The Mets have a new owner. The Wilpons are gone. Tom Seaver has passed away. Standing at this crossroads in the team’s history, this seems like a perfect opportunity to mark my departure from writing. I’d like to thank Brian for giving me the chance to write for Mets.360. I had a dream the other [...]
This song was a long time coming. It started out as song about the brass plates in the parking lot of Citi Field (where the bases at Shea used to be). That ended up being just a couple of lines in this one. Then I tried doing something about the Polo Grounds and that didn’t [...]
Don’t get me wrong. I like Steven Matz. He’s easy to root for as a Long Island kid pitching for his hometown team. Overall, however, his 2020 season didn’t build on his 2018 and 2019 performances. In his sixth season with the team, the 29-year-old southpaw went 0-5 in six game starts (plus three relief [...]
Back in 1970, the Mets were the darlings of New York and the sports world. They had just come off the miracle championship season. I was 13 and my father took me to see them play at Shea Stadium. Jerry Koosman was the starter. I had gotten a Polaroid camera for Christmas that year and [...]
Here’s to keeping our fingers crossed that Steve Cohen gets the requisite number of votes at the forthcoming owner’s meeting. Assuming he does, what might the deeper pockets of the new ownership mean for the 2021 opening day roster? Overall strategy: This version of the roster was designed to retain most of what the team [...]
Back in 1966, the Mets weren’t considered a good team but they did participate with a few other major league teams in a gas station plastic cup giveaway promotion. That year, the Mets joined the Cincinnati Reds, the Cleveland Indians, the Detroit Tigers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in giving away these cups featuring the [...]
On July 22, 1986, the New York Mets played a road game against the Cincinnati Reds. Bobby Ojeda started against rookie Scott Terry. The Red led 3-1 with two outs in the 9th inning when Dave Parker dropped what should have been the final out of the game. In the 10th inning, pinch-runner Eric Davis [...]
The 1986 team is now a cherished memory among New York Met fans. Many players on that roster still rank high on any all-time favorite Mets list. There was one player who was released though who caused some controversy prior to his departure. That player was none other than George Foster; he wore number 15 [...]
One of the early iconic moments in Mets history is the “Black Cat Game” which occurred on September 9, 1969. The Cubs came to New York for a two-game series holding a 2 ½ game lead over the Mets. The Mets won the first game to cut the lead to 1 ½ games. Game two [...]
This is another song that started in one spot and ended in another. The attempt was to write a song about a Met player that nobody would ever think of focusing on. It started with Barry Lyons but got nowhere fast. While doing work on the Lyons song, the focus shifted to one of the [...]
The Narrative: This one is half-based on the famous 1973 World Series photograph of Willie Mays and half-based on my experience at a Shea Stadium Camera Day. It sort of ties in what a kid or a fan feels during a game, what a player feels at the end of a season or a career, [...]
When Brian was looking for 2020 monthly contributors, I suggested a monthly item in the form of a song since that fits in with what I’ve been doing over the past couple of years. This first song emanated from an Art Shamsky trip to go see Tom Seaver. There were some photographs taken at a [...]