You're at Citi Field When Jeter Makes History Better

[G-Fafif]

So you've got a ticket for one of the upcoming Subway Series games, just in time for Captain Intangibles to register his 3,000th. After he's made the entire ballpark better by reaching base safely, what you do?

[metirish]

It's probably little of me but I don't give a fuck, I hate the twat and the Yankees, I stand and boo.

[Guest themetfairy]

I hit the Shake Shack line while the line is short.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I sit and applaud. If he tries some game-delay shit like a victory lap, bets are off.

[MFS62]

I sit politely.
I fucking hate Jeter (and most anyone else who has a career .360 average against the Mets) and all MFYs.
But I don't boo.

Later

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'd applaud politely. Really depends on game context, though, along with whether or not they drag out a podium or something.

[ashie62]

I stand silent and motionless for a moment and then run like hell to scarf all the food I can ala Met Fairy!

[dgwphotography]

None of the above - I will never go into Citi/Shea while infested with YLDBs. Heaven knows communicable diseases are floating around.

[Ceetar]

on the off chance it happens (I'll be there Saturday, I doubt Jeter will) I'll boo. I boo when opposing players get hits. they're the enemy. I'm not a gentlemanly opposing player in the same 'fraternity' of baseball players.

Let's get real here. This isn't some historic achievement. He's not passing a historical figure like Gehrig or Ruth, he already passed them. He's neither of those players. He doesn't transcend the sport in any way. Not at his position, not as a hitter, not as a fielder, and not even as a clutch hitter (which is simply a matter of being there a lot, he doesn't boast better numbers in clutch situations). His claim to fame is longevity and being on the Yankees. I hate the Yankees. therefore, Jeter collecting a personal milestone means nothing to me. Absolutely nothing.

[Fman99]

I will yell 1890's curses at him, threatening to make him suck my ass and also calling him a **** lapping dog.

Why mess with the classics?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The thing is, you KNOW the Wilpons will roll out the red carpet for the guy with intentions of giving a 'warm CitiField welcome' to our visitors from the Bronx. This they will do under the guise of being sportsmen, which they are in a sense, but they'll obviously do it for the ticket $ales, and won't for a second consider what it will all mean for the rest of us.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

I was at the game in Detroit the day Clemens went for (tainted) win No. 300. I was with my baseball friends who gather for a game once a year, and we had these tickets months in advance, never suspecting this would happen.

No one in our group likes the Yankees -- as if I'd hang out with Yankee fans -- though none of these Midwesterners are as openly hostile to all things MFY as I am.

The consensus was that as baseball fans, we should embrace the historical nature of the moment. Kind of like the way I approach classical music -- I can appreciate it without actually enjoying it much. (Apologies to Beethoven for even distantly linking him to the MFYs)

(Of course, in that game, Clemens left with the lead, Jeter and Soriano kicked the ball around allowing the Tigers -- on their way to a 119-loss season -- to tie the game which then went something like 17 innings before the Tigers pissed away the lead. Freaking Yankees, they screw you over every time.)

[Frayed Knot]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I'd applaud politely. Really depends on game context, though, along with whether or not they drag out a podium or something.

Just on a general note, I HATE it just about anytime the action is stopped in-game for a record acknowledgment. Tip your cap, acknowledge the applause, and when that dies down throw the next pitch. Records are meaningful only in the context of the game and shouldn't be treated as an end itself which trumps the game it occurred during. So yeah, if they're going to drag out a podium I'd hate it even if it were Reyes reaching 3K and I'd really turn on the boo machine if it's for an opponent.

The only one I was really OK with was Ripken and his post-5th inning trot, probably because that record was specifically for reaching that particular point. But otherwise spare me in on-field ceremonies. Save it for the post-game presser or, if the team wants to recognize the achievement further, set up a day to have a pre-game ceremony later on. And, yes, I was turned off by the McGwire/Sosa antics after the redhead's 62nd HR -- WAY over the top IMO.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

But that drug-fueled sideshow SAVED baseball and Made America Proud again! What are you a communist?

I'm totally against round-number counting-stat celebrations and the whole superstarization of athletes in general.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The thing is, you KNOW the Wilpons will roll out the red carpet for the guy with intentions of giving a 'warm CitiField welcome' to our visitors from the Bronx. This they will do under the guise of being sportsmen, which they are in a sense, but they'll obviously do it for the ticket $ales, and won't for a second consider what it will all mean for the rest of us.

just like they did that time with Tom Glavine....oh wait , he was with the Mets,

[Frayed Knot]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: But that drug-fueled sideshow SAVED baseball and Made America Proud again! What are you a communist?

Nyet!

[G-Fafif]

That I actually had to stop and think about it indicates the terrorists have already won, but of course, "BOOOOO!!!!" If it's some non-MFY and the Mets are winning by a dozen or so runs in the eighth and it doesn't break up a no-hitter or shutout, I think I could bring myself to lightly clap a relatively random opponent's mega-milestone base hit. But otherwise, no. Fuck no.

[G-Fafif]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The thing is, you KNOW the Wilpons will roll out the red carpet for the guy with intentions of giving a 'warm CitiField welcome' to our visitors from the Bronx. This they will do under the guise of being sportsmen, which they are in a sense, but they'll obviously do it for the ticket $ales, and won't for a second consider what it will all mean for the rest of us.

If the Wilpons can afford to replace it, we can assume the pitching rubber used to surrender this (thus far hypothetical) milestone-reaching base hit will be pulled up and forwarded directly to MFYS III or perhaps the Captain's castle in St. Jetersburg, Fla. And because the rubber was stepped on by a pitcher who permitted a base hit to Derek Jeter, it will make all the memorabilia around it better.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I sit and pretend it's not happening -- I'm bitter.

This one, but without the bitterness.

[Guest themetfairy]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I sit and pretend it's not happening -- I'm bitter. This one, but without the bitterness.

That's what I would have chosen if it were available (but I still prefer my Shake Shack strategy).

[seawolf17]

Ceetar wrote: on the off chance it happens (I'll be there Saturday, I doubt Jeter will) I'll boo. I boo when opposing players get hits. they're the enemy. I'm not a gentlemanly opposing player in the same 'fraternity' of baseball players. Let's get real here. This isn't some historic achievement. He's not passing a historical figure like Gehrig or Ruth, he already passed them. He's neither of those players. He doesn't transcend the sport in any way. Not at his position, not as a hitter, not as a fielder, and not even as a clutch hitter (which is simply a matter of being there a lot, he doesn't boast better numbers in clutch situations). His claim to fame is longevity and being on the Yankees. I hate the Yankees. therefore, Jeter collecting a personal milestone means nothing to me. Absolutely nothing.

This.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The thing is, you KNOW the Wilpons will roll out the red carpet for the guy with intentions of giving a 'warm CitiField welcome' to our visitors from the Bronx. This they will do under the guise of being sportsmen, which they are in a sense, but they'll obviously do it for the ticket $ales, and won't for a second consider what it will all mean for the rest of us.

And this.

[Lefty Specialist]

Eh, I hit the men's room and let him know how I really feel.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I was at Shea in 1978 when Pete Rose received many ovations on his way to setting the NL hit-streak record. At this Mets game, Rose passed Tommy Holmes, the then NL record holder. I was appalled at all of the warmth and fuzzies sent Pete's way by the Mets fans in attendance. Up to that point, Rose was the biggest villain in the Mets universe -- Met fans never forgiving him for his playoffs fracas with Bud Harrelson. I stayed in my seat, and did not cheer at all. Rose turned out to be a graceless asshole when his streak ended about a week later: he griped that Phillies' reliever Gene Garber, the last pitcher Rose faced on the day that Rose's streak ended, pitched Rose like it was the seventh game of the World Series, implying that Garber should've tossed Rose a meatball so that the streak could continue.

I wouldn't cheer Jeter. And if I had advance warning that the hit was coming, I wouldn't even look. Fuck Derek Jeter.

[TransMonk]

I stand and I applaud -- I respect history.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Garber was with Atlanta, but yeah. Rose went on to say that Phil Niekro would have given him a fastball.

Garber made a point of taking the rip as a compliment, but added that Rose didn't know Niekro very well.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I stand corrected. Garber began the '78 season with the Phils, but was traded to Atlanta in June for Dick Ruthven.


He received both MVP and Cy Young award votes in 1982, but 1978 was without doubt, Garber's best season.

[Guest Edgy DC]

The '78 Braves. I can talk about them all day.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Fman99 wrote: I will yell 1890's curses at him, threatening to make him suck my ass and also calling him a **** lapping dog. Why mess with the classics?

"A LEADER OF A CLASSY, CLASSY DOGPACK MUST HAVE FUCKED YOUR MOTHER WHEN SHE MADE YOU!"

[Guest Vince Coleman Firecracker]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dgwphotography]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Up to that point, Rose was the biggest villain in the Mets universe -- Met fans never forgiving him for his playoffs fracas with Bud Harrelson.

I still haven't.