Before I get into the point of this post I have to tell you about something that happened to me before last night’s game. We needed to pick up a few things in the way of snacks , beverages, beer, etc. because we were having my friend and his wife over to watch the Mets. So as my girlfriend was hitting the deli counter and the snack aisle, I had the all-important responsibility of choosing...
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Come on, people. We should have known. After all these years, we should have realized after the rollercoaster ride from heaven to hell on those days which will live in infamy, July 29-30, 2015, that the story was hardly over. That the final chapters had not yet been written. That something akin to paradise could somehow be regained. Because after all… This is the Mets we’re talking...
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You know I’ve given Terry Collins a lot of flak over the years, I’ll be the first to admit that. But I’ve got to hand it to him this season, while he continues to annoy me with his in-game decisions, the way he’s handled his players and kept them motivated throughout some pretty difficult circumstances, certainly deserves some high praise. Most of you know how Lucas Duda...
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Duda ClubsTwo Homers, Game-Winning Double! The Mets (54-50) defeated the Washington Nationals (54-48), as well as earning the series victory tonight at Citi Field by a score of 3-2. Jacob deGrom started for the Mets tonight, and got off to a bit of a rocky start, as he loaded the bases in the first inning, and then surrendered a base hit that plated two to the suddenly red hot Ian Desmond. The...
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Not even all the greatest scribes in the world could have dreamed up and written a better script than what has unfolded at Citi Field in the last 48 hours. It is moments like this that makes baseball the greatest sport in the world. Nothing can match it’s drama, nothing comes close to the agony and the ecstasy it puts us through game in and game out. It’s a pastime that transfixes...
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“And, a few days after Bill stepped behind the plate, something happened to the Blues. When you live with a team eight months of the year, season after season, its thoughts and responses and spirits become your own. I never felt it stronger than the week Bill took charge behind the plate.” “Not that it happened overnight. The making of a team never does. It creeps up on players...
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