Say Hey!

[Willets Point]

Willie Mays is 80 today!

[TransMonk]

Hey! 30 years older than George Clooney.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Willie was the man.

Happy birthday, Willie.

[Guest Kong76]

They just don't build baseball forearms like that anymore. (legally)

[MFS62]

I bet he could still hit a stickball three sewers.
Happy Birthday, Willie.

Later

[G-Fafif]

Jose Reyes paid tribute by playing the game (offensively, anyway) like the Say Hey Kid.

The two have always struck me as something of a pair.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Willie is now the 12th living former Met past the age of 80. Next up, in two and a half weeks, Jim Marshall.

[Edgy MD]

One more article stating as fact that there was something disgraceful about Willie Mays' tenure with the Mets.

[ashie62]

Thats just someone too young too remember 1973 and taking for fact what others have regurgitated.

Kinda sad, and lazy.

[stevejrogers]

Edgy DC wrote: One more article stating as fact that there was something disgraceful about Willie Mays' tenure with the Mets.

Heard a St. Louis reporter the other morning compare LaRussa's bullpen phone gaffe to Mays' "performance" in the 1973 World Series.

[Edgy MD]

Call people on that shit. Call them on it every time.

[Frayed Knot]

SteveJRogers wrote: Edgy DC wrote: One more article stating as fact that there was something disgraceful about Willie Mays' tenure with the Mets. Heard a St. Louis reporter the other morning compare LaRussa's bullpen phone gaffe to Mays' "performance" in the 1973 World Series.

Comparing them how ... as two things which occurred on a baseball field but otherwise couldn't possibly be less similar?

[Edgy MD]

You know, we had an awkward error in centerfield tonight. They happen.

[stevejrogers]

Frayed Knot wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Edgy DC wrote: One more article stating as fact that there was something disgraceful about Willie Mays' tenure with the Mets. Heard a St. Louis reporter the other morning compare LaRussa's bullpen phone gaffe to Mays' "performance" in the 1973 World Series. Comparing them how ... as two things which occurred on a baseball field but otherwise couldn't possibly be less similar?

Legends having "senior moments" Basically saying LaRussa was having his "Mays in 1973 World Series" moment.

[G-Fafif]

Ol' Tony don't look so bad this morning.

[Edgy MD]

Willie-as-a-Met Disparagement Alert

You�ve gotta feel sorry for Jesse Jackson; his time is so far gone, people don�t even remember when his time was. He reminds me a little of Willie Mays playing for the Mets in 1973�the best all-round baseball player who ever graced a baseball diamond, looking like a minor league-er, an all-time great who hung around one season too long.

[G-Fafif]

Six Schaefer points to the next writer who positions someone past his prime as "out there trying his best to help his cause, despite maybe not being his best anymore -- like Willie Mays in the 1973 World Series."

[Edgy MD]

Thank you.