Noah Way (Way)
Noah Syndergaard had a perfect game going. I wasn’t particularly nervous about it. I figured he was going to get it. When the perfect game was broken up by Will Venable’s leadoff single in the seventh...
View ArticleThat Harvey
Throughout my childhood and into my adolescence, if I had to see the dentist, I was dragged from Long Beach to some deteriorating section of Brooklyn. We stayed loyal to our family dentist even though...
View ArticleStatues With Limitations
I want to believe we’ll beat the Braves on Opening Day (you never know) and finish substantially ahead of them this season (probably, but I take nothing as a given). What’s sad is that Atlanta has...
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When Recent Proves Relative
Hey now and forever, Michael Conforto, you’re an All-Star, no matter how your league got its game on, no matter that there was a decent case to be made for at least two other players from your team...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Number?
Our co-newest Met is wearing a familiar number. Flamethrower Edwin Diaz, whom I already appreciated for being really good before discovering his nickname is “Sugar,” will wear 39. That’s no...
View ArticleSame as the First Half
Anticipation traditionally accompanies our team’s first game out of the All-Star break. We haven’t had a real game to watch in five days, so naturally we’re famished for Mets. On top of the yen for...
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The Very Idea of Rico Brogna
Starting today and slated to appear in this space every Tuesday and Friday in the weeks and months ahead is a new Faith and Fear in Flushing series: A Met for All Seasons. In it, Jason and I will...
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Doc, for All Seasons
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. And when the morning light Comes streaming in We’ll get up and do it again...
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Pitching With Mister P
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. In the mid-80s, while I was off at boarding school, I got a letter from my...
View ArticleThe Sore, the Dead, and the Fifth
One of the rites of Spring is being reminded all in baseball is not as it sounds. For example, sometimes you hear about pitchers going through “dead arm,” and your instinct is to freak out because dead...
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