Tides Deathwatch

[soupcan]

Good idea but it'd be hot and steamy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, we'll do it in April and endure.

If Fernando Martinez can handle it, why not you? We'll chill with Ron Swoboda.

[MFS62]

There's a Mets fan in New Orleans on another board who has already offered to be a tour guide for a trip to Bourbon Street and a Zephyrs game.

Seems to me folks should take in the Zephyrs game first. If they go to Bourbon Street first, they might not make it to the ball game.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

="Edgy DC"]They better carry an emergency sixth starter in the bullpen. It'd suck to need a guy to start in Flushing and have the Zephyrs be in Vancouver or someplace.

But it would be convenient if the Zephyrs were in Vancouver while the Mets were in San Francisco.

They just need to time their emergencies.

And rename the team! I prefer Pelicans.

[MFS62]

The Pelican was the logo/ symbol of the New Orleans Worlds's Fair a few years ago. I think I still have some souvenirs.

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[Valadius]

Yeah, Zephyrs just doesn't cut it.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think the New Orleans team was known as the Pelicans before the Zephyrs were displaced in Denver by the Rockies.

A different ownership group had planned to name their expansion team the Denver Zephyrs. Weird name, but better than Colorado Rockies.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I believe the Pelicans are the current Myrtle Beach team mascot (class A Sally League or Carolina League).

I'm generally against singular names but New Orleans Jazz is very cool and has lots of possibilities merchandisewise.

[Guest martin]

for me this actually makes it more likely i will get to see a met triple-a game because occasionally i visit my parents in baton rouge and could easily make a game.

pelican would be a great mascot. the brown pelican is the state bird of LA.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

martin wrote: for me this actually makes it more likely i will get to see a met triple-a game because occasionally i visit my parents in baton rouge and could easily make a game. pelican would be a great mascot. the brown pelican is the state bird of LA.

The Wilpons don't care about Brown pelicans.

[Guest martin]

they might! i hope they do.

[Willets Point]

soupcan wrote: Good idea but it'd be hot and steamy.

And Tidewater Virginia isn't?

[metirish]

From Klapisch.

]Mets' AAA club in New Orleans The Mets said they were severing ties with their longtime partner, the Norfolk Tides. But according to a report in The Virginian-Pilot, the split was anything but amicable and, in fact, was initiated by the folks down south. The Tides apparently were miffed that their roster was filled with on-the-decline veterans who finished with a 57-84 record. They were equally disturbed that Mets general manager Omar Minaya failed to make a single trip to Norfolk this season. So when the Orioles came looking to make a deal with the Tides, the 38-year association with the Mets was over before it was ever announced that New Orleans would be the new Class-AAA franchise.

[Guest KC]

I've been reading a lot of that, the Tides were done with New York and not
vice versa and their eyes lit up having a team close to them as parent club.
Ron Swoboda has to be tickled pink ... actually he is.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And the replacement for Hagerstown is... The Savannah Sandgnats.

I'm pretty sure the Mets haven't yet had a Hagerstown Sun graduate as far as the big club. Neither Milledge nor Owens, nor Humber, nor Pelfrey had a stop there.

[MFS62]

Just took a glance at the Suns' roster.
From the scouting reports, it looks like the first player from that team to make the majors will probably be wunderkind outfielder Fernando Martinez.


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[metirish]

So do the Suns players go to Savannah,is that how that works?

[Guest Edgy DC]

The ones who don't graduate but don't get released do.

[MFS62]

New Orleans and Savannah could make for a pretty good start to a restaurant tour.

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[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: And the replacement for Hagerstown is... The Savannah Sandgnats. I'm pretty sure the Mets haven't yet had a Hagerstown Sun graduate as far as the big club. Neither Milledge nor Owens, nor Humber, nor Pelfrey had a stop there.

RMPL

http://cybermessageboard.ehost.com/getalife/viewtopic.php?t=4758

[Frayed Knot]

="MFS62"]New Orleans and Savannah could make for a pretty good start to a restaurant tour.

Definitely two good drinking cities.

Early on in the book; 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil', where the city of Savannah was as much a character as any human in the book, one of the natives was explaining the differences between what was valued as most important in various Georgia cities. As best as I can remember, it went something along the lines of:
In Atlanta the first thing they ask you is what you do for a living.
In Macon they ask where you go to church.
In Augusta they ask you grandmother's name.
And in Savannah they ask you what you want to drink.

[Guest cooby]

And ghosts!

[MFS62]

Does Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt do a better job including the "feel" of Savannah than Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice, does with New Orleans?
I've never read the Berendt book.

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[Frayed Knot]

Like I said, Savannah is practically a character in the book. It's quirks and feel are part of the plot.

I, on the other hand, have never read Rice.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I never read Rice, but I read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil right after visiting Savannah. I concur with FK - Savannah is as much a character in that book as any person.

[MFS62]

Thanks.
I'll check it out.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

I've read both Midnight and Rice, and wasn't too terribly impressed with either.

Midnight was a fun and colorful read, but I read it after I had heard all the hype, and it didn't live up to it.

Anne Rice should have stopped after Interview With A Vampire. (Or maybe I should say instead that I should have stopped reading her books after I read Interview.) I think I read three of the books from her Vampire series, as well as her first book about that witch family and The Mummy. I liked The Mummy, but the witch book was awful and the stories about Lestat got less and less interesting the longer they went on.

Now Anne Rice is born again, and she said that all of her future books will be about Jesus. There probably won't be many New Orleans locations in those stories.

[Farmer Ted]

An ad on the Gnats website proclaims that the local Jeep Dealership is Gnuts About the Gnats. I like it.

http://www.sandgnats.com/

[MFS62]

I think it would have been more logical for them to be a farm club of the Washington Nats.

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