Started the day watching some pals play tennis to wrap up one of the many league seasons.
Grabbed a couple of hours at the pool on a surprising (and welcome!) warm afternoon.
And wrapped with a decent sunset.
And that’s really, really the end of summer.
We’ve hit a period where the Mets are playing respectable baseball, buoyed by Francisco Lindor who is having an MVP-caliber season.
This is a picture of him hitting a game-tying HR in the top of the 9th. The Mets scored 5 more in the inning and won 6-2.
He’s been an absolute rock all season.
It can make it complicated for the other drivers, but it put me in a great mood.
Speaking of hope for a playoff spot, the Mets started the year stinking bad-bad, but since the All-Star break have been playing pretty good baseball. One of the great stories of the season has been Mark Vientos making the most of his opportunity to play full time. He drew the short straw at the beginning of the season when he got sent down to the minors in favor of Brett Baty. Baty couldn’t put it together, so Vientos got a shot and he’s been playing at a very high level all season long.
Last night’s walk off 2-run HR is just the latest example of his patience, where he forces the pitcher into a long at-bat and then punishes a mistake pitch. I was freaking hyped.
Meaningful September baseball is a great deal of fun.
Today’s tennis was downtown on the Arthur Ashe Jr. Courts at Battery Park, named so because that is where the multiple Grand Slam Champion learned to play. It’s a cool piece of tennis history and the courts were surprisingly nice, given that they’re public and in the city. You can never tell what kind of love they’re going to get in the annual budget, but these were in great shape.
We played well and won 6-4, 6-2. I’ve really enjoyed the combo matches this year. There’s only one more week of matches, but we’re still in the hunt for a playoff spot.
Zone 2 life suits me. It’s a workout, for sure, but I don’t feel completely wrung out at the end.
It’s got to be a challenge to replace a the bottom of a covered porch while preserving the roof and columns.
This building used to be the U.S. Marine Raiders Museum, but they moved in 2005. Given the dicy history of this block, it had probably seen some shit.
Nearly.
One of these bands I ran across on the shirt of a musician in another band I’m watching. It’s been the source of some fun ones.
It’s like a cloudy, late-summer beach morning out there, cool and humid with the barest hint of a breeze. This Cheval Sombre record fits exactly.