Anyone going to see Ralphie Boy being honored Saturday?

[stevejrogers]

Not 100% sure where I'll be (either Loge or Field) but should be a nice tribute to Ralph Kiner.

[Guest cooby]

Give him a cheer for me, Stevie

[metirish]

Not going Steve but expect a full report from you,should be a great night,Seaver,Berra and Feller are expected to be on hand with a number of former Mets.

[metirish]

And??????????

[stevejrogers]

Give me some time Irish, I have some photos that need to be resized and loaded into Photobucket! =

[MFS62]

Anyone see it?
I've heard that Tom Seaver seemed to be a tad, er, .... inebriated.
Did any of you think the same thing?

Later

[metirish]

MFS62 wrote: Anyone see it? I've heard that Tom Seaver seemed to be a tad, er, .... inebriated. Did any of you think the same thing? Later

Yep,it's talked aboput in the IGT......probably brought a case of his own wine.

[DocTee]

Nice tribute from Marty Noble:

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070715&content_id=2087735&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym

[metirish]

Liked that bit form Noble,I imagine those nights spent in the bar with Ralph,Murph and Castellano were fun nights,Ed Charles wrote a poem in tirbute to Ralph.

] One Moment in Time A Tribute to Ralph Kiner By: Ed Charles Life to us is just a moment in time When we sing our songs and write our rhymes When we audition for a role upon life's great stage Then act out the scripts as written on the page But some might resent the way the scripts were written No one prefers the role of a loser snake bitten We would like a role that brings honor and fame Not some little bit part that belittles our name For life to us is just a moment in time Welcome to the big stage without a nickel or dime We dream lofty dreams like others before Then set out to achieve them like the ones we adore But oft-times some of us misread our scripts And meet with failure for our bumbling little slips We replace the original scripts for those of our own Putting our trust and fate in a destiny unknown For life to us is just a moment in time A personal struggle to keep our heads above the slime A daunting task that beclouds our days Until the curtains are drawn upon our plays For the songs that we sing and the rhymes that we write Are but spiritual reflections of our souls in flight Some soar gracefully and some are like wingless birds Grounded and stage frightened for frail are their nerves But you Ralph Kiner are as composed as one can be Nothing could sway you from the goals that you set for thee For you aced your audition with a bat and a glove Then astounded us with spiels about the game that we love You kept us in touch with the Glory Days of yore When character not steroids were the hallmark of a pro When egos were kept in check by codes of conduct And ostracism befell those who dared act up So today we pause to celebrate your climb From the boondocks to Shea to this moment in time And to say with affection how grateful we are That you chose baseball and big Shea to fashion your star For you are an original, a beloved New York Met A Pirate and a Hall of Famer, as good as they get For your moment in time is a mighty fine show And today the Mets family wanted to tell you so For now you are a legend like Mays and DiMaggio And all honors upon you today we admiringly and proudly bestow

[stevejrogers]

Yeah its weeks late but finally got around to getting the pics on photobucket


Ralph's name flanked the dasis there with a nifty logo


The dasis had a backdrop of Kiner in his vintage Pirate days, early 60's and on the set of Kiner's Korner


This is what was displayed on the scoreboard

[stevejrogers]

More assorted shots of the friends and family













Took shots of Yogi and Tom entering





Didn't realize untill after but seeing Glavine in that shot kind of gave me a little goosebump seeing those two pitching legends (well Seaver SO MUCH more greater than Glavine) in the same shot like that.

[stevejrogers]

The Man of the Hour arrives





Yeah Tom did seem quite tipsy that night.

[DocTee]

That "nifty logo" is exactly what I was referring to in another thread where I commended the SF Giants for their commemoration of broadcaster Russ Hodges.

Wouldn't it be nice to see a pair of those, for Murphy and Kiner, somewhere in CitiField?

[metirish]

Great pics Steve,thanks for sharing.

[Guest iramets]

Nice job, Steve.

Speaking for the poetic community, however, I have to say that lines like "the goals you set for thee" constitute evidence for the argument against ever admitting Ed Charles to the Union of Poets, Writers and Crafters of Language. That just displays a lack of awareness and poetic skills on so many levels.

Leaving aside the dreadful sentimental content for just a second, and the already-noted ignorance of the second-person singular and how it can't be used (except skillfully and ironically) in the same sentence as the second-person plural, and forgetting momentarily about the mix-and-match diction levels, and just focusing on what Ed Charles obviously considers the most important part of poetry, the rhymes, these are just atrocious. Often they don't even rhyme, and sometimes he just abandons rhyme altogether. This isn't the mark of a bad poet, this is the mark of the nitwit. He's embarrassing himself, about as badly as if Billy Collins were to put on uni # 5 and go out and play 3rd base for the Mets one fine afternoon, and what a fine afternoon THAT would be...

I need to go lie down. I haven't read this many lines of consecutive shit since the last time I taught creative writing to invertibrates.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Cool pics!

[metirish]

ira,I hear Omar will be giving a poetry reading in the Diamond Club this weekend,you should go.

Who is the Reds player/coach talking to Hernandez in Steve's pictures?

[Frayed Knot]

DocTee wrote: That "nifty logo" is exactly what I was referring to in another thread where I commended the SF Giants for their commemoration of broadcaster Russ Hodges. Wouldn't it be nice to see a pair of those, for Murphy and Kiner, somewhere in CitiField?

The radio and TV booths are already named for Murph & Kiner and will continue to be
at Citifield.
What would be good is logo-ed signs designating them as such being visible from the stands
rather than to just those entering from the inside.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

iramets - "I need to go lie down. I haven't read this many lines of consecutive shit since the last time I taught creative writing to invertibrates."

I see that you must skip over most of my posts. Of course, I seldom attempt to be poetic since it is generally beyond.

[soupcan]

Ira's right.

I've been meaning to read that poem for a couple of weeks now. I was listening to a game on the radio a day or two after the tribute and Howie and Ted were going on and on about the poem that Ed Charles had written for Ralph.

I mean they were really, really going on about it. They said that it was posted on mets.com and so I made a mental note to check it out.

I am incredibly disappointed. A grade school kid could've composed that.

I'll give Charles credit for the time and effort he obviously put into it and for trying to do something special for a guy that he genuinely cares for but geez Louise that's B-A-D.

And for Howie and Ted to be singing its praises as much as they did? I'm stunned.

[Benjamin Grimm]

]You kept us in touch with the Glory Days of yore When character not steroids were the hallmark of a pro When egos were kept in check by codes of conduct And ostracism befell those who dared act up

I know nothing about poetry. I never read it, and never write it. But I can tell that that's dreadful.

If Howie Rose was raving about it then I'm quite surprised.

I agree that it reads like it was written by a junior high school student. And the only person who should rave about it is the author's grandmother.

Is it possible that Howie Rose is Ed Charles' grandmother?