I had the proverbial bad feeling about this. If money would’ve solved the problem, rich uncle Steve had that exclusive window after the opt out and before free agency formally opened. He could have wowed and zowed deGrom with his millions. Once Jake decided he wanted to see other people, it almost seemed inevitable that he would find what he was ( Read more... )

I find it kind of sad that it has taken the revival of some bad baseball memories to finally bring me back to journaling in this place, in the midst of the season that has been so full of good memories. But here they are, and so here this is ( Read more... )

Last seen here years ago, he rises from the ashes,.... no. Bad metaphor on this occasion.  But it took seeing live shots from Citi Field last night, and video of Shea from not quite 20 years before, to bring back some conceptual stuff here.

So this meme has been popping up on and off for a few months now:


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♫I've been one poor correspondent, and I've been too, too hard to find ( Read more... )

After a night like that, and with all the history of those conquering Brobdignagians from Coogan's Bluff to Candlestick Point, why was my first random memory of such a puny Giant from the 1960s and early 70s?


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As 2016 (regular edition) comes to a close today, with anywhere from one to twenty games remaining in it, we take note of how Amazin' it was that we got even this far in the face of so much adversity.  Yet, when we look back at the events of the previous year, where we boldly went almost as far as we'd only gone twice before, there was plenty of ( Read more... )

Seems fitting, considering Jerry Seinfeld's long-professed love of this team, that my first post in ages would be a post about not posting.  But I have to. There's too much going on of importance- to the next 22 games and those beyond. Against staggering odds, the Mets have climbed back into a virtual tie for the second wild card, are in striking ( Read more... )

Most other regulars on the Mets blogging circuit have thrown in their two cents on the Jose Reyes re-signing, so I'll throw mine in to the pot, as well. Besides the generally abhorrent nature of the domestic violence charge against him, I've seen, and respect, an opinion about his conduct in his final game as a Met in 2011- when he got a hit to ( Read more... )

I almost titled this with a reference to "killed Kevin," which seemed to work between seeing Kevin Mitchell in the booth late in yesterday's game and then reading this Times tribute to him.  But the real news of late yesterday was the seeming arrival of that all-elusive gateway to the ninth inning in the sometimes shaky person of one Antonio ( Read more... )

Well, at least closer to Lost.We all remember The Numbers. Six of them, echoing throughout that utterly confusing series of Wednesday nights ( Read more... )