Official Shea Stadium Countdown Tracker Thread

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Let's not kid ourselves. That guy's a complete tool.

[HahnSolo]

Not surprisingly, GFafif's list is blowing away the real life list. Could we get at least one ex-Met on this first homestand?

[Guest AG/DC]

Or can we get G-Fafif on the staff for the Mets?

You see the copy he's writing for them for free?

[Guest Triple Dee]

Well, why not.....if Cerrone can get a gig on SNY for the 4-5 lines of "thoughts" he publishes each day.

[G-Fafif]

Their 76: the two kids who are the new hosts of Kids Clubhouse on SNY. They won their jobs in a contest and have hosted two episodes.

Our 76: Duncan Wagner, son of Mayor Wagner; and Lorinda de Roulet, daughter of Joan Payson (with namechecks in prepared remarks to the apparently defunct firms of P.J. Carlin and Thomas Crimmons, building contractors, and Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury, Shea architects; chief engineer Rick Praeger alive but ailing, according to the Times).

I can't quite remember the exact line, but in Blades of Glory, Hector the Stalker tells Jimmy the figure skater that obsessive fans are better suited to certain jobs than the people who are hired to carrying them out.

[Guest Kong76]

TD: >>>if Cerrone can get a gig on SNY for the 4-5 lines of "thoughts" he publishes each day<<<

He certainly has parlayed those "thoughts."

I feel bad for Ms. Met, should be her in the spotlight.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

="The Unholy Alliance of Matt Cerone and Ms. Met aka MsMetBlog"]The catcher is the most important player ... of everyone on the team ... because it's NOT just offense ... it's defense!!! ....

[Guest Triple Dee]

="KC"]TD: >>>if Cerrone can get a gig on SNY for the 4-5 lines of "thoughts" he publishes each day<<< He certainly has parlayed those "thoughts." I feel bad for Ms. Met, should be her in the spotlight.

Mrs Met became persona non grata, after details of her affair with Karl Ravech became known.

[seawolf17]

Seriously, though. Who hasn't slept with Karl Ravech?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

[Benjamin Grimm]

I doubt they'll be inviting Grant to Shea for the countdown, though, since he's dead at the present time.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

[Guest AG/DC]

You're being kind to the DeRoulets, I think. I know Mrs. Payson's son, John Whitney Payson --- who did have a head for business --- wanted little to do with the team. Lorinda ended up in charge, but the way she ran the team on austerity suggests that she was always preparing to sell it.

John sold the prize of his mother's art collection, Van Gogh's "Irises," in 1987, during a huge boom in the art market, as well as coming changes in tax law, presumably making it more difficult to use a non-profit foundation to finance an art collection. I don't want to paint him badly, but the guy's business specialty seemed to be to know when to fold 'em.

Lorinda's specialty seemed to be getting jobs and dates for her daughters.

[batmagadanleadoff]

[batmagadanleadoff]

What would a Payson girl need a job for anyway? If she was with me, she'd never have to work. I'd show her how to spend her money. Our money.



Edit: Goodbye Steve Bieser. Hello Wes Gardner.

[G-Fafif]

Lorinda's name pops up as a contributor to the campaigns of moderate-leaning Republicans in the tri-state area, including former Congresswoman Sue Kelly and N.J. Senate candidate Tom Kean Jr. She was on the field at Shea for Bob Murphy Night.

BML: By now there's probably a legal de Roulet granddaughter in there somewhere who could use your financial guidance, so to speak.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Barely legal DeRoulets.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Hail!!!!

[soupcan]

HAIL!

[Guest AG/DC]

Lorinda wasn't the only De Roulet who people felt was in over their head.

http://books.google.com/books?id=VzfBlIq4OSkC&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=%22whitney+de+roulet%22&source=web&ots=DrINYW-eT5&sig=igor8PJzztkeuCmnitgxNa79Zvw&hl=en

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm confused, and I'm also not remembering my Mets genealogy as well as I might.

Vincent De Roulet married a Whitney?

I know that Joan Whitney married a Payson, and her daughter, Lorinda, married a De Roulet.

Was Lorinda the Whitney they were referring to? (Her name was never Whitney, but she was a member of the Whitney family, of course.)

[Guest AG/DC]

Vincent De Roulet married the former Lorinda Payson, who was a Whitney on her mother's side and and a Payson on her father's.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Okay, thanks. That's what I thought.

I had completely forgotten the name of Mrs. de Roulet's husband.

[Guest AG/DC]

How do you address the Christmas card?

[Benjamin Grimm]

"Yo, peeps!"

[stevejrogers]

Date 4/12
Opponent Brewers
Number Removed 78
Remover Some Corporate Suit from Citi Corp.

To quote Billy Walsh, SUITS SUCK!

[stevejrogers]

Date 4/13
Opponent Brewers
Number Removed 77
Remover Hosts of SNY's Kids Clubhouse, Gabe Cohen & Caitlin Fichtel

[stevejrogers]

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