As Mookies Go & Eras End

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Published Oct. 21, 2009 at 1:27 a.m.

Welcome to a special Wednesday edition of 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 ... In the span of six summer days in 1989, the Mets traded Mookie Wilson and Berke Breathed stopped drawing Bloom County ... Both entities had been a staple of my

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'79 or '93: ¿Cuál es Mas Mal?

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Published Oct. 23, 2009 at 2:28 a.m.

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 ... Let others, for now, stew over what would be the worst World Series outcome possible. A Phillie repeat? A Yankee return? One is a kick in the head. The other is a kick in the groin. The key

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Prelude, Playoffs & Postscript

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 9:03 a.m.

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 ... When I moved into my off-campus dorm to start my freshman year of college, the first thing I did was hang up a Mets pennant. The next thing I did was hang up a second Mets pennant. Those would

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Dumb and Dumber

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Published Sept. 17, 2009 at 6:36 a.m.

he's so dumb, how come he's president?" ... —Gerald Ford's campaign slogan, as reported by Chevy Chase on Weekend Update, 1975 ... Those who cut the Mets miles and miles of slack for sucking as badly as they do point to the injuries. How could have we expected them to contend without their key players? I'll buy that. I'll buy that substituting for All-Stars and even regulars wasn't going to be easy. I'll buy that if you told me ahead of time that we'd endure most of 2009 missing mass

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Is This the Most Disappointing Season in Mets History?

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bud harrelson, casey stengel, cleon jones, daniel murphy, dave kingman, davey johnson, don bosch, ed kranepool, fred wilpon, george stone, hubie brooks, jon matlack, ken boyer, ro, ron swoboda, tom seaver, tommy davis, tug mcgraw, warren spahn, yogi berra

Published Sept. 18, 2009 at 12:46 a.m.

Shockingly enough, the Mets lost. They started feebly, offered a little spurt of purposefulness, then rolled over and died ... Which was actually an improvement from the night before, when they expired in a fashion that should have been gut-wrenching but instead was just numbing. Not so long ago, the Mets losing on a game-ending error would have left me fuming for hours on end. Last night, it barely registered. And tonight? I barely remember tonight ... At Amazin' Tuesday I was chatting with

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Now About That Franchise Hit Record...

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Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 8:32 a.m.

There's a lot of talk going around about all-time franchise records for hits. I assume this has something to do with the eternal appreciation fans and media have for true legends of the game. Given that the subject is in the air, I thought it would be fun (my kind of fun, at any rate) to explore how the vaunted Met record for most hits in a career came to be ... The first Met to hold the all-time franchise record for hits was Gus Bell. He produced the first Met hit ever, a one-out single to

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A- Kingman, One Bad Pitch, The Return of Mystique

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Published May 20, 2009 at 6:12 a.m.

- Did they steal Alex Rodriguez and replace him with Dave Kingman? Perhaps we should ask his hip surgeon, but Rodriguez has Kingman-esque stats (7 for 36, .194, 5 HRs) so far. There is one thing you can’t criticize him for, however, and it’s that the hits have been meaningless. His presence in the lineup [ ... ] ...

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