To read more about today’s loss to the Reds, check out post-game writes ups from Mets Today, Amazin Avenue, On the Black and Mets Paradise, as well Newsday and the Daily News.To watch clips from the game, to hear from Jerry Manuel, and to get commentary and analysis from Ron Darling ad Gary Cohen, watch Lincoln Mercury’s Post Game Extra [ ... ] ...
Back in April of 2009 SNY Analyst Ron Darling joined me to talk about his book “The Complete Game: Reflections on Baseball, Pitching, and Life on the Mound.”Many fans remember Darling for his success with the Mets, but he pitched perhaps the best college game in history. In May of 1981, while pitching for Yale, [ ... ] ...
Athletes have been known be implored to attend Bar Mitzvahs. Sometimes it's because a particular athlete is Jewish; there's a great bit in a movie called Keeping Up With The Steins about an extraordinarily competitive L.A. family trying to get then-Dodger Shawn Green to show up at their son's affair. Sometimes it's because the fan issuing the invite thinks an athlete is Jewish — as was the commonly misconceived case when David Cone came to the Mets with a name that sounded pretty darn
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
For the first time since I can remember, I enjoyed watching a baseball game on TV that included color commentary by Ron Darling.Congrats to the Twins for winning the AL Central, and thanks to both ... [[ This is a summary ... visit MetsToday.com for the full story ]] ...
Is the four-year SNY partnership of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling, and Keith Hernandez over? Was their Sunday call of the Mets' season finale the trio's final performance together? Following the game, Hernandez raised that very possibility ...
When we sat down it would start to rain. When we got up it would stop. When we sat down again it would start to rain again ... It was a misty, murky, muddled-up day out at Citi Field -- one that started early ... Emily and Joshua and I trooped through the bullpen gate at 11:30 for the Gary Keith and Ron event, which was filled with genial Mets folk buying shirts and raffle tickets for a good cause and lining up to eat hot dogs and nachos and popcorn because why wouldn't you? We met Ron Darling
Turner Sports suits has assigned the former Mets pitcher and current SportsNet New York analyst, Ron Darling, to work the Yankees series. It matters not Yankee fans that Darling, in SNY's Mets booth, cuts things down the middle ...
I confess that I turned on the TV this afternoon more from duty than devotion. There were things to do, the memory of Saturday night's game was freshly dispiriting, and to my surprise I was curious to see what the transformed Jets were all about. Watching Pat Misch trying to escape the perils of the second inning didn't seem like the best way to ensure a pleasant Sunday afternoon ... But duty called, and so I watched, at first flipping over to the Jets-Titans every minute or so. (The fact that
According to the Miami Herald, the Mets will open next season at home against the Marlins on April 5.In a report for MLB.com, Marty Noble talks to Joe McIlvaine about when the Mets traded Lee Mazzilli for pitchers Ron Darling and Walt Terrell in March 1982.Terrell was later traded to the Tigers for Howard Johnson.Jason [ ... ] ...