The Happiest Recap: 040-042
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 ArticleThe Happiest Recap: 052-054
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 ArticleThe Happiest Recap: 070-072
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...
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Mets Yearbook: 1964
Wednesday night, the Fourth of July, you’ll want to pause your annual viewing of 1776 to be reminded of another year that made our country great: 1964, as SNY debuts Mets Yearbook: 1964 at 6:30. As...
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A Good Year to Honor Ron Hunt
The Mets tell us things in dribs and drabs. Like who’s gonna fill out the starting rotation. Like who’s gonna be in the outfield. Like what they’ll be giving away besides the occasional late-inning...
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 ArticleReporting from Brand New Shea Stadium
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Shea Stadium, I thought I’d reprint my post from April 17, 1964, in case you missed it the first time around. Well, you can’t say it isn’t big. Or...
View ArticleThe Lengths They Go To
“It doesn’t work that way,” I had to explain to my sister over dinner out when she inferred I must really be enjoying how long these baseball games my baseball team has been playing, including the one...
View ArticleThe Modest Urgency of Now
The Mets didn’t win last night. Oh well. What were they going to do with a win if they’d attained it, anyway? Throw it on the pile of wins that never quite measures up to their taller pile of losses?...
View ArticleHere Comes Summer
Summer and Jacob deGrom’s first big league win each arrived in good stead on Saturday. Summer, as the artificial-lemonade commercials used to tell us, is only here a short while. DeGrom, one hopes,...
View ArticleSometimes It Shows in April
You have to love a team whose prospective greatest-hitting homegrown player ever has just tied an offensive record set by somebody from its toddler stages. What am I saying? You already do. Toward the...
View ArticleThey Did Win
The story is possibly apocryphal, but it’s worth retelling. On a Friday night in 2017, the phone rang in the office of a New York-area baseball blog. The caller had a question: “How many runs did the...
View ArticleWhen Jim Joined Ralph
Long before “happy birthday to all the fathers out there” became what we love to quote on the third Sunday every June, a Mets-savvy person was likely to reflexively link Ralph Kiner and Father’s Day...
View ArticleAn Unobtrusive Little Score
When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 2-0, you assume there was very good pitching. When you’ve heard your team won a game by the score of 9-5, you assume there was a good bit of...
View ArticleNo, They Did Not Win
As any black cat could tell you, many of the seminal legends in Met lore involve the Cubs, including the go-to tale of the person who called a local newspaper sports department one fine day in 1964 to...
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The First Patron Saint of Ridiculous Causes
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 first encountered Rod Kanehl, it was as an example of what not to...
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First Star I See Tonight
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. Well you’re a real tough cookie With a long history… —Pat Benatar In 1962,...
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A Two-Time Winner
The Mets lost their first exhibition game on Monday afternoon, but they won a ton of goodwill Monday morning by unveiling the patch they will wear on their uniforms throughout 2021 in memory of Tom...
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