Mets Win! A Photo Essay

[seawolf17]

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Anderson Hernandez sure parties hard

[stevejrogers]

Never mind, wasn't Pedro

[metirish]

As Ron told us tonight, Cashen remarked when getting doused by a RL pitcher in 86 that the " guys that do the least party the hardest"....

[Valadius]

Randy Niemann.

[metirish]

[stevejrogers]

David Wright doing whats been a Turner Field Tradition Division Clinching Day

[stevejrogers]

[stevejrogers]

Anyone find an image of Lo Duca hosing down some fans?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Valadius wrote: Randy Niemann.

Different sources (more actually) name Kevin Elster as the recipient of the barb. Something like "You ever notice it's guys who do the least who spray the most champagne"?

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

A nice video tribute to the Mets season with some great memories.

[Valadius]

I posted that already. Here, first post. Good video though.

[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: ="Valadius"]Randy Niemann. Different sources (more actually) name Kevin Elster as the recipient of the barb. Something like "You ever notice it's guys who do the least who spray the most champagne"?

Ya know I totally remember watching that locker room celebration and seeing Cashen get doused and then seeing him make that comment. When Darling mentioned it tonight I could not remember who it was that doused Cashen. Elster may be right though..

Who was it that soaked McCarver in a particularly nasty manner a few years later in a locker room celebration? Anybody remember that? It wasn't a Met but I was just thinking about it.

[metirish]

Dion Sanders.

[soupcan]

YES!

Thanks irish.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

McCarver was critical of Sanders playing in Miami on a Sunday afternoon then flying to Pittsburgh that night for a Braves playoff game.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Valadius - "I posted that already. Here, first post. Good video though."

I figured that it had been posted previously, but I wasn't sure since I can never see the embedded videos people post. I can view You Tube directly. I appreciate you including the link seperately during the IGT today, those I can see.

[metirish]

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[Willets Point]

The thing about baseball players, once they're out of their uniforms with the names and numbers, I can't tell who is who.

[Guest Edgy DC]

soupcan wrote: ="Edgy DC"] ="Valadius"]Randy Niemann. Different sources (more actually) name Kevin Elster as the recipient of the barb. Something like "You ever notice it's guys who do the least who spray the most champagne"? Ya know I totally remember watching that locker room celebration and seeing Cashen get doused and then seeing him make that comment. When Darling mentioned it tonight I could not remember who it was that doused Cashen. Elster may be right though.. Who was it that soaked McCarver in a particularly nasty manner a few years later in a locker room celebration? Anybody remember that? It wasn't a Met but I was just thinking about it.

There's further confusion in that other sources report Cashen entering the locker room, getting doused, than withering the douser on television with a wordless look. This may well be an alternative recount of the same incident or possibly a second Cashen-as-grump-at-the-party account.

[Guest vtmet]

Willets Point wrote: The thing about baseball players, once they're out of their uniforms with the names and numbers, I can't tell who is who.

who's the guy with the weird swimming goggles...It doesn't look like Duaner Sanchez, although Duaner wears odd looking goggles...

[metirish]

I think that's Sanchez doing Omar.

[Frayed Knot]

Sanders not only soaked McCarver once, but kept leaving and re-loading to drench him a second and third (and maybe even fourth) time - attempting to get him back for the critisism while hiding behind the curtain of "just celebrating".
McCarver eventually started to go after Deion although kind of admitted later that he didn't know what he was going to do if/when he found him. "I know what I would have done about it 20 years ago" said the then 50-some y/o announcer.

[Willets Point]

vtmet wrote: ="Willets Point"]The thing about baseball players, once they're out of their uniforms with the names and numbers, I can't tell who is who. who's the guy with the weird swimming goggles...It doesn't look like Duaner Sanchez, although Duaner wears odd looking goggles...

Shoot, that's the one guy I thought I had pegged because of the goggles. If it's not Duaner than I don't know who it is.

[metirish]

From watching that film Sanders was a total bollox..no surprise in that though.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Deion Sanders: one of the greatest athletes of the century, and if you asked me what I think of when his name comes up, the first two things are him twice infuriating aging catchers, who both likely would've lost had he taken them up on their challenge.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Sanders really was a helluva athlete. Qualified for Olympics in track, good enough for a 9-year MLB career he didn't take that seriously, and a two-way starter in fb who probably was the best cornerback and kick returner for every team he played with.

He was never as big personality as he wanted to be. I hope some of his prior transgressions embarrass him a little today.

[Guest vtmet]

Willets Point wrote: ="vtmet"] Willets Point wrote: The thing about baseball players, once they're out of their uniforms with the names and numbers, I can't tell who is who. who's the guy with the weird swimming goggles...It doesn't look like Duaner Sanchez, although Duaner wears odd looking goggles... Shoot, that's the one guy I thought I had pegged because of the goggles. If it's not Duaner than I don't know who it is.

based on what I read at Newsday, I'm guessing that it's Pedro (although it doesn't look like Pedro to me either)...

]By the fifth inning, Pedro Martinez was sitting on the edge of the dugout, wearing goggles -- perhaps in anticipation of sprayed sting in the celebration ahead.

[Valadius]

The guy in the goggles is definitely Reyes.

[Valadius]