11 Alive? IGT 7/18/08: Mets @ Reds

[G-Fafif]

On the birthday of former Mets manager Joe Torre and the late Mets fan Sandra Prince, the Mets attempt to stay in first place and tie a team-record winning streak.

METS
Reyes SS
Anderson LF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Easley 2B
Delgado 1B
Tatis RF
Schneider C
Maine P

REDS
Bruce CF
Keppinger SS
Griffey RF
Phillips 2B
Dunn LF
Encarnacion 3B
Votto 1B
Bako C
Arroyo P

Let's Go Mets!

[TransMonk]

Reds strike first on an ugly solo HR by Jay Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce.

[Guest KC]

Mets down 1-sniffle through three on a Bruce home run off the end of the
bat away and flicked over the right center wall.

Bring the wood in the fourth, for Sandra!

[TransMonk]

Double-walk-double for the Mets w/ 1 out in the 4th.

Tie game...opportunity for more...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

11 Alive? Wow. I had $5 on "This one goes to Eleven."

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Tonight for Sandra!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

G-Fafif wrote: METS Reyes SS Anderson LF Wright 3B Beltran CF Easley 2B Delgado 1B Tatis RF Schneider C Maine P

First-ever (as far as I know) all-odd uni number lineup in team history.

[TransMonk]

This inning is a comedy of errors. Heads out of asses, boys.

[Guest KC]

JCL: >>>First-ever (as far as I know) all-odd uni number lineup in team history<<<

Toss up between what's cooler. The fact, or that you cull that fact from
some Mets numbers database.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Let's rally, Sally.

[Guest KC]

They march out Cordero again for slappin' ... he gets a quick out.

[TransMonk]

10 is the highest number.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Well that was pretty shitty.

I guess Tatis isn't gonna hit the 3-run homer every time we need it.

More concern for another lousy outing by Maine.

[nymr83]

thats ok. we'll go for another streak starting tommorow.
this was the least painful loss in awhile, i hope all our losses follow 10 game winning streaks.

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: 11 Alive? Wow. I had $5 on "This one goes to Eleven."

The element of surprise...though the Reds weren't fooled at all.

[G-Fafif]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Tonight for Sandra!

Thanks for the thought. Tomorrow for Mets Guy in Cincinnati.

[Guest cooby]

Jinx

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Rickey Henderson forced Reyes to spend the All-Star Break getting new tattoos on his elbow, and he's hit nothing but popups since

[batmagadanleadoff]

I like this thread title. I like the clever reference to an obscure and by now, scarcely remembered jingle. But wasn't "11 Alive" Yankee territory?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think of it as Odd Couple/Honeymooners territory.

[Valadius]

I don't get it.

[G-Fafif]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think of it as Odd Couple/Honeymooners territory.

11 Alive debuted as WPIX's theme the same fall season "The Odd Couple" entered syndication. The was another 11 Alive in Atlanta around the same time...spooky!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I think of it as Odd Couple/Honeymooners territory.

I dunno about this. It seems to me that you're slipperying the slope for an upcoming IGT thread title like this one:

Here come the -- Metsies
Let's get behind and cheer the -- Metsies
They're gonna learn to fear the -- Metsies
Everyone knows they play to win, cause
They're the New York --Metsies

[batmagadanleadoff]

="G-Fafif"]11 Alive debuted as WPIX's theme the same fall season "The Odd Couple" entered syndication. The was another 11 Alive in Atlanta around the same time...spooky!

Fats Waller would commonly sell the rights to a song he created and then go across the hall and sell the same rights to the same song to another publisher. Maybe Fats wrote the 11 Alive theme.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Valadius wrote: I don't get it.

11 Alive was the WPIX Channel 11 logo/slogan/identity during the Joe Torre Mets manager era. WPIX televised Yankeee games back then. Here's a YouTube link to "11 Alive".

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't associate "11 Alive" with the Yankees in any way at all.

During those years, I watched The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners on Channel 11.

I never watched the Yankees.

[batmagadanleadoff]

="Benjamin Grimm"]I don't associate "11 Alive" with the Yankees in any way at all. During those years, I watched The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners on Channel 11. I never watched the Yankees.

I guess we differ in that respect because I never watched the Yankees either but I still associate 11 Alive with the team. I'm a big Honeymooners and Odd Couple fan, too.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

My dopey neighbors tried to get themselves on TV by bringing a sign to MFY Stadium reading: THE YANKEES ARE ALLIVE (sic) BECAUSE 11 IS ALLIVE (sic)

[G-Fafif]

"11 Alive" doesn't resonate MFY with me, even though it took me several years to associate Channel 11 with the Mets. Just a matter of semantics, I suppose.

Channel 9 had a slogan in the fall of '73: The Great Combination, New York and Channel 9. The extent of that great combination was the Mets, Bowling for Dollars and a coveted VHF frequency.