Going, going, not gone

Deep to center. Here’s the field that greeted us when we arrived for this year’s Syracuse Mets open house at NBT Bank Stadium. I decided as the event wound down over the course of two-plus hours that I could accomplish my own version of iPhone time-lapse photography. Settling down. It wasn’t warming up much, but…

Home opener is coming fast

Eager to get those tickets. Of course my dear wife Karen and I planned our arrival at NBT Bank Stadium with terrific daughter Elisabeth and George Three to get me in prime position to nab our tickets for the Syracuse Mets home opener the minute to ticket windows opened on open house day. I was…

Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Met

Welcome to Syracuse. At a previous Syracuse Mets open house, terrific daughter Elisabeth urged me to ask General Manager Jason Smorol during the finishing question-and-answer session why famous mascots Mr. Met and Mrs. Met don’t come around NBT Bank Stadium, ever. He handed the query over to front office colleague Kathleen McCormick, who told the…

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.…

Lots of interest

Quick, get to the stuff. I told Elisabeth and George I thought this was the biggest group of fans I’d ever seen for the Syracuse Mets annual garage sale. Wow, they walked fast to get to the merchandise set up in the Metropolitan Room.

OK, think about baseball

Lining up to look at the goods. Every year in the first part of December, the Syracuse Mets open NBT Bank Stadium to fans and put out what they hope fans will want to take home to gift-give or keep for themselves. I again went for a taste of baseball with terrific daughter Elisabeth and…

Moon over the Syracuse Mets

We spun fast. There was more than baseball to admire when the family headed to our hometown Syracuse Mets’ final homestand of the season. Over the first base grandstand for a fleeting moment sat a gorgeous full moon. I was able to capture it with my iPhone while the home team was at the plate.…

Enjoying Polish Night at the stadium

Happy us. As the baseball season for our hometown Syracuse Mets winds down, we know we’ve still got a small pile of purchased vouchers to use before the final game. We picked Polish Night last week. We got there early enough to score our free jerseys out of the 1,000 handed out by the Triple-A…

Another game

Take us out to the ball game. A double header on a sunny weekend when KP is up from Atlanta? Perfect when he joins Elisabeth, George Three and I take in some baseball. It makes it even better that the promotion in the second game led to the home team going back to the former…

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…