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Showing posts with label Rising Apple. Show all posts
Saturday, May 06, 2017
Wednesday, May 03, 2017
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Sunday, March 19, 2017
N.Y. Mets: Terrible Terry Lashes Out
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Here's installment #5 of our Season Preview collaboration:
You can also listen to out latest podcast,
and check out the previous four installments of our Season Preview series
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
N.Y. Mets: Spring Training Pot Pourri
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Stuff;
Mets starting pitching,
infield depth, Terry Collins,
strength and conditioning,
strength and conditioning,
My major World Baseball Classic rant,
Jackie Robinson, Mets who've worn #42,
Dave Kingman, Bamby's Bandits,
and much more.
Rising Apple Spring Training Previews
These are Rising Apple collaborative articles presenting our respective views. I invite you to read them all. You'll find mine a few pages in.
- Who will win the fifth starter spot?
- Mets Player Most Likely to Surprise
- Will the Mets Stay Healthy? Who Will Be the First Met Placed on the Disabled List?
- What can We Expect from David Wright?
Five more installments still to come.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
N.Y. Mets: Spring Training Podcast
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STUFF
David Wright ... Terry Collins
5th Starter Spot ... Las Vegas 51s
Neil Walker ... Curtis Granderson
Problems Behind the Plate,
and other stuff.
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
N.Y. Mets: First Podcast of 2017
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Sam and I talk Mets baseball with guest
Greg Prince of FaithAndFearInFlushing.com
Stuff
The Queens Baseball Convention
Tom Seaver
Curtis Granderson, Jay Bruce
the Bullpen
the 1941 Season:
Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Giants, New York Yankees
Wednesday, October 05, 2016
N.Y. Mets: Ready for Wild Time in Flushing
From the desk of: HEAD-BUTTING MR. MET
Storied past, almost mythical, the golden era of baseball, when three boroughs each fielded their own major league franchise - a time long gone, forgotten, essentially dead and quite literally buried over.
Unconditional support of players, unyielding loyalties to team, a kinship of sorts, for National League fans, ended in 1957.
Outwardly, the 58 year old wounds seemed to have heeled. But make no mistake, within those who remember, major resentment still lingers.
The Mets and Giants are forever connected by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, former co-owner of the (then) New York Giants, whom was the only member of the executive board to vote against the proposed relocation to San Francisco.
In turn, she and William Shea set about turning the major league establishment on its ear, threatening them with the potential creation a new rival league. The net result, or affect, became modern era expansion.
Ms. Payson and William Shea would then establish the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, whose inaugural season occurred in 1962.
Tonight, the San Francisco Giants revisit their estranged New York City love child, left behind when together, Mr. Horace Stoneham and Walter O'Malley eloped to California.
There's no denying the DNA. Cut into each of these teams, and they will bleed orange.
The time has come, and is long overdue, for a memorial befitting Joan Payson, the matriarch of the Mets, be erected at Citi Field.
POLO GROUNDS
New York Giants 1890-1957
New York Mets 1962-1963
2016
NATIONAL LEAGUE
WILD CARD PLAYOFF
* * *
San Francisco Giants
vs.
New York Mets
FROM
CITI FIELD
Roosevelt Avenue
QUEENS
Storied past, almost mythical, the golden era of baseball, when three boroughs each fielded their own major league franchise - a time long gone, forgotten, essentially dead and quite literally buried over.
Unconditional support of players, unyielding loyalties to team, a kinship of sorts, for National League fans, ended in 1957.
Outwardly, the 58 year old wounds seemed to have heeled. But make no mistake, within those who remember, major resentment still lingers.
The Mets and Giants are forever connected by Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, former co-owner of the (then) New York Giants, whom was the only member of the executive board to vote against the proposed relocation to San Francisco.
In turn, she and William Shea set about turning the major league establishment on its ear, threatening them with the potential creation a new rival league. The net result, or affect, became modern era expansion.
Ms. Payson and William Shea would then establish the New York Metropolitan Baseball Club, whose inaugural season occurred in 1962.
Tonight, the San Francisco Giants revisit their estranged New York City love child, left behind when together, Mr. Horace Stoneham and Walter O'Malley eloped to California.
There's no denying the DNA. Cut into each of these teams, and they will bleed orange.
The time has come, and is long overdue, for a memorial befitting Joan Payson, the matriarch of the Mets, be erected at Citi Field.
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Sunday, September 04, 2016
N.Y. Mets keep rolling the dice in Las Vegas
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CASHMAN FIELD
Home of the
LAS VEGAS 51s
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Thursday, July 07, 2016
N.Y. Mets: Our Latest RA Podcast with author Jon Springer
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Our featured guest was Mets fan extraordinaire, and author of
a comprehensive history of the Mets by uniform number,
Jon Springer, proprietor of MetsByTheNumbers.net.
Warning: If you're a die hard fan, this episode will be an easy listen.
Otherwise, you're going to need about 2 hrs:17 minutes for listening
to this wide ranging four way conversation covering of everything Mets
new, old, in between, and other stuff too.
Oh Boy!
First half impressions / a hot Jose Reyes round table / what about Wilmer?
2016 Mets All-Stars / Team MVP / Dwayne Wade!
Mets LVP ... eh hem ... De Aza.
A Jerry Koosman love fest / retiring numbers and magic wands.
Time to recognize Joan Payson at Citi Field, damn it,
and we just may have come up with the perfect way to get it done.
John Stearns - Ed Lynch - a 1978 Mets reunion?
Never ending Al Harazin criticisms - Phil Neikro?
Yoenis Cespedes - The Darkening Knight - Should Thor pitch in ASG?
What ever happened to the unintentional intentional walk?
Willie Mays - Tug McGraw - the 1936 Brooklyn Dodgers
Players who've worn #36 in Mets history - and more.
a comprehensive history of the Mets by uniform number,
Jon Springer, proprietor of MetsByTheNumbers.net.
Warning: If you're a die hard fan, this episode will be an easy listen.
Otherwise, you're going to need about 2 hrs:17 minutes for listening
to this wide ranging four way conversation covering of everything Mets
new, old, in between, and other stuff too.
Oh Boy!
First half impressions / a hot Jose Reyes round table / what about Wilmer?
2016 Mets All-Stars / Team MVP / Dwayne Wade!
Mets LVP ... eh hem ... De Aza.
A Jerry Koosman love fest / retiring numbers and magic wands.
Time to recognize Joan Payson at Citi Field, damn it,
and we just may have come up with the perfect way to get it done.
John Stearns - Ed Lynch - a 1978 Mets reunion?
Never ending Al Harazin criticisms - Phil Neikro?
Yoenis Cespedes - The Darkening Knight - Should Thor pitch in ASG?
What ever happened to the unintentional intentional walk?
Willie Mays - Tug McGraw - the 1936 Brooklyn Dodgers
Players who've worn #36 in Mets history - and more.
Friday, June 10, 2016
N.Y. Mets: RA's First Round Amateur Draft Review
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A player by player review
of Friday's first round draft selections
#1 through #34
Mets June Amateur Draft Overview: Round One
of Friday's first round draft selections
#1 through #34
Mets June Amateur Draft Overview: Round One
ICYMI:
A look back at the 2011 amateur draft,
and a preview of the 2016 draft.
Should Mounting Injuries Influence Mets June Amateur Draft Strategy?
Mike
senior staff writer/Rising Apple
Tuesday, June 07, 2016
N.Y. Mets: Time for the Annual June Amateur Draft
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A review of the 2011 amateur draft,
and potential strategies for this weekend's 2016 June amateur draft.
Mike
senior staff writer/Rising Apple
Friday, May 27, 2016
N.Y. Mets: RA's Memorial Day Podcast
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I hosted, and was joined by fellow RA writer Rich Sparago.
Our guests were Gary Mac of MetsMusings.com
and John Pielli of the Passed Ball Show
A National League round-up,
lots of Matt Harvey stuff, and Steven Matz,
what to do at first base, praise for the bullpen,
a live report from Sam while at a tavern in Cooperstown,
all starters pitchers not firing on all cylinders
while injuries mounting to positional players,
recollections of the 1986 New York Mets championship season.
and loads more stuff...!
Mike
senior staff writer/Rising Apple
Monday, May 16, 2016
N.Y. Mets: On pitcher Rafael Montero
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Mike
senior staff writer/Rising Apple
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
N.Y. Mets: Lucas Duda Still Streaky as Ever
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Mike
senior staff writer/Rising Apple
Wednesday, May 04, 2016
N.Y. Mets: Wuilmer Becerra Next Best Reason to Love Dickey Trade
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Mike
senior staff writer/Rising Apple
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