Technically, the win in the game that commenced the National League season in New York went to Chris Bassitt. Not so technically, actually. Chris, No. 40 in the common guise of No. 42, gave the Mets six superb innings, and when a Mets starting pitcher is backed by sufficient offense, that generally means the starting […]
 
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 13 comments - (Comments closed) | |  Print This Post |  Chasen Shreve, Chris Bassitt, Home Opener, Jackie Robinson, Nancy Seaver, Nick Plummer, Steve Cohen, Tom Seaver, Tom Seaver Statue, Travis Jankowski, Uniform Numbers, Uniforms Baseball, that thing which I love and you love, still doesn’t feel quite like the baseball you love and I love. Not in 2021, not after 2020. The rule alterations that linger from last year have the sport askew and to no apparent useful purpose. We bought into the pandemic requiring trims around the edges. […] 15 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | All-Star Breaks, All-Star Game, Boardwalk, Daniel Murphy, Friendship, Heathers, Jeurys Familia, Long Beach, Pete Alonso, Radio, Richard Ben Cramer, Something Feels Off, Summer, Taijuan Walker, Uniforms, Wayne Randazzo James McCann sure has some strange at-bats. I’m not talking about the crotch readjustment before every pitch, which I really want Steve Gelbs to inquire about one day. (Did his Little League coach try to get him to stop? Has his mom and/or wife ever wished he wouldn’t?) I’m talking about the fact that the Mets’ […] 10 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | A.J. Minter, Andy Beck, Braves, Charlie Morton, Edwin Diaz, James McCann, Mets History, Todd Radom, Tylor Megill, Uniforms, Unlikely Events Zack Wheeler had a bad inning, not a full-game meltdown but an uneasy, Leiteresque mix of wildness and poor BABIP luck. That bad inning was enough to put the Mets in a 4-0 hole, but then Tanner Roark couldn’t get anybody out either. The Mets crept to 4-2 and then Roark became the latest opponent […] 8 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Jesse Winker, Jeurys Familia, Reds, Todd Frazier, Uniforms, Zack Wheeler Congratulations to Travis Taijeron for making his big-league debut after seven seasons in the minors — the last three spent at Las Vegas. With his 29th birthday looming, Taijeron had to be thinking he’d been pigeonholed as an organizational player, one whose impressive numbers at Triple-A wouldn’t interest his front office or anybody else’s beyond […] 19 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Players Weekend, Stupid Fucking Bullshit, Travis Taijeron, Uniforms As Metsian sequences of events go, the one that unfolded in the top of the first Friday night at Nationals Park was among the Metsiest of 2017. Asdrubal Cabrera was on first base, Yoenis Cespedes was on second, Dominic Smith was batting. Smith singled up the middle. Cespedes came around to score. Except Smith’s ball […] 9 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2017 Mets, AJ Ramos, Brandon Nimmo, Elton John, Injuries, Jacob deGrom, Jerry Blevins, Juan Lagares, Travis Taijeron, Uniforms, Yoenis Cespedes Jacob deGrom might be confused when he arrives at his locker on August 25 and sees a different name over the number on the back of his road uniform. August 25 to 27, when the Mets are in Washington, is MLB Players Weekend, a three-day period when players can, in the name of fun or […] 6 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Addison Reed, Hunter Renfroe, Jabari Blash, Jacob deGrom, Nicknames, Satisfaction-Laced Exhortations, Uniforms It happens sometimes: life, that amorphous bundle of stuff, refuses to conform itself to the rhythms of 7:10 and 1:10 and 4:10. I thought I had my July 4th parceled out so three hours were reserved for the Mets game, but I hadn’t been paying attention to which day was which. I’ve got a mental list of […] 21 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | Chris Johnson, Fans, Fernando Rodney, Happy Holidays, Jeurys Familia, Jonathan Lucroy, Matt Harvey, Superstition, Terry Collins, Uniforms, Yoenis Cespedes Tom Seaver returned from M. Donald Exile (a.k.a. Cincinnati) on April 5, 1983, and though it was as if order had been restored to Shea Stadium, one element of the Metsian universe had been disturbed. The home uniform Tom donned for his triumphant restoration as king of our hill had been notably altered. The emperor’s […] 2 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 1983 Mets, 1986 Mets, 1992 Mets, 2-3 Starts, Darryl Strawberry, Jim Henderson, Ken Henderson, Racing Stripes, Rickey Henderson, Ron Darling, Small Sample Sizes, Sports Illustrated, Steve Henderson, Team History, The Simpsons, Tom Seaver, Uniforms, Willie Randolph, Yoenis Cespedes I can’t take me anywhere. I can, but I can’t depend on me to respond as social norms suggest I should. I took myself to Citi Field Tuesday night at the invitation of a friend. The ostensible lure was the manifestation of that old Wilponian chestnut, Meaningful Games In September, MGIS for short (mishegas for our […] 41 comments - (Comments closed) | | Print This Post | 2004 Mets, Cleon Jones, Dee Gordon, Fred Wilpon, Marv Throneberry, September, Tom Koehler, Tom Seaver, Uniforms |
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