Straw’s Big Mouth
One of the pleasures of the last few years has been Darryl Strawberry’s return to the Mets fold. Straw left town under a pretty toxic cloud composed of his own problems, a nasty contract dispute, and...
View ArticleNot Everybody Was A Star
Congratulations to proven Amazin’ research maven Mathias Kook and talented Metsian writer William Akers for understanding the 1986 World Series was a Fall Classic Sly Stone probably adored, for almost...
View ArticleEight Points About Playing the Nats
1. When the Mets seem to have the game won but the Nats keep hanging around in the rearview mirror, you’re not being paranoid. They really are closer than they appear. 2. Particularly if it’s happening...
View ArticleAll Hail Relative Normalcy
The best thing about tonight’s 4-3 victory over the Marlins? It was a relatively normal baseball game. It wasn’t Monday night’s six-error shitshow in which the Marlins won by sucking less. Nor was it...
View ArticleDunham Bull?
What constitutes a trend? For our purposes, let’s say it’s when two people you know relay to you, independent of one another, the same piece of information accompanied by a similar slice of curiosity....
View ArticleDepartment of the Interior
We now interrupt the Mets’ first pennant race in seven years to race all the way around the bases for the first time in five years. We won’t pause to do so, however, for this is one of those plays in...
View ArticleBest Six Ever?
Ol’ No. 48 had been there before, so he knew how it goes. He’d pitch well, his team wouldn’t score for him and they’d go on to lose. Jacob deGrom practices the whole season ’round for All-Star Games....
View ArticleI’ve Seen the Future and It Doesn’t Work
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. As August 1988 came to an end, the New York Mets were one full season...
View ArticleNails and the Chalkboard
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. When I was a teenager, a lot of people assumed I’d be a sportswriter. Which...
View ArticleA Foxhole Player
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Looks back at the ’86 Mets often pair Wally Backman with Lenny Dykstra, his...
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