And He’s Not Off!
Seven scoreless from Jamie Moyer’s spiritual younger brother from another mother Miguel Batista…spectacular. Daniel Murphy skipping a ball between Kirk Nieuwenhuis’s strides and through the shortstop...
View ArticleEscape From Ontario
Frank Francisco walks the first batter of the ninth and allows a shift-confounding single immediately thereafter. There’s two on, none out, a one-run lead and every reason to believe that the eight...
View ArticleSweating It Out With Frank Frank
If the Mets need a new midseason slogan, how about this one: THE MOST EXCITING .500 TEAM ON EARTH! Splattered by the Yankees in three straight at Leni Riefenstahl Stadium, the Mets then rose up in...
View ArticleSatan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down
“Losing to the Yankees is no different than losing to Colorado. What stings is losing to the Marlins. They’re in our division.” —Mets first baseman Ike Davis, June 21, 2012 “I can’t wait to strike out...
View ArticleWalking The Talk But Only One Yankee
To dig up a phrase a very mellow college buddy of mine liked to roll out six or seven times per conversation, Frank Francisco is a trip. I don’t think I’ve thought that about any of our modern-era...
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I Heard It Through the Metvine
Strange world we live in when the Mets game on what we used to call “free TV” isn’t readily available via the service millions pay for because…well, ya got me. Two corporations are in the middle of a...
View ArticleJoaquin Andujar’s Favorite Word
Joaquin Andujar, a quotable pitcher from a bygone era, famously remarked that his favorite word in English was “you never know.” Which is a good way to break down Sunday’s Mets-Indians finale: *...
View ArticleSurprises
Surprise! Aaron Harang was … not that bad. He wasn’t great, but he pitched capably enough — a team with an iota of offense might have had a chance out there, which unfortunately doesn’t describe the...
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...
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Mets of the 2010s: 80-71
Welcome to the third 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 most recent installment here. These are...
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