Mets on my mind

Even delayed on the MLB Network … I’ve watched my New York Mets a handful of times already this spring. Every time they’ve been on. It’s soothing to see the green grass of spring training games on our living room big screen as we get through a typical Central New York early March of cold.…

I see spring on my living room TV

2022 NL batting champion Jeff McNeil at the plate. One benefit for this retired guy is flipping on the weekday early spring training game televised by SNY for my New York Mets. I watched on Thursday afternoon. I hardly cared that they lost to bitter NL East rival, the Atlanta Braves. The games don’t count…

Everybody makes nicey-nice as the Mets visit the Carrier Dome

The New York Mets players and their Central New York fans got along well Tuesday afternoon in the Carrier Dome. A crowd I thought to be somewhat comparable to a Syracuse University spring football game watched the players get ready for Thursday’s season-opener in D.C. against the Washington Nationals with plenty of enthusiasm. (On the…

Give me the green grass of spring training baseball

I set the DVR to take in my New York Mets’ opening spring training game this past weekend. When my dear wife Karen and I returned from Martinfest, we got to playing the contest on the living room flat screen. We saw a pitcher we did not know starting the game against the Atlanta Braves.…

Savoring the green, green grass of spring … training

It’s bracingly, frighteningly, stubbornly cold still in Syracuse, with snow on the ground. March can be a bear. And so when my TV guide tells me that my New York Mets are being beamed from a spring training game in Florida, I will land there for a moment. The Mets are playing a Saturday contest…

Room for improvement

How do you follow-up a season in which you reached the World Series for the first time in 15 years? Why, you win the World Series, of course. Hold on there, Mets fan. Well, the old saw Hope Springs Eternal was coined for baseball fans, was it not? Hover over any photo for a description.…

Spring training makes me feel warm

Click, click, click, stop. Sigh. They are playing baseball in Florida. A weekday surf through the sports channels leads me happily to a spring training game for my New York Mets, against the Houston Astros. The Mets are leading 4-0. It’s the fourth inning, and many of the players have names that may become household…