NO-HAN.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy DC wrote: There certainly wasn't lack of clarity.

I dunno. Me and you can decipher the wordplay buy my seven year old rabid Mets fan cousin might not figure it out.

[Edgy MD]

Well, if there are web pages that say that superstition is good, then it must be true.

Many of which are professional journals and academic theses.

Does this really have to be a divisive issue? Is there any human on earth who feels he or she was poorly served, deceived, or left confused by Howie Rose?

[metirish]

Edgy DC wrote: Well, if there are web pages that say that superstition is good, then it must be true. Many of which are professional journals and academic theses. Does this really have to be a divisive issue? Is there any human on earth who feels he or she was poorly served, deceived, or left confused by Howie Rose?

Not at all, his call of the last SO was a thing of beauty, I'm going to cut Howie some slack here, we all know he's a huge Mets fan and like the rest of us didn't believe it until it happened. I don't think he was unprofessional , John Sterling he is not(although I like him too).

[metirish]

Speaking of verbal gymnastics .....listening to the Fan this morning and they played a clip of the Seattle announcer doing pbp with the bases loaded....this was his call......"the sacks are packed with seamen...........um, Mariners"


it was hilarious....

[Ceetar]

Johan Santana was sitting by himself in the dugout. The not mentioning the no-hitter thing is part of the story. It's a baseball tradition. It's part of the whole allure and mystique behind the statistical anomaly.

[G-Fafif]

The euphoria continues at Huffington Post (by yours truly).

My standard reaction of appreciative applause and vicarious grins for all those no-hitters tossed by admirable strangers in vaguely familiar uniforms was subject to blackout when it came to what I was experiencing via the television from Citi Field. This was an occasion for hyperventilating, for hugging, for literal tears of joy. The lack of a no-hitter among Mets pitchers had grown into a communal thread of angst within the Mets fan culture in recent seasons. We'd always known we hadn't had one. Of late, as soon as a Jimmy Rollins or a Brian McCann delivered a clean single in the first or second inning, we'd taken to reminding each other en masse that we weren't getting one for yet another night (thanks, Twitter). The curiosity had grown into an obsession. When would we get our no-hitter? June 1, 2012 revealed itself as the answer. I haven't settled down from the realization yet, and neither has any Mets fan I know. We weren't familiar with how these worked from the inside, so we're still getting used to it. We love getting used to it. We could get used to getting used to this for an eternity, to tell you the truth. So if you came out into the cable sports television town square last Friday night and noticed a commotion and wonder why you're still hearing a palpable buzz emanating from our neck of the woods, please understand that it's all too new and all too beautiful for us to put a lid on so soon.

[Edgy MD]

I tell you, I was sitting here alone with my wife downstairs. When the final strikeout was recorded, I put my hands together for what I thought would be a clap. It extended into three claps. "That's enough" I thought, but my hands wouldn't stop going. "There's nobody here for your claps to be speaking to" I thought, but it felt better and better to keep going and going. Twenty, thirty claps, all alone, for no reason. Something just kept pouring out of me. Very strange, acting the fan at a level I never knew I had, never knew existed.

Only comparable moments would be the Agbayani homer and the Ventura homer, both watched at home, but even those I had my wife beside me and the TV in front of me. For me and Johan, it was just the dark night and the radio --- and 40 years of fandom.

[Zvon]

That is so kool you were there soupcan

Were you nervous at all in the 9th. Ive been to one no-hittier (Wilson Alverez-91or92) and I remember in the ninth I was so nervous cause I wanted it to happen so bad, I wanted to see one live so bad.

I can see from the bets that you didn't think it was actually gonna happen, but didn't it effect your nerves at all?

[Guest themetfairy]

Any of you who doubt Jon Stewart's fandom need to watch the opening segment of tonight's Daily Show when it's repeated tomorrow.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johan to be placed on a hard 90 pitch count for next few starts.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/47431/olney-how-mets-will-handle-santana

[bmfc1]

themetfairy wrote: Any of you who doubt Jon Stewart's fandom need to watch the opening segment of tonight's Daily Show when it's repeated tomorrow.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-june-4-2012/intro---jon-witnesses-the-first-no-hitter-in-mets-history

[Ceetar]

G-Fafif wrote: The euphoria continues at Huffington Post (by yours truly).

good job, and man, you're everywhere. If someone opened the curtain to the Mets Blogosphere and it was determined you were writing each and every one of them, I wouldn't be surprised.

[Guest themetfairy]

themetfairy wrote: Any of you who doubt Jon Stewart's fandom need to watch the opening segment of tonight's Daily Show when it's repeated tomorrow.

You can watch the clip here.

[soupcan]

Zvon wrote: That is so kool you were there soupcan Were you nervous at all in the 9th. Ive been to one no-hittier (Wilson Alverez-91or92) and I remember in the ninth I was so nervous cause I wanted it to happen so bad, I wanted to see one live so bad. I can see from the bets that you didn't think it was actually gonna happen, but didn't it effect your nerves at all?

Not nervous at all. Probably because I was so completely certain it wasn't going to happen. Excited sure, but nervous? Nope.

[soupcan]

themetfairy wrote: themetfairy wrote: Any of you who doubt Jon Stewart's fandom need to watch the opening segment of tonight's Daily Show when it's repeated tomorrow. You can watch the clip here.

I'm seeing a pattern among Mets fans who were at that game and took a personal little video...

[Centerfield]

Silly, pointless things in baseball (not exhaustive):

1. Mascots
2. Keeping score. We have online pitch by pitch accounts of every game available on your phone in real time.
3. Singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th inning stretch of ballgames. Presumably, anyone singing is already at the ballgame.
4. The 7th inning stretch
5. Caring about what 25 guys who have no idea who you are do on a field against 25 other guys who also don't know you.
6. Rally caps.
7. Standing and taking your hat off during the Star Spangled Banner.
8. Superstitions

[Gwreck]

#1 "God Bless America"

---

#999 Everything else

Also:

2. Keeping score. We have online pitch by pitch accounts of every game available on your phone in real time.

You're wrong on this issue. Additionally, cellular service is something between horrible and non-existent at most parks. Aside from San Francisco, I don't think there is free wifi in any of the parks.

[Chad ochoseis]

Gwreck wrote: 2. Keeping score. We have online pitch by pitch accounts of every game available on your phone in real time. You're wrong on this issue. Additionally, cellular service is something between horrible and non-existent at most parks. Aside from San Francisco, I don't think there is free wifi in any of the parks.

I think the sarcasm content of CF's post was higher than Johan's game score. That was 90, which ties him for seventh highest by a Met since 2000.

Caring about no-hitters is another one of the silly, pointless things in baseball that makes baseball worth watching.

[Ceetar]

Gwreck wrote: #1 "God Bless America" --- #999 Everything else Also: 2. Keeping score. We have online pitch by pitch accounts of every game available on your phone in real time. You're wrong on this issue. Additionally, cellular service is something between horrible and non-existent at most parks. Aside from San Francisco, I don't think there is free wifi in any of the parks.

I get decent cell service at Citi. occasionally it flops when I try to upload a picture to Twitter, but it's pretty good.

[Zvon]

soupcan wrote: That is so kool you were there soupcan Were you nervous at all in the 9th. Ive been to one no-hittier (Wilson Alverez-91or92) and I remember in the ninth I was so nervous cause I wanted it to happen so bad, I wanted to see one live so bad. I can see from the bets that you didn't think it was actually gonna happen, but didn't it effect your nerves at all? Not nervous at all. Probably because I was so completely certain it wasn't going to happen. Excited sure, but nervous? Nope.

Wowzers. I would have been a wreck.
From home I was excited and a little nervous, not nearly as much as I was at the no-no I witnessed.
If I was at Citi for the game, in the 9th I would have been a slibbering, slobbering pile of jitteryjoo.

[Vic Sage]

I didn't realize that jitteryjoo was customarily piled. Boxed, perhaps, or canned, maybe. or stored in a mason jar, most likely... especially if it was of the slobbering variety of jitteryjoo. Otherwise, it would just get everything too damp.

[Zvon]

I was gonna go with mass of jitteryjoo, but I don't cover all that much ground.

[G-Fafif]

Go back in time and buy a ticket for the June 1 game from the Mets.

[seawolf17]

Dick move, Mets. "Dad! Dad! I know how we can get an extra two million bucks out of our idiot fans!"

[G-Fafif]

Guy from the New Yorker opts to go home early from history because his kid was a little chilly.

All around us, tired children have retreated onto laps. Hoods are tightly drawn, and hot chocolate has been located. Some of us stand, while others penguin-huddle for warmth. To go or to stay? The boy is tired. It seems cruel to keep him here, even with a chance of history in the offing. I was there the night when�

Guy from the Times, there with his family, pretty blase about it, too, all things considered.

With my wife and two children, we were four of the 27,069 officially in attendance, and four of the many more who may eventually claim to have been there. We have the ticket stubs and Facebook posts to prove it. What we do not have is any credentials as Mets fans, long-suffering or otherwise. Sorry. We crashed your moment.

Regular fans, watching and listening elsewhere, pretty certain these guys suck.

[G-Fafif]

seawolf17 wrote: Dick move, Mets. "Dad! Dad! I know how we can get an extra two million bucks out of our idiot fans!"

They can put on sale what they want, and nobody has to buy it, but geez, yeah.

[Guest themetfairy]

G-Fafif wrote: seawolf17 wrote: Dick move, Mets. "Dad! Dad! I know how we can get an extra two million bucks out of our idiot fans!" They can put on sale what they want, and nobody has to buy it, but geez, yeah.

For $5 each, with proceeds going to charity, it would be a cute idea.

But $50 each? Sheesh - totally classless.

[G-Fafif]

Way to get a jump start on the next curse.

[bmfc1]

The Mets might as well make a few bucks off of the no-hitter, other people will via "collectibles." During the game today, WFAN had a commercial for a commemorative bat (limited edition, of course), sold by a private company, with a facsimile of Johan's signature. I find it odd that a no-hitter is supposed to be remembered with a bat.

[G-Fafif]

bmfc1 wrote: I find it odd that a no-hitter is supposed to be remembered with a bat.

Sort of like commemorating Jeff Wilpon with a BLANK...