Gut Reaction: Mets 5, Nationals 3 (9/9/15)

Stop me if you've heard this before. The Mets used a late-inning comeback to defeat the Washington Nationals, 5-3, Wednesday night and earn a sweep of their three-game series. They lead the NL East by seven games and the magic number is down to 17. Most of the game was a nice pitching duel between [...]

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Mets Card of the Week: 1985 Keith Hernandez

1985 TOPPS KEITH HERNANDEZ La Bonne Vie, they called it. The good life. That was the name of the apartment complex in East Patchogue where I spent my 1985. I discovered panic attacks, the Pogues, and the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins that summer. I also had a brief existential crisis regarding my love of [...]

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