To feed that baseball jones

Brett Baty, still working on that swing. While baseball rests for the All-Star break, I’ll pull out two photos stockpiled from our latest visit for a Syracuse Mets game at NBT Bank Stadium. Night game! As my dear wife Karen, terrific daughter Elisabeth and wonderful George Three enjoyed ourselves in our great seats, I declared…

Rising in the standings

Go ahead, ask us. Do you want to go to Trivia Night at the Syracuse Mets again, wondered the text from terrific daughter Elisabeth. Sign us up, I replied. Last season, our first attempt at matching our wits in the Metropolitan Room at NBT Bank Stadium as the Syracuse Mets played on the field below,…

Here’s an exclamation point!

One and done. If only I could see through our special solar glasses lens better I might wear them as a fashion statement! Just joshing. The one and only thing you can see out of these babies is the sun. If you’re looking directly at it. And there aren’t heavy clouds in the way.

Ready to reflect

Fashion statement? My dear wife Karen were ready to sun gaze with our safe eclipse glasses as soon as we arrived to the NBT Bank Stadium parking lot Monday. Good thing. We saw the start from outside the parking lot, patiently filing in with the 10,000 or so other solar fans. We got it! But…

Sharing a moment

All for one. What was it like experiencing a total eclipse of the sun at our Triple A baseball stadium? Pretty darn special. The ovations for Mother Nature were totally spontaneous and cool as can be.

Totality awesome

At 3:20 p.m. Monday in Syracuse, N.Y. Was the walk onto the center field warning track worth it for my dear wife Karen and I on Monday afternoon at the Syracuse Mets’ NBT Bank Stadium worth it? As mid-afternoon looked like midnight, I aimed my iPhone a little ways away from the eclipsed sun and…

That’s the pitch

Hey batter batter. Why did I strive to snag individual game tickets for the Syracuse Mets opening day 2024 the moment they became available? So we could be right here to see the first batter of the season. Yes, that is the Mets dugout. Friday’s game at NBT Bank Stadium was blustery and delightful both…

Cold weather, hot team

A different tailgate. It was so cool outside at noon Friday that we decided it was wiser to partake in our traditional Opening Day tailgate pregame festivities in Elisabeth and George’s living room rather than the stadium parking lot. That doesn’t mean we gave up on pregame festivities altogether. 39 degrees and here we are.…

One great player, HoJo was

The good, old days. Howard Johnson’s first two major league managers were Sparky Anderson for the Detroit Tigers and Davey Johnson for the New York Mets, a member of the audience at the Syracuse Mets open house reminded him during the Q and A session Saturday. Could there be a more buttoned-down or loosey-goosey managers…