A Penn State product, like myself. If he makes the big league club, he'll join D. J. Dozier and David Aardsma as the only Nittany Lions to play for the Metropolitans, unless you count Monte Ward back in the 1880s. Luv ya Lions!

June 14, 1980. With two outs in the ninth, Steve Henderson hits a walkoff three-run homer, a line drive that sneaks over the right-field fence. The Mets were down 6-0 after five innings and 6-2 after 8. After starting the season 10-18, they were now 26-27, and would finally reach .500 a month later....

Frayed Knot wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2024 6:52 pm MLB's All Constellation Team:
*Orion Kerkering
Leo Durocher
*Hercules Burnett
Steve Phoenix


* Yes, that's their given first name

Boötes Day

Game 159 in 1985, against the Cardinals. If they pull it out in the eighth or ninth, they're tied with three games to go. My version of how things play out has Darling pitching the last game of the season against the Expos, rather than Gooden on three days' rest (which is just what Davey did in the ...

I got to see him play. I've been bragging about that for fifty years.

It feels impertinent saying anything after Chad's post, but here goes. I was living in St. Louis. My German girlfriend was in San Diego visiting friends. The phone woke me up--it must have been soon after 8 St. Louis time. It was another friend of hers, calling from Germany. I don't think he even as...

I saw it in the theater. I walked out maybe halfway through. I don’t know if it was terrible, but it was all wrong. There was no sense of what was interesting about Moe Berg. Paul Rudd wasn’t like him at all, physically—Berg was a big, jowly, five o’clock shadow sort of man, a cultured sophisticate ...

The Mets’ NY was better than the Yankees’ when Christy Mathewson wore it, and it’s better now.

Breakout: .330, 35, 120. I remember his father, a backup linebacker who came up big in one particular defensive series against Maryland in 1977, and I've believed in the kid ever since. Even though he wouldn't be born for another 16 years.

He takes a leave of absence in the summer, heads off to Paris to hang out with Mike Fitzgerald and Blake Stein and Matt Joyce, goes down to Pamplona for the bullfights, drinks too much, embarrasses himself, comes back to the States to sober up, gets into a couple of games in September, spends the of...

The ducks make me happy.

I woke up this morning repeating this so I wouldn't forget it. It was from the dream I'd been having:

The only person in the world who can't come home and put on some Van Morrison to relax is Van Morrison. Maybe that's why he's so crabby.

I learned from the Athletic's Tim Britton that the Reds have never had a Cy Young winner, which makes sense if you stop to think about it, but still. Closest to hardware? No. 41 in strike-sundered 1981. Bob Purkey was robbed. It should have been him, not Drysdale, in 1962. Maybe he'd have gotten mo...