Musing 'Bout the Mets

Last night, I was thrilled to join Gary Mack on his Mets Musings podcast, bringing with me a dose of the sounds of New York City (which is beginning to be a podcast habit of mine...) as I walked through midtown Manhattan and over the 59th Street Bridge, heading to Sunnyside, Queens.

We talked Mets, the blogs and podcasts of Rising Apple and Bedford & Sullivan, Brooklyn, New York City, and of course, more Mets.

If you don't regularly listen to Mets Musings, do yourself a favor and follow the show on iTunes or whatever other medium you'd like. Gary is a very astute, long-time Mets fan who produces great Metsian conversations for your listening enjoyment.

Enough of me typing. Press Play.

MUSING. BOUT. METSIES.

LET'S. GO. METS.

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Walkin' Along the Metropolitan Tightrope

They say some days you're gonna win
They say some days you're gonna lose.

I tell you I got news for you
You're losin' all the time 

You never win
Noo-ooo.

If you believe that's how it's gonna be 
I'd better put you down.

Get off your tightrope up there 
Come down on the ground

You gotta save me now
You better turn around.

When I looked around,
I was heading down.
 
Won't somebody throw me down a line? 

They say some days you gotta give--
They say some days you gotta take--

If that's the way it's gotta be
Roll it over and you will see.

The city streets are full of people going nowhere making time.
The change from night to day is really only hours

It's just along the line
Oh, can't you see the sign?

When I looked around,
I was heading down.
 
Won't somebody throw me down a line? 

I want to look you straight in the eye
I want to tell you how I really feel
I can feel the wheels turnin' round
Won't somebody throw me down a line?

The city streets are full of people going nowhere making time,
The change from night to day is really only hours

It's just along the line, 
Oh, can't you see the sign?

When I closed my eyes, 
I was so surprised

Somebody had thrown me down the line--
Stopped me drownin'

Somebody had thrown me down the line!

E. LECTRIC. LIGHT.

LET'S. GO. METS.

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Yeah...This is Happening.

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Coming Soon...

The Night of the Nohan


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Keep the Random Song Boogie Goin'

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That Cy Young Better Have a Knuckle Grip On It

In my wildest dreams, there's a World Series involved. But when I and many other Met fans who...kinda saw this coming, realizing R.A. Dickey was an ace before anybody really gave it much thought...when we dreamed of what R.A. Dickey could do, I'm not sure we ever even imagined a Cy Young Award at the end of it.

R.A. Dickey was easily the best pitcher in the National League. Once that award was announced, all us Met fans nodded our heads and said, "Yeah. Exactly." Today, we celebrate that everyone else completely agrees.

Let us not fret over whether or not he will be a Met. Right now, he is a Met, and a Met who gave us, the city and the game of baseball one of the most thrilling, most entertaining and most fantastic pitching seasons the collective has ever seen. The fact his franchise collapsed around him for the umpteenth time in its 50-year history makes it all the more impressive. Though a season without a ring will always be bitter, this...this right here, has much, much more of the sweet.

That jersey was customized and purchased December 1, 2011, and arrived to me sometime that week. The patches were added by me at a later date. It was my first real Mets jersey; no hand-me-down t-shirt or '47 Brand Shop shirt. This was the real deal, and I am beyond ecstatic that it went through a Cy Young season in its first campaign (not to mention a No-Hitter.)

In 2010, R.A. Dickey became one of my favorite Mets ever. In 2011, he became my favorite Met ever. In 2012, he won the Cy Young Award.

Love Live The Knuckler.

LET'S. GO. METS.

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Thank You

Thanks to each and every one of you for your readership. It means the world to me that people out there appreciate this website, and the viewership in the 1st half was more than I could have dreamed. I am still in the growing stages of blogging, and I know that UP is the only direction to go.

It is because of the Mets and baseball that we are all brought together. Times can be grand and times can be tough, but regardless, we unite under one singular feeling: We LOVE this team and the game. Us fans might not always agree on certain specifics, but we will always root, root, root for the Metsies. Thank you for your appreciation of what I have to say on the matter.

The 2nd half is on its way, and I have know its going to be spectacular, for the Mets and for this Blog.

Thanks again,

Sam Maxwell

LET'S. GO. METS.

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