Met-Lovin' Big Shots

[metirish]

] At trial, he's Gotti believe! John A. (Junior) Gotti was rooting for a court victory yesterday, but just 24 hours earlier he was pulling for the Mets to win the pennant. That probably wouldn't have been the case if the Dapper Don was still around, he told the Daily News yesterday. As a youngster in 1972, Gotti followed the lead of others in his Brooklyn neighborhood and rooted for the Mets. Then his father got home from prison and found his son's bedroom wall plastered with Mets banners and his son walking around in a Mets cap. "My father says, 'You know, I've been a Yankees fan since I was a kid,'" Gotti recalled while jurors pored through evidence during the first day of deliberations in his racketeering trial. "I pulled [the Mets' stuff] down." His mother told them to leave them up. "You've got to be your own man," she told him.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/mets/story/454206p-382141c.html

[Guest Edgy DC]

Danny "Gold" Glover

[metirish]

Game two.

[metirish]

Is Larry a Mets fan or Dodger fan?,didn't he work for the Brooklyn Dodgers as a kid?

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Why do they call it 'bunting'? It doesn't bunt. It doesn't do anything. It just hangs there."

[MFS62]

Edgy DC wrote: "Why do they call it 'bunting'? It doesn't bunt. It doesn't do anything. It just hangs there."

Bunting refers to the light weight cloth from which flags and other draped things are made. It has become a generic description of those things.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

whoosh

[soupcan]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: whoosh

As usual.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

soupcan wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]whoosh As usual.

Pretty funny.

[Frayed Knot]

="metirish"]Is Larry a Mets fan or Dodger fan?,didn't he work for the Brooklyn Dodgers as a kid?

"Flushing, you're on the air"

[RealityChuck]

If the name is unfamiliar, he's a [url=http://peterdavid.malibulist.com/Bibliography.html]very successful comic book writer[/url], best known for writing "The Incredible Hulk" for several years, as well as dozens of other titles. He's also had several novels out, wrote scripts and novelizations for Babylon Five, had several Star Trek novels, wrote movie scripts, and was author of the column "But I Digress" in the Comics Buyers Guide. He was celebrating a bit on Sunday. :)[/url]

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I had no idea Peter David was a Mets fan. Good for him! He always did seem like an intelligent guy, and he was the first writer in years to take a fresh look at the Hulk and do something daringly different.

And, judging by that photo, he looks a little like Rob Reiner.

[Guest Edgy DC]

HahnSolo
443) Greg Goossen C, 1B, 1965-1968
Joined: 16 Aug 2005
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cooby wrote:
I am surprised that Sid has 2 losses. All I really remember is how he turned Game 7 (?) around

Sadly, I was at both Sid losses. Game 4 against Scott in 86, where he didn't pitch terribly but gave up a couple HRs and took the loss. And Game 5 in 88. I sat in the same box as Tony Roberts, the actor, watching the Dodgers jump on him for an early 6-run lead.
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Frayed Knot
132) Dennis Ribant SP, RP, 1964-1966
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Location: Out in Leftfield
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I sat in the same box as Tony Roberts, the actor

I once rode up a Shea escalator w/Tony Roberts. We should add him to our 'Met-loving Big Shots' thread.

[Willets Point]

]I sat in the same box as Tony Roberts, the actor, watching the Dodgers jump on him for an early 6-run lead.

Well of course the Dodgers jumped on Tony Roberts for an early lead. He's an actor not a pitcher. And apparently he's pitching from the box seats. I expect all those runs scored on walks.

[Theoldmole]

I once rode up an elevator at the Garden with Ed Sullivan.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

On our first trip to St. Louis in 1993, my daughter and I rode in an elevator with Bob Murphy.

And when I was younger, I once shared an elevator in Toronto with Colonel Sanders.

[G-Fafif]

At the Garden last night, Barbra Streisand reminded her audience she still considers herself a New Yorker and then, according to Newsday, added...

GO METS!

Go Babs.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, maybe.

[soupcan]

I heard she also offended half her audience when in response to some guy in the crowd admonishing her about a Bush diatribe she said 'Fuck You!'

Babs needs to realize that her audience has aged a bit and while they may have blue hair they don't necessarily appreciate blue language.

[G-Fafif]

soupcan wrote: I heard she also offended half her audience when in response to some guy in the crowd admonishing her about a Bush diatribe she said 'Fuck You!' Babs needs to realize that her audience has aged a bit and while they may have blue hair they don't necessarily appreciate blue language.

But we do appreciate the orange and blue language.

[soupcan]

G-Fafif wrote: But we do appreciate the orange and blue language.

'Tis true.

[RealityChuck]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: I had no idea Peter David was a Mets fan. Good for him! He always did seem like an intelligent guy, and he was the first writer in years to take a fresh look at the Hulk and do something daringly different.

I was at a science fiction convention over this weekend (helping run it, as a matter of fact), and Sunday morning I was gloating with another Mets fan (Ian Randal Strock, a science fiction author and editor) when Peter overheard us. He came over and joined in, playing the part of a frustrated MFY fan and shaking his fist and shouting, "If only we spent more money on free agents!" Peter also shares my feelings about sabermetrics and that [url=http://www.sff.net/people/rothman/alien.htm]Alien is one of the worst SF films of all time[/url].

He's a fun person to be around, and a great convention guest: you can put him on any panel and he'll be magnificent.

[Valadius]

Jon Stewart threw out the first pitch at one of our recent games. They played footage of it, including Willie teasing him about his throw, on tonight's episode of "The Daily Show".

[seawolf17]

Linda Cohn from ESPN was on with Joe Beningo yesterday... apparently, she's a big, big, big Mets (and NY Giants) fan.

[soupcan]

="Valadius"]Jon Stewart threw out the first pitch at one of our recent games. They played footage of it, including Willie teasing him about his throw, on tonight's episode of "The Daily Show".

Stewart threw out the first pitch Friday night and, how could I have forgotten this, Hilary Swank was sitting in the VIP seats wearing a black Mets cap. Couldn't find a picture of her at the game but she looked great. She walked down the aisle past my seat and I said 'Hilary, nice to see you, big fan.' She turned, flashed me a gorgeous movie star smile, said 'thanks' and kept walking.

If only the Mets would've won...

[Guest Rotblatt]

Jon's certainly got the Jose Reyes & David Wright tongue thing down, doesn't he?

He was hilarious about it. He did Mets fans proud last night.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I'm trying to find that footage - Stewart gave it to himself pretty well.

He also said that he'd do it again in a heartbeat, despite the embarrassment :)

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

]Hilary Swank was sitting in the VIP seats wearing a black Mets cap. Couldn't find a picture of her at the game but she looked great. She walked down the aisle past my seat and I said 'Hilary, nice to see you, big fan.' She turned, flashed me a gorgeous movie star smile, said 'thanks' and kept walking.

You shoulda complimented her for her role in 'Beverly Hills 90210.'

"Hey, whose schlong was bigger -- Brandon or Dylan?"

[HahnSolo]

^^^
Come on JD, you've gotta know that she was gettin' it from Steve Sanders on 90210.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bullshit. You see Hillary Swank, you praise her for taking on the noble but hopeless task of trying to get the Karate Kid franchise off of life support.

For a moment there, she was St. Jude of the Movies.