I hung in through six grisly innings from San Diego. I nodded off in the seventh. I awoke in the eighth. “Is there any point to staying up for the rest of this?” I asked my groggy self. The Mets were down, 6-0. They’d had one hit, not counting the one Paul Blackburn took off […]
 
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Aw, I missed a triple? I did. I nodded off in the seventh, shortly after Jose Butto came on in relief of Paul Blackburn, the score at Coors Field knotted at two. That’ll happen with any game that starts any time after 7:10 where I sit; then stretch out; then close my eyes for just […]  9 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Catchers Tripling, Francisco Alvarez, Gary Carter, Jerry Grote, John Stearns, Sleep, Triples To paraphrase the late, great Roger Angell (for neither the first nor last time in this space), specifically what he said about his presence in Boston during Game Six of the 1986 NLCS while the Mets were cheating death in Houston and baseball had “burst its seams and was wild in the streets” in New […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Comebacks, Roger Angell, Sleep, Thomas Szapucki A few years ago, Howie Rose suggested to Josh Lewin that if they were to go down to the field from the broadcast booth at Citi Field and ask the players warming up for that night’s game if they knew what day it was, most would have little idea because, Howie explained, ballplayers never have […] 7 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Paddack, Days of the Week, Decades, Howie Rose, Jesse Dougherty, Les Keiter, Mets of the 2010s, Sleep, Streaks Most of the Mets game I watched Saturday night was pretty good. Jacob deGrom was outstanding, looking more like Jake from 2018 than he has since he was making beautiful music in Miami in early April. Todd Frazier continued to bring the power despite being written off in multiple quarters as an irredeemable […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Brian Chicklo, Jacob deGrom, Mickey Callaway, Mountain Time Zone, Sleep, Tomas Nido, Waking Up to Bad Scores Off-day? What off-day? Today brings Jacob deGrom vs. the Yankees, a rematch caused by rain. Which as I type this is blanketing New York again, with more to come. There’s an easy line about the elements being too tough an enemy for even the mighty Sir Jake, except that the mighty Sir Jake routinely is […] 4 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | David Wright, Garbage Time, Jose Reyes, Noah Syndergaard, Seth Lugo, Sleep Your East Coast Based Late Night West Coast Correspondent is an unreliable narrator regarding the bulk of Friday night’s Mets-Padres affair, at least from approximately the top of the second to sometime in the bottom of the sixth, for YECBLNWCC indulged in a 75% nap. I had […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Asdrubal Cabrera, Eric Hosmer, Gray Areas, Jacob deGrom, Matt Harvey, Oliver Perez, Padres, Sleep, Tug McGraw, West Coast Trips Sometimes, to steal a line from my other dorky pursuit, you have a bad feeling about this. I wasn’t particularly confident in the outcome of Saturday’s Mets-Brewers tilt before it started: in addition to the relentless winnowing of key pieces, the once-vaunted starting pitching has suddenly turned not just ordinary but considerably less than that. But that bad […] The Mountain Time Zone and the mountainous rain delay combined to knock me out before the final pitch last night. Hung in there through Mets Yearbook: 1966 and Mets Yearbook: 1967 (which SNY cut away from just as Whitey Herzog was about to announce his intention to draft…what a cliffhanger!) and reveled, as Gary Cohen […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Frankie Rodriguez, Money, Rockies, Sleep, Whiskey |
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