A uniform celebration with the Syracuse Mets

My terrific daughter Elisabeth suggested we all go the Syracuse Mets game not just to see the baseball but to get the replica game day jerseys they were handing out to the first 2,000 people who showed up. Yes, we were, arriving together from my dear wife Karen and I’s house a mile or so…

Sticking with your team

My terrific daughter Elisabeth immediately knew what she had to get me for my new car. It looks good, I think. My allegiance to my squad, right on and ride on.

That’s a big pile of good wood

George Three sent me a text from NBT Bank Stadium. It seems he had to take a trip through the back offices for one work reason or another. He spied a package of baseball bats packaged for Syracuse Mets shortstop Danny Espinosa and knew I’d like to get the insider’s view. May there be many…

The big noise was coming from the bats and then the storm

A good way to start our Memorial Day Weekend, we figured, was a trip with Elisabeth and George Three for some good, old-fashioned baseball. And so my dear wife Karen and I piled into George’s car, Elisabeth at the wheel, for Saturday night’s Triple-A game between our Syracuse Mets and the Yankees’ top minor-league squad…

All’s good with baseball back

I was thrilled with the seats we landed by going to the Syracuse Mets open house and standing on the short line the first day tickets went on sale. The third-base line location five rows up Thursday afternoon allowed me to use my iPhone 8 to catch perfect baseball symmetry for the home squad at…

Opening Day brings everything but a Syracuse Mets win

Our family excursion to see the first-ever Syracuse Mets game brought a traffic jam. By the time we wound through the streets and into the satellite lot, it was perilously close to the Thursday afternoon start time of 2 o’clock. Yet still there were deep lines for the gate security check. We still made it…

When last we looked in on the Syracuse Mets …

The Syracuse Mets open house at NBT Bank Stadium was one month, two days ago. Today is opening day. Our Triple A squad is scheduled to play the Pawtucket Red Sox. Yet this is what our backyard looked like on Monday a mere few miles from the stadium. Good luck, grounds crew. I will be…

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…

Take us out to the Syracuse Mets ball game

Before we went into NBT Bank Stadium for Saturday’s Syracuse Mets open house, we stood with a tight know of other fans waiting for the ticket windows to open to start individual game ticket sales for the 2019 season. Most of the fans wore blue-and-orange Mets gear to celebrate this first season of togetherness between…