Opener Almanac

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Published April 4, 2010 at 5:00 a.m.

A new season is upon us and another opening day is here. Tomorrow's opener marks the first in Citi Field history. Below is a brief almanac of every Mets opener ever played, 48 in all. Some were memorable, some were not. The two predominant pitchers on opening day were Tom Seaver and Dwight Gooden who won almost every time they took the mound for game one. And something only the Mets could do, they won a World Series before they ever won an opening day. As Casey used to say ... "You can

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27 Minutes Outside Citi Field

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Published Dec. 10, 2009 at 6:04 p.m.

Ebbets Field was always in reach. There were obstacles — money, the policeman's shoe, a leap, the greasy garageman — but a boy could contend with them and triumph, if he had wit and persistence and a touch of courage. It was easy and absolutely irrational to relate getting to see a Dodger game with getting to be a Dodger. Which, in the fine irrationality of boyhood, is what generations of Brooklyn children did ... —Roger Kahn, The Boys Of Summer ... Why is Mets security being wasted

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Blue & Orange Thursday

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Published Nov. 25, 2009 at 4:02 p.m.

The Mets used to regularly play Memorial Day doubleheaders, Independence Day doubleheaders and Labor Day doubleheaders, yet the holiday that launched them into the public consciousness was the one we celebrate tomorrow ... That's right: the Mets are as much a part of Thanksgiving as stuffing, pumpkin pie and forced conversation you could do without ... Two months before they started limbering up in St. Petersburg and nearly four months before they began losing in earnest, the New York Mets made

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SNY Prepares to Do Right By Us

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Published Nov. 6, 2009 at 6:05 p.m.

As trophies and t-shirts were being passed around Wednesday night on five different channels, I flipped to SNY out of curiosity. Would they be taking their New York sports mandate seriously and covering the grim doings at Yankee Stadium? Would they have something special on to cheer up the rest of us? Would there be racing from the Meadowlands? ... They were airing a repeat of The Best of Mets Weekly which, at that moment, featured Dave Howard giving Julie Alexandria a tour of a Citi Field

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Someone to Watch Under We

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Published Sept. 20, 2009 at 7:42 p.m.

go on, boy, and pay attention. Because if you do, someday, you may achieve something that we Simpsons have dreamed about for generations: You may outsmart someone ... —Homer Simpson's advice to Bart upon his entering the Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children ... I'm booking an Acela special for all Mets fans who want to zoom down to Washington and laugh at the Nationals ... who's with me? ... C'mon, we have to gloat over somebody's even-deader carcass. We just clinched not finishing

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Baseball's Most Magical Date

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Published Sept. 22, 2009 at 2:26 p.m.

Welcome to a special Tuesday 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 ... And fans at the Polo Grounds today will be able to tell their grandchildren — they'll be the gassy old men leaning into the next century and trying to convince

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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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