Bichette Keeps Happening
No matter which hitters constitute the heart of the Colorado Rockies order in a given series when the Mets play in Denver, the most daunting presence in the home team lineup remains Coors Field. The...
View ArticleHow Juan Lagares Became Immortal
The place: Cooperstown, New York. The time: A sunny Sunday afternoon, date to be determined. The occasion: Juan Lagares accepting his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Let’s listen in… It would...
View ArticleLagares, Come Forth
FREE [SO-AND-SO]!!! It’s a common cry when things start to go south for a team, meant to rally the segment of the fanbase that self-identifies as sensible, but it can be used in different ways....
View ArticleI Got Your Positivity Right Here
Can ya hear us, Pittsburgh? After spending a slice of my Tuesday afternoon listening to Dave Hudgens complain about “negativity” and Sandy Alderson indicate he can’t spend more money on players until...
View ArticleHead of the Class
Aesthetics aside, the Mets’ extended residency in Philadelphia is going pretty well: three of four games have been captured, with one still waiting to be bagged. We’ve seen what Jonathon Niese can do...
View ArticleJacob’s Ladder
Where did Jacob deGrom come from, anyway? I’d heard of him, of course, but not in a Matt Harvey/Zack Wheeler/Noah Syndergaard way, in which each mention is part of a countdown, the promotion becomes a...
View ArticleThey’re the Kids in America
This business wherein the Mets overcome years of being mostly bad and become mostly good is not a linear endeavor. Homestands of 8-2 are followed up with road trips of 5-5. Two out of three get taken...
View ArticleMissing Out
The life of a freelance writer is by turns exciting and terrifying, but one of its undeniable benefits is that a weekday matinee is no big deal. Well, except when you’ve taken a fairly intense...
View ArticleBehold the Majesty of Baseball
Who among us doesn’t remember being a kid in the backyard, dreaming — if only for a second — of a career in the big leagues? I’m Lucas Duda. It’s the last out of another ass-kicking administered by the...
View ArticleThey Complete Us
The Mets are chocolate and the Cubs are peanut butter: We’ve got a surplus of young pitching and not enough bats; they’ve got a surplus of young bats and not enough pitching. So plenty of baseball...
View ArticleRequiem for a Fly Ball
We gather today to mourn the passing of our spherical brother Rawlings Official Major League Baseball, or as he was known to those who watched him in action, Rawly. In many ways, Rawly was just like...
View Article20/20 Vision
Over the past three games, the sub-.500 Mets have scored 20 runs and allowed 20 runs against the sub-.500 teams directly adjacent to them in the standings. It’s been like a sporadically entertaining...
View ArticleGetting Our Stomp Back
Whaddya know? The Mets really can beat the Nationals. They did so tonight — you could look it up. They did so despite the umpires failing up to correct a bad call even with a replay review, which...
View ArticleYour Handy Voters Guide
Happy Election Day! It’s your Metstitutional duty to vote for the candidates of your choice. You could do worse — and no better, in this analyst’s opinion — than theoretically casting a ballot for the...
View ArticleA Mental Game
Baseball’s a mental game. Perhaps you’ve heard. For a maddening, frustrating game this one was actually kind of fun. Wait, hear me out on that. The Mets lost because multiple members of the team made...
View ArticleThis Feels Different
Are you supposed to know when you’ve been born again? Because I’m pretty sure I have been, fanwise. Somewhere between Thursday night, when I expected everything to go wrong but it didn’t, and Friday...
View ArticlePinch-Me Days
I’ve been thinking of this one game. I was in Connecticut. The Mets were in Atlanta. They were playing the Braves on a Saturday night and Dillon Gee wasn’t very good. Since that game I’ve driven back...
View ArticleTry These On For Size
Thanks for coming along. I know you hate when I drag you shopping, especially when there’s been so much riveting local sports on TV, but with all I needed to pick up for my Saturday night paragraph, I...
View ArticleMagic City
Your baseball instincts weren’t hopelessly off and you weren’t necessarily wrong. Well, for one night, yes, but don’t worry. There’s still plenty of time for what you were sure was going to happen to...
View ArticleThe Eye Test
The other day I visited my ophthamologist for one of those comprehensive examinations that includes drops in both eyes. Once it’s over and you step outside, you basically enter a Soundgarden video....
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