Subject: New York Mets

• Grace Under Pressure

  October 13, 2006

• Why Cardinals Fans Should Support the Cubs in the Postseason

  October 2, 2007

• Why Cardinals Fans Should Support the Cubs in the Postseason

  October 2, 2007

• 2008 Cardinals Draft Pick Analysis

  June 10, 2008

• I-70 Series Preview: Royals vs. Cards

  June 17, 2008

• Baseball Card of the Week: Izzy with the Mets

  June 20, 2008

• Underperforming Mets Come to St. Louis

  June 30, 2008

• R.I.P. Dave Ricketts and Bobby Murcer

  July 14, 2008

• R.I.P. Dave Ricketts and Bobby Murcer

  July 14, 2008

• The Case for Kyle McClellan as the Cards Closer

  July 28, 2008

• 10 St. Louis Sports Tough Guys, Thugs and Criminals

  July 30, 2008

• Baseball Card of the Week: Howard, Pujols Battle for MVP

  September 26, 2008

• Blogger Roundtable: Who Will Take the Cardinals Fifth Starting Spot, What's John Mozeliak's Mission This Off-Season?

  October 15, 2008

• Video: Vintage Mike Bush

  Just in time for Cardinals spring training, the bloggers over at InsideSTL have unearthed (or more precisely, found on YouTube), the 21-year-old KSDK sports broadcast featuring a spry Mike Bush announcing that the Cardinals had clinched the old National League East title. See if you can spot a visiting Keith Hernandez, and a few other New York Mets, sitting the old Busch Stadium luxury boxes, watching the game. (The Mets finished three games behind the Cardinals in the standings in '87.)The vide

  February 17, 2009

• Night & Day

  June 16, 1999

• My Cardinals: Will Leitch, Blogger Superhero

  Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could give you a primer on this year's Cardinals team, complete with a hundred different acronyms being tossed around, but you've probably gotten enough of that already, both here and elsewhere. And let's face

  April 6, 2009

• STADIUM MADNESS, PART 1

  November 17, 1999

• Being Darryl Strawberry

  February 21, 2007

• New NYC Archbishop: Still a Cardinal (Fan)!

  On Wednesday Timothy M. Dolan was installed as the tenth archbishop of New York. photo by catholicrelief (via Flickr)Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan's a New Yorker now -- but he'll always be a St. LouisanIn its coverage, the New York Times notes that Dolan touched on two hot-button issues for Catholics in his homily: abortion and same-sex marriage.But it was Joe Kemp and Dave Goldiner, scribes for the rival Daily News, who copped the real scoop on Dolan, in a story in the previous day's edition hea

  April 16, 2009

• Schlafly Pumpkin Ale

  October 25, 2006

• A Whole New Ballgame

  October 18, 2006

• Pitchers & Catchers

  Why no Gay Day at Busch Stadium? Who’d win an indoor football game between teams QB’ed by Neil Young and Alanis Morissette? Unreal asks the tough questions.

  June 21, 2006

• Dirty Ernie

  October 5, 2005

• Ask a Negro Leaguer

  Week of July 27, 2005

  July 27, 2005

• Letters

  Week of April 7, 2004

  April 7, 2004

• What Are Your Predictions for 2004?

  Week of January 14, 2004

  January 14, 2004

• Getting What You Don't Pay For

  June 28, 2000

• Athletes in the Action: The Tradition Continues

  June 14, 2000

• Foul Ball

  May 5, 1999

• Hey, Danny Meyer! Cards Fans Gotta Eat, Too!

  User "Metsfan84," Wikimedia CommonsMy colleague Chad Garrison passed along this Wall Street Journal article reviewing the food at the Yankees' and the Mets' new stadiums. Restaurateur extraordinaire Danny Meyer receives a whole lotta love for his offerings at the Mets' Citi Field. These include outposts of his ridiculously popular Shake Shack as well as his barbecue joint Blue Smoke.Why should we care? Well, there are two St. Louis-area connections to the grub that Mets fans can enjoy. Danny Mey

  April 20, 2009

• Busch Stadium Better Than New Yankees and Mets' Ballparks, So Says New York Times

  flickr.com/photos/prettywarstlSomeone really, really likes Busch Stadium. That person is New York Times sports writer George Vecsey. Fresh from a trip to St. Louis last week for an All-Star Game promo, Vecsey penned a piece for the Times on Monday comparing Busch Stadium to buried treasure. More specifically, he noted that the bronze statues of former Cardinals great outside the stadium seem to hold vigil "like ancient Xian statue-warriors guarding the Chinese emperor for eternity." And Vecsey c

  April 29, 2009

• Dubious Diagnosis: Does Kahlil Greene Really Have a Social Anxiety Disorder?

  flickr.com/photos/adohnes"It's not like catching the chickenpox. There has to be a history." So says Dr. Allan Lans regarding social anxiety disorder and this season's toll of ballplayers said to be suffering from it, a list that includes St. Louis' introspective shortstop Khalil Greene and Detroit's flamboyant hurler Dontrelle Willis. A New York psychiatrist with a long history of working on the psyche's of professional athletes -- most notably as a member of the Mets' st

  June 9, 2009

• Map Locations At A Glance: Cemeteries

  July 8, 2009

• How to Hate Dan and Al Even More

  You know, it's really easy to rag on Al Hrabosky and Dan McLaughlin. You're probably waiting on a but, aren't you? Well, there isn't one. I'm just stating a fact. It's easy to rag on Dan and Al, mostly because they're terrible at their jobs. Even when I agree with one of them, as in Hrabosky's recent spat with the manager, it's still impossible to ignore the awfulness that is the FSN broadcast. Let's face it; there isn't anyone in the Cards' broadcast booth who can compete with that mu

  July 22, 2009

• Game Notes: Cardinals 12, Metropolitans 7 04/08/2009 - The Return of the King

  -- Albert Pujols is back, and the Mang is pissed. Oh yes, we all doubted, we all feared, we all wondered what was wrong. We found ourselves, in our darkest moments, questioning whether or not Albert was still the player we all thought he was. We looked to a new idol, to a man named Holliday, and we have angered the Mang. There will be no mercy. This gathering was broken up shortly after the photo was taken by an Albert Pujols home run. ​

  August 5, 2009

• Why No-Trade Clauses are a Bad Idea: Billy Wagner

  fortsanders.netBad Idea. ​I know I've mentioned before - numerous times, most likely - how much I hate no-trade clauses in baseball contracts. In particular, the no-trade clause in Kyle Lohse's contract has proven to be a source of major irritation to me, not because I don't think Lohse is a useful pitcher, but because I largely expect Lohse to be a fairly useful pitcher with a bad contract that would be hard to move in any circumstances, and damned near impossible when the player has the opti

  August 25, 2009

• Bird vs. Fish

  September 9, 2009

• Albert Pujols' Comments Lost in Translation -- Again?!

  Wikimedia Commons​Near the end of 2006, a tempest boiled over in the local sports teapot when Albert Pujols, in an interview with reporters in his native Dominican Republic, opined that maybe he, and not Ryan Howard, was entitled to that season's Most Valuable Player award, by virtue of the fact that Pujols' St. Louis Cardinals reached the postseason that year and Howard's Philadelphia Phillies didn't.The thing was, when the story washed up on American shores, the English-language media spun i

  October 19, 2009

• Let the Panic Begin: Albert Pujols to Have Elbow Surgery

  Well, we all knew it was coming eventually. Just a matter of time, really. Of course, knowing it was inevitable that Albert Pujols' balky elbow would eventually necessitate a surgical fix doesn't make it any easier to swallow when said inevitability becomes a reality. Albert is going under the knife today to have five bone spurs removed from his troublesome right elbow, and there is a very real chance this may just be the first of many surgeries. (And by the way, make sure you read the comm

  October 21, 2009

• St. Louis Tryst Leads to Firing of ESPN Analyst Steve Phillips

  Last week we noted how St. Louis is a terrible place for sports figures to launch affairs. Yesterday we saw our theory hold up when ESPN fired baseball analyst Steve Phillips. Steve Phillips​The former GM for the New York Mets, Phillips had quickly risen through the ranks of the sports network sitting alongside Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on the network's Sunday night broadcasts. But news that he engaged in an extra-marital affair with a fellow ESPN employee, caused the sports channel to dismiss

  October 26, 2009