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On the map! The road bordering on the western side of Citi Field's parking lot is Shea Road, an honor bestowed after the demolition of Shea Stadium. The city's multiple agencies recognized that since its construction for the 1939 World's Fair, this road did not have a name on the map and it needed one to direct motorists and report accidents. Having been informally known as Shea Road, the city made this name official. The road runs from 126th Street, which is co-named for Tom Seaver, around Citi Field, to its southern end at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. There, Shea Road meets Meridian Road, which circles the central core of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. A few yards before this intersection, it passes underneath the LIRR Port Washington Branch, next to which is the Shea Substation that provides electricity to this train line. The MTA worked hard to erase Shea's name from its stations; the 7 train and LIRR stations are known as Mets-Willets Point, but this hidden substation continues to honor Bill Shea. It is sandwiched between the tracks and the Olmsted Center, where Parks Department administrators, architects and engineers have their offices. https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/07/shea-on-the-map/https://forgotten-ny.com/2023/07/shea-on-the-map/ And you and your vehicle can still fuel up under the Shea name, on Northern Blvd, a little east of Seaver Way. http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/wp-content/uploads/5718F9F7-F940-40EE-BFA7-C983FEEF079F.jpeg> https://maps.app.goo.gl/cFVAQUaYvpFxyRoo9?g_st=ichttps://maps.app.goo.gl/cFVAQUaYvpFxyRoo9?g_st=ic

Great stuff on Rolen from his peers, including some Mets, by Mark Simon. Todd Zeile was Scott Rolen's first major league first baseman and an experienced third baseman in his own right. The 1996 Phillies were the third of Zeile's 11 MLB teams. He had a lot of teammates, but few compared to Rolen defensively. Todd Zeile (Phillies 1B, 1996): “There's a timing mechanism that good third basemen have [so] that they know how much time they have to deliver the ball to get the runner by a step. Scott, for as athletic as he was at third base, had that built-in clock. I had really struggled with that and made a lot of unforced errors. He would dive and sprawl and roll and come up and throw it from weird angles but he always seemed to have that clock that would give him just enough time to get his balance, make accurate throws, and not make unforced errors.” Mike Lieberthal (Phillies C, 1996-2002): “He was also amazing on the fly ball hit over his head, going down the left field line. He was very light on his feet for his size.” Desi Relaford (Phillies SS, 1996-2000): “He did this slide thing where he could slide on his knee or ass, a slide-scoop, know what I'm saying? Backhand. And he would either throw it from his knees or he'd pop up if he had time and show off the cannon. I saw that one a lot.” Zeile: “He was very good at throwing on the run, especially moving away from first base. He had arm strength when he needed it.” The impressions Rolen made early were echoed by impressions he'd continue to make as his career unfolded. David Eckstein (Cardinals SS, 2006-2007, Blue Jays, 2008): “The first movement to the ball was catlike. You know how you see a cat that's sitting there, they see something and they explode to it?” Nelson Figueroa (Phillies P, 2001): “The thing about Rolen is he was so big but so agile. His reads were instantaneous, and he could cover so much ground. He had the range of a shortstop with the stopping power of a brick wall.” Paul Janish (Reds SS, 2009-2011): “You're talking about a 6-4 or 6-5 guy that was probably pushing 240, like a really big individual, and he just made it look easy.” Jim Edmonds (Cardinals CF, 2002-2007): “Scott was like this solid wall of defense.” Lieberthal, twice a National League All-Star as a Phillie, said one of the first things he noticed about Rolen was that Rolen's legs looked like they were three times the size of his average-sized legs. He was impressed by Rolen's ability to get to balls so easily despite that size. So Lieberthal let Rolen know about one type of play that Scott could have to himself. Lieberthal: “I hated popups. So I would tell him, especially in [windy] San Francisco, and any place that had a large area behind home plate, ‘Scotty, you can have all the popups. I'm not dealing with it.'” Relaford: “When you have someone on your team who was as good as he was and being able to watch him every day, not only does he make your team better, but you can learn from that, and implement. Whether it's the tenacity or getting good jumps. You can't teach me 6-5, 230 pounds, but just being able to take it all in and see what he brings to the park from a mindset standpoint.” “He played the game like it was supposed to be played. He played hard. He ran hard. He threw hard.” https://www.sportsinfosolutions.com/2023/03/01/an-oral-history-of-scott-rolens-defensive-excellence/https://www.sportsinfosolutions.com/2023/03/01/an-oral-history-of-scott-rolens-defensive-excellence/

For whatever reason, it didn't paywall for me, and I let my U-T sub lapse around the time the Pads let Preston Gomez go.

From 2014, when Ivie was alive and well, a career retrospective presented with shades of gray, including its highest point. In '78, the Giants fought their way into a battle with the Los Angeles Dodgers for NL West supremacy. On May 28, Ivie delivered a pinch-hit grand slam at Candlestick Park off Dodgers' hurler Don Sutton as the crowd went crazy. Ivie was surrounded by teammates as he touched home plate after the blast, which was one of four pinch-hit homers he hit that season. In many ways, it was the biggest moment of his otherwise disappointing and puzzling career. https://www.vintagedetroit.com/mike-ivie-battled-emotional-troubles-in-career-that-ended-with-detroit-tigers/https://www.vintagedetroit.com/mike-ivie-battled-emotional-troubles-in-career-that-ended-with-detroit-tigers/

Mike Ivie, top draft pick of the Padres in 1970 and grand slam hero of the Giants in 1978, 70. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2023-07-22/mike-ivie-former-padres-no-1-draft-pick-overall-dies-at-age-70https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/padres/story/2023-07-22/mike-ivie-former-padres-no-1-draft-pick-overall-dies-at-age-70

Back to Baltimore for DFA'd T.J. https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/07/orioles-sign-t-j-mcfarland-to-minors-deal.htmlhttps://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2023/07/orioles-sign-t-j-mcfarland-to-minors-deal.html I was at the game when he was poised to make his Met debut, all warmed up, but the score grew a little too close for a classic mopup assignment.

Official obit says July 13 in Walnut Creek, Calif. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/edward-bressoud-obituary?id=52521387https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/eastbaytimes/name/edward-bressoud-obituary?id=52521387

=kcmets post_id=132445 time=1689995650 user_id=53] Lazy and perhaps dumb question: They're gonna play the rest of the game tomorrow with an empty stadium and then proceed with the other ticketed game later on? Seems a little bassackwards but I could have it wrong....

Suspended. Resume 2:10 PM. Sat game now 7:10 PM.

There are no more washouts. It would be suspended.

1,208. Jose Quintana

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Surely there must be some players who had hits at Shea, Citi Field, and the last two Yankee Stadiums? True. Let's say in the 20th century, or in four boroughs.

Eddie was among the last who could say he recorded a regular season base hit in four New York ballparks, having come along in time for Ebbets Field, having lasted long enough for Shea Stadium and having switched leagues to satisfy the MFYS1 requirement. Ozzie Virgil Sr. and Felix Mantilla survive within that cohort. Bressoud's Polo Grounds experience seems rather unique, considering he played a) at the PG and played for the Mets at Shea, but never played in a Mets game in Manhattan — for or against the home team — given that he was a Red Sock in 1962 and 1963.

Eddie Bressoud, the first former New York Giant to play as a New York Met -- and in doing so established a single-season shortstop club home run record that would not be approached for a couple of decades -- has died at 91. The passing of the 1966 Met reduces the roster of living NY Baseball Giants to nine. https://www.thereporter.com/2023/07/18/commanding-presence-ed-bressoud-dies-at-91/https://www.thereporter.com/2023/07/18/commanding-presence-ed-bressoud-dies-at-91/

Second 11-10 win in club history. The first was the opener of the Robin Ventura grand slam doubleheader sweep over the Brewers, May 20, 1999.

2023 Alonso 26 Alvarez 19 Since April 23 Alvarez 19 Alonso 16

Since April 23, the night Alvarez hit his first home run of 2023, Alvarez has outhomered Alonso, 18 to 16. The last Met who wasn't Pete Alonso to lead the Mets in HRs was Michael Conforto, with 28 in 2018. Hard to fathom anybody's in theoretical reach of the Polar Bear.

Francisco Alvarez (18) pulls to within 8 HRs of Pete Alonso (26).

Nor is it written by Sherman or suggest the Mets are shopping McNeil.

Joel Sherman wrote on Sunday that the Mets are considering trading Jeff McNeil Reasoning. that the rift with Lindor is not fixable Lindor was asked about the car and basically blew off the question Opined that Jeff is have trouble with the no shift rule. Harder to find his spots I guess Didn't see any of this in Sherman's column. https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/mets-may-make-max-scherzer-justin-verlander-trade-options/https://nypost.com/2023/07/16/mets-may-make-max-scherzer-justin-verlander-trade-options/

8 PM start.