Memories of Ike Davis

[Guest d'Kong76]

Most popular unpopular Met in recent history for me.

[metirish]

The owner of Connelly's will miss him, his early days and his no fear going for pop ups into the dugout etc.

[G-Fafif]

Metsian. Menschy. Time to move on.

Saw his first MLB AB, his first MLB HR a few nights later. It nearly blew up the Shea bridge.

Three walkoff HRs, each more epic than the one before it.

Head up his Ike too often the last two seasons, however.

I'll miss the idea of Ike Davis more than the player who wasn't getting anywhere here.

Hope a change (a change) will do him good. And the guy we got does even better.

[Guest themetfairy]

I remember Ike's Mets debut on Jackie Robinson Day, 2010 -



I remember those beautiful, acrobatic catches that he made as a rookie.

Pre-Valley Fever, I remember him as a dynamic cog in the Mets lineup.



Best of luck Isaac Benjamin (except when the Pirates play the Mets).

[Gwreck]

I remember running in to Lunchbucket on the street as I was getting a sandwich on my way to the game that would be Davis' debut.

His last Mets homer was a good one.

[bmfc1]

For my son's birthday, I bought him a picture of Ike hitting his first homerun, autographed by Ike. It's framed and still on his wall.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gwreck wrote: His last Mets homer was a good one.

Indeed!

[G-Fafif]

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[Lefty Specialist]

Had the best bobble head (or should I say bobble-leg) ever.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

He certainly wasn't just dugout-flips that first season.

[Zvon]

[metsmarathon]

Minimm conflates him with Matt Harvey and pretends to be flamethrowing first base power hitter Matt Davis during backyard baseball.

[ashie62]

I am remembering so many "I like Ike" buttons early on...

I wish him the best of luck...

[Edgy MD]

Will be interesting to know if there were anything to those weird insinuations that his nightlife was part of the problem. I had forgotten all about that angle until last week when somebody asked what time the team will be getting into their hotel in Anaheim, and Irish(?) answered, "About two hours before Ike does."

I liked the idea of Ike too, and I'm gonna miss the ceiling above and beyond Duda that he seemed to have, even if that was mostly an abstraction. Hope Duda can hack it all.

[MFS62]

My first memory of him was when I saw him play for Binghamton at New Britain. He impressed me by taking the outside pitch to the left center gap and flashing a very good glove.

Later

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He was like the oldest young player the Mets ever had. Slow, took forever to overcome injuries, low key, occasionally deserving of faith and trust, but no longer improving.

I have been frustrated with him since the ankle shenanigans and ready to begin this Doodoo thing for more than a year. Good luck, Ike. I'm sure you'll enjoy the do-over more than you enjoyed ruining our last 2 summers.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I remember speculating, when he first arrived, that he might be the illegitimate son of Steve Garvey.

I really had high hopes for Ike; thought he would be a big star for the Mets for a lot of years, kind of a shadow David Wright. His late season surge in 2012 restored those hopes, but when he started slow again in 2013 I gave up and accepted that he'd never be (at least, for the Mets) what I had hoped he'd be.

My only remaining hope for Ike Davis is that his PTBNL is really good.

[Edgy MD]

For a few weeks there, he really seemed to slay the lingering notion that Citi Field's dimensions were going to be a bane, more to us than our enemies. He was knocking 'em off the bridge and we were all "HA! We are LORDS of Citi Field!"

That infield crash between him and Wright is probably the watermark of the Terry Collins era. We're still feeling affects from it all over the infield. All discussions at every infield position involve that collision.