No Particular Place To Go
Sometimes you get what you wish for and then it doesn’t turn out so well for you, as it didn’t in this case. —Earl Monroe, Earl the Pearl: My Story In the bottom of the fourteenth, I figured I was...
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Met Games and I Can’t Take It Anymore
“In my life, there’s been heartache and pain…” How ya doin’ out there, Mets fans?! At Citi Field Friday night, Foreigner played “Urgent,” and Sandy Alderson woke up to contradict that characterization...
View ArticleThe Ordeal Resumes
If Tuesday was the baseball equivalent of opening Christmas and Chanukah presents on the same bright December morning, Wednesday was the post-New Years night before you had to go back to school and...
View ArticleGood Things
It’s summer. Basketball’s done. Hockey’s endless rounds of playoffs have ceased. Football training camps have not yet stirred. Baseball rules the land. And all is well. Proof? Here are some good things...
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For God’s Sake, Shaun, Sit Down
May my blood stop running orange and blue if I can’t deliver unto you an assessment of Shaun Marcum’s pitching, so here goes, albeit borrowed from John Adams as he critiqued a portrait intended to...
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Leaders of the Midnight Baseball League
Nine innings? Three hours and twenty-three minutes? What a gyp! What kind of Mets game is that in the middle of the night? Surely it was only the opener of a twidawn doubleheader. Surely they had to...
View ArticleSometimes a Split Feels Fine
There ain’t much left to play for: A .500 season vanished from the realm of possibility with the afternoon’s listless defeat, and draft picks are too much of a crapshoot for me to take seriously. But...
View ArticleThat Harvey
Throughout my childhood and into my adolescence, if I had to see the dentist, I was dragged from Long Beach to some deteriorating section of Brooklyn. We stayed loyal to our family dentist even though...
View ArticleWhose Game Was This Anyway?
I had hoped Tyler Pill might be Grover Powell. Grover Powell’s first major league start, for the Mets in 1963, was a complete game shutout, which didn’t happen for Mets rookies every day in 1963, nor,...
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Mets of the 2010s: 90-81
Welcome to the second 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 first installment here. These are the...
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