So Many Sideshows
Some things that don’t matter: * Ike Davis vs. Lucas Duda. Ike’s doing a lot better in Pittsburgh. That’s great. He was a mess in New York, capable of spending months looking unsure which end of the...
View ArticleBad and Boring
I’m not even mad anymore. What’s the use? A couple of quick factoids: The Mets are horrible in one-run games — a hard-to-accomplish 10-20. (Only the Royals are comparably bad at 9-16, which is pretty...
View ArticleAs Seasons Die
Applause for Kelly Johnson, upon the ninth-inning, one-out, two-run home run that tied Wednesday night’s game, was hearty at schvitzy Citi Field but not universal. The Metsnoscenti recognized false...
View ArticleThe Incredible Shrinking National League Champs
Here’s your roundup of another thrilling day rooting for the incredible shrinking National League champs: Zack Wheeler‘s return to the mound was followed by not being able to throw because of elbow...
View ArticleSurrender and Acceptance
So who was betting on “Rafael Montero blows it almost immediately” when pondering how Wednesday’s game was going to end? And how many of you astute folks were brave enough to put $100 down on that in...
View ArticleTwo-Wilpon Monte
The Mets lost. Again. As they have done throughout this stake-in-the-heart homestead. As they have done with numbing regularity since mid-April. The details don’t particularly matter, so we’ll buzz...
View ArticleVarieties of Pointlessness
At least the Mets are shaking things up. You no longer tune in guaranteed to see a valiant starting pitcher labor in futility with zero run support, waiting for the one slip-up that will prove fatal....
View ArticleMy Shameful Little Secret
This was how I watched everything go wrong for Corey Oswalt and the Mets tonight: I looked down at the floor, slightly to the left of my foot, stealing glimpses between bites of chicken and potatoes....
View ArticleStill Sinking
Shockingly, flipping the calendar to July did not, in fact, mean an end to the Mets’ woes. Here’s the faintest of silver linings about this terrible, horrible, no-good, very very very bad season:...
View ArticleConsolation Prizes
Congratulations to Drew Gagnon for making his major-league debut — and collecting an RBI in his first plate appearance at-bat. If you detect snark in that, hold your fire. The congratulations are...
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