Met-Loving Big Shots of 2009

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As things kick off across the train tracks, perennial US Open bridesmaid James Blake is revealed as a MLBS... BUT with a bit of an asterisk:

If you didn't play tennis, what sport would you have a chance at playing? Baseball. I love to play baseball. I'd love to play shortstop [for] the Mets. I'm a huge Mets fan. They've got a pretty good shortstop over at the Yankees, too. Derek Jeter is your guy? It's tough to say as a Mets fan, but I really look up to Derek Jeter. He lives near me in Tampa and I've seen him training. And to see someone who's got everything going [for him], and has the ability if he wanted to slack off, but never slacks off � that's something that's really impressive to me.

[metirish]

" there goes the greatest yankee ever"

Jeter never slacks off because all he cares about is winning , I bet he doesn't even know that he is approaching the MFY hit record , why? , because he never slacks off and only cares about winning.


It must be true because I read it a lot.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Fuck DJ. He hasn't won shit without Jeff Nelson, Paul O'Neill or Ramiro Mendoza.

Hell, Mendoza has more World Series' rings than the Prince of the Bronx.

[Farmer Ted]

Not so good on this one.


NEW HAVEN, Conn. � The lab tech suspected of killing a Yale student was playing softball the day the victim's body was found.

Thirty-six-year-old Vinnie Mauro calls Clark "nondescript" and says he didn't lose his temper or even interact much with other players.

Mauro says he usually recognizes Clark by the Mets jersey he wears with player David Wright's name on the back.

Mauro says his team defeated Clark's Wild Hogs in the playoff game. Clark was playing shortstop.

Clark is charged with killing 24-year-old Annie Le. Her body was found in a lab building wall after she had been missing for days.

[Guest themetfairy]

FWIW, the victim and her fiance were/are also Mets fans. There were photos of them in Mets gear in the Post on Tuesday.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Deputy Mayor Skyler, who never killed nobody, as far as I know.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/22/mets-latest-city-hall-recruit-can-bring-it/

[Benjamin Grimm]

Are we counting Chris Rock as a MLBS? Because I recently saw some disturbing photos of him in a Yankees cap.

[soupcan]

Last year my wife and I were at a game at Shea, sitting close to the field on the first base side near home plate. We see Mayor Mike and his lady friend walk down to their seats in the first row behind home plate. Followed closely by deputy Mayor Skyler (didn't know it was him at the time) and....my wife's cousin Amy! The missus and I do a double-take and give each other a 'that's Amy, right?' look. She sits down next to Mayor Mike and we are just dumbfounded. Amy's a private sector chick and as far as we know has no professional governmental relationships. So we start screaming 'AMY! AMY! AMY!' She doesn't hear us but Mayor Mike does. He looks at us and turns his palms upward giving us 'what are you saying? kind of look. So we point to Amy and motion for him to tap her and show her that we are screaming at her. He does, she turns, sees us. She came over, told us she was on a date with Skyler, etc.

It was funny at the time.

[Guest Edgy DC]

You know, stuff happens to you at Met games that doesn't happen to me.

[soupcan]

At Shea our tickets were right in the thick of things so a lot of the VIPs would have to walk right by us or be right near us. Led to a few good stories and incidents - Rick Lazio's goon squad manhandling and cursing my pregnant wife, Hilary Swank rendering me motionless with a movie-star smile, a few mayoral encounters - but now at Citi, while the seats are absolutely comparable, the VIP section is now seperated by a wrought-iron fence and there is better/more private access to seats for the celebs. We're still close but it hasn't been as interestin' thus far.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Are we counting Chris Rock as a MLBS? Because I recently saw some disturbing photos of him in a Yankees cap.

[seawolf17]

Credit Kevin James for wearing the hat backward; he's okay.

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's some ill will in that post at thefightins.com. Are we that mean?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That's some ill will in that post at thefightins.com. Are we that mean?[/quote:jnk9ofua]

Over the last couple of years, a lot of the Met trolls on BeerLeaguer and Fightins tend toward the "HAMELS IZ A F*GGOT"/" UTLEY SUCKS COCK" brand of crit. (Think old Metsblog commentariat.) Responding in kind, perhaps?

Also, perhaps it's my bias influencing my vision, but Philly seems to have ALWAYS taken the rivalry more seriously and evinced it more bitterly-- even if said bitterness was choked down and repressed-- than we have.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Definitely. The Phillies fans have seen the Mets as a rival going back at least to 1986.

They're much more focused on us than we are on them.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rob Parker, sharp-tongued sports journalist, is an MLBS.

http://blog.mlive.com/its-just-sports/2009/10/interview_former_detroit_news.html

[metirish]

Rob Parker, sharp-tongued sports journalist, is an MLBS.

http://blog.mlive.com/its-just-sports/2009/10/interview_former_detroit_news.html[/quote:2rplfju4]


It's a stretch that don't you think?


If his wiki is to be believed then he's a bit of a tit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Parker_(sports_journalist)

[G-Fafif]

Kobe Bryant in a Dodgers cap yesterday, childhood loyalties revealed during Game Two of NLCS. Craig Sager reported the native Philadelphian grew up rooting for the Mets; that Darryl Strawberry was his favorite player; and "tell Ron [Darling] I still have his baseball card". Philly fan takes it in usual stride:

Kobe was a Mets fan? While growing up in Philly? Seriously, that�s horrible parenting by Joe Bryant. You can�t raise a New York fan no matter where you live.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Kobe Bryant in a Dodgers cap yesterday, childhood loyalties revealed during Game Two of NLCS. Craig Sager reported the native Philadelphian grew up rooting for the Mets; that Darryl Strawberry was his favorite player; and "tell Ron [Darling] I still have his baseball card". Philly fan takes it in usual stride:

Kobe was a Mets fan? While growing up in Philly? Seriously, that�s horrible parenting by Joe Bryant. You can�t raise a New York fan no matter where you live.

[ashie62]

Beats the hat Kobe could have been wearing in the Colorado Penal League

[Guest Edgy DC]

Author Sue Corbett: http://www.suecorbett.com/

�I wasn't a book reader as a kid, but it's wrong to say I wasn't a reader. I could not get enough about sports. My dream was to be the bat boy for the Mets.�

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I dunno. If you live where gwreck and I do, you probably have seen the guy who drives around in a red subaru singing 50s and 60s songs. He's a curiosity to the young people and shows his MLBS colors in this video.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow. The W-Burg Realty Association can't buy color like that.

Got to love the golden corona where the sunlight catches his arm hair.

[TransMonk]

Author Rick Moody, known MLBS, gives his take on 2009.

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/rick-moody-on-the-meaning-of-the-mets-tragedy/Content?oid=1262531

[G-Fafif]

Moody's off by a year regarding that World Series against Oakland.

[metirish]

A fun read all the same..

All Mets fans, I suspect, know and cherish failure. I once wrote a piece about the theology of the Mets, in which I argued that the Mets were truly like Christianity, because you have to WORK to believe in them. Yankee fans secretly know that their own love is indefensible, because it's too easy. There's nothing complex about it. It's like evangelical belief. Or Calvinism. But Mets fans know that they have to believe in the darkest of dark hours, against all hope, and this season is just such a time. This part of why the Davey Johnson-era Mets were so transcendent, because they snatched victory from the gaping maw of failure. With much bravado. They were failures as human beings, but as a team they were awesome. Whether this propensity to failure in the Mets clubhouse is FATED is a deep question, but I perhaps prefer to think that it is historically bound, owing to the failure of the city to really be able to back a second team effectively�what with the Yankees around.

good stuff

[Benjamin Grimm]

Blech!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Mets fan in Congress...

Democrat Reps. Eliot Engel and Edolphus Towns began the accolades. Engle, who lives in the Bronx, wore a Yankee cap, calling it "a symbol of unity." He said, "I know it is violating rules to put a hat on, but I am going to do it for just two seconds because I think it is really important that I put this on...In Asia, in Africa, in Europe, in the Middle East wherever we go we see people wearing Yankee hats."

But Utah Republican Jason Chaffetz wanted to talk about health care and not baseball. "While the Democrats want to talk baseball we want to talk about health care," he said. "While the New York Yankees are winning the World Series the American families are striking out."

New York Democratic Rep. Jose Serrano fired back at Chaffetz. Serrano accused the Republican of turning the World Series into a partisan issue. "Americans celebrate success and I am positive that there is not a single American in this country, except for some in this House, who would think that what we are doing today is wrong."

Serrano added, "This weekend we will deal with the biggest issue of our times."

Health care or Yankees, New York Democrat Rep. Nydia M. Vel�zquez took another position.

"I just would like for the record to reflect the fact that I am a Mets fan," she said.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's my Rep! Go Nydia!

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Mr. Chairman, please let the record show that Mr. Engel is a YLDB."

"So noted."