WHO WON: The dog-friendly Mets WHAT HAPPENED, SYNDERGAARD FLEXES ANGLING SKILLS, CATCHES MARLINS CHASING THE BAIT 16 TIMES: Yes, that is just one drawn out fishing pun to say Noah Syndergaard did well on Sunday night against the Miami Marlins. Sure, I could’ve said “Syndergaard uses sinkers and hooks to fillet the Marlins,” or “Syndergaard […]
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Game recap April 8: Lucas Duda homered, other people did less good things
What happened, in a moment Keith Hernandez threw paper in to a garbage can before SNY went to commercial in the seventh, giving the perfect (unintended?) metaphor for the Mets listless offense in a 8-1 loss. Rough start for Gsellman Robert Gsellman was a nice unexpected surprise at the end of last season. This year […]
Game recap April 7: Some hope, then some rust
Primer Nearly any Mets fan perusing these pages likely remembers that amazing doubleheader in 2013 when Matt Harvey and Zack Wheeler teamed up to give a terrible Mets team a glimpse of hope. Friday night was a throwback, with Wheeler making his first start in two years the night after Matt Harvey made a solid […]
The Dark Knight Rises, again
Happy Harvey Day, indeed. For the first time since July 4, Mets fans were able to watch Matt Harvey take the mound in a game that actually meant something, and in this case, it was more significant than just team win No. 2 of the 2017 campaign. After a tumultuous half-season last year in which Harvey […]
Game recap April 6: Dread, then Sunlight, then (possible) Dread
Mets fans live to dread, and the weather in New York provided the perfect backdrop—with gray skies and ominous thunder rolling in the distance—either for the climactic scene of a gothic novel or the return of Matt Harvey to the mound—Willets’ very own Heathcliff. As the Mets have worked their way through this high-ceiling rotation […]
Predicting injuries, and why it doesn’t always work
Between David Wright, Neil Walker and Matt Harvey, the Mets have a lot of players trying to come back from major injuries in 2017. If you look at various projection sites, you will see different projections for how much Wright, Walker or Harvey play. If you look very closely, you may notice that no projection […]
Game Recap April 5: More Rafael Montero than your doctor prescribed
I think we can all agree it’s great that baseball is back. Baseball is wonderful, usually. But last night was one of those times when baseball is not wonderful. Was it really necessary for us to experience the laborious, low-scoring extra inning game that features pitchers like Josh Edgin and Rafael Montero so soon? Can’t […]
Game recap April 3: Together we’ll ring in the new year
WHO WON: The Mets, and anyone who watched this pitcher’s duel WHAT HAPPENED, NOAH SYNDERGAARD IS REALLY GOOD AT BASEBALL: It has been a while since we’ve seen Noah Syndergaard pitch in a regular season game but, in case you forgot, he is good. Well, he’s better than good. He was dominant. He struck out […]
New York Mets Opening Day 2017: On losing hope, and then gaining it back
Despair is comforting. There’s an ease, a simplicity, a beauty in never expecting much. You can’t be disappointed if you never expected anything in the first place. It’s hard to not expect anything. We innately want. Food. Air. To have someone to say good morning and good night to and to text when you’re sad or […]
Our 2017 Met Awards
Quick! Name the last three Mets to win the major awards bestowed by the Baseball Writers Association of America. You’ve got Jacob deGrom’s 2014 Rookie of the Year and R.A. Dickey’s 2012 Cy Young. And then? You have to go all the way back to 1985 to find Dwight Gooden’s CYA. (We don’t count the Rolaids […]