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I really liked Gary's "We're going home" line in the marathon when I first heard it, but his (and Keith's) subsequent bitching whenever a game goes past 10 has taken away from it upon rewatch.


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I can't think of a single cooler thing to do in pro sports than hitting a walk off home run. Jogging around third and diving into the pile. I'm jealous of everyone who's done that in the majors. Provided the Grand Single isn't reenacted. That would piss me off.


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Eh and hardly appropriate.

Seinfeld likes Endy. I can tell.


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Great ending.


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WOR promo, circa 1982.



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I mentioned in the Former Mets thread that I'd read a lot of high-school journalism recently in seemingly legit outlets. This was one such piece.

Joe Torre Not Just a Baseball Great

By Joe Pietaro


When people hear the name Joe Torre, they immediately think of what a great manager he has been for the New York Yankees. Of course, that is true. But to take all of his other accomplishments and "back seat" them would be unfair just because the man has excelled at this point of his career even higher than before.


Born July 18, 1940 in Brooklyn, Joe grew up a New York Giants fan in a Brooklyn Dodger part of town. His first big league season as a player was 1960 with the Milwaukee Braves. The following season, he played in 113 games and hit .278 with 10 home runs and 42 RBI. He played with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves until he was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals for 1B Orlando Cepeda on March 17, 1969. He was acquired by the New York Mets on October 13, 1974 for Ray Sadecki and Tommy Moore. He was named player-manager on May 31, 1977 and took over full-time manager status on June 18, 1977.


His record as Mets manager is not a true reflection of his skills. The team was downright terrible and did not spend any money on players. Perhaps a good note on his Met managerial tenure was that the team avoided 100 losses in his five seasons at the helm.


He took over the job in Atlanta in 1982 and promptly delivered a National League East division crown to a franchise that had been struggling for a long time. His three seasons at Fulton County Stadium produced a first- and two second-place finishes. He went on to manage the St. Louis Cardinals from 1990 to 1995, finishing as high as second.


When Yankees owner George Steinbrenner made a manager change after the 1995 season, people looked at it as another time he was budding in for the worse. Buck Showalter had just led the team to a wildcard playoff appearance and seemed to have them going in the right direction. Torre was not a very successful manager, and struggled in his stay in St. Louis. Why would the Yankees make this change?


Call it a hunch, or intuition. Torre became the first native New Yorker to manage the Yanks and promptly won the World Series in 1996. No need to go into all his other accomplishments with the Yankees, as I'm sure all of you are well aware of them.


But off the field, Joe really shines. He survived prostate cancer in 1999 and missed the team's first 36 games that season while recovering from successful surgery in St. Louis. Along with his wife Ali, he started the Joe Torre "Safe At Home" Foundation in 2003 to aid in the prevention and awareness of domestic violence. He made the public aware of his story growing up in that environment and is using it as a tool to help others.


In addition to his on the field awards, he has also won the Milton Richman "Gotta Have Heart" Award by the NY Chapter of the Baseball Writers of America Association, the Joan Payson Community Service Award by the BBWAA at their 2005 awards banquet, and carried the Olympic Torch in both the 2002 Games in Utah and the 2005 Games Torino, Italy.


Torre is one special person, and a heck of a baseball manger, too.



There's a "Leave Feedback" link. I resisted the urge to forward the youtube clip.


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I don;t get it.

You're not saying here that Torre is some kind of freak or bad human being for calling an umpire a cough sufferer after making a call he didn't like? That clip seemed to be especially salty, but not all that unusual for a hot manager-umpire confrontation.


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That Torre clip is great. How in the world did that person get that clip? The sound is so perfect that someone (probably Torre) had to be miked. But how could it have been broadcast? I can't believe it was ever put on TV without being bleeped out.


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Yet another reason why "professional baseball player" is the best freaking job in the whole world. In what other line of work can you get into screaming matches with other professionals and not only get away with it, but get cheered? I want to run over to the Bursar and start yelling at them. "How the ^*&% could you take a payment like that! You gotta &$^@ look at the signature on the back of the &$@#^ credit card!"


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Seawolf: "Yet another reason why "professional baseball player" is the best freaking job in the whole world."

I'm a lawyer, and it's basically the same thing:

Judge: Motion denied.

CF: Denied? DENIED?!? You're kidding me right? You're $@#&! kidding me!

Judge: Hey, you didn't meet your burden.

CF: OH MY GOD. OF COURSE I MET MY BURDEN. LOOK! LOOK AT THESE PAPERS, DID YOU EVEN LOOK AT THESE PAPERS?

Judge: I read the papers counsel...

CF: Well you didn't read them well enough then! Get help...ask your law clerk...I know your law clerk didn't see it that way....

Law Clerk (moving over): Calm down CF...I didn't get a good look at your papers...I have to go with the Judge's-

CF: DIDN'T GET A GOOD LOOK? IS ANYONE $@#&! PAYING ATTENTION OUT HERE? WHAT THE $@#&! AM I EVEN TRYING FOR. YOU'RE JUST GONNA HAND THIS CASE TO THEM. (pulling out wallet) WHY DON'T I JUST SAVE YOU THE TROUBLE AND PAY THEM NOW?

Judge: Careful counsel, you're on thin ice...

CF: NO!! YOU BE CAREFUL. YOU PAY ATTENTION. YOU CAN START BY GETTING YOUR $@#&! HEAD OUT OF YOUR $@#&! ASS!

Judge: That's it, you're gone. You're outta here! Now go home early and take a shower.

CF: $@#&! you! (knocks over a stack of papers on the law clerk's desk on the way out)

(Meanwhile, my clients find nothing wrong with my behavior. In fact, they are cheering emphatically.)


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Heh, alot of times its more about the manager taking one for the team and deflecting the abuse for the player in question so he (Weaver, Piniella, ect) will go out of his way to be an asshole

You know, there are places on the Net that wonders while WWSB doesn't use the same approach shown here by Joe (or two other managers WWSB played for, Sweet Lou and Billy)


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]Hold it, you're not that pretty.


Love it.

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A brief (as in, don't blink) shot of the ball going through Buckner's legs is the only Met related item that I can find. I've only seen it about 100 times though so I may have missed something.

Can't beat the music really, either.


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I just received the following e-mail:

]Good afternoon:
About 10-15 years ago I seem to recall watching a NY Mets VHS video which contained a song with all of the names of the Mets who had played 3rd base up to that time. It sounded like a Terry Cashman song, but I've yet to be able to locate it again. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help.


Anybody remember this? It vaguely rings a bell for me.


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Yancy Street Gang wrote:
I just received the following e-mail:

]Good afternoon:
About 10-15 years ago I seem to recall watching a NY Mets VHS video which contained a song with all of the names of the Mets who had played 3rd base up to that time. It sounded like a Terry Cashman song, but I've yet to be able to locate it again. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help.


Anybody remember this? It vaguely rings a bell for me.


Yup. Its on the original version of the "An Amazin' Era" video. Sadly I presume its out of print and the only versions I've found at local libraries is an updated version released in 1989 (although the copyright still says 1986)

The second version omits this song (there may have been a couple other songs I'm not sure) which I don't think had an official title, probably just "89 Guys On Third For The Mets" or some thing

Also the second version has highlights from the 86 postseason, a small bit on the 87-88 regular season. There is an unintentionally funny error in the 87 sequence because the narrator mentions injuries to the pitching staff "including Cone" So if you didn't know who David Cone was you'd be "Uh, wha?"

Anyway, since the copyright date on both videos says 1986 and same run time, its pot luck in terms of which one you get


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The best things about that Ivory Soap commercial:

  • Gary Carter's teammates have "Mets" rendered in flourescent orange (not that visible in the resolution of that video, but we liked it)
  • Gary Carter is having the best shower ever.


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