Gut Reaction: Cubs 6 Mets 2 (7/20/16)

There isn't much to be said about this no-contest contest. The Mets dropped their final 2016 regular season game with the Cubs, 6-2 on a desultory afternoon. Kyle Hendricks started for Chicago and as Bob Murphy used to say, he was wearing the hitters on his watch chain. He scattered seven hits and no runs [...]

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Seaver, Murphy, and other what ifs in Mets history

Hundreds, if not thousands, of books and articles have been written in the realm of speculative history, also known as “what if” history. The idea is to figure out which way things would have turned out if events did not go as they actually did. Some examples: What if - the British sniper who had [...]

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