Mike Pelfrey’s Going Away Party
“Hey, this is really nice.” “Well, we decided it was a special occasion, so we should rent out one of the suites.” “I’ve never been to one of these before.” “We throw one every five days — just in...
View ArticleThe Human Pelfing Bag
Mike Pelfrey’s still here, isn’t he? And if he’s still here, he’s going to be Mike Pelfrey, isn’t he? It’s a fact of life. Pelf’s gonna go out there and drive us nuts. He’s gonna put somebody on the...
View ArticleThe Thing With Feathers
Emily Dickinson long ago wrote a poem about a thing with feathers. She didn’t mean Mike Pelfrey, which was for the best, as Mike Pelfrey with feathers would be horrifying in a Big Bird Turned Primal...
View ArticleBaseball Is Fun
Baseball’s beautiful and elevating and timeless and pastoral and all those good high-minded things, but it’s also a lot of fun — particularly when things go off the rails and the game is played...
View ArticleAura of Less Than Success
The Mets all but screwed up a game started by Mike Pelfrey and it had absolutely nothing to do with Mike Pelfrey. Now that’s what I call progress. Other events covering the bottom of the eighth through...
View ArticleGone With the Schwin
Well it’s lonesome in this old town Everybody puts me down I’m a face without a name Just walkin’ in the rain Goin’ back to Houston Houston Houston —Dean Martin How many pitchers does it take to...
View ArticleNiese Pelfs It Up
“Hello?” “Hey Pelf. I wake ya?” “That you, Niesey? Nah, you didn’t wake me. I was up fast-forwarding through the opening ceremonies. You watch it already?” “Not yet. We had a game tonight.” “Oh yeah?”...
View ArticleThe Ghost of Ike Davis
There’s a scene in a church in one of my wife’s and my favorite movies, The Commitments. A lady, dutifully scraping away at the hardened wax countless candles have dripped in the name of divine...
View ArticleShaking Up the Future, 1969
Three weeks ago in our time, 45 years ago in their time, Freddie Rumsen directed his bottom-of-the-bottle pal Don Draper to get off the booze and “do the work”. On Saturday, Zack Wheeler did the work,...
View ArticleA Sense of Occasion
I’ve been a baseball fan a very long time, but once a year, depending on the circumstances, I’m talked to like I’ve just discovered the game. Ironically, it didn’t happen when I was relatively new to...
View ArticleA Unicorn Is Born
You don’t see too many games like we saw Friday night at Coors Field, and — as the Irish Rovers could tell you — you’re never gonna see no unicorn. But if you see the Mets win by a score you’ve never...
View ArticleCigarless
What to do with a 1-0 loss? Throw stuff? Suck it up? Shrug? There are no wrong answers. It is the baseball epitome of close but no cigar. I’m not sure of the appeal of cigars, but one run sure sounded...
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Mets of the 2010s: 40-31
Welcome to the seventh chapter of Faith and Fear’s countdown of The Top 100 Mets of the 2010s. An introduction to the series is available here; you can read the most recent installment here. These are...
View ArticleSympathy for a Jonah
Welcome to A Met for All Seasons, a series in which we consider a given Met who played in a given season and…well, we’ll see. Every Met roster seems to have one — a guy who slumps around under a little...
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Mets of the 2000s: 50-41
Welcome to the sixth chapter of Faith and Fear’s historical countdown of the The Top 100 Mets of the 2000s. A full introduction to what we’re doing is available here. These are the more or less best...
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