Topic: Mets

May 10, 2013

Let's Be Careful Around John Buck, Everybody

David Roth

The Mets may not win a lot of games this year, but they've already won a few in dramatic fashion. What those games have proven, more than anything else, is that John Buck is likely to kill a teammate in a postgame celebration, quite possibly before the All-Star break.

May 9, 2013

In The Land of the Sand Gnats

Holly Wendt

Savannah, Georgia is a long way from Cheyenne, Wyoming, and also a long way from the Major Leagues. But Savannah is where Brandon Nimmo, one of the very few baseball players to make it out of Wyoming and a prospect in the New York Mets organization, plays in the outfield for the Savannah Sand Gnats. It's all a lot closer than it seems.

April 11, 2013

The Not-Yet-Summer Game

W.M. Akers

The baseball season is very long, and to be as long as it is, games must begin in April, when it is still frankly too cold for baseball. Still, as with all things baseball, there's something divine and awesome in it, even when you can't feel your fingers.

April 3, 2013

All Summer In A Day

Bryan Joiner

A fleeting moment of happiness in Queens on Opening Day, near the chop shops, amid the swirling on-field garbage and omnipresent Mets-fan anxiety, and in defiance of games two-through-162.

March 7, 2013

Yakkin' About Baseball: Kirk Gibson Will Arm You In Your Sleep

David Roth

Getting loose, jogging through some desultory in-game outfield sprints, finding our arm slots and feeling raw terror at the prospect of a well-armed and irked Kirk "Ted Nugent Is A Friend" Gibson. Spring Training is a time for figuring things out.

September 27, 2012

Scenes From A Depilation: Talking To Ted Berg About Keith Hernandez's Stache-Shearing

David Roth

Keith Hernandez is many things: one of the better first basemen of his era, one of the better Seinfeld guest stars of any era, and an American original. First and foremost, though, Hernandez is a mustachioed man. Or was: before Thursday's game against the Mets, Hernandez shaved his mustache in front of CitiField, for charity. SNY's Ted Berg was there.

July 20, 2012

The Night Bobby Valentine Lurked

Matthew Callan

The night that Bobby Valentine donned the worst disguise in baseball history wasn't exactly the most important moment in the New York Mets' odd and almost-wonderful 1999 season. But, as this excerpt from Matthew Callan's e-book Yells For Ourselves proves, Valentine's eye-black-aided transformation into "The Lurker" had a goofy significance of its own.

June 5, 2012

Getting To No, With Johan Santana (Or Anyone)

Matthew Callan

After a 50-year wait for a no-hitter, Mets fans were happy to accept Johan Santana's streak-snapping gem. But Santana has provided more than just the organization's first no-no—and earned more than respect in the process.

February 17, 2012

Kids

Matthew Callan

Gary Carter was a bright and proudly uncool presence on a some great and greatly dark Mets teams, but he was more than that. For the late catcher, "Kid" wasn't so much a nickname as a state of mind that approached a state of grace.

February 10, 2012

(Sort of) Talking Baseball With Jean Shepherd

David Roth

On his long-running, wide-ranging radio show, Jean Shepherd talked about whatever he damn well pleased, however he felt like doing it. Occasionally, all that eloquent rambling led him to Shea Stadium, and the Mets.