Thankful for Rico
Blessed be the player who keeps you rooting for your team when your team gives you little on which to root. Not that you’re going to switch to another team or perceptibly scale back your allegiance if...
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Favorites Never Wear Thin
It’s September 2009. The last thing I want to do is give the Mets more of my money. But there I am, at Citi Field, in the team store browsing, when I see a sign advising me that player number t-shirts...
View ArticleThe Happiest Recap: 097-099
Welcome to The Happiest Recap, a solid gold slate of New York Mets games culled from every schedule the Mets have ever played en route to this, their fiftieth year in baseball. We’ve created a dream...
View ArticleTwenty Homers, Decent Cachet
Marlon Byrd joined the Mets’ 20-home run club Monday. As exclusivity goes, it’s an honor that falls somewhere between the United States Senate and one of those Facebook groups that requires an...
View ArticleHere Today, Here Tomorrow
The good news to come out of August 11, 2014, is that the Mets beat the Phillies, 5-3, producing all sorts of sunny sidebars in Philadelphia while doing so. Universally beloved Jon Niese pitched seven...
View ArticleThat’s All There Is
And then I fell in love With the most wonderful boy in the world We would take long walks by the river Or just sit for hours Gazing into each other’s eyes We were so very much in love Then one day He...
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Spring Touches Visitor to New England
Happy one-month anniversary of when the Mets started playing games that didn’t count, don’t count and won’t count until April 3. Spring Training schedules don’t traditionally engender milestones while...
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