After Carlos Beltran looked at a third strike to end last year’s Mets, we didn’t think it could get worse.
It did.
The best we can say about this year’s Mets is that the shlong they sucked in the sky reserved for baseball folding acts–the 1951 Dodgers, the 1964 Phillies, the 1978 Red Sox–is flavored with Yankee subterfuge.
For three years we’ve been saying the obvious: the Mets are led by a Yankee in Mets clothing. Willie Randolph, as those gazillionaires in [...]
Posted in The City on October 1st, 2007 | 
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We hail Mets first baseman Carlos Delgado’s choice not to stand for “God Bless America” because for years we haven’t been standing for the National Anthem. For good reasons.
First, the Star Spangled Banner is, hands down, the most unsingable, un-hummable, worst nightmare of a song ever written. Worse than any Paul MaCartney song. Why Congress didn’t scrap it years ago and replace it with “Toxic” by Britney Spears is beyond us.
Second, we remain seated as a lesson to all the [...]
Posted in The City on February 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
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METS MOMENT #1: Danny Napoleon’s Triple.
April 23, 1964, Giants winning 7-5 going into the ninth. Till then, every game against the Giants ends with a fly ball into Jesus Alou’s glove. Bases loaded. I smash a line-drive at Alou. Bounces off his glove. Three runs score. Miracle.
Effect on Mets history: First time God notices us. Gets out his book. Writes, “I like Danny Napoleon. I like the Mets. I like October, 1969.”
METS MOMENT #2: Bobby Bonilla and Ricky Henderson play [...]
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