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Holdover
Busy day at the races; I shall have to be typically verbose when I get my sorry butt back home tonight (which will be through bitter rainstorms and the compulsory Friday night trip to see my parents)....
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Shades Of Moe, Larry, And Curly
Some time ago I was given a book to read by a colleague. The book is titled A Fan’s Notes, and its author, Frederick Exley, does a remarkable job of barely speaking about sport in the two-hundred...
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Extremely ******* Nigh
Those asterisks are my own. Anyone see 28 Days Later? Anyone? Anyone? Bike messenger wakes from a coma to find London and, indeed, most of England, taken over by fast-moving zombie-like creatures....
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Things I’ve Thus Far Been Wrong About, Or If You Prefer: Things About Which...
I have not flat-out made some of these statements, though I may have made insinuations, “jokes,” or the like. Here we go, in no particular order: Chowdah makes a poor addition to the Mets: he’s been...
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The Return Of This Second-Generation Chico Escuela
Thing about a doctor’s orders to “relax” is that one can never be quite sure what form relaxing should take. There are certain red lines: don’t do anything which would make you want to jump up and...
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Yo… That Team’s No Good
Specifically, the one Eric Simon of Amazin’ Avenue points out as being the sum of the Mets’ starting line-up against the Diamondbacks last night (L; 6-2): Cory Sullivan, CF Luis Castillo, 2B Fernando...
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Plan This
**Written prior to reports in the local New York papers that allege certain unsavory behaviors undertaken by Mr. Sheffield. Catch the drama from the Daily News here, Newsday here, and because I was...
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Friday Mailbag: Mets Museum, 2010 Needs, Chowdah, Vegemite
Letters. I get letters. I get half a dozen letters. Letters: **These have been sanitized and edited, lightly, to keep my head from blowing off. There’s such a thing as a difference between a plural...
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Head-scratcher Schmead-scratcher
Gary Cohen called this loss to the Nationals “a head-scratcher.” I don’t think so, Gary. Twice the Mets loaded the bases with nobody out, and nothing came of it. Anderson Hernandez’s and Luis...
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Whistle Past The Graveyard
I’ve little to say about yesterday’s loss, except that I didn’t see the thing at all. I missed Frankie Rodriguez giving up the grand slam, and much like Luis Castillo’s dropped pop-up at Yankee...
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