Being Rusty Staub

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

="Zvon"] ^those were the days when tickets had personality.

Zvon--Thanks for posting my stub. I'll resend the Times article to you. I think it will work this way, but again LMK.

[Zvon]

sure thing. Hope it does.
Thnx again Bret.

Bye Rusty *sob*



(its okay....we get him back again )

[Theoldmole]

73rd and 3rd is the one I remember. Rusty was still playing then, and when you were in the restaurant and he came up to bat, everything stopped. Serving, bar conversation, everything.

[Zvon]

This is excellent, excellent EXCELLENT Bret.
Thanks for sending this, and Ill share it with youz all.

[Zvon]

[Zvon]

[Zvon]

two sentences from the article:

]For Yogi Berra, a man on a trampoline all summer, the game became one of the most nerve-racking of the 165 played by his meandering Mets.

...meandering Mets? Mr Durso, you sir, are a fool!

]He [staub] was knocked flat, but trotted off the field rubbing his injured shoulder while the crowd roared for another bit of the Mets' strange talent for survival.

.....strange talent? I wonder if this guy watched game 7 of the 73 World Series ?
You cant survive any longer than that,lol.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]I have never seen anyone before or since track a ball with such total abandonment and hit a outfield wall so hard in my life.

Well, there's Rodney McCray...

[soupcan]

TheOldMole wrote: 73rd and 3rd is the one I remember. Rusty was still playing then, and when you were in the restaurant and he came up to bat, everything stopped. Serving, bar conversation, everything.

Never went in but I was on the 3rd Avenue bus one time as it passed the place and Mex was sitting at a table in the window.

[MFS62]

Check the box score.
What a really shit Mets lineup that was.

And - Why didn't Pedro Borbon get a save? Were they discretionary on the part of the official scorer in those days?
MAybe the scorer felt Borbon didn't gave to work too hard to protect a lead against that lineup.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

I think that maybe they just didn't list saves in box-scores at that point.
There's not really any discretion involved in that stat (unfortunately).

Other oddities from today's viewpoint:

1) 4-1/3 IPs for "closer" McGraw

2) An extra-inning playoff game played in just 3:07 !!!

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: ]I have never seen anyone before or since track a ball with such total abandonment and hit a outfield wall so hard in my life. Well, there's Rodney McCray...

Is that the centerfielder in the movie "The Natural"?

[seawolf17]

Zvon wrote: ="Edgy DC"] ]I have never seen anyone before or since track a ball with such total abandonment and hit a outfield wall so hard in my life. Well, there's Rodney McCray... Is that the centerfielder in the movie "The Natural"?

No... McCray was the centerfielder who famously ran through the outfield wall in the mid-80s in the Mets system. Can't find the clip, but I'm sure you've seen it. It's part of Len Berman's "Spanning The World" montage.

[Zvon]

seawolf17 wrote: Can't find the clip, but I'm sure you've seen it.

Im not sure.
I remember a minor leaguer doing that but it seems more recent than the 80's. But I have a pretty wacky selective memory.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rodney McCray:



I couldn't find a clip, but he's now instructng with the Reds.

[Guest Bret Sabermetric]

Frayed Knot wrote: I think that maybe they just didn't list saves in box-scores at that point. There's not really any discretion involved in that stat (unfortunately). Other oddities from today's viewpoint: 1) 4-1/3 IPs for "closer" McGraw 2) An extra-inning playoff game played in just 3:07 !!!

Not to pick on FK especially for his gross inattention here (because it's shared by MFS62 and, really, all of you who didn't point this out), but Borbon is credited with the save in box score.

Second-to-last line.

[MFS62]

(Slapping forehead)
Of course!
Boxscore formats keep changing.
We were looking for it next to Borbon's name, where a save would be noted today (As well as the save number for the season)

Good catch.
I guess that's an example of thinking "inside the box".

Later