Memories of the Tidewater/Norfolk Tides.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Seventies Pittsburgh Pirate-type old-timey hats.

[metirish]

A very young looking Dotel.

[MFS62]

Jose Lima.

Later

[Willets Point]

Mets coach Mookie Wilson takes an at bat in the Mets annual exhibition game vs. the Tides at Harbor Park, Spring 1998.

[Guest cooby]

Those mid season Tides-Mets games. Except for the Mayor's Trophey games, they were the only ones Channel 9 didn't broadcast, and I hated that!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

That can't be 1988??

[Guest Edgy DC]

I met Gold Glove at a Tides game.

He was 15 or 16 or so and it was like he owned the place. He sit with us for a few minutes, then run off to talk with the team photographer. Then he'd sit again, spot a Brewers scout he knew, chat him up and come back and sit with us and give us the scoop that the Brews were scouting Darren Bragg.

Norfolk is the headquarters of PETA, and the ballpark had a rare selection of vegetarian fare.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: That can't be 1988??

Yeah, I imagine he means 1998.

[Willets Point]

Fixed the typo. Thanks.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Joe Frazier, Davey Johnson, and Bobby Valentine are the three managers who got the Mets job after being "called up" from the Tides. That's probably two of the three best managers in Met history on that list.

Frazier, in retrospect, wasn't given much to work with.

The Tides have won the Governors' Cup, the championship of the International League, 5 times, and played in the championship series 9 times.

1971 - Lost to Rochester
1972 - Defeated Louisville (Hank Bauer)
1975 - Defeated Syracuse (Joe Frazier)
1982 - Defeated Rochester (Jack Aker)
1983 - Defeated Richmond (Davey Johnson)
1985 - Defeated Columbus (Bob Schaefer)
1987 - Lost to Columbus
1988 - Lost to Rochester
1995 - Lost to Ottawa

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

We should invite Jack Aker to come visit us.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

You try it this time.

Besides, we don't need an old guy who walks around town in a MFY uni.