Met-Lovin Big Shots, 2008

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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

="soupcan":1k8o5vbb]Nice job Edgy. Good for you. ="John Cougar Lunchbucket":1k8o5vbb]I could pass it along to GT if you like[/quote:1k8o5vbb] You know George Thorogood?[/quote:1k8o5vbb] He'll be a guest on Mets Weekly this week. I had a small part in making that happen since the producer saw the interview on my site. AG/DC Aug 22 2008 01:09 PM Has he cut the song yet? John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 22 2008 01:09 PM uh AG/DC Aug 28 2008 02:09 PM Still no word from Lonesome George. Meanwhile, meet Sam Champion metirish Aug 28 2008 02:29 PM Funny that they call themselves Sam Champion and are Mets fans. Farmer Ted Aug 28 2008 02:34 PM Mrs. Ted came across a photo of American Idol David Cook taking BP at Shea. Pinstripe jersey, blue hat, hacking at it left handed. I'll try to pull it up if I can find it. I'm guessing he's not a Mets lovin' big shot, rather "I'll dress up in the (name city) uniform to show 'em I'm down with (name team)". seawolf17 Aug 28 2008 02:35 PM ="metirish"]Funny that they call themselves Sam Champion and are Mets fans. "Wait... what?" TheOldMole Sep 19 2008 09:57 AM Josh Waitzkin, inspiration for the movie Searching For Bobby Fischer: During an interview following his first U.S. Junior Chess championship win, when asked what he aspired to when he grew up, Josh replied that he'd like to play for the Mets. MFS62 Sep 24 2008 07:07 AM You may not have heard about him, but in the Danbury, Ct area, he used to get a lot of press in the sports pages. He was a local kid who played minor league ball for a number of years.: http://minors.baseball-reference.com/players.cgi?pid=20155 I was called to jury duty yesterday (Tuesday). When the clerk read the roll call, I remembered his name. After, I went over to him and asked "Are you Sean Fesh the pitcher?" When he said he was, I said "Boy the Mets sure could have used you last night." He said "I know. Last night's game killed me. I've been a big Mets fan for a long time." Then he got a cell phone call. Then the jurors got dismissed, the case was settled out of court. SO, I never got to ask him any more questions about his Metliness. Later Centerfield Oct 01 2008 08:34 AM I read an article that Chris Rock is a die-hard Mets fan. I wasn't sure whether he was or whether he just agreed to tape the segment used at Shea. I don't know whether this team makes its fans funny, or whether it attracts funny fans, but this is a pretty impressive list: Jerry Seinfeld Chris Rock Ray Romano Kevin James Jon Stewart I'd pay to see that show any day. The Yanks can keep Billy Crystal. Rockin' Doc Oct 01 2008 10:34 AM It helps to have a sense of humor when you're a Mets fan. AG/DC Oct 13 2008 09:38 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 13 2008 12:55 PM J.R. Moerhinger, award winning author of The Tender Bar We loved the Mets because we felt like born losers. Though we were in just the first inning of our lives, we were already down four runs, with a weak bullpen and no bench. Sons of single mothers, living on food stamps, attending so-so schools, wearing ill-fitting clothes, we faced a future that seemed sure to include a heavy dose of failure, ignorance and want. The Mets, therefore, were more than our home team. The Mets were proof that losers could be lovable. Better yet, they were proof that losers could shock the world and win. And Shea Stadium, 12 miles from where McGraw and I played Wiffle ball every day, was sacred ground. It was our home away from home, especially when we had no homes of our own. Our mothers struggled to make rent, and when they couldn't make it, which was often, we'd move in with our grandparents, in a house so overcrowded with cousins and aunts and uncles that McGraw and I sometimes slept in the same bed. From such chaos, inner and outer, Shea provided needed, frequent escape. It says something about our childhoods that Shea -- surrounded by vacant lots, chop shops and strip bars -- was one of the few places where we felt safe. Four feet tall, dangerously naive, we'd take the train to the stadium, alone, at night. The memory makes me shudder. We carried little more than 10 bucks and standing orders from an old-timer in our hometown, a guy who supplied all the paper products to Shea: Go into the bathrooms, pull out the towels and toilet paper, and throw it all on the floor -- so the stadium will have to order more from me next week. These were our people. Read on Gwreck Oct 13 2008 11:02 AM I thought it was a nice tribute to his childhood and memories of Shea but when he came across as uninformed it didn't help the piece. AG/DC Oct 28 2008 10:54 AM Tobin Bell, kinda. Edgy DC Nov 12 2008 10:25 AM J.C. Romero, totally. Rockin' Doc Nov 12 2008 07:12 PM Get Romero for the pen, NOW! John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 12 2009 07:46 AM Ralph Macchio on a FAN interview this morning confessed to Met and Jet fandom. However in my Lawn Guyland yout, I recall an acquaintence who knew him tell me that he walked into a room where a NY Giants football game was on TV and couldn't tell which one was the Giants.

[Guest AG/DC]

Has he cut the song yet?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

uh

[Guest AG/DC]

Still no word from Lonesome George.

Meanwhile, meet Sam Champion

[metirish]

Funny that they call themselves Sam Champion and are Mets fans.

[Farmer Ted]

Mrs. Ted came across a photo of American Idol David Cook taking BP at Shea. Pinstripe jersey, blue hat, hacking at it left handed. I'll try to pull it up if I can find it. I'm guessing he's not a Mets lovin' big shot, rather "I'll dress up in the (name city) uniform to show 'em I'm down with (name team)".

[seawolf17]

="metirish"]Funny that they call themselves Sam Champion and are Mets fans.

"Wait... what?"

[Theoldmole]

Josh Waitzkin, inspiration for the movie Searching For Bobby Fischer:

During an interview following his first U.S. Junior Chess championship win, when asked what he aspired to when he grew up, Josh replied that he'd like to play for the Mets.

[MFS62]

You may not have heard about him, but in the Danbury, Ct area, he used to get a lot of press in the sports pages. He was a local kid who played minor league ball for a number of years.:

http://minors.baseball-reference.com/players.cgi?pid=20155

I was called to jury duty yesterday (Tuesday). When the clerk read the roll call, I remembered his name. After, I went over to him and asked "Are you Sean Fesh the pitcher?"
When he said he was, I said "Boy the Mets sure could have used you last night."
He said "I know. Last night's game killed me. I've been a big Mets fan for a long time."

Then he got a cell phone call.
Then the jurors got dismissed, the case was settled out of court.
SO, I never got to ask him any more questions about his Metliness.

Later

[Centerfield]

I read an article that Chris Rock is a die-hard Mets fan. I wasn't sure whether he was or whether he just agreed to tape the segment used at Shea.

I don't know whether this team makes its fans funny, or whether it attracts funny fans, but this is a pretty impressive list:

Jerry Seinfeld
Chris Rock
Ray Romano
Kevin James
Jon Stewart

I'd pay to see that show any day. The Yanks can keep Billy Crystal.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

It helps to have a sense of humor when you're a Mets fan.

[Guest AG/DC]

J.R. Moerhinger, award winning author of The Tender Bar

We loved the Mets because we felt like born losers. Though we were in just the first inning of our lives, we were already down four runs, with a weak bullpen and no bench. Sons of single mothers, living on food stamps, attending so-so schools, wearing ill-fitting clothes, we faced a future that seemed sure to include a heavy dose of failure, ignorance and want. The Mets, therefore, were more than our home team. The Mets were proof that losers could be lovable. Better yet, they were proof that losers could shock the world and win.

And Shea Stadium, 12 miles from where McGraw and I played Wiffle ball every day, was sacred ground. It was our home away from home, especially when we had no homes of our own. Our mothers struggled to make rent, and when they couldn't make it, which was often, we'd move in with our grandparents, in a house so overcrowded with cousins and aunts and uncles that McGraw and I sometimes slept in the same bed. From such chaos, inner and outer, Shea provided needed, frequent escape.

It says something about our childhoods that Shea -- surrounded by vacant lots, chop shops and strip bars -- was one of the few places where we felt safe. Four feet tall, dangerously naive, we'd take the train to the stadium, alone, at night. The memory makes me shudder. We carried little more than 10 bucks and standing orders from an old-timer in our hometown, a guy who supplied all the paper products to Shea: Go into the bathrooms, pull out the towels and toilet paper, and throw it all on the floor -- so the stadium will have to order more from me next week.

These were our people.

Read on

[Gwreck]

I thought it was a nice tribute to his childhood and memories of Shea but when he came across as uninformed it didn't help the piece.

[Guest AG/DC]

Tobin Bell, kinda.

[Guest Edgy DC]

J.C. Romero, totally.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Get Romero for the pen, NOW!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ralph Macchio on a FAN interview this morning confessed to Met and Jet fandom.

However in my Lawn Guyland yout, I recall an acquaintence who knew him tell me that he walked into a room where a NY Giants football game was on TV and couldn't tell which one was the Giants.