Faith and Fear in Flushing

As trophies and t-shirts were being passed around Wednesday night on five different channels, I flipped to SNY out of curiosity. Would they be taking their New York sports mandate seriously and covering the grim doings at Yankee Stadium...

Let Manhattan clear out Friday, let the authorities spray downtown full of disinfectant Saturday and then reaffirm your love of baseball Sunday by taking Peter Laskowich's Baseball Evolution Tour from 10 AM to 1 PM. Lovely weather is forecast, and

Mike Burke was president of New York's American League entry in 1969. When its National League counterpart clinched its first division title, he sent this telegram to M. Donald Grant: Congratulations on being number one. Am rooting for you to hang in there and take all the marbles...

The President returned to the White House late that night to cope with history. History...would not care at all that the Cards won the World Series that day by 4 to 3...

Flipping over from the encore presentation of perhaps the best episode ever of Mad Men and glimpsing the Yankees' ninth-inning rally in Game Four — the one that has all but buried the Phillies' hopes of successfully defending their 2008 championship — I thought of Luis Castillo...or "Luis Cas...

In February 1998, Al Leiter became a Met. He couldn't have been happier to join the team he said he rooted hard for during his childhood, which he once referred to as "the Mike Vail years". This is really exciting for me. I feel like a little kid...

During the World Series player introductions Wednesday night, I wanted to figuratively shoot everybody (figuratively, of course, because I'm not nearly as violent as my baseball tendencies of late would indicate). By the ninth inning, however, I had consolidated my hatred. This wasn't hard...

Welcome to a special Wednesday World Series-distracting edition of Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999...

Twenty-three years ago tonight I got to do something I haven't done since. I got to watch my team become champions of baseball. I didn't know it would be the last time I'd have that pleasure for at least twenty-four years...

Congratulations to the 2009 American League champions. They invested well and they followed through. They made the Twins and Angels look like the Nationals and Mets. They earned what they've achieved to date...

For a fan base that fancies itself the carriers of the You Gotta Believe legacy, we are making me sick. Yankees? Phillies?...

Welcome to Flashback Friday: I Saw The Decade End, a milestone-anniversary salute to the New York Mets of 1969, 1979, 1989 and 1999. Each week, we immerse ourselves in or at least touch upon something that transpired within the Metsian realm 40, 30, 20 or 10 years ago. Amazin' or not, here it comes...

My fellow Mets fans, Tonight we gather neither in triumph nor in joy. Rather, we have assembled out of necessity, driven by the need to oppose a deep-seated evil. Tonight we must make choices that will not sit well with any of us...