Bring Your Beard

[Guest Edgy DC]

Postseason Rally, 10/3 at noon.

The "Mets Postseason Rally", in conjunction with MLB, Mets broadcast partners SNY and SportsRadio 66 WFAN, will feature:

• Postseason ticket and merchandise giveaways


• Video highlights from the 2006 Mets NL East Division championship season


• Surprise guests and music performances


• Appearances by Mets legends Mookie Wilson and Jerry Koosman

Admission is free, and the first 2,500 fans in attendance will receive a free commemorative postseason rally towel.
FAN ENTRY: SEVENTH AVENUE AND 51ST STREET

[metsmarathon]

]Bring Your Beard

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[Guest sharpie]

That's like 5 blocks from where I work. Unless I get picked for jury duty the day before that damned towel is mine.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I wonder how the towel compares to the Fandini?

[Vic Sage]

i'm 7 blocks away. see ya there, sharpie!

[Guest sharpie]

Yeah, see ya Vic, unless of course I am sitting in the Brooklyn courthouse waiting to serve my civic duty.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Consider my beard there

[metirish]

Hey guys have fun today...and don't get arrested.

[Guest cooby]

But if you do, tell us all about it

[Guest Edgy DC]

What's cool is that they have Koosman and Wilson: two guys who are culturally very non-New York, but culturally associated as much as anybody with the team's two world championships.

Though I guess Bud Harrelson --- and maybe Pete Flynn? --- is the only one with both rings. Do broadcasters get the bling?

[Guest cooby]

That thing Murph used to wear had to be a WS ring

[soupcan]

Edgy DC wrote: Though I guess Bud Harrelson --- and maybe Pete Flynn? --- is the only one with both rings.

I'm sure I've told this story before -

Jackie Robinson night, whatever year that was '97, '98 - I'm sitting in my seat and Bud Harrelson plops himself right down in box next to mine. i'm literally rubbing elbows with the guy.

I tell him what a big fan I am, etc., etc., and he's very nice, very courteous, a really super guy. I noticed his WS ring and asked if I could take a closer look. He took it off his finger and handed it to me. Then he got up and walked away up the aisle into the bowels of the stadium.

I'm sitting there with his WS ring in my hand and he's gone.

About an inning or so later (seriously he was gone that long) he comes back and I give him back the ring. 'Bud, you just gave me your ring without having any idea who I was and walked away. For all you know I could have left with it.'

'Ahh, big deal' he says 'that's the '86 ring. '69 is home with my dad, no one gets to touch that one.'

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

wham

[metirish]

That's a great story soupcan...you must be trustworthy looking or something.

[soupcan]

I've got a nice smile.

[MFS62]

So, after you gave him back the ring, how long was it until he unlocked the handcuffs to the box seat railing?

Good story.

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Stopped by for ~30 mins at lunch.

Good sized crowd all the way down 51st but being herded into pens ain't my cup of meat so I took an distant but unobstructed view along the North side, toward 8th.

They "entertained" the crowd beforehand by playing Sweet Freaking Caroline. I swear to Gardenhire, whoever makes these decisions is a major tool. Howie finally came out, along with Juan Alicea the Spanish language broadcaster, Gary C, some guy from Channel 11. Gary talked way too loud into his mic. They brought a prerecorded message from LoDuca, went "live" to Glavine & Omar at the Sea workout (the crew wasn't ready for Glavine so they all stood around waiting). Koosman came out for an interview, Bloomberg tried to start a LGM chant but did so in the wrong cadence and it didn't take.

Everyone agreed that the Mets are special but you fans out there are even more special.

Rah rah

[Guest Mr. Zero]

I must've got there just as you were leaving JD. Just in time for that tool to sing the new "yea-dy yea-dy yeah" Mets theme. More prerecorded thank yous to the fans (Valentin, Reyes), a live chat with Shawn Green (who'd like to "kill" the Dodgers). Then an in-person Mookie, which is never a bad thing.


By the way, I didn't see any rally towels, only rally placards.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

They were playing "yea-dy yea-dy yeah" when I arrived too. Sounded like a Mulligan on "Our Team, Our Time."

[Guest Mr. Zero]

they showed about twenty seconds of Mookie highlights accompanied by the traditional "Meet the Mets" theme (instrumental). that's all you really need to get the blood pumping, no?

[Willets Point]

"Bring your beard, bring your wife!"

[Guest sharpie]

JD, it seems I was there for exactly the same part of it you were. Didn't get no towel.

[soupcan]

Willets Point wrote: "Bring your beard, bring your wife!"

"...guaranteed to lead a secret double life!"

[MFS62]

soupcan wrote: ="Willets Point"]"Bring your beard, bring your wife!" "...guaranteed to lead a secret double life!"

Or, as old time NY radio personality Ted Brown used to say, "Bring your wife. Bring your girl friend. Bring 'em both."

Later

[Guest cooby]

That doesn't rhyme!

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

It seems that appearing at that rally has really http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/lookups.php?MonthNum=10&year=2006'>paid off for Jerry Koosman.

A lot of fans are probably wondering, who was that old guy at the Mets rally?

http://leaptoad.com/mets/lookups.php?MonthNum=10&year=2006



EDIT: Hmmm, I wonder why that embedded link didn't work?

[RealityChuck]

="Willets Point"]"Bring your beard, bring your wife!"

What if your wife is your beard?

[Willets Point]

Then you're covered.

[Guest cooby]

That's what I wondered

[Frayed Knot]

="RealityChuck"]What if your wife is your beard?

Well, if Piazza's team can overcome their 2-0 defecit then he's welcome too.