Highway to the Duda Zone
Perhaps you share my conviction that there’s Opening Day and then there’s Everything Else. We just had Opening Day. It was real and it was spectacular. But by Saturday, it was over. So on to Everything...
View ArticleBaseball Is Fun
Baseball’s beautiful and elevating and timeless and pastoral and all those good high-minded things, but it’s also a lot of fun — particularly when things go off the rails and the game is played...
View ArticleProject Met Way
In baseball circles over the years, there has been a certain cachet attached to the Oriole Way, the Dodger Way and the Cardinal Way. I’ve never heard anyone allude to, with or without irony, to the Met...
View ArticleFloating on a Cloud of Jordany
But, Marge, that little guy hasn’t done anything yet. Look at him. He’s going to do something and you know it’s going to be good. —Homer Simpson, “The Twisted World of Marge Simpson” Mets fans of a...
View ArticleToo Soon for a June Swoon
“What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness.” —Don Draper The rockheads were at it again Wednesday night, and again it was the Mets who pulled more rocks than the Nationals, losing...
View ArticleWill It Go Round in Circles?
Sure the season is shot, but at least we get a chance to take a good, long look at Josh Thole! Never mind throwback uniforms from 1989 (technically 1988 to 1992 for us, but it was the Padres’ party, so...
View ArticlePlaying Across to the Competition
After wrapping up their current series in Miami, the Mets re-enter the general baseball conversation for a little while, which has its upside and its down. The upside is everything the Mets do in their...
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The Rhythm of the Game
Ike Davis…he was at that Mets holiday party a couple of weeks ago, too. His attendance got kind of lost in the shuffle given the kerfuffle that was kicked up by the remarks of his (now erstwhile)...
View ArticleA Little Impatience Now & Then is a Good Thing
You must have heard The cautionary tales The dangers hidden On the cul-de-sac trails From wiser folk Who have been Through it all And the faded names Sprayed up on the wall Ninth inning. Travis...
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Mets of the 2010s: 50-41
Welcome to the sixth chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are...
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