Met-Loving Big Shots 2010

[stevejrogers]

Isn't his wife a Cubs Loving...errr I mean a YLDB?

And just because he and Mr. Met appeared together at some function, does not a MLBS make.

[seawolf17]

Don't make me break out the Wolfie picture again.

Okay, I will.

[Valadius]

It wasn't a function. It was at the Mets vs. Cardinals game, August 22, 2006, at Shea.

[Farmer Ted]

Hank Azaria on the DP show this morning. "I grew up a Mets fan listening to Bob Murphy." I love Apu, too.

[metirish]

Mets Manager Jerry Manuel with Duane Johnson, left, and Lance Orton, who helped thwart a bomb plot in Times Square.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/08/sports/baseball/08citifield.html

Azaria is a good one.

[bmfc1]

Elena Kagan! The President just said so: "die-hard Mets fan."

[Gwreck]

Balances out the Sotomayor pick nicely.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Who was the last MLBS Supreme Court justice?

[metirish]

Interesting, not for any big reason just that I think it is.

If the Senate confirms Ms. Kagan, who is Jewish, the Supreme Court for the first time will have no Protestant members. In that case, the court would be composed of six justices who are Catholic and three who are Jewish. It also would mean that every member of the court had studied law at Harvard or Yale.

[G-Fafif]

bmfc1 wrote: Elena Kagan! The President just said so: "die-hard Mets fan."

Disbar Paul Schrieber NOW!

[Gwreck]

Earl Warren. Apparently an interview (from the stands) can be seen during the 1969 World Series, Game 4 broadcast.

Ginsburg is from New York but I can't find anything about her baseball preference.

Other documented loyalties: Scalia and Sotomayor: Yankees; Breyer and Souter: Red Sox; Roberts and Stevens: Cubs; Alito: Phillies.

[seawolf17]

Gwreck wrote: Earl Warren. Apparently an interview (from the stands) can be seen during the 1969 World Series, Game 4 broadcast.

Yes, but that was just because C-SPAN was broadcasting the game. You know how those networks are always trying to pimp their stars at these big sporting events.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This famous note was passed from Potter Stewart to Harry Blackmun.



I think Stewart was rooting for the Reds. Was Blackmun pulling the other way?

[MFS62]

Gwreck wrote: Balances out the Sotomayor pick nicely.

In his speech introducing Kagan, Obama mentioned this balance, and quipped that Sotomator wants to wear a pinstriped robe on the bench. That would be the ultimate in Yankee douchewear.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Gwreck wrote: Balances out the Sotomayor pick nicely.

Cards fans* might disagree, but they'd probably do so in an obsequiously-cheery way, while smiling creepily wholesome smiles.

Cards fans, however, are politely invited to suck it.

*And Protestant Twins and Royals and Reds and Astros fans. Are there Astros fans?

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy DC wrote: This famous note was passed from Potter Stewart to Harry Blackmun. I think Stewart was rooting for the Reds. Was Blackmun pulling the other way?

Stewart was a Cincinatti native who was, indeed, a big Reds fan.
Blackmun, a Minnesota area native, was a big baseball fan but I don't know of any specific Met fandom.

Bob Woodward related the story about how, during an important SC hearing, Stewart was having his clerks feed him notes on the ongoing NLCS game, first every half-inning and later for each batter. When Agnew - unrelated to the court matter at hand - resigned that very afternoon, the following note, a classic of legal brevity, read 'Kranepool flies to left / Agnew resigns'. I had never seen a copy of the above note which obviously changed hands moments later.

Blackmun later authored the SC opinion that upheld the sport's reserve clause, doing so in a flowery essay which included the listings of dozens of his favorite players from over the years while several of the other justices made sure that theirs were added as well. Unfortunately, while the piece was long on fandom it had virtually nothing to do with any kind of rationale behind the legal aberration of the clause. In the end it pretty much just recited names, cited the 1920's era SC decision which first granted the exemption as precedent, and indicated that any change to that would need to come from Congress.

[G-Fafif]

Non-partisan celebration of the SCOTUS justice who says Let's Go Mets (and such) here.

Potter Stewart knew obscenity when he saw it. Yet he rooted for Pete Rose.

[seawolf17]

[G-Fafif]

Ran across this tidbit from the Pendleton game via the SI Vault -- before the Pendleton game became the Pendleton game.

"Mooo-kie, Mooo-kie," the fans crooned after Moookie Wilson hit a home run in the second, and Wilson's wife, Rosa, sitting behind home plate, hugged the guy next to her, who happened to be Richard Nixon.

[Gwreck]

"Jay Horowitz, the Mets� spokesman, told David Waldstein of The Times that the team did not know it had such a fan in such a high place. Mr. Horowitz said that the Mets were 'very proud' and would arrange for her to throw out a first pitch at some point."

Taken from NY Times City Room Blog.

[G-Fafif]

"Jay Horowitz, the Mets� spokesman, told David Waldstein of The Times that the team did not know it had such a fan in such a high place. Mr. Horowitz said that the Mets were 'very proud' and would arrange for her to throw out a first pitch at some point." Taken from NY Times City Room Blog.

That will be outstanding, but I am compelled to rant, in a sidebar, regarding the Times and all those who do what the Times just did:

HORWITZ! IT'S HORWITZ!

The man's had the same job, in media relations no less, for thirty years. Yet even the Paper of freaking Record can't get his name right. Probably bothers me more than it bothers him, but still.

Horwitz. Not Horowitz.

[Valadius]

I let out a huge cheer this morning during the press conference when the President said Kagan was a huge Mets fan. My coworkers looked at me like I was insane.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Phillies fans are probably wondering why Obama mentioned Sotomayor as a rival fan instead of Alito.

[Guest themetfairy]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Phillies fans are probably wondering why Obama mentioned Sotomayor as a rival fan instead of Alito.

Catfight on the Court?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

themetfairy wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Phillies fans are probably wondering why Obama mentioned Sotomayor as a rival fan instead of Alito. Catfight on the Court?

"I'd pay to watch those two mud-wrestle."

-Kase, on my Facebook

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Softball_question.html?showall

And she plays softball, too. Apparently some people think that makes her a lesbian, according to Politico. I say that makes her at least a better hitter than GMJ.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Holy cripeys, David Faulkner strikes again.

Here you are at Shea, your hearts in your throat
Will you make the grade? Will you miss the boat?

How have I missed this song?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That song was referred to in the Zisk Magazine profile in whatever MLBS thread it was in.

I gotta say, not my favorite HG song.

[Guest Edgy DC]

No, but serious MLBS points in a dovetailing of my favorite stadium and my favorite Australian band.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Keith's always a fine retro-jersey choice for men of a certain age (I have a Mookie, too).

But does Gleeboy Matthew Morrison lose style points for the jersey tuck, or gain them?



(Did a fine job Saturday

, too.)