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I've loved the game of baseball for half a century, and have followed the Major Leagues for the bulk of that time. Other sports have come and gone over the years, but MLB is the only one that has had staying power for me. Yet I have never, ever, not even once, completed a bracket. …
I saw a stat on the final game of the 2020 Mets season today, before it became a blowout and I moved on to other things. It showed the Mets performance in recent years and I had to check my own blog to confirm when I took up fandom. As it turns out, I started …
The Mets are officially eliminated from post-season contention as I write this, having lost to the Nats with 3 games to play, when they needed to win them all. They also needed a lot of losses by the Giants, Phillies and Brewers, so the odds were against them, but losing today sealed their fate. Last …
In the midst of 2020, our dystopian nightmare, the national pastime returned with an all-to-welcome shortened season. The Metropolitans of NY started with the high hopes of every MLB team, but they struggled from the outset, unable to drive in runs. They proudly bring out the best pitcher in the National League every 5th day, …
COVID-19 has made a mockery of human life on planet Earth. A microscopic virus has shown us how fragile, unstable and ultimately tragic our attempts at stability are. Sports, especially professional sports, seems an odd place to focus our pandemic woes, but if the pandemic has shown us anything, it's that humans need distractions. Boredom …
I've written before that there was something about Yoenis I didn't care for. While I was certainly pleased to see him in the lineup for the COVID-shortened season that is 2020, honestly I was so happy to see a lineup period that it probably didn't matter if the canary yellow-wearing moose of a man was …
I was a Marlins fan from their inaugural season in 1992. Living in Miami, I was beyond excited to have an MLB team to call my own once again. I followed them diligently, went to lots of games at the baseball-fitted version of Dolphins Stadium, bought the hats, shirts and other paraphanelia, rejoiced when they …
In the 2019 Mets season, newly acquired superstar closer from Seattle, Edwin Diaz, had one of the most painful pitching experiences I've ever witnessed. Granted, there was something different about the ball in 2019, with more Home Runs hit than ever before, but Diaz seemed unable to pitch a 9th inning to close out a …
When the Federal Guidelines for Reopening America first came out, I reviewed them and communicated to the South Carolina Governor's twitter account, as well as the Post & Courier's account, that the state hadn't met a single one of the requirements to reopen. The very first one was a 14-day decrease in new cases. I …
The NY Mets went into the 9th inning of their second game against the Washington Nationals on September 3, 2019 up 10-4. They had exploded for late inning runs, turning a close game into a blowout and all they had to do was get 3 more outs. I didn't know this at the time, but …
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