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  1. Benjamin Grimm
    It looks like a tiny little blue mouse. Japan is a strange place, I think.
  2. Benjamin Grimm
    Nah, they'll be fine now that they got rid of that Piazza guy and his pajamas.
  3. Benjamin Grimm
    I guess it won't. There will be fewer fans at sellouts, because there will be about 15,000 fewer seats, but you're right, that part of the experience will carry over to Corporate Name Park.
  4. Benjamin Grimm
    Nice!
  5. Benjamin Grimm
    Whoever said that lightning doesn't strike twice?
  6. Benjamin Grimm
    Many of these are great, but I'm also looking for the odd angles and small details. Weathered stadium seat Jamming into the subway entrance after a game The back of the scoreboard
  7. Benjamin Grimm
    Wow, nice. I especially like that skeletal shot. I don't remember that January 2002 excavation. What was the purpose?
  8. Benjamin Grimm
    I've been thinking that I'd like to put a tribute to Shea Stadium on the UMDB, given it's limited remaining lifespan. If anyone wants to assist, feel free to search the web for interesting or quirky photos of Shea. Also, in future visits to Shea over the next two years, if you want to take pictures of some of the nooks or crannies (I prefer nooks, but I know that many prefer crannies) that would be great too. I wish I had nook-and-cranny photos from the early days of the ballpark. If there are any to be discovered online, that would be great.
  9. Benjamin Grimm
    Yes, I knew that. But if I owned a Virginia-based team, I'd name them the Ham Fighters. And the logo would be a ham with a menacing face, wielding a baseball bat.
  10. Benjamin Grimm
    The way I've always interpreted it, Ham is their opponent. I love the name Ham Fighters. If Virginia ever gets an MLB team (less likely now that the Nationals are in place) I'd want them to be named the Virginia Ham Fighters. The name Trey Hillman doesn't ring a bell. Was he ever a big league player?
  11. Benjamin Grimm
    Orel Hershiser is going to interview for the Athletics managing job during the week of November 6.
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  13. Benjamin Grimm
    "Does this look infected?"
  14. Benjamin Grimm
    Those composite shots are great, Zvon. Here's my "old school" take on Endy's catch: http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/jpeg/EndyChavez1972.jpg
  15. Benjamin Grimm
    I was wondering when the first puke joke would appear in this thread. I would have done it myself but I couldn't strike the right note.
  16. Benjamin Grimm
    Two thoughts: 1. George Foster wasn't a free agent. 2. Let's all make a field trip to Connecticut to get rolfed by Craig Swan!
  17. Benjamin Grimm
    God doesn't trust him to fly around in heaven.
  18. Benjamin Grimm
    Thanks! That could have been in better taste, but it is the Post after all.
  19. Benjamin Grimm
    I'm curious about what the Post's Page Six cartoon looked like. Is it online anywhere? How about the fact that Lidle's plane crashed into the apartment of the woman who was knocked into a coma by the Cat in the Hat balloon at the Thanksgiving Day parade in 1997? Weird.
  20. Benjamin Grimm
    This is the only one I've done so far. I suppose I'll do a few more. This is based on the 1970 Topps cards. I don't know why that Sporting News logo is across the top of the card. Maybe if I had the reverse side I'd understand.
  21. Benjamin Grimm
    I'll keep that in mind.
  22. Benjamin Grimm
    In Japanese that would be Hai, takusan niku ga arimasu!
  23. Benjamin Grimm
    Cool! Does Bobby live in Japan in the offseason? I'll have to try to track him down when I'm there next month.
  24. Benjamin Grimm
    It's a little bit surprising, but Cory Lidle was the first Met to die in 2006. It's pretty late in the year. I hadn't realized it, but 2006 had a shot at being the first year without a Met death since 1991.
  25. Benjamin Grimm
    We do seem to have become a more maudlin society. A lot of people have pointed out that they think we've been too weepy over September 11, and point to December 7, 1942 (and December 7, 1943...) in comparison to the annual 9/11 memorial events. I just looked it up on Retrosheet. The Yankees played baseball the day Lou Gehrig died. They also played the following day. (They were in Detroit.) According to Wikipedia, they were going to play on the day of the funeral, June 4, but the game got rained out. If the Yankees played a regular season game when Lou Gehrig died, I don't see the argument for the Mets canceling a playoff game when Cory Lidle died. And if we weren't such a maudlin society, the question never would have even been raised.
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