I don't think of Straw as Mr. Long Ball so much as remembering the seemingly- yearly spring quotes predicting a Monster Year that often fell short of monstrous?
Frayed Knot wrote: Mets started that year with One game in SF (Wed), then played the next day in LA and again on Saturday sandwiched around an off-day Friday, before heading to Houston for a Sunday - Monday two-game series in advance of the home opener (SFG) at Shea on Wednesday. And we complain about odd schedules today! Bizzare indeed, I didn't pay attention the surrounding games in the list.
Edgy MD wrote: Kase, is that Ellery Queen part of your collection? I suddenly feel a need to solve the mystery of what angle got Ron Darling that cover. No, new to me. More impressive is that it's not listed in a 282 page definitive Mets checklist I have from 2000. Great find by the CPF MCD Commish! batmags, tell me you're not Dave Berman!?!
Frayed Knot wrote: That SI cover landed three weeks after Swoboda took an 0-fer-10 (including leading off an inning six different times with an out) w/5 Ks in the Mets' 24-inning 1-0 loss in Houston. Agee also took a double-digit oh-fer that night (although w/only 4 Ks) hitting right before Swoboda in the lineup and often making the final out in all those innings which allowed Rocky to lead-off the next. So while that year's Mets may have been movin', they weren't movin' very fast. Wow! http://leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=978April 15th, 1968 - UMD
I should have left ad income out, I sunk myself with that. They don't want to pay for 2-3 truck-loads of AV stuff, the labor, etc. Cheap cost- cutting bullshit imo. Twins were on today, big market guys that they are.
Not sure I buy the Gary slant; they have plenty of bodies to fill the booth in his SHbb absence as well as Ron's MLBtv commitments and Keith being Keith. They've been cheaping out fewer and fewer games it seems each year because they don't want to pay the pro- duction costs. I mean, who watches (dvr's) these games but us nuts? Ad money is probably next to nothing. I'm sticking with cheaping out.