I Actually Bought a Pack of Baseball Cards
August 27th, 2012 by slangon

You know the story. You’re at Target and/or Walmart running errands and happen by the card aisle. Of course you can’t just walk by without just popping your head in to see what’s that haps. Then your pocket starts to heating up and before you know it, there’s a hole burning in that pocket. It’s […]

Mets Through the Years: The All-Star(s), 1987
July 10th, 2012 by slangon

Coming off of their 1986 World Championship, the Mets again sent 5 men to the 1987 All-Star Game. Davey Johnson was named the manager of the National League squad. That goes along with his 4 appearances as a player, 3 for the A.L. and once with the N.L. The Straw Man made his fourth straight […]

Damn I Hate West Coast Swings
June 29th, 2012 by slangon

Games that start after 10 o’clock? Games that end around 1 in the morning? Ugh. Fortunately, the Mets were able to hang on by their toenails last night against the Dodgers and win it 3-2. Of course since it was a close one, I wasn’t able to go to sleep until that last out was […]

Mets Through the Years: Second Base
June 22nd, 2012 by slangon

This is the fifth post in this series. We’ve already covered the men who’ve serve as managers, opening day starters, catchers and first basemen for the Mets over their 50 year history. Today, we’ll take a gander at the guys who’ve manned second for the Metropolitans over the years, in cardboard form, of course. Charlie […]

Mets Through the Years: Opening Day Pitchers
April 5th, 2012 by slangon

This is the third post in this series. So far we’ve covered the men who have served as the manager of the Mets and the men who’ve caught the pitches. Today we’re going to take a look at some of the guys who have thrown those pitches. Initially, I was toying with the idea of […]

Countdown.
February 18th, 2012 by slangon

Days until and

No More Paying $19.50 for Admission
January 10th, 2012 by slangon

I almost wasn’t going to make this post, just because one or two other people throughout the interwebs have already beat me to the punch, but f’ that noise. I’ve been chomping at the bit to show this awesome Ron Santo card that Reader Jim sent to me along with a pile of 1960 Topps […]

Countdown to Opening Day: 6
March 26th, 2011 by slangon

Half a dozen more days. Starting at short stop for the ’86 squad, position #6 on your scorecard, was Rafael Santana. There seemed to be a lot of platooning on the 1986 Mets team, and short stop was one of the positions where that happened. Santana got the Opening Day start, though. Judging by his […]