The Mets’ zero-sum games
It hasn’t happened in the Majors in six years and hasn’t been done by the Mets since September 1969, but it was completed tonight: A three-game shutout sweep. Amazing. In some ways, I was as nervous heading to the ninth…
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Listening to history
As I was getting ready to drive into work last night, I got the text alert that Dallas Braden was perfect through six innings. As I waited in traffic heading into the Lincoln Tunnel, it occurred to me that I…
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Where it all began for Chipper
This isn’t a piece of trivia that I had tucked away in my brain, but if you’d asked me which team surrendered Chipper Jones‘ first Major League home run, I’d have said something along the lines of, “It would have…
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Photo flashback: Present and future Phillies
Jonathan Villar On a gorgeous spring day, Casey and I and a friend from work drove down to Philly to see the home team down the Cardinals, 7-2, with Roy Halladay on the mound. (RIP, Robin Roberts.) From there, we…
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Ernie Harwell’s legacy
I love this thought: There’s a man in Mobile who remembers a triple he saw Honus Wagner hit in Pittsburgh 46 years ago. That’s baseball. So is the scout reporting that a 16-year-old sandlot pitcher in Cheyenne is the new…
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My year on the disabled list
As a kid, I played baseball from sometime in maybe the second grade through my junior year of high school. When I wasn’t good enough to make varsity before my senior year and realized that I would be practicing every…
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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.
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Photo flashback: Enjoying the meat of the sweep
Frenchy’s follow-through A busy weekend has made this look back at Saturday’s win over the Braves a little outdated by now, but it’s still fun to look back on the middle of a sweep sandwich involving one of the Mets’…
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Johan’s pitching tonight. Unfortunately.
It’s Santana Day in the Citi tonight. With Johan on the mound, the Mets have their best chance of winning out of every five games. But it bothers me that he’s pitching tonight, rather than two nights ago. Why? Because…
