Met-Loving Big Shots of 2009

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yup.



A curious combination to be sure. In other (perhaps older) shots, it says "Castro 11."

[Guest Edgy DC]

Barcollo ma non mollo?

http://www.stuartbruce.net/abbrev/4/b.shtml

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's the stock symbol for Bimini Capital Management, Inc.

Bimini Capital Management, Inc. (OTCBB: BMNM) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in, but is not limited to, residential mortgage-related securities issued by the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae). Our objective is to earn returns on the spread between the yield on our assets and our costs, including the interest expense on the funds we borrow. Bimini Capital Management, Inc. is headquartered in Vero Beach, Fla.

I think they also make catcher's equipment.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Running it through online Italian-English translators, I think "Barcollo ma non mollo" means "I stagger, but I don't give up."

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Running it through online Italian-English translators, I think "Barcollo ma non mollo" means "I stagger, but I don't give up."[/quote:2qxyhdcw]

I used a different translator, and I get 'Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.'

[Benjamin Grimm]

It shows up in the Italian version of Wikipedia on the Fascist Slogans page. (Slogan fascisti)

Google translates it as "Barcollo but not give up!"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Edie Falco, Stiles, Stewart, Seinfeld, Close, Chuck D, Viggo Mortensen... this is a bit self-serving, to be sure, but-- O'Reilly (or Robbins, depending on your perspective) aside-- we have some pretty likable celebrity fans, no?

[Guest Edgy DC]

http://www.indy.com/photos/203584/post.jpgStuck in medical facilities yesterday, I read just as much WebMD as I could take. Then I dug up an old copy of The Sporting News in one pile, and found out Dallas Clark, Colts tight end, was a Met-lovin big shot. This is from an old David Lennon blog.

Dallas Clark, a Mets fan from Iowa who also happens to play a decent tight end for the Colts, spent most of batting practice hanging with players in his David Wright No. 5 jersey. And it wasn't a freebie from equipment manager Charlie Samuel, either. The black uniform top was a Christmas gift from his wife.

I haven't seen a copy of TSN in five years and was delighted to see that --- though it is hardly the indispensible sports Bible that Tom Seaver used to shill for --- neither does it look like the fantasy guide it had fallen to in the early aughts. Probably as good as or better than ESPN: The Magazine though I confess I haven't picked that one up in years, either).

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Dallas Clark, a Mets fan from Iowa who also happens to play a decent tight end for the Colts, spent most of batting practice hanging with players in his David Wright No. 5 jersey. And it wasn't a freebie from equipment manager Charlie Samuel, either. The black uniform top was a Christmas gift from his wife)[/quote:1jf000i8]

Since 1986, as he tells it-- he just "loved the players."

I vaguely recall hearing he buys tickets to all three Wrigley games every year-- I remember him getting a bunch of SNY and ESPN camera love there in '07.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Lonesome George gives up.

http://www.tahoe.com/article/20090611/EDITORSCHOICE/906119998/1020/WHATTODO

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Quick, someone get George some

and a pair of orange glasses.

[Guest themetfairy]

Greta Van Susteren threw out the first pitch today and claims Mets fandom.

[Frayed Knot]

That half-inning TV spot with GVS was an embarrassment for all concerned.

[Guest Kong76]

I had no idea who she was and I thought she embarrassed herself too.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm still not used to her new face. (Not that I see her all that often. I guess if I watched her show, I'd be used to her face.)

[Guest Kong76]

I love Bret Favre, I own shares in the Packers, I love the Jets, I love the
Mets, if Bret becomes a Viking, well, ya know, I'm torn between everything
I just said. Fox is wonderful, Fox is just great. I got this cool jersey. I have
another one but didn't wear it because I wanted another one. Are we still on?

[metirish]

She's the one that talks from the side of her mouth? , I remember her from CNN/MSNBC but haven't seen her in years...

[Guest Kong76]

Big in the OJ years, yuck.

[Frayed Knot]

I wonder if she still thinks O.J. didn't do it?

It was embarrassing all around because they tried to pretend that a cheesy plug for a FOX news program is somehow more worthy than one of a regular TV show.
News programs and the people on them like to think of themselves as being above those on entertainment programs - except when it comes to either acting like it or being paid like it.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Fox News Channel gave out thunderstix yesterday. This is the most perfect product placement ever, as both the sponsor and the product serve only to produce useless, annoying noise.

[Gwreck]

Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez, seated in the front row of the Delta Club seats at Sunday's game. Jessica Beltran was next to them when they were first shown on TV, and then later with Lopez' father when the SNY reporter went over.

J-Lo: "Vote for Carlos for the All-Star game!"

[Guest Edgy DC]

She's got to publickly renounce her Yankee fandom to win me.

[HahnSolo]

I don't know why I think this, but wasn't her dad a Met fan?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Apparently, she grew up down the block from my current apartment (Castle Hill area, Bronx). It's a big he's-been-there-FOREVER kind of neighborhood, and a few of them have Lil' J-Lo stories.

An informal poll of old-timey locals says:

1) Some kid's going to get killed someday by a speeding livery driver if they don't raise the speed bump on Black Rock.

2) Nobody knows who brought the fireworks into the neighborhood, but some kid's going to lose a hand, and respondents will either laugh or say, "I knew it."

2) The Lopez clan was ALL Yankee fan.

[HahnSolo]

Apparently, she grew up down the block from my current apartment (Castle Hill area, Bronx). It's a big he's-been-there-FOREVER kind of neighborhood, and a few of them have Lil' J-Lo stories.[/quote:65w4k6np]

I grew up not too far from where you are now. Went to St. Helena's

[Farmer Ted]

I peg J-Lo as a "I root for both" chick. No credibility. Then again, she dated that Puff-n-Stuff guy who killed that Two-Pack guy.

[metirish]

http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-109/med/jsc2001-02670.jpgAstronaut Mike Massamino, currently repairing the Hubble and taking care of Shea Stadium's home plate in earth's upper orbit.

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/massimin.html

Met-lovin' moon shot.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Meg Griffin, jock on "the Loft" on XM Radio.

I wish I was paying closer attention, but I heard her mention her beloved New York Mets the other day on air, and that was OK by me.

Meg, welcome.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

She's a longtime FM rock radio jock-ette, pal of Howard Stern.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Meg Griffin? Wow. That can only mean that Carol Miller is a YLDB.