Baseball dating game
A quick one before I go out to enjoy the beautiful afternoon: A Mr. Met dating story, or not. I like how he pokes holes in the account the way only an insider would know. Pretty interesting.
A quick one before I go out to enjoy the beautiful afternoon: A Mr. Met dating story, or not. I like how he pokes holes in the account the way only an insider would know. Pretty interesting.
I’ve been to heaven. Twice, in fact. I first learned you could go there on your own time during my junior year of college. A friend of mine from western Illinois, Joe, had a photo of himself with several friends,…
Pennants atop the scoreboard Two weeks ago, I drove down to Washington to meet up with two college friends and see the Nationals play the Reds. We’d speculated a couple of weeks before and bought tickets hoping it would be…
Four years ago, I covered the South Atlantic League All-Star Game in New Jersey, and that’s when I met David Wright. The Mets’ affiliate in the league was in Columbia, South Carolina, at the time, a team in the league’s…
There are still a few things about Willie Randolph’s managerial style that confuse — and frustrate — me. For one thing, I can’t understand why he’s so stubborn about batting Mike Piazza ahead of David Wright, yet Jose Reyes is…
For a delightfully irreverent take on the Mets’ 1969 NL East-clinching victory, check out this newsreel clip from British Movietone: It’s part of a big collection of baseball footage hidden in plain sight among the millions of clips on YouTube….
When this offseason started and the Mets began their search for, first, a general manager and then a manager, I followed the GM process pretty closely. I was invested in it, had some thoughts and preferences, and made sure I…