One does not simply walk into an Orioles-Royals game in the middle of August. 

So subtle.  Nice.  

This reminds me of a story of the time Ted Williams was asked for an autograph by a young pitcher who had just struck him out, which is recounted in David Halberstam’s outstanding book, The Teammates. The relevant portion is pasted below from some random source on the Internet, but it seems accurate enough based on my…

Same shit that people do on Amtrak if you eat chips too loud in the Quiet Car. It won’t stop people from doing what they do, but at least I’d feel secure knowing some faceless institution supported me in rooting out these shitbags.

On the plus side, their families can now refer to them as felons rather than former Mets.

While Maddon’s critique has some value to it—parents should be wary of any consultants who claim they can turn their kids into sluggers overnight—it’s also a lot more coherent than whatever Gossage, Rose, and Piniella are grumbling about.

The official title of the event is “MLB at Field of Dreams presented by GEICO,” but it would perhaps be more aptly titled, “If you brand it, Darren Rovell will come.”

As a Mets fan who giddily relishes in enthusiasm for this team at all times - even when I should not, which is most of the time to damn near all of the time - it is such a joy when the the cranky, albeit sane, Mets fans begin to display the tiniest bit of fracture to the thick cocoon of indifference and scorn that…

Update (too late to edit): Jeff McNeil is not the best hitter in the game. He is currently leading the Majors in batting average among qualifiers. A person who spends as much time writing as I do should be more precise. I want to express my sincere thanks to every who is getting very fired up about this in the…

Pedantic because you clearly knew what I mean, but yeah, fair enough.

The surprise shouldn’t be that the Mets are winning some games, but rather that it took this long. They have the reigning Cy Young award winner, a deep staff behind him, the best hitter in the game and two power hitters behind him (one of them elite). If this team was not so poorly constructed (is it possible to…

It’s never the Mensa members, is it? Trying to be photographed while being a racist chud is a great way to get your stupid face plastered all over the internet, dumb ass.  Enjoy your lifetime ban from the stadium.  

Pretty impressive for a guy who plays second base to get that far out in right field to make that catch . . .

Hot take: if the Mets inadvertently do the right thing and hang on to Syndergaard -- they won’t:  they’ll package him with Edwin Diaz to get back Vargas or something -- but if they do, is there a better top of the rotation in 2020 than DeGrom, Stroman and Syndergaard?

I am humbled, but that honor will stay right here, forever.

Man, these guys really won’t defend anything.

I had to Google the John Tyler thing.  That’s cool!

If “I Watched all the Porky’s Movies” isn’t the title of Drew’s autobiography, then what the hell are we even doing here?

Save for the occasional Nick Nurse brainfart, or Kyle Lowry embarking on a freelance dribbling odyssey into and out of and around the paint at least once a half, Toronto was the better team throughout the bulk of the Finals.

As a card-carrying member of the community of sports fans who comment on this site, I am proud to dislike everything about Boston sports culture. And yet: there is something incredibly touching about Oritz being flown home to be cared for by the local community.