Thanks a Million, Metsies!

The Mets lost today by the score of 8-1, missing the postseason after having led their division by 7 games with 17 to play.

I know this to be true because I was at Shea Stadium to see it. Otherwise, it would be difficult for me to believe that any professional baseball team—let alone one Read More

Bloomberg’s Glavine Ceremony Irks a Commuter

Gaudy approval ratings notwithstanding, the theme of Michael Bloomberg’s insensitivity to the problems of ordinary New Yorkers seems to surge and recede with each crisis.

A caller to the mayor’s weekly radio show just now asked about the mayor’s decision to award Mets pitcher Tom Glavine a key to the city the same day Read More

John Maine, Baseball Hero

John Maine, the young pitcher for the New York Mets, lives in a Ramada Inn off Grand Central Parkway.

He makes no distinction, based on his limited sense of adventure, between New York and his hometown of Fredericksburg, Va. “It’s all the same to me,” he said after a recent start.

When he walks around Read More