Class of the Heads
The bobbles are coming! The bobbles are coming! And, no, that’s not a fielding forecast for Daniel Murphy playing second base. The historical bobbleheads we’ve been asking for are really coming to Citi...
View ArticleRescue From Radio Nowhere
Monday night I did something I’m certain I hadn’t done since the twilight of Fran Healy. I turned down the sound on a Mets-generated telecast so I could listen to the game on radio. GKR heresy, I know,...
View ArticleSaturday Night’s Alright (For Duda)
With his second-inning two-run homer and fifth-inning two-RBI base hit, Lucas Duda raised his Saturday totals for this season — covering four games, through Saturday night in Denver — to the following:...
View ArticleA Little Fun
It’s not a lot of fun listening to Brandon Morrow and a bunch of Blue Jays you mostly know from fantasy teams throttle an undermanned Mets squad in another country. The final score was only 2-0, but...
View ArticleAddicted to Mediocrity
“You again, my man! What can I do ya for?” “Cut the crap. You know what I need.” “I thought I setcha up last night.” “I need more. C’mon, c’mon…” “What’sa matter? Last night not enough?” “It wore off....
View ArticleDon’t Be Screwin’ With Lewin
The best radio promotion I ever heard for the Mets aired the morning after they won the 1986 World Series. It consisted of every station in New York dwelling long and lovingly on the championship...
View ArticleStay Broadcast Team Stay
In the “seventh inning” of Ken Burns’s Baseball — the installment titled “The Capital of Baseball” — the viewer learns that New York was the epicenter of the universe in the 1950s, at least until...
View Article710 Ways to Please Your Listeners
WOR still hasn’t found a pregame host for Mets baseball, but that — in case the name doesn’t give it away — is only about what happens before the game starts. Before the game starts doesn’t count. Just...
View ArticleSo 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 ArticleRiding Off Into the Sunrise
Terry Collins said the other day that “fun time” is over. I hate to disagree with the manager of the defending National League champions, but I’d say fun time is just getting started. Collins was...
View ArticleBad Game, Good Company
Emily and I spent yesterday getting Joshua settled in at boarding school, which was emotionally fraught, as expected, and also a lot of work. That second part was less expected — there were meetings...
View ArticleA Weekend at the Improv
The plan was a good one: head down to Philadelphia for Saturday’s night game, for which friends had sweet tickets through a work event. I was excited to see Noah Syndergaard, our pals, the Mets, and to...
View ArticleYou Learn Something New Every Day
To borrow a phrase favored by Josh Lewin, what did we learn on Saturday afternoon watching the Mets lose in the Bronx, other than Saturday afternoon Subway Series conflicts have diminished in appeal...
View ArticleThe 710 Split
The Mets played the Nationals Saturday and the Nationals were eliminated from postseason contention. Unfortunately, the two events were completely disconnected from one another. The final blow to...
View ArticleA Little Less Fun
I was going to bemoan that we can never keep a splendid team together, but we kept Howie Rose and Josh Lewin together for seven fun-filled seasons, making them the longest-running Mets radio tandem...
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