Fordham Baserunner Brian Kownacki’s Phenomenal Play

I’ve never seen any baserunner do this before: Go Fordham!!! Your Thoughts?

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Christmas Is Canceled This Year.

Ugh.  The happiest day of my year, each of the last 8 years before this one was always the day the Yankees would be eliminated for the year.  There was nothing like watching the locker room of Yankees on the verge of tears choking back their frustrations as they answered humiliating questions about why the […]

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Let’s Go Angels!!!

I have almost never discussed baseball around here since launching Camels With Hammers last June.  But the archives under the category “Baseball” will amply demonstrate that when I first began blogging back in 2006, baseball was the one of two primary topics that I would blog.  The other was Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.  I […]

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Why Barack Obama DOES Deserve A Nobel Peace Prize Already

Everyone left, right, and center is baffled today by Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize received out of the blue and before he has actually accomplished much of anything of what he had promised from his presidency (as Saturday Night Live compellingly argued).  He certainly has failed to be a fierce advocate of gay and lesbian rights, failed […]

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Happy October Everybody!

From the invigorating chill in the air to the early evening darkness to the crackling and crunching of leaves under one’s feet to the romantic multicolored trees to the stress of a school semester speeding up to the harrows of Halloween to the electricity in baseball stadiums filled with freezing fans cheering their champions—there is […]

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Oba-”mom jeans?”

Allahpundit is delighted that he might have started the latest meme.

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The Glorious Sound of the Yankee Stadium Crowd Erupting In Applause….

when the Mets score over and over again….There are few more satisfying sounds in life than that! Tonight was a good night. The Mets seem to always get crushed on the Yankee Stadium Sunday night game every year, so I was not expecting such a happy game. It just stinks that my man Carlos Delgado […]

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Mets and Jays Should Talk Vernon Wells

Alright, I’ll admit right off to the biased preference as a Mets-Jays fan that the Blue Jays that have to leave the Jays wind up in Flushing when they do so. But the simple fact is that Wells is the kind of guy you want to lock up as a long term fixture in your […]

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“I’m Keith Hernandez”

I don’t know exactly what to make of this but I figure it’s curious enough an attempt at satire involving our beloved Keith Hernandez that’s it’s worth posting for your viewing pleasure in hopes of getting your thoughts. I’m not sure it’s as smart as it wants to be or that it’s a terribly fair […]

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Like Looking At A Sweeping Curve Ball in the Bottom of the 9th, 2 Outs, Bases Loaded, Down 2, Game 7

Tonight I returned to our weekly poker game for the first time since the playoffs and my conference trip booked my October weekends. And I was having as dominant a night as I’ve ever had, busting 5 of my 7 opponents, in the process losing just one or two hands that went all the way […]

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Piazza On Stage With Skid Row

I think the title of this post speaks for itself…. http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=8034

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New Labor Deal Spectacular News For Mets Fans

The Major League Baseball draft is hugely important to determining who has access to the cheap young talent that are absolutely crucial to filling out major league rosters that are perpetually challenged with respect to budget as high quality veterans and even necessary above average ones raise total payroll for a team all by themselves. […]

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One Happy “Omen”

I know these things are meaningless coincidences, but the Mets’ only two championships came each within two years of great Tigers championships. The 1969 Mets were a follow up act to the 1968 Tigers and the legendary 1986 Mets were just two years on the trail of the legendary 1984 Tigers. Hopefully this loss is […]

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The Morning After

My feeling is changing a lot. It’s never great but it wavers between frustrated and resigned. Last night I was first worried a lot about losing embarrassingly (historic upset in terms of records) and not making as much progress in showing up the Yankees as much as we’d hoped we could. Those sorts of frustrations […]

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What also hurts….

simply that the season is over. suddenly no more Mets to watch. thanks to omar, at least we can expect lots of steady news all winter. I actually follow the winter transactions closer than the “meaningless” portions of the actual baseball season, so for November-January, I will at least have plenty of baseball thought and […]

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As Willie’s Eyes Are Red

I’ve never seen a manager with eyes so full of tears, even as he is so cool and collected in voice and comments. He’s a damn good leader. This hurts a lot. I so hope that we build from this year and from this exercise in character development. I hope we look back to this […]

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go tigers

the real team of destiny this year it’s your year. go eat the cardinals alive now

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Cry or Throw Up? Cry or Throw Up?

I just can’t make up my mind.

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Carlos Beltran Bases Loaded 2 Out

Down By Two Runs Does it get any more dramatic? AT ALL? PLEASE METS

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Deja Vu

If we didn’t do it in 1986 coming back from a devastating two run homer, it would feel more possible to do it now. But replicating that?? Pujols does have a bad hamstring! I feel sick but not hopeless oddly enough. I still believe, however foolishly.

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Yadier Molina Homers

and I feel like throwing up

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It’s Official: This Will End As A Classic

Going to the ninth, tied at 1, the Mets without a hit since the first inning. Either we win in dramatic walk off fashion or we lose having just surrendered runs we couldn’t take back. As either the champions or the absolutely heartbroken, we will end with bats in our hands. Fitting.

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Mets pitching this series thusfar (after top of 8th in game 7)

Through 60 innings of pitching the Mets staff has managed a 3.75 ERA. Think anyone is going to notice that impressive number from such an utterly discounted staff? Maybe we can match the Tigers after all!

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The Team, The Time, The Mets

To the bottom of the 8th tied at 1! Here come Beltran, Delgado, and Wright! We will take the lead now and win in the top of the next inning. :)

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Endy Chavez is a god

Headed to the bottom of the 7th, tied at 1. The Mets now have 3 scheduled at bats to the Cardinals 2. The Mets have now seen John Maine and Oliver Perez combine to give up just one run in 11 and 1/3 innings over two days. Unfuckingbelievable. It’s safely in our bullpen’s incredibly reliable […]

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