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The recently deceased Oscar Azocar -- who, unlike fellow MFY legends Bob Sheppard and George Steinbrenner, doesn't get a patch.
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Steve Phillips, when give a chance to speak by Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts yesterday filling in for MF (who doesn't let his guests speak), made an interesting excuse for Billy Taylor sucking when he became a Met in 1999. He had been a closer who was not used to getting up and sitting down as a middle reliever will and it threw off his rhythm. Not sure if this is entirely the reason for his sucking (he was old, suddenly displaced and there was illness in his family) but it was one of the few time I've heard Phillips where I thought he sounded like he knew something about baseball.
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Dickey 4.0 Wright 0.5 Bay 0.5 Tejada 0.5 Beltran 0.5 Thole 0.5
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IGT 7/15/10 NYM @ SFG: Let's Get It Restarted
G-Fafif replied to G-Fafif's topic in Archived Game Threads
Those who will find themselves Beltranated: Rowand CF Sanchez 2B Huff 1B Posey C Ishikawa 1B Uribe SS Sandoval 3B Schierholtz R Lincecum P -
IGT 7/15/10 NYM @ SFG: Let's Get It Restarted
G-Fafif replied to G-Fafif's topic in Archived Game Threads
JR didn't look/feel right (or left) in early batting practice. Does seem odd they wouldn't wait to post a lineup. -
Time to reBeltranate, too (and maybe recaffeinate, given the West Coast start). Reyes SS Pagan RF Wright 3B Beltran CF Davis 1B Bay LF Thole C Cora 2B Dickey P
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SNY to Feature Best Years, Worst Years, All Years
G-Fafif replied to G-Fafif's topic in New York Mets Talk
1965: 9 tonight. -
LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: MFS62 wrote: Picked up the Daily News today. It had over 30 pages devoted to Steinbrenner. Tomorrow I'll pick up a bird and birdcage. In the spirit of the day, be sure to overspend. And if it doesn't work out, make sure to go back and give the salesperson an earful. The important thing is YOU WIN. And then a week or a month or a decade later, put the salesperson's kid through college.
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I didn't think it was THAT good, fellas. Nowhere near up to Wally's standards. But I'm honored to have fooled you all. At first blush, it was so totally fucked up that I believed it. About five minutes (and several blind alley searches) later I was thinking, "Wait a second..." I had to remind myself that the MFYs had played World Series in which they had the middle three games and even their amen corner hadn't complained. Two other tipoffs: 1) A word is missing from the first sentence. 2) The knock on the Braves was a little too Metcentric. But you had me going, you sick little monkey.
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More idiocy, this time from the not usually idiotic Rob Parker. We would never have been able to see Cone, Strawberry and Gooden finish their careers in New York and in style, had it not been for Steinbrenner. Cone finished his career in New York...as a Met.
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My mouth is literally agape. And Wally Matthews is literally a moron. Although, I have to ask...is this for real? I can't find an actual Wally Matthews post with this unbelievable take.
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SNY to Feature Best Years, Worst Years, All Years
G-Fafif replied to G-Fafif's topic in New York Mets Talk
Next installment: 1965 ("Expressway to the Big Leagues), Thursday night at 9:00, just ahead of the pregame show. Join the Mets, make the majors quickly...'cause we're not too good yet. Or as the banner of its day put it: DON'T BE SORE THE METS AND I ARE ONLY FOUR -
"The National League will win another All-Star Game over my dead body." --George Steinbrenner
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metirish wrote: Just finished watching CBS New with Katie Couric then the local CBS channel here in NY goes to a CBS Special " Remembering the Boss".....are you fucking kidding me..... This is shocking -- somebody still watches the network news?
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Tearless remembrance from Dave Anderson in the Times, telling it like it was. f you worked for Steinbrenner, who died Tuesday at age 80, in the three decades before his health deteriorated several years ago, as any Yankees employee of that era would confirm, you were an almost daily victim of his impatient bluster and bombast. He fired managers and public-relations directors and anybody who didn�t get his lunch order correct.
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I understand the Captain has an arrangement in which all of his enormously bloated paychecks will be signed by Mr. Steinbrenner for the rest of his career.
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Benjamin Grimm wrote: Ceetar wrote: Is there anyone else in baseball that this wouldn't be considered egotistical? It certainly should get that consideration here, as well. Think about if Barry Bonds had done something like this, that if Candlestick had some legendary voice and he said, "I grew up listening to [that guy] announce my father and it was the thrill of a lifetime when he first announced me" and he insisted on a recording of it accompanying him to Pac Bell for the rest of his career. The story would be there goes Mr. Superstar separating himself from the team. But Jeter does it and he's wonderful.
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themetfairy wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Speaking of Bobs, theirs prepared and read a very nice tribute to ours on the night Murph passed away. That, along with everything I've ever read and heard about and from the man, made me like him despite the one association for which he's best known. This is reason for me to reconsider my reaction. My first thought was that nobody in MFY-land would have even acknowledged Murph's passing. They followed the moment of silence with a standing ovation. I reciprocated yesterday.
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Now that he's gone, the recording of Bob Sheppard introducing Derek Jeter will descend from bizarre fetishism into utter creepiness. Paul Olden is good enough to announce his teammates' names, but The Captain requires his own fanfare? Yeesh. Speaking of Bobs, theirs prepared and read a very nice tribute to ours on the night Murph passed away. That, along with everything I've ever read and heard about and from the man, made me like him despite the one association for which he's best known. Of course to me he's mostly known for picking up his car.
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Seems like he's been around forever. Hard to believe he came to the majors after Jose and David.
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Santana 4.0 Davis 2.0 Pagan 1.5 Cora 1.0 Thole 0.5 Parnell 0.5 Rodriguez 0.5
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Bob and I shared a mechanic here in the South Shore village where we both lived. I discovered this when we were picking up our cars at the same time one summer's day many years ago. The mechanic told me, after he left, "Mr. Sheppard announces the Giants games." I loved that he limited his credentials to that. Very classy individual in my two minutes of interaction with him (before I realized who he was). I was quite obvious in my desire to get my car first, and when our mechanic came to the counter and asked "who's next?" Bob (in exactly the baritone you'd imagine) said, "well, this man seems to have won the foot race," which shamed me into, "no, please, after you." The mechanic (who sadly is no longer with us either) offered Bob a Giants water bottle, which was free with the oil change. "No thank you," he said. "I have plenty of those."
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