles of Confederation, Carlos Beltran, Dave Foley, Edwin Diaz, FanFest, Jacob deGrom, Jeff McNeil, Jerry Ford, Jerry Maguire, John Hanson, Luis Rojas, Mad Men, Pete Alonso, Proximity, QBC, Queens Baseball Convention, Rainbows, Robinson Cano, Rod Stewart, Steven Matz, Todd Zeile, Truck Day, Turk Wendell Another year in the books! Another decade in the books! And another class of matriculating Mets to welcome to The Holy Books! Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB) by Greg, that contain a baseball card for every Met on the all-time roster. They’re in order of arrival in […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2019 Mets, Aaron Altherr, Adeiny Hechavarria, Baseball Cards, Brad Brach, Brooks Pounders, Chris Mazza, Donnie Hart, Edwin Diaz, Hector Santiago, J.D. Davis, Jed Lowrie, Joe Panik, Justin Wilson, Keon Broxton, Luis Avilan, Marcus Stroman, Pete Alonso, Rajai Davis, Robinson Cano, Ryan O'Rourke, Sam Haggerty, Stephen Nogosek, The Holy Books, Walker Lockett, Wilmer Font, Wilson Ramos Welcome to the third chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are the more or less best Mets we rooted for as Mets fans these past ten years. Since a decade […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Capuano, Collin Cowgill, Edwin Diaz, Frank Francisco, Jason Bay, Jeremy Hefner, Marcus Stroman, Mets of the 2010s, Robinson Cano, Tim Byrdak, Tyler Clippard This is just like that other year when the Mets were diddling around for almost four months, then got hot and catapulted themselves into a playoff chase already in progress. Do you remember that other year? You don’t. Because this is a new one on us. You’d think after 58 years, we’d have seen it all, […] 17 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1776, Contention, Donnie Hart, Hot Streaks, Injures, Noah Syndergaard, Robinson Cano, Unreality |
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