G-Fafif

It's the Mets. There's no chance it makes any sense.

Despite their best efforts to avoid scheduling them since becoming (or fancying themselves as) popular, even in makeup situations, the Mets have had traditional doubleheaders in 2006 (vs. Giants in June, vs Marlins in July, vs. Braves in September) and 2008 (vs. Rangers in June, vs. Braves in September again) along with the aforementioned Dodger doubledip in April. They didn't join the Day-Night crowd until 2007 (Nats in July), and have had a few of those since at both Shea and Citi. Last regularly scheduled doubleheader at Shea (from previous semi-comprehensive research -- scouring schedules in yearbooks) was 1988.

For at least the last 30 years of Shea, a comp was indicated by a hole punched in the ticket. Perhaps HH mean Hole Here.

metirish wrote: Fuck Derek Jeter, fuck Ian O'Connor , fuck John Harper, fuck Filip Bondy, fuck Robert Klapisch , fuck Hank and Hal and fuck the corpse of George and his creepy looking wife and daughters with their fixed smiles, fuck his hispanic son-in-law, fuck Giuliani , fuck Lonn and fuck Randy , fuck Kay and fuck Sterling but don't fuck Suzyn , fuck all things MFY. Fuck yeah!

It has been 526 days -- 75 weeks and 1 day -- since the Brewers last visited the Mets. They were the second opponent at Citi Field in 2009 and they're the second-to-last opponent at Citi Field in 2010. Discounting seasons affected by strikes (and maybe even counting them since there were fewer teams and no interleague in 1994-95) this has to be the longest period that's ever transpired between visits to New York by a league opponent.

Thank you for the clarification. There goes that HH theory.

Beltran 3.0 Evans 2.0 Wright 1.0 Reyes 1.0 Misch 0.5 Acosta 0.5 PFeliciano 0.5 Green 0.5 Dessens 0.5 Takahashi 0.5

Current ERA standings of parochial interest: 5. Hudson, ATL 2.80 6. Oswalt, PHI 2.80 7. Myers, HOU 2.89 8. Kershaw, LAD 2.91 9. Latos, SDP 2.91 10. Dickey NYM 2.92 11. Cain, SFG 2.95 12. Santana, NYM 2.98 13. Jimenez, COL 3.00 14. Hamels, PHI 3.09

Party on, Phils! In Washington.

Thanks all!

Hamels up to 3.09, well behind Dickey (yay!).

Gee 4.0 Duda 3.0 Thole 1.5 Reyes 0.5 Beltran 0.5 Takahashi 0.5

Jim Thome loved a Met, even if he came to him between Met stints. Call him Kong79... There was no other route for a kid who grew up loving Dave Kingman. The Thomes of Peoria had lived for baseball for two generations. Jim's father, Chuck, hit line drives; teams paid Chuck a few bucks under the table to smack liner after liner in the old fast-pitch softball Outlaw League. The Thomes were avowed Cubs fans (in Peoria it was Cubs or Cardinals), and Chuck was strictly a Bill Buckner man. Buckner almost never struck out and he almost never hit home runs�he cracked line drives that split outfielders and rolled into the ivy walls. "Watch Billy Buck," Chuck would tell his youngest son when they made the trip to Wrigley Field. "That's a hitter." But the youngest son did not want to watch Billy Buck, not when King Kong was out there. Dave Kingman was everything that Bill Buckner was not. He was enormous (6'6", 210 pounds) and he struck out unapologetically, and he almost never hit line drives. Instead he hit towering home runs that were like tourist attractions. "I don't know," Jim says when asked why Kingman was his favorite player. "I didn't really hit home runs back then. I wasn't really all that big then. I mean, it was just cool to watch the way he hit those long home runs out onto Waveland Avenue. That's all. I guess I didn't think about it too much." There's an oft-told Thome parable, about the time his family took him to a Cubs game, and he wanted only to get Kingman's autograph. Kingman was not available�he seemed to take pride in his rare talent for not being available when little kids wanted his autograph�but eight-year-old Jim was not the sort to give up easily. He somehow wandered into the clubhouse in search of Kong. A few minutes later Cubs catcher Barry Foote carried Jim out of the clubhouse and back to his parents. "Is this yours?" he asked. The story is usually told with the obvious lesson�Thome has been one of the most accommodating of players throughout his career. He signs autographs, and he is endlessly patient with requests and always has time for teammates. But Thome insists that his brush with Kingman didn't teach him to treat people the way you would want to be treated; he learned that from his family and from the people in Peoria. Watching Kingman taught him something simpler. Swing hard. Don't overthink. Don't fill your brain up with stuff. Jim Thome learned from Dave Kingman that it must be a lot of fun to hit long home runs.

Rockies either produce a last gasp or it's their time of year again. Down 4-2, up 6-4, down 9-6, win 10-9. Tulowitzki doubles in the tying runs in the eighth, winning run in the tenth. Mora and Payton each tripled. Dotel threw a scoreless inning but allowed the ninth Giant run on a wild pitch. Maybe a little late in Denver, but a typically thrilling Rocktember win. SD - SF 1/2 COL 4 And in the Wild Card: SF - ATL - COL 3 1/2

House Held, as in comps, as in House Seats as on Broadway? I like High Holidays better. That's highly hilarious.

I was the guest of a Cubs fan, a really nice, older guy who was in town for the series (uncle by marriage to a good friend; I'd never met him before that day but he invited me at my friend's suggestion). As the game ground down, and it was 2004, I muttered in my mind that, yeah, I guess this is OK -- if we have to lose to the effing Cubs, at least a fine and loyal fan like this will get a little happiness where the playoff picture is concerned. But then they don't get the third out, Diaz hits the homer and OMG -- I'm up on my feet and cheering and thinking "I feel really bad about this, pal, but I loved the Mets and hated the Cubs before I ever met you." I had to leave after nine -- had to meet the wife in the city -- but was strangely unbothered by the lack of resolution. If the Mets went on and lost, I'd have been pissed (geez, so many Cubs fans there). If the Mets won, no way I would have contained my glee, and my host was already miserable and I would have felt guilty for the laughing I would have done in his face. On my way out of Shea, however, I did kind of laugh in the face of a random Cubs fan (never mind we were dead standingswise; spoiling is spoling). Listened as long as I could on the E. When I next resumed radio transmission and heard what happened, I was over the moon. Didn't matter that I didn't see it. Didn't matter that I didn't hear it as it happened. The point was it happened. The first 8+ innings were so depressing and this was so exhilarating. I was so thrilled that when I met up with Mrs. Fafif, we rerouted to P.J. Clarke's, and what should they have on tap? Rheingold! Had to be the last time I saw it anywhere in the entire Metropolitan area (it relaunched in the late '90s but was already fizzling out). Last time I drank it, too. Ran up quite a dinner check that night, didn't feel it at all.

Just noticed this thread came two minutes after the other. Repurposed!

Oakland A's: 77-77 -- and dead. Dear Texas: Get swingin' against the MFYs if/when you see them.

It was six years ago today that a downtrodden Mets team stood up for itself, ruining the chances of a legitimate contender, and brother, it was fantastic. The Phillies are beyond spoiling, but can they at least be delayed? Braves won today, so there'll be no clinching tonight, but we're not out of the weekend woods yet. Is there a Victor Diaz or Craig Brazell in this lineup? That's not a pejorative. Jose Reyes - SS Chris Carter - LF Carlos Beltran - CF David Wright - 3B Ike Davis - 1B Angel Pagan - RF Josh Thole - C Ruben Tejada - 2B Dillon Gee - P Oh, the Nats' loss clinched us fourth place. Yippee.

At 75-78, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are officially eliminated. They now ascend to wherever teams not in the playoffs go. And at 76-77, our scaly neighbors to the south have taken a dive. Florida Marlins, turn in your teal crap and report directly to the offseason.

R.A. @ 2.92, tenth in N.L. Hamels is 11th at 2.93. For the purposes of the Craig Swan Award, the Mets must get to Hamels on Sunday. Best thing that could happen Dickeywise would be an afternoon loss by the Braves Saturday and a Phillies win in the evening and then maybe the opposition will be so hung over... This is what it's come to.

Pagan 2.0 Davis 2.0 Dickey 1.5 Dessens 1.0 Tejada 0.5 Acosta 0.5

seawolf17 wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Thread title = Good name for midseason replacement series ABC might have tried airing after Starsky & Hutch. About the travails of a trio of woebegone Mets fans, scouring the country in search of the one man who they feel will save their franchise. I'd watch. Co-starring John Schuck and Dick Van Patten, with special guest star Robert Hegyes.