The Kid

[G-Fafif]

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[Guest themetfairy]

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

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I know we knew this was coming. But it sucks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This image is now the UMDB banner. I'll keep it up for at least a week.

[TransMonk]

RIP, Kid.

[Guest Kong76]

RIP

[stevejrogers]

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[dgwphotography]

Rest In Peace, Kid....

[smg58]

A very sad day.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I really didn't think this would get me tearing up. I was wrong.

[smg58]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7520886/hall-fame-catcher-gary-carter-was-ferocious-competitor

Tim Kurkjian has a nice write-up. Does anybody remember the game Ed Lynch refers to?

[metirish]

Rest in peace

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7520886/hall-fame-catcher-gary-carter-was-ferocious-competitor Tim Kurkjian has a nice write-up. Does anybody remember the game Ed Lynch refers to?

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/7583267/hall-fame-catcher-gary-carter-dies-age-57

[Edgy MD]

[Frayed Knot]

smg58 wrote: http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/7520886/hall-fame-catcher-gary-carter-was-ferocious-competitor Tim Kurkjian has a nice write-up.

Kurkjian's the best at those kind of write-ups/narrations.

[metirish]

Just been watching some Carter stuff on Youtube, watching Gary as an Expo reminds how much I miss that team.

great article from TK

[Edgy MD]

[Fman99]

[G-Fafif]

SNY showing Kid's first game right now.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Edgy MD]

It was all suddenly different
It was still high school
And I was still me
But now my clothes weren�t so wrong
My hair not as greasy
My friends weren�t as cruel
My mother didn�t drink so much
Adulthood wasn�t so terrifying
I stopped apologizing for myself and got on with it
Let them shudder, not me
Gary Carter was on my team
And suddenly anything was possible

[G-Fafif]

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[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Up until 1985 I wasn't a big follower of baseball but a token fan of the Mets. Opening Day was a rainy day in Connecticut and we had indoor recess. Some of the boys tuned in the game on our VCR monitor tv and I was sucked in. After school I rushed home and caught Gary Carter's game winning home run and interview on Kiner's Korner. I've been hooked on the Mets ever since. As metfairy put it, cancer sucks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember I was at NYU, and stopped at the stationery store on University Place to grab a Daily News on my way to breakfast. Flipped it over to see if there was any baseball news on the back page and found out that Gary Carter was a Met. My whole day was transformed.

I was at the home opener that year, freezing cold in the stands. Couldn't believe that the game was going into extra innings. Bought hot chocolate to stay warm but it froze solid before I could get it back to my seat. But Gary Carter's storybook ending to that game made it all worthwhile. I wish I was able to see the rebroadcast on SNY tonight, but MLB content gets blacked out by Verizon. (Thanks, lawyers!)

Gary. Keith. Darryl. Doc. What a Fab Four they were!

[Guest themetfairy]

[HahnSolo]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I really didn't think this would get me tearing up. I was wrong.

Me too.

Thanks for the memories Gary.

[Met Hunter]

I haven't felt this hurt since Tug. Gary was the missing piece. Someone that never gave up. This is a huge loss and may be the biggest loss of all in our 50 years.

[metsmarathon]

damn. too soon, kid, too soon.

[ashie62]

Why do they tell stage 4 cancer patients they can make it? I have lost a few to this disease and am sick about it, angry...

[Frayed Knot]

Well despite the public optimism of both Gary and his blogging daughter - an optimism that seems genetic in that family - we don't know what the medical people told them.