The ‘King of Queens’ at Shea
I took a bit of a break from blogging, even the internet in general (just a little), the past few days, hence the lack of activity. And so I’m a little bit behind on a query over at Uniwatch on…
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Bring back the Fun
Reyes breaks for third We don’t have a Dave & Buster’s in northern New Jersey, there’s no chance of me ever setting foot in the one in Times Square, and I’m not sure if I’ve ever been to one. But…
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Which cap for Piazza?
Rob Neyer on ESPN.com and Pat Andriola on The Hardball Times speculate that Mike Piazza will one day sport a Mets cap when he’s inevitably inducted into the Hall of Fame. Their reasoning is based mostly on statistics and legacy,…
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Minaya brings up Bay in front of Sox fans
A couple of interesting things from Omar Minaya at today’s roundtable discussion at Fenway Park: He tried to avoid it, but in the end he couldn’t help but mention Jason Bay in front of the fan base from which he’d…
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Flushing’s Bay
Jason Bay was introduced to the New York media today and handled himself rather well in the face of some tough questions. He declined to answer whether any other teams were close in their offer with what the Mets offered,…
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When Shea knew football
The Jets are about to play the last football game at the Meadowlands, and though I was 7 years old when they first kicked off there, I don’t remember their first game in New Jersey, or their time at Shea…
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Hockey at Citi Field?
I don’t read the New York Post (I wanted to be a journalist, not a muckraker, so “The Post” in my mind was always the Washington Post, mentioned in the same breath as “The Times,” not with “The News.”), so…
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Moneyballing the Mets
In a column in the new issue of ESPN The Magazine, Buster Olney talks about the continuing effect of Moneyball and the statistics-based way of thinking that many Major League clubs follow. High in the column, he cites the Mariners’…
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Banking on the signing of Bay
I like the Mets’ signing of Jason Bay. I really do. I know they need a starting pitcher, because Oliver Perez has a long way to go to prove he’s anything more than a cash suck and Jonathan Niese is…
