A Day at the Yard
(Note: The format for this post didn’t occur to me until 20-odd hours after the game, so accuracy of timestamps is theoretical at best. Sorry!) 10:00 am: Wake up, groggily. What? I’m a freelance...
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Welcome, THB Class of 2019!
Another year in the books! Another decade in the books! And another class of matriculating Mets to welcome to The Holy Books! Background: I have a trio of binders, long ago dubbed The Holy Books (THB)...
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An Actual Sign of Spring
Pitchers and catchers reporting hasn’t done much for me for a number of years, which I say not in an effort to get you to feel the same way, but as an admission that I am a flawed human being. Because...
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The (Very) Little Things
Somehow even people who aren’t baseball fans know that spring is about renewal. Bare tree branches begin sprouting tender green buds. Flowers and bright shoots of grass poke out of the earth. The sun’s...
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Cardboard Lessons
1976 was the first year I collected baseball cards. I’d peruse rack packs — three blisters of cards, the top and bottom player in each blister visible through the plastic — at the local stationery...
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Mets Legend Willie Mays
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 Willie Mays returned to New York, many saw it — may God forgive them —...
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The Great White Whale of Arizona
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. Hark ye yet again—the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but...
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My Superhero
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. I kicked off my half of our Met for All Seasons posts with a remembrance of...
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Welcome, THB Class of 2020!
So 2020 was a … strange year, on the baseball field and everywhere else. (You might have noticed.) A global pandemic forced a jury-rigged, stop-start 60-game baseball season, which the Mets proceeded...
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Más Tomás
I went off to California for a week and while I was out there the Mets underwent some renovations, to say the very least. Deep breath. I’d barely registered the arrival of Jake Hager before he got his...
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