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As if you needed more evidence that Philadelphia sports fans are a half-step down the evolutionary ladder from animals that literally eat their own feces, here’s what happens when you show up for a Mets-Phillies game in the wrong colors:
According to The 700 Level (a great blog despite its unfortunate allegiances), the Mets fan [...]
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The sports blogs are all aflutter today with the story of Mackenzie Brown, a 12-year-old girl who pitched a perfect game in a Bayonne, New Jersey Little League game. Brown struck out 12 hitters in her 6 innings of work, including the last 6 batters she faced:
Mackenzie, who says she plays baseball because she [...]
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Last year the New York Mets appeared to lose every single game in which they entered the 8th or 9th inning with a lead (they were actually fine until Billy Wagner got hurt — then they were terrible). So in the offseason the Mets replaced their wretched bullpen with a handful of proven — [...]
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The arrival of pitchers and catchers is typically a big deal among baseball fans of every stripe.
But as a Mets fan, I confess I am still not emotionally prepared for the 2009 season. Two straight late season collapses — plus the ignomy of watching those Cheez Whiz slurping troglodytes in Philadelphia celebrate a World [...]
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It made sense that the Mets, seeking to improve the shaky bullpen that caused yet another late-season collapse, would sign Francisco Rodriguez — who broke the single-season saves record last season in Anaheim.
Of course, to get to K-Rod in the ninth, the Mets needed to fill in the 8th inning gap as well. So [...]
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Via Deadspin comes this awesome video of Mr. Met — adorable mascot of the most awesomest team in baseball — giving some calzone-gobbling mongoloid Yankee fans the universal sign language gesture for “I will cut your fucking head off and store it with the rest of them.”
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One of the unchallenged truisms of baseball is that a lights-out closer is a key ingredient for any successful team. The theory is that stellar closers like Mariano Rivera and Jonathan Papelbon are so likely to dominate the 9th inning that they essentially give their team more at bats than the other team.
When the [...]
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So less than a week after taking over for fired manager Willie Randolph, interim Mets boss Jerry Manuel calls the Shea Stadium crowd “fertilizer.”
This should go over well:
When asked how Heilman was holding up to the constant streams of boos showered on him at home, Manuel took a not-so-thinly veiled shot at displeased Mets [...]
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Baseball at its best is a flowing symphony of balletic swings and synchronized motion. Baseball at its worst is an awkward duck flying in a windstorm. Somewhere in the middle are the Mets.
The New York Mets, official ball club of Pax Arcana, spent roughly $600 billion on players over the past few years — [...]
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As a Mets fan, I am pre-programmed to despise all Phillies players — up to and including the current triumvirate of charismatic stars Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Jimmy Rollins.
But for some reason I always liked Doug Glanville. He was a great defender, a solid hitter, and a guy who genuinely seemed to be [...]
