Video Killed the Radio Mets

[Edgy MD]

Met video depository here.

Stuff like... eight seconds of 18-year-old Jon Matlack right after he signed with the Mets, initially pitching to a non-catcher who may or may not be a young Bob Heise. Bri

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Tags: Bob Heise, Whitey Herzog, Jon Matlack, Joe McDonald

[Vic Sage]

i read that as "video suppository" (seriously!) and I immediately thought 2 things:
- well what will those folks in silicon valley come up with next?, and
- I don't care how good that video is, i don't want to see it that bad.

[Edgy MD]

Want more than 10 seconds of action? Sure you do!

Well visit this clip of opening day 1972, the first game following the end of a brief baseball strike and the demise of Gil Hodges.

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[Lefty Specialist]

Dock Ellis was so high that day that he saw everything in grainy, fuzzy black and white.

[Vic Sage]

Ellis is So High on the Diamond
(To the tune of �Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds� by Lennon / McCartney)

Picture him now on the mound at Three Rivers
With two base-runners starting, and threatening skies
The umpire calls him, he answers quite slowly
He�s the guy with 2 pinwheels for eyes

With the sweat soaking through the yellow and black
Wiping his brow, he looks in for a sign
He stares like a guy with the sun in his eyes
He's so gone

Ellis is so high on the diamond
Ellis is so high on the diamond
Ellis is so high on the diamond
Aaaahhhhhh.....

He stands in the dugout, takes a sip at the fountain
He got out of the inning to his great surprise
His teammates all grin as he drifts past them, smiling
He is so incredibly high

Newspaper writers appear at his stall
Anxious to drive him away
They tear at him, frenzied, blood in the water�
He�s gone.

Ellis is so high on the diamond
Ellis is so high on the diamond
Ellis is so high on the diamond
Aaaahhhhhh.....

Picture the man on a train leaving Pittsburgh
With the sealed plastic cups packed in with his ties
Suddenly something is there by the turnstile
But the drug-sniffing dog lets him by

Ellis was so high on the diamond
Ellis was so high on the diamond
Ellis was so high on the diamond
Aaaahhhhhh.....


-THE BARD, song parody contest, 2002

[Theoldmole]

Excellent.